Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Central London > City of London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the City of London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 148 191
Rank change year-on-year +36 +43 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 13 24 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.59% 0.66% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.69% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 4
10th Percentile £590 £522 £548
25th Percentile £628 £624 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £695 £716 £663
90th Percentile £708 £749 £686
Central London median daily rate £665 £650 £625
% change year-on-year +2.31% +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,091 3,462 4,000
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 95.19% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 2,355 3,014
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £791 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £586 £560
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.69% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 51
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.56 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £44.10 £87.64 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +105.84%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 City of London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 13 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) Prometheus
2 12 (92.31%) Grafana
2 12 (92.31%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 12 (92.31%) Python
3 10 (76.92%) Shell Script
3 10 (76.92%) SaltStack
3 10 (76.92%) MongoDB
3 10 (76.92%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (76.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 10 (76.92%) Kafka
3 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 10 (76.92%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (76.92%) Consul
4 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
4 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (53.85%) Task Automation
5 7 (53.85%) Analytical Thinking
5 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (53.85%) Microservices
5 7 (53.85%) Data Structures
5 7 (53.85%) Algorithms
5 7 (53.85%) Java
5 7 (53.85%) RESTful
6 5 (38.46%) C++
6 5 (38.46%) Go

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) MongoDB
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 2 (15.38%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
3 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) Subversion
2 1 (7.69%) AppScan
2 1 (7.69%) Burp Suite
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) Kafka
1 10 (76.92%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (53.85%) RESTful
3 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (76.92%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (53.85%) Algorithms
2 7 (53.85%) Data Structures
3 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 12 (92.31%) DevOps
3 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
4 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (53.85%) Analytical Thinking
5 7 (53.85%) Microservices
5 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (53.85%) Task Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 2 (15.38%) Change Control
6 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
7 1 (7.69%) Application Security
7 1 (7.69%) Manual Testing
7 1 (7.69%) OWASP
7 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 10 (76.92%) Shell Script
3 7 (53.85%) Java
4 5 (38.46%) C++
4 5 (38.46%) Go
5 2 (15.38%) Bash
5 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Grafana
1 12 (92.31%) Kubernetes
1 12 (92.31%) Prometheus
2 10 (76.92%) Consul
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 2 (15.38%) Graylog
3 2 (15.38%) Nagios
3 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
3 2 (15.38%) Puppet
3 2 (15.38%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) HP Fortify
4 1 (7.69%) Nessus
4 1 (7.69%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (76.92%) SaltStack
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) Checkmarx
4 1 (7.69%) Veracode
4 Site Reliability Engineer jobs in Central London