Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Glasgow is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 10 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.32% - 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £531 - -
Scotland median daily rate £480 £325 -
% change year-on-year +47.69% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 706 657 838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 90.12% 96.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 454 571
10th Percentile £244 £247 £325
25th Percentile £363 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £670 £700
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 18
10th Percentile £16.84 £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.07 £12.49
Median hourly rate £24.09 £19.59 £16.46
Median % change year-on-year +22.97% +19.02% -56.02%
75th Percentile £37.70 £29.34 £18.89
90th Percentile £57.50 £43.42 £32.40
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £18.69 £18.47
% change year-on-year +28.91% +1.20% +4.20%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in Glasgow

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (70.00%) Agile
4 7 (70.00%) Observability
5 6 (60.00%) GCP
5 6 (60.00%) Google
5 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
5 6 (60.00%) Terraform
6 5 (50.00%) Bash
6 5 (50.00%) DevOps
6 5 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (50.00%) Python
7 4 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (40.00%) AWS
7 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket
7 4 (40.00%) Change Management
7 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
7 4 (40.00%) Grafana
7 4 (40.00%) Linux
7 4 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (40.00%) PagerDuty
7 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
7 4 (40.00%) PromQL
7 4 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
7 4 (40.00%) Splunk
7 4 (40.00%) Unix
8 3 (30.00%) Analytics

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 5 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (40.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (70.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) Observability
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
5 4 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (40.00%) Change Management
5 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (30.00%) Analytics
6 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (30.00%) Critical Thinking
6 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (30.00%) Log Analytics
7 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (10.00%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Bash
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) PromQL
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 4 (40.00%) Grafana
2 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Google
2 4 (40.00%) PagerDuty
2 4 (40.00%) Splunk