Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the South East

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 208 221
Rank change year-on-year +32 +13 -38
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 24 18 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.31% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.35% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 31
10th Percentile £338 £491 £463
25th Percentile £425 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £623 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% +13.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £500 £676 £575
90th Percentile £521 £753 £625
England median daily rate £550 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £79.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year - +17.04% +40.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the South East

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the South East

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the South East

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +20 20 £492 -20.67% 4
Berkshire +9 20 £492 -28.20% 3
Surrey +9 3 £460 -26.40% 6
Home Counties - 1 - -
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (4.17%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Elasticsearch
1 7 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Advertising
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Site Engineer
1 17 (70.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Kafka
2 5 (20.83%) YAML
3 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) GitOps
2 13 (54.17%) DevOps
3 11 (45.83%) ITSM
3 11 (45.83%) Task Automation
4 10 (41.67%) Agile
5 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 8 (33.33%) Microservices
6 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
7 6 (25.00%) Change Management
7 6 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (25.00%) Incident Response
7 6 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (20.83%) Systems Engineering
9 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 4 (16.67%) OO
9 4 (16.67%) OOP
9 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (16.67%) Scrum
10 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
10 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) C#
1 4 (16.67%) F#
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) Bicep
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) SC Cleared
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Grafana
1 11 (45.83%) Istio
1 11 (45.83%) Kubernetes
2 8 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 7 (29.17%) Argo
3 7 (29.17%) Kibana
4 3 (12.50%) Terraform
5 1 (4.17%) Ansible
5 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
1 5 (20.83%) VMware
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) BMC
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Remedy
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow