Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 135 169
Rank change year-on-year +20 +34 -21
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 26 13 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.94% 0.51% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.55% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 14
10th Percentile £67,500 £57,860 £60,200
25th Percentile £68,156 £64,471 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,654 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.95% -18.05% +27.27%
75th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £103,750 £85,000 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.90% +12.81% -

All Process & 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 2,206 2,381 2,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.84% 92.90% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,076 1,004 1,812
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,325 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,370 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +4 23 £73,801 +5.43% 2
Glasgow +17 3 £97,500 +85.71% 3
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) CICS
1 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) Azure
2 14 (53.85%) Datadog
2 14 (53.85%) GitHub
2 14 (53.85%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 6 (23.08%) GCP
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (15.38%) dbt
4 4 (15.38%) Pulumi
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (11.54%) PaaS
5 3 (11.54%) Sentry
6 2 (7.69%) Azure AKS
6 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) BGP
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) LAN
2 1 (3.85%) MPLS
2 1 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (3.85%) WAN
2 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (15.38%) Redis
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 18 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 14 (53.85%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Development Engineer
1 14 (53.85%) Senior
2 8 (30.77%) Senior Development Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Site Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Risk Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (57.69%) .NET
2 14 (53.85%) ADO
3 4 (15.38%) Django
4 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (61.54%) Product Ownership
2 14 (53.85%) Onboarding
3 3 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
1 4 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) Observability
2 23 (88.46%) DevOps
3 22 (84.62%) CI/CD
4 17 (65.38%) Platform Engineering
4 17 (65.38%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (61.54%) Containerisation
6 14 (53.85%) Asset Management
6 14 (53.85%) Brown Bag Session
6 14 (53.85%) Coaching
6 14 (53.85%) Code Quality
6 14 (53.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (15.38%) Clean Code
8 4 (15.38%) Service-Level Objective
9 3 (11.54%) Agile
9 3 (11.54%) Migration
9 3 (11.54%) Open Source
9 3 (11.54%) Prototyping
10 2 (7.69%) High Availability
10 2 (7.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 22 (84.62%) Python
2 14 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) Go
4 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (53.85%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) GRC
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (76.92%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) RACF
Systems Management
1 22 (84.62%) Terraform
2 16 (61.54%) Grafana
2 16 (61.54%) Kubernetes
3 15 (57.69%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (7.69%) Ansible
6 1 (3.85%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Broadcom
4 1 (3.85%) F5
4 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds