Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > Scotland

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Scotland.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 119 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% 0.45% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 -
UK median daily rate £488 £560 £650
% change year-on-year -12.95% -13.85% +4.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -6 1 - - 1
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Garbage Collection
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Garbage Collection
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) VMware