Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in London is £685 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 377 434
Rank change year-on-year +40 +57 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 58 125 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.46% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.49% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 99 115
10th Percentile £483 £505 £450
25th Percentile £561 £550 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £645 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% +3.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile £850 £713 £713
90th Percentile - £750 £775
England median daily rate £563 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,599 25,655 37,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 95.29% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,582 27,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £677
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 289 450
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in London

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in London

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in London

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +34 14 £665 +2.31% 3
West London +17 1 £80 -
East London - 1 - - 1
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 49 (84.48%) Python
3 41 (70.69%) DevOps
3 41 (70.69%) Kubernetes
4 36 (62.07%) Prometheus
4 36 (62.07%) Go
5 35 (60.34%) AWS
5 35 (60.34%) Terraform
6 33 (56.90%) Java
7 28 (48.28%) Linux
8 25 (43.10%) CI/CD
9 22 (37.93%) Grafana
10 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (32.76%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
11 17 (29.31%) Kafka
12 16 (27.59%) Finance
12 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
13 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
13 14 (24.14%) Apache Airflow
14 13 (22.41%) Microservices
14 13 (22.41%) Snowflake
14 13 (22.41%) Asset Management
14 13 (22.41%) Jenkins
14 13 (22.41%) RabbitMQ
14 13 (22.41%) Hedge funds
14 13 (22.41%) Investment Management
15 12 (20.69%) MongoDB
15 12 (20.69%) Big Data
15 12 (20.69%) Protocol Buffers

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 14 (24.14%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (10.34%) Apache
3 4 (6.90%) OpenStack
4 3 (5.17%) nginx
5 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.72%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 35 (60.34%) AWS
2 13 (22.41%) Snowflake
3 12 (20.69%) dbt
4 10 (17.24%) GCP
5 9 (15.52%) Azure
6 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (6.90%) PaaS
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.17%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (3.45%) GitHub
9 1 (1.72%) Akamai
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.72%) Anthos
9 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.72%) SaaS
9 1 (1.72%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) Firewall
2 2 (3.45%) DHCP
2 2 (3.45%) DNS
2 2 (3.45%) Network Security
2 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.72%) Broadband
3 1 (1.72%) Internet
3 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) Amazon Athena
1 12 (20.69%) Apache Arrow
1 12 (20.69%) Big Data
1 12 (20.69%) Data Lake
1 12 (20.69%) Dremio
1 12 (20.69%) MongoDB
2 7 (12.07%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (5.17%) Couchbase
4 3 (5.17%) MySQL
4 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Jenkins
2 10 (17.24%) Git
3 4 (6.90%) GitLab
4 3 (5.17%) Subversion
5 2 (3.45%) JIRA
5 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.72%) AppScan
6 1 (1.72%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.72%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (27.59%) Finance
1 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.31%) Kafka
2 13 (22.41%) RabbitMQ
3 12 (20.69%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (20.69%) gRPC
3 12 (20.69%) Protocol Buffers
4 9 (15.52%) RESTful
5 3 (5.17%) LAPP Stack
6 2 (3.45%) LDAP
7 1 (1.72%) .NET
7 1 (1.72%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.76%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (22.41%) Hedge funds
3 12 (20.69%) Clustering
4 10 (17.24%) Algorithms
4 10 (17.24%) Data Structures
5 6 (10.34%) Cloud Native
5 6 (10.34%) Public Cloud
6 5 (8.62%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (48.28%) Linux
2 5 (8.62%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.17%) CentOS
3 3 (5.17%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.17%) VMS
4 2 (3.45%) Unix
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 41 (70.69%) DevOps
3 25 (43.10%) CI/CD
4 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (22.41%) Asset Management
5 13 (22.41%) Investment Management
5 13 (22.41%) Microservices
6 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (17.24%) Task Automation
7 9 (15.52%) Analytical Thinking
7 9 (15.52%) Configuration Management
7 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (13.79%) Containerisation
9 7 (12.07%) Agile
9 7 (12.07%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (12.07%) Systems Engineering
10 6 (10.34%) Observability
11 5 (8.62%) Service-Level Objective
12 4 (6.90%) Software Engineering
13 3 (5.17%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 49 (84.48%) Python
2 36 (62.07%) Go
3 33 (56.90%) Java
4 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 12 (20.69%) Shell Script
5 9 (15.52%) SQL
6 8 (13.79%) C++
7 7 (12.07%) Bash
8 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.45%) C#
9 2 (3.45%) F#
9 2 (3.45%) Ruby
10 1 (1.72%) C
10 1 (1.72%) Groovy
10 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.72%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) SANS
2 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) QA
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
2 11 (18.97%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (70.69%) Kubernetes
2 36 (62.07%) Prometheus
3 35 (60.34%) Terraform
4 22 (37.93%) Grafana
5 11 (18.97%) Consul
6 10 (17.24%) Ansible
7 7 (12.07%) Puppet
8 5 (8.62%) Opsgenie
9 4 (6.90%) Progress Chef
10 3 (5.17%) ZABBIX
11 2 (3.45%) Graylog
11 2 (3.45%) Nagios
12 1 (1.72%) HP Fortify
12 1 (1.72%) Istio
12 1 (1.72%) Nessus
12 1 (1.72%) systemd
12 1 (1.72%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.97%) SaltStack
3 10 (17.24%) Splunk
4 6 (10.34%) Dynatrace
4 6 (10.34%) New Relic
5 5 (8.62%) Adobe
5 5 (8.62%) PagerDuty
5 5 (8.62%) Salesforce
5 5 (8.62%) SAP
6 2 (3.45%) Google
7 1 (1.72%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.72%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.72%) Databricks
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle
7 1 (1.72%) Veracode
7 1 (1.72%) VMware