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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 76 101
Rank change year-on-year +17 +25 +32
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 10 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.53% 0.24% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 0.28% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £498 £611 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £623 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.67% +24.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £541 £634 -
90th Percentile £551 - -
Scotland median daily rate £513 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -13.04%

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 619 714 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.50% 85.20% 91.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 396 702
10th Percentile £279 £208 £213
25th Percentile £413 £355 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £538
90th Percentile £594 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £467 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 4
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £21.59
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.00 £34.23
Median hourly rate £17.87 £17.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -63.16% +111.58%
75th Percentile £41.44 £23.89 £55.94
90th Percentile £62.38 £36.62 £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -29.50%

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
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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Run
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (10.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SNA
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (20.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Mainframe Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Network Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (10.00%) Flask
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) LangChain
2 1 (10.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (30.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Unix
3 3 (30.00%) zOS
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) Observability
3 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (40.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Network Load Balancing
6 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (30.00%) Network Management
6 3 (30.00%) Scrum
7 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
7 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (20.00%) Kanban
7 2 (20.00%) Migration
7 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
7 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
2 5 (50.00%) Perl
3 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (30.00%) JCL
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 4 (40.00%) KVM
3 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (60.00%) Ansible
2 6 (60.00%) Grafana
2 6 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (50.00%) Terraform
4 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (30.00%) Tivoli NetView
6 2 (20.00%) Fluentd
6 2 (20.00%) HAProxy
6 2 (20.00%) Nagios
7 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) Commvault
2 3 (30.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Splunk