Platform Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Platform Engineering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Platform Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 237 201
Rank change year-on-year +90 -36 +22
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 14 42 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.47% 0.63% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.68% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11 17 6
10th Percentile £70,097 £40,833 £56,250
25th Percentile £72,548 £43,000 £56,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,360 £72,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% +18.85% +16.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £74,286
90th Percentile £97,500 £113,500 £77,715
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Platform Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,772 6,185 4,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.68% 92.23% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 2,397 2,170
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,463
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,550 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Platform Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Scotland

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineering in Scotland.

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Scotland

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Scotland

Platform Engineering
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +12 11 £75,360 -16.27% 10
Glasgow +178 7 £75,360 +78.57% 1
Platform Engineering
UK

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Apache
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (28.57%) CloudBees
2 4 (28.57%) GitHub
2 4 (28.57%) Serverless
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Principal Java Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (14.29%) Java EE
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
1 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 8 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Microservices
5 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 2 (14.29%) MVC
6 2 (14.29%) Software Architecture
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) Go
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) IBM
1 4 (28.57%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) Veritas
2 1 (7.14%) VMware