Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > Scotland

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Scotland is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 163 171
Rank change year-on-year +49 +8 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 9 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.42% 0.037% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.039% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £494 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £587 - -
90th Percentile £623 - -
UK median daily rate £565 £645 £625
% change year-on-year -12.40% +3.20% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,018 2,574 3,263
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 95.40% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,816 2,311
10th Percentile £200 £231 £218
25th Percentile £356 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £649 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 45 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.90 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.25 £17.61
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.67 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -34.33% -12.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.03 £47.98
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.25 £55.84
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 18 May 2024. 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 +20 9 £550 -
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) Python
2 8 (88.89%) Data Protection
3 6 (66.67%) SAN
3 6 (66.67%) Perl
3 6 (66.67%) Observability
3 6 (66.67%) OpenShift
3 6 (66.67%) Ansible
3 6 (66.67%) Data Deduplication
3 6 (66.67%) NAS
3 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 6 (66.67%) Terraform
4 5 (55.56%) Grafana
4 5 (55.56%) REST
4 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
4 5 (55.56%) Veritas
4 5 (55.56%) Git
4 5 (55.56%) NetBackup
4 5 (55.56%) Banking
4 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
5 4 (44.44%) Unix
5 4 (44.44%) Windows
5 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
5 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
5 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
6 3 (33.33%) Finance
7 2 (22.22%) Linux
7 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
7 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
7 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements

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 6 (66.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) NAS
1 6 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Unix
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) Data Protection
3 6 (66.67%) Data Deduplication
3 6 (66.67%) Observability
4 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Perl
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Grafana
2 5 (55.56%) NetBackup
2 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Veritas
2 1 (11.11%) Sybase