Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in England

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > England

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 June 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 483 567
Rank change year-on-year +55 +84 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 125 158 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.35% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 115 145
10th Percentile £473 £500 £455
25th Percentile £510 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £645 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile £711 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -9.80% +2.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £65.50 -
% change year-on-year +67.94% - -

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 34,568 44,755 67,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,698 31,838 48,568
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.68% +6.10%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,604 1,309 1,790
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.34 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.79
Median hourly rate £38.14 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -15.26% +88.21% +11.73%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.70%

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 6 June 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 6 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
London +45 66 £710 +11.37% 29
South East +38 23 £493 -1.40% 12
North of England +6 18 £550 -21.43% 5
South West - 13 £550 - 6
North West +4 9 £550 -21.43% 2
Yorkshire -1 9 £558 -20.36% 3
Midlands +11 1 £500 - 4
West Midlands +5 1 £500 - 2
East of England - 1 £600 - 6
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 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.

1 125 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 91 (72.80%) DevOps
3 90 (72.00%) Kubernetes
4 76 (60.80%) Python
5 71 (56.80%) Terraform
6 69 (55.20%) Prometheus
7 67 (53.60%) AWS
8 55 (44.00%) Java
8 55 (44.00%) Go
9 48 (38.40%) Linux
9 48 (38.40%) CI/CD
10 47 (37.60%) Grafana
11 42 (33.60%) Docker
12 34 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (25.60%) Task Automation
13 32 (25.60%) Containerisation
14 31 (24.80%) Social Skills
15 30 (24.00%) Microservices
16 29 (23.20%) Kafka
16 29 (23.20%) Jenkins
17 28 (22.40%) Infrastructure as Code
17 28 (22.40%) Finance
17 28 (22.40%) Security Cleared
18 26 (20.80%) Splunk
19 25 (20.00%) Agile
19 25 (20.00%) SQL
19 25 (20.00%) Microsoft
19 25 (20.00%) Ansible
19 25 (20.00%) OpenShift
19 25 (20.00%) Snowflake

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 20 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.00%) Apache
3 4 (3.20%) nginx
4 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.80%) CMS
5 1 (0.80%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 67 (53.60%) AWS
2 25 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 25 (20.00%) Snowflake
3 21 (16.80%) Azure
4 18 (14.40%) dbt
5 15 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (9.60%) Amazon S3
7 11 (8.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (8.80%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (8.80%) GCP
7 11 (8.80%) Serverless
8 8 (6.40%) GitHub
9 6 (4.80%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.40%) Anthos
11 3 (2.40%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.40%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.20%) Network Security
2 6 (4.80%) AMQP
3 5 (4.00%) Firewall
4 2 (1.60%) DHCP
4 2 (1.60%) DNS
4 2 (1.60%) IPv4
4 2 (1.60%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.80%) Internet
5 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.20%) Data Lake
2 18 (14.40%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (14.40%) Apache Arrow
2 18 (14.40%) Big Data
2 18 (14.40%) Dremio
3 15 (12.00%) SQL Server
4 14 (11.20%) Relational Database
5 13 (10.40%) MongoDB
6 12 (9.60%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (8.80%) MySQL
8 8 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (5.60%) InfluxDB
9 7 (5.60%) NoSQL
10 6 (4.80%) DynamoDB
11 3 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.40%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (23.20%) Jenkins
2 14 (11.20%) Git
3 12 (9.60%) GitLab
4 11 (8.80%) SonarQube
5 7 (5.60%) JIRA
5 7 (5.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (4.00%) AppScan
6 5 (4.00%) Burp Suite
7 4 (3.20%) Subversion
8 1 (0.80%) Jaeger
General
1 31 (24.80%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.40%) Finance
3 19 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.80%) Retail
5 3 (2.40%) Banking
6 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.80%) Front Office
7 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.20%) Kafka
2 18 (14.40%) gRPC
2 18 (14.40%) Protocol Buffers
2 18 (14.40%) RabbitMQ
3 14 (11.20%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (9.60%) RESTful
5 3 (2.40%) .NET
6 2 (1.60%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.60%) LDAP
6 2 (1.60%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.80%) Cloud Native
2 20 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (16.00%) Hedge funds
3 18 (14.40%) Clustering
4 13 (10.40%) Algorithms
4 13 (10.40%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.60%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (5.60%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.80%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.80%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (38.40%) Linux
2 13 (10.40%) Windows
3 11 (8.80%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 91 (72.80%) DevOps
3 48 (38.40%) CI/CD
4 34 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (25.60%) Containerisation
5 32 (25.60%) Task Automation
6 30 (24.00%) Microservices
7 28 (22.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (20.00%) Agile
9 19 (15.20%) Asset Management
9 19 (15.20%) Investment Management
9 19 (15.20%) Observability
10 17 (13.60%) Configuration Management
10 17 (13.60%) GitOps
11 16 (12.80%) ITSM
12 15 (12.00%) Software Engineering
13 14 (11.20%) Incident Response
14 12 (9.60%) Analytical Thinking
14 12 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (9.60%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (60.80%) Python
2 55 (44.00%) Go
2 55 (44.00%) Java
3 25 (20.00%) SQL
4 22 (17.60%) Shell Script
5 21 (16.80%) Bash
6 19 (15.20%) JavaScript
7 14 (11.20%) PowerShell
8 10 (8.00%) C++
9 9 (7.20%) C#
10 8 (6.40%) F#
11 7 (5.60%) C
12 3 (2.40%) Bicep
13 2 (1.60%) Ruby
14 1 (0.80%) Groovy
14 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.80%) Scala
14 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.80%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.60%) Degree
5 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.80%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.40%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (33.60%) Docker
2 12 (9.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 90 (72.00%) Kubernetes
2 71 (56.80%) Terraform
3 69 (55.20%) Prometheus
4 47 (37.60%) Grafana
5 25 (20.00%) Ansible
6 17 (13.60%) Progress Chef
7 15 (12.00%) Istio
8 12 (9.60%) Argo
8 12 (9.60%) Consul
8 12 (9.60%) Kibana
8 12 (9.60%) Puppet
9 11 (8.80%) HP Fortify
10 7 (5.60%) Graylog
11 6 (4.80%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (4.00%) Nessus
12 5 (4.00%) Opsgenie
12 5 (4.00%) WebInspect
13 4 (3.20%) Nagios
14 2 (1.60%) Kiali
15 1 (0.80%) systemd
Vendors
1 26 (20.80%) Splunk
2 25 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.60%) SaltStack
4 8 (6.40%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.80%) Dynatrace
5 6 (4.80%) New Relic
6 5 (4.00%) Adobe
6 5 (4.00%) Checkmarx
6 5 (4.00%) PagerDuty
6 5 (4.00%) SAP
6 5 (4.00%) Veracode
7 3 (2.40%) VMware
8 2 (1.60%) Google
9 1 (0.80%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.80%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.80%) Databricks
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle
9 1 (0.80%) SolarWinds