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

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 55 77
Rank change year-on-year -13 +22 -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 13 9 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.74% 1.31% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.45% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile £435 £522 -
25th Percentile £449 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.09% - -
75th Percentile £541 £613 -
90th Percentile £569 - -
Scotland median daily rate £508 £575 £463
% change year-on-year -11.74% +24.32% -15.91%

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 683 621 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.19% 90.39% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 443 532
10th Percentile £300 £251 £326
25th Percentile £365 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £575
90th Percentile £600 £636 £675
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 28
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.13 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £12.88
Median hourly rate £18.64 £40.94 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.48% +182.34% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.95 - £50.49
90th Percentile £35.60 £61.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +2.02% +3.49% -4.63%

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
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
1 4 (30.77%) Redis
2 3 (23.08%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) DB2
3 1 (7.69%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
1 6 (46.15%) Xcode
2 3 (23.08%) Artifactory
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Mobile Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Site Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) SwiftUI
1 6 (46.15%) UIKit
2 5 (38.46%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (30.77%) FastAPI
3 4 (30.77%) Flask
3 4 (30.77%) Kafka
3 4 (30.77%) LangChain
3 4 (30.77%) LangGraph
3 4 (30.77%) Loki
3 4 (30.77%) OAuth
3 4 (30.77%) OAuth2
3 4 (30.77%) RESTful
4 3 (23.08%) Hugging Face
4 3 (23.08%) PyTorch
4 3 (23.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Virtual Team
2 6 (46.15%) Credit Risk
2 6 (46.15%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (46.15%) iPad
2 6 (46.15%) iPhone
2 6 (46.15%) Mobile App
3 3 (23.08%) AI Agents
3 3 (23.08%) Private Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Android
1 6 (46.15%) Apple iOS
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) BDD
2 9 (69.23%) Scrum
2 9 (69.23%) Software Engineering
3 8 (61.54%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (53.85%) Data Protection
4 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (46.15%) Biometrics
5 6 (46.15%) Build Automation
5 6 (46.15%) Decision-Making
5 6 (46.15%) MVC
5 6 (46.15%) MVVM
5 6 (46.15%) Prototyping
5 6 (46.15%) Push Notifications
5 6 (46.15%) Rapid Prototyping
5 6 (46.15%) TDD
5 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
5 6 (46.15%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (46.15%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Objective-C
1 6 (46.15%) Swift
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) PromQL
5 1 (7.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Grafana
1 6 (46.15%) Prometheus
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (23.08%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) PagerDuty
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Sun
2 1 (7.69%) Sybase