Site Reliability Engineering Contracts

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 340 340 342
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +85
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 273 439 700
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.73% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.82% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 279 514
10th Percentile £423 £473 £477
25th Percentile £500 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £636
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -1.69% +18.28%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £755 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £544 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -16.35% +18.18% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
10th Percentile - £65.18 £46.20
25th Percentile - £69.19 £48.00
Median hourly rate - £79.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - +54.90% +3.03%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £71.25
90th Percentile - £86.50 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £73.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -14.12% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Top 14 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 Engineering 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 +14 224 £550 -13.73% 139
London -16 126 £630 +0.80% 72
UK excluding London +90 123 £544 -16.35% 78
Work from Home +46 102 £643 +3.63% 75
North of England +14 36 £550 -21.43% 25
Scotland +49 27 £575 +15.00% 8
South East +32 24 £491 -21.18% 18
South West +41 22 £550 -31.25% 17
North West -5 21 £550 -21.43% 19
Yorkshire +5 15 £555 -20.71% 6
West Midlands +33 11 £500 - 2
Midlands +26 11 £500 - 5
Wales +16 2 £666 +40.26% 4
East of England +17 1 £475 - 1

Site Reliability Engineering
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 20 (7.33%) Confluence
2 14 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.03%) Apache
4 9 (3.30%) OpenStack
5 7 (2.56%) nginx
6 3 (1.10%) Apache Solr
6 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.10%) CMS
6 3 (1.10%) Drupal
7 2 (0.73%) IIS
8 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 132 (48.35%) AWS
2 70 (25.64%) Azure
3 46 (16.85%) OpenShift
4 33 (12.09%) GCP
5 25 (9.16%) Serverless
6 21 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (7.69%) PaaS
7 20 (7.33%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (6.59%) GitHub
9 18 (6.59%) Snowflake
10 17 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (5.86%) SaaS
12 14 (5.13%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.66%) dbt
13 10 (3.66%) IaaS
14 9 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (2.93%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.89%) Firewall
2 26 (9.52%) DNS
3 16 (5.86%) NAS
3 16 (5.86%) SAN
4 15 (5.49%) DHCP
5 11 (4.03%) TCP/IP
6 9 (3.30%) Network Security
7 8 (2.93%) Kerberos
7 8 (2.93%) VLAN
8 7 (2.56%) AMQP
9 5 (1.83%) Internet
10 4 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.10%) SSL
11 3 (1.10%) VPN
12 2 (0.73%) IPv4
12 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.37%) Broadband
13 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
13 1 (0.37%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.33%) Relational Database
3 17 (6.23%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.86%) Data Lake
5 15 (5.49%) MySQL
5 15 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (5.13%) MongoDB
7 12 (4.40%) Big Data
7 12 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (4.03%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (3.66%) Apache Arrow
9 10 (3.66%) Dremio
9 10 (3.66%) DynamoDB
10 9 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (2.93%) InfluxDB
12 7 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (2.20%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.83%) Couchbase
14 5 (1.83%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 62 (22.71%) Jenkins
2 47 (17.22%) Git
3 33 (12.09%) JIRA
4 14 (5.13%) GitLab
4 14 (5.13%) SonarQube
5 10 (3.66%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (2.93%) Subversion
6 8 (2.93%) TeamCity
7 7 (2.56%) Burp Suite
8 6 (2.20%) AppScan
8 6 (2.20%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.83%) Gradle
9 5 (1.83%) Maven
10 4 (1.47%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.47%) Selenium
11 3 (1.10%) Snyk
12 2 (0.73%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.73%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 69 (25.27%) Finance
2 48 (17.58%) Social Skills
3 41 (15.02%) Banking
4 25 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.93%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.56%) Retail
8 4 (1.47%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.47%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.73%) Electronics
9 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.73%) Marketing
10 1 (0.37%) Advertising
10 1 (0.37%) Front Office
10 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (47.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 110 (40.29%) Site Engineer
3 36 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (9.89%) Senior
5 25 (9.16%) Architect
5 25 (9.16%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (6.23%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (5.86%) Analyst
8 15 (5.49%) Business Analyst
8 15 (5.49%) Python Engineer
9 13 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
9 13 (4.76%) Banking Business Analyst
10 11 (4.03%) Big Data Engineer
11 8 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (2.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.93%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.56%) Business IT Analyst
12 7 (2.56%) IT Business Analyst
12 7 (2.56%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.29%) Kafka
2 30 (10.99%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (8.79%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (5.49%) LDAP
5 12 (4.40%) RESTful
6 10 (3.66%) gRPC
6 10 (3.66%) Protocol Buffers
7 8 (2.93%) REST
8 6 (2.20%) YAML
9 5 (1.83%) LAPP Stack
10 4 (1.47%) .NET
10 4 (1.47%) Node.js
11 3 (1.10%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.10%) GraphQL
12 1 (0.37%) J2EE
12 1 (0.37%) Jest
12 1 (0.37%) Keycloak
12 1 (0.37%) React
12 1 (0.37%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.72%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (8.06%) Clustering
4 17 (6.23%) Public Cloud
5 14 (5.13%) Algorithms
5 14 (5.13%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.03%) Hedge funds
7 10 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.93%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.93%) Replication
9 7 (2.56%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.83%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.83%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.47%) Client/Server
13 3 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 82 (30.04%) Linux
2 52 (19.05%) Windows
3 29 (10.62%) Windows Server
4 22 (8.06%) Unix
5 10 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.93%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (2.93%) Solaris
7 5 (1.83%) CentOS
7 5 (1.83%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.83%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.83%) VMS
8 2 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (70.70%) DevOps
2 118 (43.22%) CI/CD
3 74 (27.11%) Agile
4 62 (22.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (16.48%) Microservices
7 44 (16.12%) Observability
8 36 (13.19%) Containerisation
9 31 (11.36%) Change Management
9 31 (11.36%) Test Automation
10 29 (10.62%) Continuous Integration
10 29 (10.62%) Software Engineering
10 29 (10.62%) Task Automation
11 28 (10.26%) Configuration Management
11 28 (10.26%) ITIL
12 24 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (8.79%) Service Management
13 23 (8.42%) Scrum
14 22 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (7.69%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 134 (49.08%) Python
2 66 (24.18%) Go
3 53 (19.41%) Java
4 44 (16.12%) Bash
4 44 (16.12%) PowerShell
5 42 (15.38%) SQL
6 26 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.40%) C#
8 11 (4.03%) JavaScript
9 10 (3.66%) C
9 10 (3.66%) F#
9 10 (3.66%) Groovy
10 9 (3.30%) Ruby
11 8 (2.93%) C++
12 7 (2.56%) Perl
13 5 (1.83%) Bicep
14 4 (1.47%) PHP
15 1 (0.37%) Scala
15 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.45%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.49%) Degree
4 14 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.10%) SANS
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.37%) MCSE
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.99%) QA
2 8 (2.93%) GDPR
2 8 (2.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.10%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.10%) SLA
5 2 (0.73%) NIST
5 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 68 (24.91%) Docker
2 13 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 6 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.37%) HDFS
6 1 (0.37%) vCloud
6 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 130 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 111 (40.66%) Terraform
3 85 (31.14%) Prometheus
4 75 (27.47%) Grafana
5 73 (26.74%) Ansible
6 23 (8.42%) Progress Chef
7 19 (6.96%) Puppet
8 14 (5.13%) Istio
9 13 (4.76%) HP Fortify
10 11 (4.03%) Consul
10 11 (4.03%) Kibana
11 10 (3.66%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (3.30%) Graylog
13 8 (2.93%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (2.93%) Netcool
13 8 (2.93%) Tivoli
13 8 (2.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 7 (2.56%) Argo
14 7 (2.56%) Nessus
14 7 (2.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (17.58%) Splunk
2 44 (16.12%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.69%) VMware
4 16 (5.86%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.76%) New Relic
6 12 (4.40%) ServiceNow
7 11 (4.03%) Oracle
7 11 (4.03%) SaltStack
8 10 (3.66%) CyberArk
8 10 (3.66%) IBM
9 9 (3.30%) SAP
10 8 (2.93%) Cisco
10 8 (2.93%) Dell
10 8 (2.93%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.93%) EMC
10 8 (2.93%) Google
10 8 (2.93%) HP
10 8 (2.93%) Isilon
10 8 (2.93%) Qualys
10 8 (2.93%) Serena