Platform Engineering Contracts in Scotland

Platform Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 136 131
Rank change year-on-year +35 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing Platform Engineering 22 28 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.03% 1.04% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.12% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 33
10th Percentile £434 £479 £475
25th Percentile £440 £620 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.31% +18.18% +31.34%
75th Percentile £469 £676 £625
90th Percentile £529 - £668
UK median daily rate £566 £613 £585
% change year-on-year -7.55% +4.70% +1.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Platform Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,884 2,495 3,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.04% 92.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,766 2,240
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Engineering in Scotland

Platform Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Platform Engineering in Scotland

Platform Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Platform Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +8 20 £453 -31.10% 1
Edinburgh +38 2 £480 -1.54% 6
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 9 (40.91%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) Snowflake
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 2 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Route 53
4 1 (4.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.55%) InfluxDB
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Artifactory
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (9.09%) Banking
1 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Network Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Unix Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 7 (31.82%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) Linux Scripter
5 5 (22.73%) Python Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) Unix Scripter
5 5 (22.73%) Unix Scripting Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Linux
2 8 (36.36%) Unix
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) DevOps
2 10 (45.45%) GitOps
3 9 (40.91%) Computer Science
3 9 (40.91%) Data Engineering
3 9 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (40.91%) DataOps
3 9 (40.91%) MLOps
4 8 (36.36%) OO
5 4 (18.18%) Agile
6 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.09%) Architecture Roadmap
7 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
7 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (9.09%) Software Delivery
8 1 (4.55%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 1 (4.55%) Customer-Centricity
8 1 (4.55%) Observability
8 1 (4.55%) Prototyping
8 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) Java
3 9 (40.91%) Scala
4 8 (36.36%) Perl
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 11 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (13.64%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (9.09%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Kibana
5 1 (4.55%) Argo
5 1 (4.55%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Databricks
2 3 (13.64%) BMC
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft