Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > West Midlands

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the West Midlands is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 126 169
Rank change year-on-year +19 +43 -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.17% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.18% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £425 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% -
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £563 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,774 2,248 3,419
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 94.97% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,543 2,501
10th Percentile £259 £250 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £708 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 66 81
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £14.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +12.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £41.44 £26.82 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £55.63 £22.25
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Warwickshire -1 2 £500 -
Birmingham - 1 £350 -
Site Reliability Engineer
England

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Packer
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Packer
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix