Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in Glasgow

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 62 61 81
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 17 21 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.13% 2.39% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.61% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 2
10th Percentile £413 £435 £333
25th Percentile £414 £513 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +29.41% -
75th Percentile £513 £613 £488
90th Percentile £539 £623 £518
Scotland median daily rate £475 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Glasgow

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Glasgow

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Glasgow

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (23.53%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.88%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) DB2
2 1 (5.88%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Bitbucket
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Xcode
General
1 14 (82.35%) Social Skills
2 11 (64.71%) Finance
3 6 (35.29%) Banking
3 6 (35.29%) Investment Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Legal
6 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Applications Support
2 3 (17.65%) Applications Specialist
2 3 (17.65%) Applications Support Specialist
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Support Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Support
3 2 (11.76%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Coordinator
4 1 (5.88%) DBA
4 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Loki
2 4 (23.53%) Middleware
3 3 (17.65%) SwiftUI
3 3 (17.65%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
1 4 (23.53%) Virtual Team
2 3 (17.65%) Credit Risk
2 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (17.65%) iPad
2 3 (17.65%) iPhone
2 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
1 6 (35.29%) Unix
2 3 (17.65%) Android
2 3 (17.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Investment Management
3 6 (35.29%) Wealth Management
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Project Management
5 4 (23.53%) BCP
5 4 (23.53%) Business Continuity
5 4 (23.53%) Business Continuity Planning
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) Internal Audit
5 4 (23.53%) ITIL
5 4 (23.53%) Problem Management
6 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) TDD
6 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 3 (17.65%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Shell Script
3 3 (17.65%) Objective-C
3 3 (17.65%) Swift
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (17.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
1 6 (35.29%) Grafana
1 6 (35.29%) Prometheus
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Splunk
1 6 (35.29%) Veritas
1 6 (35.29%) VMware
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Sun
3 1 (5.88%) Sybase