Platform Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Platform Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Platform Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Platform Engineering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 134 137
Rank change year-on-year +48 +3 -65
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 20 5 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.31% 0.27% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.28% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 14 3 21
10th Percentile £59,000 - £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £61,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% +16.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile £103,368 £70,857 £81,250
90th Percentile £118,000 £74,972 £86,250
Scotland median annual salary £72,500 £61,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.85% +16.19% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,343 1,766 2,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.84% 95.36% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 939 1,041 1,465
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,733 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £72,750 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%

Platform Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Engineering in Edinburgh

Platform Engineering
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Platform Engineering in Edinburgh

Platform Engineering
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Platform Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Platform Engineering in Edinburgh

Platform Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 6 (30.00%) GitHub
4 5 (25.00%) GCP
5 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
7 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (5.00%) Azure App Service
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (5.00%) PaaS
8 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (15.00%) Looker
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
1 3 (15.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 4 (20.00%) Snyk
3 3 (15.00%) Git
4 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (10.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 11 (55.00%) Banking
3 9 (45.00%) Retail Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Marketing
6 2 (10.00%) Retail
7 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Lead
2 7 (35.00%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Technical Architect
4 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Principal Data Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Mainframe Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Junior
7 1 (5.00%) Junior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (30.00%) Data Science
4 6 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (25.00%) Analytics
5 5 (25.00%) Change Management
5 5 (25.00%) Customer Experience
5 5 (25.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.00%) Customer Service
7 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (15.00%) DataOps
7 3 (15.00%) ETL
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
1 2 (10.00%) KVM
1 2 (10.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (20.00%) Istio
4 2 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Nintex