Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in England

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > England

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in England is £564 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 484 567
Rank change year-on-year +55 +83 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 112 190 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.38% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.40% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 143 154
10th Percentile £474 £500 £450
25th Percentile £510 £550 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £703 £713 £701
90th Percentile £850 £760 £771
UK median daily rate £561 £650 £620
% change year-on-year -13.65% +4.84% +12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,448 47,601 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,861 33,797 48,247
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,402 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.95 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +35 59 £690 +6.98% 51
North of England -1 18 £550 -21.43% 14
South East +34 17 £497 -9.73% 13
South West +28 12 £550 -31.25% 10
North West 0 10 £550 -21.43% 9
Yorkshire +6 8 £550 -21.43% 5
Midlands +27 3 £500 - 5
West Midlands +27 3 £500 - 1
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 England region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 112 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 75 (66.96%) Kubernetes
2 75 (66.96%) DevOps
3 74 (66.07%) Python
4 64 (57.14%) Terraform
5 62 (55.36%) AWS
6 59 (52.68%) Prometheus
7 51 (45.54%) Go
8 49 (43.75%) CI/CD
9 46 (41.07%) Linux
10 43 (38.39%) Grafana
11 42 (37.50%) Java
12 36 (32.14%) Docker
13 30 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (25.89%) Ansible
15 27 (24.11%) Jenkins
15 27 (24.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (24.11%) SQL
15 27 (24.11%) Containerisation
16 25 (22.32%) Social Skills
16 25 (22.32%) Task Automation
17 24 (21.43%) Kafka
17 24 (21.43%) Security Cleared
18 23 (20.54%) Splunk
19 22 (19.64%) Azure
20 21 (18.75%) Bash
20 21 (18.75%) Microsoft
20 21 (18.75%) Microservices
21 20 (17.86%) OpenShift
21 20 (17.86%) Configuration Management

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.36%) Apache
3 5 (4.46%) nginx
4 4 (3.57%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.79%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.89%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 62 (55.36%) AWS
2 22 (19.64%) Azure
3 20 (17.86%) OpenShift
4 19 (16.96%) Snowflake
5 14 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (11.61%) GCP
7 12 (10.71%) dbt
8 11 (9.82%) Amazon S3
9 10 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (8.93%) Serverless
10 9 (8.04%) GitHub
11 6 (5.36%) Amazon ELB
12 5 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.57%) PaaS
14 3 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (2.68%) Anthos
14 3 (2.68%) Azure AKS
15 2 (1.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.14%) Network Security
2 5 (4.46%) AMQP
3 4 (3.57%) Firewall
4 2 (1.79%) DHCP
4 2 (1.79%) DNS
4 2 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.89%) Broadband
5 1 (0.89%) Internet
5 1 (0.89%) IPv4
5 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.07%) Data Lake
2 15 (13.39%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.61%) Relational Database
4 12 (10.71%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (10.71%) Apache Arrow
4 12 (10.71%) Big Data
4 12 (10.71%) Dremio
4 12 (10.71%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.82%) MySQL
6 10 (8.93%) NoSQL
6 10 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (5.36%) DynamoDB
8 6 (5.36%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.68%) Couchbase
9 3 (2.68%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 27 (24.11%) Jenkins
2 17 (15.18%) Git
3 11 (9.82%) SonarQube
4 10 (8.93%) GitLab
5 7 (6.25%) JIRA
5 7 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (4.46%) AppScan
6 5 (4.46%) Burp Suite
7 4 (3.57%) Subversion
8 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.89%) Jaeger
General
1 25 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.07%) Finance
3 15 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.25%) Retail
5 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.68%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.79%) Banking
7 1 (0.89%) Front Office
7 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (21.43%) Kafka
2 18 (16.07%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (16.07%) RabbitMQ
3 12 (10.71%) gRPC
3 12 (10.71%) Protocol Buffers
4 9 (8.04%) RESTful
5 3 (2.68%) LAPP Stack
6 2 (1.79%) .NET
6 2 (1.79%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.79%) LDAP
7 1 (0.89%) J2EE
7 1 (0.89%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.96%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 13 (11.61%) Hedge funds
4 12 (10.71%) Clustering
5 11 (9.82%) Public Cloud
6 10 (8.93%) Algorithms
6 10 (8.93%) Data Structures
7 6 (5.36%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (4.46%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.68%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.89%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.89%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.89%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 46 (41.07%) Linux
2 13 (11.61%) Windows
3 11 (9.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.57%) Unix
5 3 (2.68%) CentOS
5 3 (2.68%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.68%) VMS
6 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 75 (66.96%) DevOps
3 49 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 30 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (24.11%) Containerisation
5 27 (24.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (22.32%) Task Automation
7 21 (18.75%) Microservices
8 20 (17.86%) Agile
8 20 (17.86%) Configuration Management
9 18 (16.07%) Observability
10 14 (12.50%) Asset Management
11 13 (11.61%) Investment Management
11 13 (11.61%) Software Engineering
12 12 (10.71%) GitOps
12 12 (10.71%) Systems Engineering
13 11 (9.82%) ITSM
14 10 (8.93%) Incident Response
15 9 (8.04%) Analytical Thinking
15 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (66.07%) Python
2 51 (45.54%) Go
3 42 (37.50%) Java
4 27 (24.11%) SQL
5 21 (18.75%) Bash
6 19 (16.96%) Shell Script
7 12 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 12 (10.71%) PowerShell
8 8 (7.14%) C#
8 8 (7.14%) C++
8 8 (7.14%) F#
9 7 (6.25%) C
10 2 (1.79%) Bicep
10 2 (1.79%) Ruby
11 1 (0.89%) Groovy
11 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.93%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.36%) Degree
5 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.07%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (32.14%) Docker
2 11 (9.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 75 (66.96%) Kubernetes
2 64 (57.14%) Terraform
3 59 (52.68%) Prometheus
4 43 (38.39%) Grafana
5 29 (25.89%) Ansible
6 16 (14.29%) Progress Chef
7 12 (10.71%) Puppet
8 11 (9.82%) Consul
8 11 (9.82%) HP Fortify
9 10 (8.93%) Istio
10 7 (6.25%) Argo
10 7 (6.25%) Graylog
10 7 (6.25%) Kibana
11 5 (4.46%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (4.46%) Nessus
11 5 (4.46%) Opsgenie
11 5 (4.46%) WebInspect
12 3 (2.68%) Nagios
12 3 (2.68%) ZABBIX
13 2 (1.79%) Kiali
Vendors
1 23 (20.54%) Splunk
2 21 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.82%) SaltStack
4 8 (7.14%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.36%) Dynatrace
5 6 (5.36%) New Relic
6 5 (4.46%) Adobe
6 5 (4.46%) Checkmarx
6 5 (4.46%) PagerDuty
6 5 (4.46%) SAP
6 5 (4.46%) Veracode
7 4 (3.57%) Google
8 3 (2.68%) VMware
9 1 (0.89%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.89%) Citrix
9 1 (0.89%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.89%) Databricks
9 1 (0.89%) Oracle