Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in Edinburgh

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 66 109
Rank change year-on-year +5 +43 +8
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 6 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.96% 0.74% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.83% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile - - £497
25th Percentile £506 £611 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £623 £518
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% +20.29% -5.91%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £544
90th Percentile - £636 £548
Scotland median daily rate £475 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Edinburgh

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Edinburgh

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Edinburgh

Site Reliability 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (16.67%) Google Compute Engine
1 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (16.67%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SNA
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (33.33%) API Development
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JCL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (33.33%) ForgeRock
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Ping Identity
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk