Platform Engineer Contracts in Glasgow

Platform Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Platform Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 76 73
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Platform Engineer 8 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.13% 0.36% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 0.37% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £430 £631 £543
25th Percentile £447 £641 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £688 £625
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +10.00% +23.15%
75th Percentile £500 £741 £672
90th Percentile £515 £754 £734
Scotland median daily rate £506 £508 £488
% change year-on-year -0.25% +4.10% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 635 803 846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.94% 96.05% 96.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 548 657
10th Percentile £230 £325 £250
25th Percentile £356 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +5.26% +6.44%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £681
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 16
10th Percentile £11.78 £12.13 £13.83
25th Percentile £16.07 £12.23 £15.90
Median hourly rate £19.59 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +35.10% -61.26% +12.67%
75th Percentile £29.34 £17.98 £44.38
90th Percentile £43.42 £40.72 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £18.38 £18.93 £17.72
% change year-on-year -2.93% +6.83% -8.09%

Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineer in Glasgow

Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Platform Engineer in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineer in Glasgow

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Python
3 6 (75.00%) Perl
4 5 (62.50%) OO
4 5 (62.50%) Unix
5 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (25.00%) Bash
6 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) Ansible
6 2 (25.00%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (25.00%) Finance
7 1 (12.50%) Scrum
7 1 (12.50%) VMware
7 1 (12.50%) ITIL
7 1 (12.50%) OCP
7 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (12.50%) BMC
7 1 (12.50%) Docker
7 1 (12.50%) DevOps
7 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
7 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
7 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland

Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Unix
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) OO
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Kanban
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) Perl
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) OCP
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) BMC
2 1 (12.50%) VMware