Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in West Lothian

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Scotland > West Lothian

As of 29 July 2026, 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 West Lothian.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Lothian 2.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £440 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -16.19% -4.55% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Lothian

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Lothian. 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 West Lothian with a recognized job title 31 17 29
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 77.50% 89.47% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 16
10th Percentile £263 £128 £60
25th Percentile £388 £144 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £188 £184
Median % change year-on-year +180.00% +2.04% -58.82%
75th Percentile £538 £306 £463
90th Percentile - £461 £578
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £16.40 £16.40
25th Percentile - £16.63 £17.38
Median hourly rate - £17.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - -19.53% -71.71%
75th Percentile - £18.75 £27.38
90th Percentile - £18.83 £29.40
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £19.71 £18.13
% change year-on-year +77.57% +8.71% +2.31%

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Lothian

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 West Lothian region over the 6 months to 29 July 2026. 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
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IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
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Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
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Livingston - 1 - - 3
Site Reliability Engineer
Scotland

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Lothian

For the 6 months to 29 July 2026, 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 West Lothian region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Lothian 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality