Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in Scotland

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Site Reliability Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 160 167
Rank change year-on-year +62 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 25 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.17% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.36% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 7
10th Percentile £456 £353 £417
25th Percentile £525 £413 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -1.35%
75th Percentile £631 - £588
90th Percentile £634 £523 £600
UK median daily rate £574 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -8.20% - +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Site Reliability Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,855 2,491 3,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.09% 92.43% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,739 2,280
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 54 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

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 3 June 2024.

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 3 June 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 +34 19 £563 +73.08% 6
Edinburgh +32 6 £623 +22.36% 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) OpenShift
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (12.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) NAS
1 6 (24.00%) SAN
2 5 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) DB2
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Git
2 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.00%) Gradle
3 5 (20.00%) Maven
4 2 (8.00%) Artifactory
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Security Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Site Manager
3 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Manager
3 6 (24.00%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Python Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Site Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Security Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (64.00%) Windows
2 14 (56.00%) Unix
3 10 (40.00%) Linux
4 5 (20.00%) Mac OS
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (40.00%) DevOps
3 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (32.00%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (32.00%) Data Protection
4 8 (32.00%) Observability
5 7 (28.00%) Agile
5 7 (28.00%) Disk Encryption
5 7 (28.00%) Service-Level Objective
6 6 (24.00%) Data Deduplication
6 6 (24.00%) Refactoring
7 5 (20.00%) Application Security
7 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (20.00%) OWASP
7 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (8.00%) Software Distribution
8 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
8 2 (8.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.00%) Groovy
3 5 (20.00%) Perl
3 5 (20.00%) Ruby
3 5 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (44.00%) Ansible
2 11 (44.00%) Terraform
3 7 (28.00%) Grafana
3 7 (28.00%) Prometheus
3 7 (28.00%) SCCM
4 4 (16.00%) NetBackup
5 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Splunk
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.00%) Veritas
4 1 (4.00%) Sybase