Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 256 242
Rank change year-on-year -12 -14 +59
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 125 266 446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.98% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.08% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 168 325
10th Percentile £448 £471 £489
25th Percentile £513 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £775 £713 £750
90th Percentile £850 £750 £813
England median daily rate £550 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate - £79.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year - +17.04% +40.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,788 24,627 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.55% 91.11% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,707 26,166
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £29.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £47.56 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London.

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +19 19 £675 +1.89% 8
West London +13 3 £290 -35.56%
South London - 3 £672 -
East London -2 1 - - 3
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
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 18 (14.40%) Confluence
2 16 (12.80%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (8.80%) Apache
4 9 (7.20%) OpenStack
5 5 (4.00%) nginx
6 3 (2.40%) Apache Solr
6 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.60%) IIS
8 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 72 (57.60%) AWS
2 30 (24.00%) Azure
3 23 (18.40%) GCP
4 20 (16.00%) PaaS
5 15 (12.00%) SaaS
6 13 (10.40%) Snowflake
7 12 (9.60%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (9.60%) dbt
8 10 (8.00%) IaaS
9 9 (7.20%) GitHub
10 8 (6.40%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (6.40%) Nutanix
10 8 (6.40%) Rubrik
11 7 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (4.80%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (2.40%) Amazon MSK
13 3 (2.40%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.00%) DNS
1 20 (16.00%) Firewall
2 15 (12.00%) DHCP
3 11 (8.80%) TCP/IP
4 9 (7.20%) NAS
4 9 (7.20%) SAN
5 8 (6.40%) Kerberos
5 8 (6.40%) VLAN
6 4 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.40%) Internet
7 3 (2.40%) Network Security
7 3 (2.40%) VPN
8 1 (0.80%) Broadband
8 1 (0.80%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.20%) MongoDB
1 14 (11.20%) NoSQL
2 13 (10.40%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (9.60%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (9.60%) Big Data
3 12 (9.60%) Data Lake
3 12 (9.60%) Dremio
4 7 (5.60%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (4.80%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.00%) Couchbase
6 5 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.00%) MySQL
6 5 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.40%) MariaDB
7 3 (2.40%) Redis
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.60%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 24 (19.20%) JIRA
3 22 (17.60%) Git
4 8 (6.40%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.20%) GitLab
6 3 (2.40%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.40%) Snyk
6 3 (2.40%) Subversion
7 2 (1.60%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.80%) AppScan
8 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.80%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.80%) Selenium
8 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (37.60%) Finance
2 22 (17.60%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.20%) Banking
4 14 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.20%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.80%) Front Office
8 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (48.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 53 (42.40%) Site Engineer
3 18 (14.40%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Architect
5 13 (10.40%) Senior
6 12 (9.60%) Big Data Engineer
7 11 (8.80%) Analyst
8 10 (8.00%) Business Analyst
8 10 (8.00%) Python Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Banking Analyst
9 8 (6.40%) Banking Business Analyst
10 6 (4.80%) Business IT Analyst
10 6 (4.80%) IT Analyst
10 6 (4.80%) IT Business Analyst
11 5 (4.00%) Service Analyst
12 4 (3.20%) ITSM Analyst
12 4 (3.20%) Java Engineer
12 4 (3.20%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.00%) Kafka
2 19 (15.20%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (13.60%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (12.00%) LDAP
5 12 (9.60%) gRPC
5 12 (9.60%) Protocol Buffers
6 9 (7.20%) RESTful
7 5 (4.00%) LAPP Stack
8 4 (3.20%) Node.js
9 3 (2.40%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.80%) .NET
10 1 (0.80%) J2EE
10 1 (0.80%) REST
10 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.40%) Clustering
2 22 (17.60%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.40%) Algorithms
3 13 (10.40%) Data Structures
3 13 (10.40%) Hedge funds
4 9 (7.20%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.20%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (7.20%) Public Cloud
5 8 (6.40%) Replication
6 5 (4.00%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (3.20%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.80%) Derivative
9 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.80%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 47 (37.60%) Linux
2 17 (13.60%) Windows
3 16 (12.80%) Windows Server
4 10 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (6.40%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (6.40%) Solaris
6 5 (4.00%) CentOS
6 5 (4.00%) Ubuntu
6 5 (4.00%) VMS
7 3 (2.40%) Unix
8 2 (1.60%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (80.00%) DevOps
2 54 (43.20%) CI/CD
3 36 (28.80%) Agile
4 25 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (18.40%) Microservices
6 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (15.20%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (12.00%) Configuration Management
8 15 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 14 (11.20%) Asset Management
9 14 (11.20%) High Availability
9 14 (11.20%) Test Automation
10 13 (10.40%) Investment Management
11 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (8.80%) Containerisation
12 11 (8.80%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (8.80%) Observability
12 11 (8.80%) Service Management
12 11 (8.80%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 74 (59.20%) Python
2 52 (41.60%) Go
3 42 (33.60%) Java
4 19 (15.20%) Bash
5 17 (13.60%) PowerShell
6 16 (12.80%) SQL
7 13 (10.40%) JavaScript
8 12 (9.60%) Shell Script
9 8 (6.40%) C++
10 4 (3.20%) C
10 4 (3.20%) Groovy
10 4 (3.20%) Ruby
11 3 (2.40%) C#
11 3 (2.40%) PHP
12 2 (1.60%) F#
13 1 (0.80%) Perl
13 1 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (10.40%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.80%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.20%) Degree
4 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.80%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) GDPR
1 8 (6.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (4.00%) QA
3 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.60%) NIST
3 2 (1.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (24.80%) Docker
2 11 (8.80%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 9 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 67 (53.60%) Kubernetes
2 58 (46.40%) Terraform
3 47 (37.60%) Prometheus
4 33 (26.40%) Grafana
5 30 (24.00%) Ansible
6 12 (9.60%) Puppet
7 11 (8.80%) Consul
8 8 (6.40%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (6.40%) Netcool
8 8 (6.40%) Tivoli
8 8 (6.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 6 (4.80%) Progress Chef
10 5 (4.00%) Opsgenie
10 5 (4.00%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.60%) Graylog
11 2 (1.60%) Kibana
11 2 (1.60%) logstash
11 2 (1.60%) Nagios
11 2 (1.60%) Nessus
11 2 (1.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (22.40%) Microsoft
2 23 (18.40%) Splunk
3 11 (8.80%) SaltStack
4 10 (8.00%) CyberArk
4 10 (8.00%) IBM
4 10 (8.00%) Oracle
4 10 (8.00%) VMware
5 8 (6.40%) Cisco
5 8 (6.40%) Dell
5 8 (6.40%) EMC
5 8 (6.40%) HP
5 8 (6.40%) Isilon
5 8 (6.40%) New Relic
5 8 (6.40%) Qualys
5 8 (6.40%) Serena
5 8 (6.40%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.60%) Adobe
6 7 (5.60%) PagerDuty
6 7 (5.60%) Salesforce
6 7 (5.60%) SAP