Platform Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Platform Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 211 221
Rank change year-on-year -25 +10 -112
Permanent jobs citing Platform Engineering 42 10 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.62% 0.22% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.23% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 18 6 23
10th Percentile £40,833 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £46,625 £56,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £61,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.85% +16.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile £98,474 £74,286 £81,250
90th Percentile £112,000 £77,715 £86,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +20.83%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,194 4,298 5,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.80% 94.48% 91.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 2,120 2,834
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £41,233
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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 23 May 2024.

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 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +57 20 £87,500 +34.15% 9
Glasgow -90 11 £42,202 -26.61% 1
Lanarkshire - 8 - -
Aberdeen - 3 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) Azure
2 20 (47.62%) AWS
3 19 (45.24%) GCP
4 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (14.29%) GitHub
6 5 (11.90%) OpenShift
7 4 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (7.14%) Datadog
8 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
8 3 (7.14%) Serverless
8 3 (7.14%) Snowflake
9 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.38%) Azure App Service
10 1 (2.38%) PaaS
10 1 (2.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (40.48%) BigQuery
1 17 (40.48%) Looker
2 10 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.14%) Ingres
3 3 (7.14%) Power BI
3 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.14%) Tableau
4 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) JIRA
2 4 (9.52%) Artifactory
2 4 (9.52%) Git
2 4 (9.52%) Snyk
3 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.76%) Spinnaker
5 1 (2.38%) GoCD
5 1 (2.38%) Gradle
5 1 (2.38%) Maven
5 1 (2.38%) Spock
General
1 16 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (38.10%) Finance
2 14 (33.33%) Banking
3 9 (21.43%) Retail Banking
4 7 (16.67%) Billing
5 5 (11.90%) Law
5 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
6 4 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (9.52%) Marketing
7 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
8 2 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Platform Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) Data Engineer
3 10 (23.81%) Lead
3 10 (23.81%) Principal Data Engineer
3 10 (23.81%) Principal Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Data Manager
4 7 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
5 5 (11.90%) Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Technical Architect
6 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Database Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Mainframe Architect
9 1 (2.38%) Junior
9 1 (2.38%) Lead Software Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.38%) Spring
2 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (11.90%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.76%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Windows
3 3 (7.14%) Unix
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) Agile
2 25 (59.52%) DevOps
3 20 (47.62%) Data Engineering
4 18 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 17 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (30.95%) Data Science
6 13 (30.95%) Mentoring
7 11 (26.19%) Change Management
7 11 (26.19%) ETL
8 10 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (21.43%) Data Modelling
9 9 (21.43%) DataOps
9 9 (21.43%) Line Management
10 8 (19.05%) Microservices
10 8 (19.05%) Scrum
11 7 (16.67%) Backlog Management
11 7 (16.67%) Business Strategy
11 7 (16.67%) Product Backlog
11 7 (16.67%) Project Management
11 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.43%) Python
2 6 (14.29%) Bash
2 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.90%) Java
3 5 (11.90%) SQL
4 3 (7.14%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.38%) Bicep
5 1 (2.38%) Groovy
5 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.38%) Scala
5 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) GDPR
2 7 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.76%) KVM
3 2 (4.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
1 10 (23.81%) Terraform
2 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
3 4 (9.52%) Grafana
3 4 (9.52%) Istio
4 2 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (45.24%) Google
2 4 (9.52%) VMware
3 3 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) Nintex