Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 101 152
Rank change year-on-year +5 +51 +15
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 23 27 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.43% 1.22% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.37% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 7
10th Percentile £413 £463 £373
25th Percentile £421 £521 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £534 £628 £538
90th Percentile £620 £634 £543
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% -0.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,509 1,967 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.49% 88.60% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,198 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -1 17 £445 -19.09% 4
Edinburgh +6 6 £581 -6.63% 4
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (17.39%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Run
2 1 (4.35%) Fivetran
2 1 (4.35%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (4.35%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (4.35%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) SNA
1 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) DB2
3 1 (4.35%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket
1 3 (13.04%) Git
1 3 (13.04%) Xcode
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (60.87%) Finance
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Banking
3 6 (26.09%) Investment Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Games
5 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Applications Support
2 3 (13.04%) Applications Specialist
2 3 (13.04%) Applications Support Specialist
2 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 3 (13.04%) Lead
2 3 (13.04%) Mobile Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Support Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Linux Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Linux Support
3 2 (8.70%) Mainframe Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.35%) DBA
4 1 (4.35%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Loki
2 4 (17.39%) Middleware
3 3 (13.04%) SwiftUI
3 3 (13.04%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
1 4 (17.39%) Virtual Team
2 3 (13.04%) Credit Risk
2 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (13.04%) iPad
2 3 (13.04%) iPhone
2 3 (13.04%) Mainframe
2 3 (13.04%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
1 6 (26.09%) Unix
2 3 (13.04%) Android
2 3 (13.04%) Apple iOS
2 3 (13.04%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 7 (30.43%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Business Continuity
3 6 (26.09%) Investment Management
3 6 (26.09%) ITIL
3 6 (26.09%) Wealth Management
4 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (21.74%) Problem Management
4 5 (21.74%) Project Management
4 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) BCP
5 4 (17.39%) Business Continuity Planning
5 4 (17.39%) Data Protection
5 4 (17.39%) Incident Management
5 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (17.39%) Internal Audit
6 3 (13.04%) Prototyping
6 3 (13.04%) Push Notifications
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
3 3 (13.04%) JCL
3 3 (13.04%) Objective-C
3 3 (13.04%) Swift
4 2 (8.70%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (13.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Ansible
1 7 (30.43%) Terraform
2 6 (26.09%) Grafana
2 6 (26.09%) Prometheus
3 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
4 3 (13.04%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Splunk
2 6 (26.09%) Veritas
2 6 (26.09%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.04%) Dynatrace
5 2 (8.70%) ForgeRock
5 2 (8.70%) IBM
5 2 (8.70%) Ping Identity
6 1 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle
6 1 (4.35%) SAP
6 1 (4.35%) Sun
6 1 (4.35%) Sybase