Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in Central London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 134 164
Rank change year-on-year +27 +30 -25
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 22 41 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.92% 1.08% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.18% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 33 33
10th Percentile £590 £528 £519
25th Percentile £625 £623 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £701
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.21% +21.83%
75th Percentile £710 £725 £800
90th Percentile £788 £754 £870
London median daily rate £655 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +4.80% -3.85% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,177 3,473 4,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.63% 91.23% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,550 2,356 3,213
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £64.45
London median hourly rate £27.92 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.41% +5.41% +12.63%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Central London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Central London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Central London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 13 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
City of London +26 20 £675 +1.89% 5
City of Westminster - 1 £725 -
Site Reliability Engineering
London

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Solr
2 1 (4.55%) IIS
2 1 (4.55%) nginx
2 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) R3 Corda
1 1 (4.55%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Akamai
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (4.55%) IaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
4 1 (4.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) DHCP
2 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.64%) MySQL
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.55%) Couchbase
4 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) Subversion
4 1 (4.55%) AppScan
4 1 (4.55%) Burp Suite
4 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Front Office
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 14 (63.64%) Site Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Python Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Java Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Architect
6 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Blockchain Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Development Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Head of IT
7 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Lead
7 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (59.09%) Kafka
2 12 (54.55%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (36.36%) RESTful
4 4 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.55%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (4.55%) LDAP
5 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (36.36%) Algorithms
2 8 (36.36%) Data Structures
3 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.55%) Blockchain
5 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Hedge funds
5 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) CentOS
3 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.55%) VMS
3 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) DevOps
2 16 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (40.91%) Microservices
3 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (36.36%) Analytical Thinking
4 8 (36.36%) Task Automation
5 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
6 3 (13.64%) Agile
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (13.64%) Information Security
7 2 (9.09%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 2 (9.09%) Change Control
7 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
7 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
7 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (9.09%) Migration
7 2 (9.09%) Project Management
7 2 (9.09%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) Python
2 11 (50.00%) Java
2 11 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 8 (36.36%) Go
4 5 (22.73%) C++
5 3 (13.64%) Bash
5 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 2 (9.09%) SQL
7 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
7 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (13.64%) Docker
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (72.73%) Grafana
1 16 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 15 (68.18%) Prometheus
3 11 (50.00%) Consul
4 7 (31.82%) Ansible
5 6 (27.27%) Terraform
6 3 (13.64%) Nagios
6 3 (13.64%) Progress Chef
6 3 (13.64%) Puppet
7 2 (9.09%) Graylog
8 1 (4.55%) HP Fortify
8 1 (4.55%) Kibana
8 1 (4.55%) logstash
8 1 (4.55%) Nessus
8 1 (4.55%) Opsgenie
8 1 (4.55%) Packer
8 1 (4.55%) WebInspect
8 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (50.00%) SaltStack
3 4 (18.18%) Splunk
4 2 (9.09%) Adobe
4 2 (9.09%) New Relic
4 2 (9.09%) PagerDuty
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 2 (9.09%) SAP
5 1 (4.55%) Checkmarx
5 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.55%) IBM
5 1 (4.55%) Veracode