Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the North West

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 117 141
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 -23
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 20 38 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.74% 1.20% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.33% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 34
10th Percentile £425 £600 £469
25th Percentile £465 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £632
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +10.76% +26.40%
75th Percentile £575 - £699
90th Percentile £579 - £711
England median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
England median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,345 2,862 3,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.28% 90.60% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,495 2,036 2,606
10th Percentile £306 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 141 163
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £22.41 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £36.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.58% +71.43% +15.93%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.75 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North West

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North West

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the North West

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Manchester +18 16 £550 -20.00% 10
Cheshire +9 4 £450 - 5
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (35.00%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (35.00%) Serverless
3 7 (35.00%) Snowflake
4 6 (30.00%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (15.00%) Azure
6 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.00%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 6 (30.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (15.00%) MySQL
3 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
1 6 (30.00%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (35.00%) Retail
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Site Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Lead
6 3 (15.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Senior
7 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Automation Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) Cloud Operations
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (20.00%) ITIL
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (20.00%) Technical Debt
5 4 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Code Quality
6 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.00%) IT Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Agile
7 2 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
7 2 (10.00%) Microservices
7 2 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Bash
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) Go
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) MCSE
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO 22301
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (40.00%) Terraform
2 7 (35.00%) Ansible
3 6 (30.00%) HP Fortify
4 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Splunk
2 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) VMware