Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 164 165
Rank change year-on-year +31 +1 -34
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 22 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.69% 0.083% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.092% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 1 7
10th Percentile £399 - £506
25th Percentile £494 - £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £800 £546
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +46.52% +12.00%
75th Percentile £576 - £606
90th Percentile £605 - £688
England median daily rate £550 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.50 -
England median hourly rate - £79.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year - +17.04% +40.63%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,250 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.90% 89.63% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 2,396 2,328
10th Percentile £217 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.44 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Gloucestershire +21 17 £550 - 6
Somerset - 3 £398 - 1
Bristol - 1 - - 10
Dorset - 1 £525 -
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) OpenShift
3 9 (40.91%) Serverless
4 8 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (36.36%) Amazon S3
4 8 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (27.27%) Azure
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) AMQP
2 6 (27.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (36.36%) InfluxDB
2 6 (27.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Electronics
2 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.55%) Marketing
2 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Site Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Administrator
5 3 (13.64%) Salesforce Administrator
5 3 (13.64%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (45.45%) Observability
4 7 (31.82%) Configuration Management
5 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven
5 6 (27.27%) Service Management
6 4 (18.18%) Agile
6 4 (18.18%) Scrum
7 3 (13.64%) Fintech
7 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Workflow
8 2 (9.09%) Analytics
8 2 (9.09%) Log Analytics
8 2 (9.09%) Task Automation
9 1 (4.55%) Business Continuity
9 1 (4.55%) Code Quality
9 1 (4.55%) Containerisation
9 1 (4.55%) Incident Response
9 1 (4.55%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) Go
3 7 (31.82%) Java
4 6 (27.27%) C
5 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
6 3 (13.64%) Bicep
6 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) DV Cleared
1 13 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) Grafana
1 15 (68.18%) Prometheus
1 15 (68.18%) Terraform
2 14 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 10 (45.45%) Ansible
3 10 (45.45%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (40.91%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) SAP