Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 157 198
Rank change year-on-year +30 +41 -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 11 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.40% 0.23% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.26% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £330 - £456
25th Percentile £425 - £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -
75th Percentile £688 £575 £638
90th Percentile - £700 £705
England median daily rate £550 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,243 3,047 4,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.19% 88.47% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,126 3,298
10th Percentile £238 £250 £249
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 152
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.03
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £34.20
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
West Midlands +34 11 £500 - 1
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (27.27%) CMS
1 3 (27.27%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Azure Functions
2 5 (45.45%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
2 5 (45.45%) Serverless
3 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Artifactory
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
1 3 (27.27%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Site Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Desktop Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Monitoring Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
1 3 (27.27%) Private Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ITIL
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) Analytics
4 5 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (45.45%) Incident Management
4 5 (45.45%) Problem Management
4 5 (45.45%) Runbook
5 4 (36.36%) Virtual Environments
6 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (27.27%) Data Science
6 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (27.27%) Epics
6 3 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (27.27%) SDLC
6 3 (27.27%) Software Assurance
6 3 (27.27%) Software Delivery
6 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) SysTrack
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 1 (9.09%) Packer
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Citrix
2 5 (45.45%) New Relic
2 5 (45.45%) OpenAI
3 3 (27.27%) Salesforce
3 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
4 2 (18.18%) Google