Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > North of England

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the North of England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 172 225
Rank change year-on-year +8 +53 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 19 40 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.41% 0.70% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.74% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 17
10th Percentile £510 - £610
25th Percentile £525 £625 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £683
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +2.56% +60.59%
75th Percentile £582 - £700
90th Percentile £589 - £711
England median daily rate £565 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.08% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
England median hourly rate - £65.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,358 5,423 6,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 95.37% 96.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,821 5,048
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £387 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £556
90th Percentile £672 £684 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 154 276
10th Percentile £11.06 £14.08 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.52 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.74 £30.65 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -32.33% +63.96% +4.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.66 £29.88
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.48 £51.60
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West -2 10 £550 -21.43% 7
Yorkshire +2 9 £558 -20.36% 5
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 North of England region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 16 (84.21%) AWS
3 15 (78.95%) DevOps
3 15 (78.95%) Terraform
4 14 (73.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (73.68%) Docker
4 14 (73.68%) Bash
5 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
6 12 (63.16%) Splunk
6 12 (63.16%) Kubernetes
7 11 (57.89%) Python
8 10 (52.63%) SonarQube
8 10 (52.63%) Ansible
8 10 (52.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (52.63%) HP Fortify
9 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
10 8 (42.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (42.11%) Linux
11 7 (36.84%) MySQL
11 7 (36.84%) E-Commerce
11 7 (36.84%) Retail
11 7 (36.84%) Go
12 6 (31.58%) DynamoDB
12 6 (31.58%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (31.58%) SQL
12 6 (31.58%) QA
12 6 (31.58%) Git
12 6 (31.58%) Data Lake
12 6 (31.58%) Prometheus

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (10.53%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (42.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (31.58%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (31.58%) Snowflake
5 5 (26.32%) Azure
5 5 (26.32%) GitHub
6 4 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
7 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (15.79%) Serverless
8 2 (10.53%) Anthos
8 2 (10.53%) Datadog
8 2 (10.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) IPv4
1 2 (10.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) MySQL
2 6 (31.58%) Data Lake
2 6 (31.58%) DynamoDB
3 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
4 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) SonarQube
2 6 (31.58%) Git
3 5 (26.32%) GitLab
3 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
4 4 (21.05%) AppScan
4 4 (21.05%) Burp Suite
General
1 7 (36.84%) Retail
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 15 (78.95%) DevOps
3 14 (73.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
5 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
6 7 (36.84%) E-Commerce
7 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (21.05%) Change Control
8 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
8 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (21.05%) OWASP
8 4 (21.05%) Project Management
8 4 (21.05%) Technical Debt
9 3 (15.79%) Agile
9 3 (15.79%) Cloud Operations
9 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
9 3 (15.79%) IT Strategy
9 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (15.79%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Bash
2 11 (57.89%) Python
3 7 (36.84%) Go
4 6 (31.58%) SQL
5 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
6 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) ISO 22301
2 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (78.95%) Terraform
2 12 (63.16%) Kubernetes
3 10 (52.63%) Ansible
3 10 (52.63%) HP Fortify
4 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
5 4 (21.05%) Grafana
5 4 (21.05%) Graylog
5 4 (21.05%) Nessus
5 4 (21.05%) Progress Chef
5 4 (21.05%) Puppet
5 4 (21.05%) WebInspect
6 2 (10.53%) Istio
6 2 (10.53%) Kiali
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Splunk
2 4 (21.05%) Checkmarx
2 4 (21.05%) Veracode
3 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) VMware