Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 129 171
Rank change year-on-year -20 +42 +6
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 15 172 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.50% 2.56% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 2.77% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9 14 30
10th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £43,917
25th Percentile £63,750 £62,688 £46,149
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £76,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% +27.08% -14.29%
75th Percentile £84,250 £80,000 £83,667
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,931 £84,392
UK median annual salary £90,750 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.44% - +6.67%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,783 6,201 4,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.95% 92.47% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,366 2,420 2,190
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,375 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +6.20%
75th Percentile £63,608 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,979 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +22 10 £70,000 +6.46% 11
Glasgow +58 5 £67,500 -15.63% 10
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 1 (6.67%) CICS
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 2 (13.33%) Serverless
6 1 (6.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SNA
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Java Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Principal Java Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Leader
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (13.33%) Java EE
3 2 (13.33%) React
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (13.33%) Vue
4 1 (6.67%) FIDO
4 1 (6.67%) JWT
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
4 1 (6.67%) OpenID
4 1 (6.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 7 (46.67%) Observability
3 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
4 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Microservices
6 4 (26.67%) Software Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
8 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
8 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
8 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
8 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
8 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Systems Thinking
8 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C#
1 4 (26.67%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) JCL
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Go
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Rust
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Grafana
2 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Tivoli NetView
4 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Broadcom
3 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.67%) ForgeRock
3 1 (6.67%) Ping Identity
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow