Site Reliability Engineer Contracts

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 467 518 590
Rank change year-on-year +51 +72 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 131 202 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.36% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 154 192
10th Percentile £473 £479 £451
25th Percentile £510 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £843 £759 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +52 112 £555 -14.62% 68
UK excluding London +72 62 £550 -21.43% 36
London +36 59 £680 +6.04% 36
Work from Home +85 43 £655 +0.77% 33
North of England +2 18 £550 -21.43% 14
South East +42 17 £497 -9.73% 7
South West +33 12 £550 -31.25% 9
North West -11 10 £550 -21.43% 9
Scotland - 10 £550 - 1
Yorkshire -1 8 £550 -21.43% 5
West Midlands +29 3 £500 -
Midlands +22 3 £500 - 2
Wales - 2 £666 - 2

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 131 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 86 (65.65%) Python
2 86 (65.65%) Kubernetes
3 81 (61.83%) DevOps
4 72 (54.96%) Terraform
5 67 (51.15%) AWS
6 65 (49.62%) Prometheus
7 59 (45.04%) CI/CD
8 53 (40.46%) Linux
8 53 (40.46%) Grafana
9 50 (38.17%) Go
10 41 (31.30%) Java
11 40 (30.53%) Docker
12 39 (29.77%) Ansible
13 33 (25.19%) Jenkins
13 33 (25.19%) Infrastructure as Code
14 31 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (23.66%) Social Skills
15 30 (22.90%) Containerisation
16 28 (21.37%) SQL
17 27 (20.61%) Kafka
18 26 (19.85%) OpenShift
18 26 (19.85%) Azure
18 26 (19.85%) Task Automation
19 25 (19.08%) Security Cleared
19 25 (19.08%) Splunk
20 24 (18.32%) Git
21 23 (17.56%) Microsoft
21 23 (17.56%) Bash
21 23 (17.56%) Microservices

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (9.16%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.34%) Apache
3 5 (3.82%) nginx
4 4 (3.05%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.53%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.15%) AWS
2 26 (19.85%) Azure
2 26 (19.85%) OpenShift
3 17 (12.98%) Snowflake
4 16 (12.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (11.45%) GCP
6 14 (10.69%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (8.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (8.40%) Amazon S3
7 11 (8.40%) GitHub
8 10 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (7.63%) dbt
8 10 (7.63%) Serverless
9 6 (4.58%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.82%) PaaS
11 4 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.29%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.11%) Network Security
2 6 (4.58%) NAS
2 6 (4.58%) SAN
3 5 (3.82%) AMQP
4 4 (3.05%) Firewall
5 3 (2.29%) DHCP
5 3 (2.29%) DNS
6 2 (1.53%) Internet
6 2 (1.53%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.76%) Broadband
7 1 (0.76%) IPv4
7 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.27%) SQL Server
2 16 (12.21%) Data Lake
2 16 (12.21%) Relational Database
3 14 (10.69%) MySQL
4 12 (9.16%) MongoDB
5 11 (8.40%) Big Data
6 10 (7.63%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (7.63%) Apache Arrow
6 10 (7.63%) Dremio
6 10 (7.63%) NoSQL
6 10 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (4.58%) DynamoDB
8 6 (4.58%) InfluxDB
9 5 (3.82%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.29%) Couchbase
11 3 (2.29%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.53%) DB2
Development Applications
1 33 (25.19%) Jenkins
2 24 (18.32%) Git
3 13 (9.92%) SonarQube
4 12 (9.16%) GitLab
5 8 (6.11%) JIRA
5 8 (6.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (5.34%) Burp Suite
7 6 (4.58%) AppScan
8 5 (3.82%) Subversion
9 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.76%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.76%) Robot Framework
General
1 31 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.27%) Finance
3 19 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.34%) Banking
4 7 (5.34%) Retail
5 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.53%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.76%) Front Office
7 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.61%) Kafka
2 21 (16.03%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (14.50%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (7.63%) gRPC
4 10 (7.63%) Protocol Buffers
5 9 (6.87%) RESTful
6 5 (3.82%) REST
7 3 (2.29%) LAPP Stack
7 3 (2.29%) LDAP
8 2 (1.53%) .NET
8 2 (1.53%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.76%) J2EE
9 1 (0.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.27%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (12.21%) Cloud Native
3 13 (9.92%) Public Cloud
4 11 (8.40%) Clustering
4 11 (8.40%) Hedge funds
5 10 (7.63%) Algorithms
5 10 (7.63%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (4.58%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.05%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.29%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.76%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.76%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.76%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 53 (40.46%) Linux
2 20 (15.27%) Windows
3 17 (12.98%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.87%) Unix
5 3 (2.29%) CentOS
5 3 (2.29%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.29%) VMS
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 81 (61.83%) DevOps
3 59 (45.04%) CI/CD
4 33 (25.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (22.90%) Containerisation
7 26 (19.85%) Task Automation
8 23 (17.56%) Microservices
8 23 (17.56%) Observability
9 22 (16.79%) Agile
9 22 (16.79%) Configuration Management
10 14 (10.69%) Software Engineering
11 13 (9.92%) Data Protection
11 13 (9.92%) Systems Engineering
12 12 (9.16%) Asset Management
12 12 (9.16%) GitOps
13 11 (8.40%) Incident Response
13 11 (8.40%) Investment Management
13 11 (8.40%) ITSM
14 10 (7.63%) OO
Programming Languages
1 86 (65.65%) Python
2 50 (38.17%) Go
3 41 (31.30%) Java
4 28 (21.37%) SQL
5 23 (17.56%) Bash
6 21 (16.03%) Shell Script
7 14 (10.69%) PowerShell
8 10 (7.63%) JavaScript
9 9 (6.87%) C#
9 9 (6.87%) F#
10 8 (6.11%) C++
11 7 (5.34%) C
12 6 (4.58%) Perl
13 3 (2.29%) Ruby
14 2 (1.53%) Bicep
14 2 (1.53%) Groovy
15 1 (0.76%) PHP
15 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.63%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.34%) Degree
5 3 (2.29%) SANS
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.27%) QA
2 3 (2.29%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 40 (30.53%) Docker
2 12 (9.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.76%) HDFS
5 1 (0.76%) vCloud
5 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (65.65%) Kubernetes
2 72 (54.96%) Terraform
3 65 (49.62%) Prometheus
4 53 (40.46%) Grafana
5 39 (29.77%) Ansible
6 18 (13.74%) Progress Chef
7 14 (10.69%) Puppet
8 12 (9.16%) HP Fortify
9 11 (8.40%) Consul
10 10 (7.63%) Istio
11 9 (6.87%) Graylog
11 9 (6.87%) Kibana
12 7 (5.34%) Argo
13 6 (4.58%) Nessus
13 6 (4.58%) WebInspect
14 5 (3.82%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (3.82%) Nagios
14 5 (3.82%) NetBackup
15 4 (3.05%) Opsgenie
16 3 (2.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (19.08%) Splunk
2 23 (17.56%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.40%) SaltStack
4 8 (6.11%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.34%) Checkmarx
5 7 (5.34%) Dynatrace
6 6 (4.58%) New Relic
6 6 (4.58%) Veracode
7 5 (3.82%) Adobe
7 5 (3.82%) Google
7 5 (3.82%) PagerDuty
7 5 (3.82%) SAP
7 5 (3.82%) Veritas
7 5 (3.82%) VMware
8 2 (1.53%) Oracle
9 1 (0.76%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.76%) Citrix
9 1 (0.76%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.76%) Databricks
9 1 (0.76%) Sybase
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