Site Reliability Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 292 322
Rank change year-on-year +60 +30 +63
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 109 180 327
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 0.72% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.80% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 110 245
10th Percentile £474 £450 £463
25th Percentile £513 £506 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £600 £634
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -5.36% +15.27%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £738
90th Percentile - £751 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year +37.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Site Reliability Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Site Reliability Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Site Reliability Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Site Reliability Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Site Reliability Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (13.76%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (10.09%) Confluence
3 3 (2.75%) Apache
3 3 (2.75%) nginx
4 2 (1.83%) IIS
4 2 (1.83%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.92%) CMS
5 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 49 (44.95%) AWS
2 22 (20.18%) Azure
3 14 (12.84%) dbt
3 14 (12.84%) Snowflake
4 10 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (9.17%) GCP
4 10 (9.17%) PaaS
5 9 (8.26%) GitHub
6 8 (7.34%) SaaS
7 7 (6.42%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (6.42%) IaaS
7 7 (6.42%) Nutanix
7 7 (6.42%) Rubrik
8 5 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.67%) Serverless
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon MSK
10 3 (2.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.76%) Firewall
2 13 (11.93%) DNS
3 8 (7.34%) NAS
3 8 (7.34%) SAN
3 8 (7.34%) TCP/IP
4 7 (6.42%) DHCP
4 7 (6.42%) Kerberos
4 7 (6.42%) VLAN
5 3 (2.75%) VPN
6 1 (0.92%) IPv4
6 1 (0.92%) Network Security
6 1 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.84%) Amazon Athena
1 14 (12.84%) Apache Arrow
1 14 (12.84%) Big Data
1 14 (12.84%) Data Lake
1 14 (12.84%) Dremio
2 12 (11.01%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.34%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.75%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (2.75%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.75%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.83%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.83%) MySQL
6 2 (1.83%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (17.43%) JIRA
2 18 (16.51%) Jenkins
3 13 (11.93%) Git
4 7 (6.42%) TeamCity
5 6 (5.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (3.67%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.67%) GitLab
7 3 (2.75%) Snyk
8 2 (1.83%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.92%) AppScan
9 1 (0.92%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.92%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.92%) Selenium
General
1 52 (47.71%) Finance
2 25 (22.94%) Social Skills
3 23 (21.10%) Banking
4 11 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.67%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.83%) Marketing
6 2 (1.83%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.92%) Electronics
7 1 (0.92%) Front Office
7 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 48 (44.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 43 (39.45%) Site Engineer
3 20 (18.35%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (13.76%) Analyst
4 15 (13.76%) Business Analyst
5 14 (12.84%) Big Data Engineer
6 13 (11.93%) Banking Analyst
6 13 (11.93%) Banking Business Analyst
7 12 (11.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (10.09%) Python Engineer
9 9 (8.26%) Architect
10 8 (7.34%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (7.34%) Senior
11 7 (6.42%) Business IT Analyst
11 7 (6.42%) IT Analyst
11 7 (6.42%) IT Business Analyst
11 7 (6.42%) ITSM Analyst
11 7 (6.42%) Service Analyst
12 5 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
12 5 (4.59%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.60%) Kafka
2 14 (12.84%) gRPC
2 14 (12.84%) Protocol Buffers
2 14 (12.84%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (8.26%) RESTful
4 7 (6.42%) LDAP
5 5 (4.59%) .NET
5 5 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.75%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.83%) LAPP Stack
7 2 (1.83%) YAML
8 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.92%) Jest
8 1 (0.92%) Node.js
8 1 (0.92%) OAuth
8 1 (0.92%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.92%) React
8 1 (0.92%) Redux
8 1 (0.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.18%) Clustering
2 16 (14.68%) Hedge funds
3 14 (12.84%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (9.17%) Algorithms
4 10 (9.17%) Data Structures
4 10 (9.17%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (6.42%) Replication
6 4 (3.67%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.75%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (30.28%) Linux
2 23 (21.10%) Windows
3 18 (16.51%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.42%) Oracle Linux
4 7 (6.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (6.42%) Solaris
5 4 (3.67%) Unix
6 2 (1.83%) CentOS
6 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.83%) VMS
6 2 (1.83%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (81.65%) DevOps
2 40 (36.70%) CI/CD
3 24 (22.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (19.27%) Agile
5 20 (18.35%) Change Management
6 18 (16.51%) ITIL
6 18 (16.51%) Service Management
7 16 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (13.76%) Asset Management
8 15 (13.76%) GAP Analysis
8 15 (13.76%) Investment Management
8 15 (13.76%) Microservices
9 12 (11.01%) Task Automation
10 11 (10.09%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (10.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (10.09%) ITSM
10 11 (10.09%) Software Engineering
11 10 (9.17%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (9.17%) Test Automation
12 9 (8.26%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (48.62%) Python
2 34 (31.19%) Go
3 28 (25.69%) Java
4 19 (17.43%) PowerShell
5 16 (14.68%) JavaScript
6 14 (12.84%) Bash
6 14 (12.84%) Shell Script
7 12 (11.01%) SQL
8 11 (10.09%) C#
9 8 (7.34%) F#
10 6 (5.50%) C++
11 4 (3.67%) PHP
12 2 (1.83%) Bicep
12 2 (1.83%) Perl
12 2 (1.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.59%) Degree
3 4 (3.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.17%) QA
2 7 (6.42%) GDPR
2 7 (6.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.83%) NIST
3 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (17.43%) Docker
2 12 (11.01%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 10 (9.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.92%) vCloud
5 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (47.71%) Kubernetes
2 45 (41.28%) Terraform
3 39 (35.78%) Prometheus
4 24 (22.02%) Grafana
5 18 (16.51%) Ansible
6 12 (11.01%) Consul
7 7 (6.42%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (6.42%) Netcool
7 7 (6.42%) Tivoli
7 7 (6.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (4.59%) Puppet
9 3 (2.75%) Kibana
10 2 (1.83%) Graylog
10 2 (1.83%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.83%) Istio
10 2 (1.83%) logstash
10 2 (1.83%) Nagios
10 2 (1.83%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.83%) Packer
10 2 (1.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (25.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.01%) SaltStack
2 12 (11.01%) Splunk
3 10 (9.17%) VMware
4 9 (8.26%) IBM
4 9 (8.26%) ServiceNow
5 7 (6.42%) Cisco
5 7 (6.42%) CyberArk
5 7 (6.42%) Dell
5 7 (6.42%) EMC
5 7 (6.42%) HP
5 7 (6.42%) Isilon
5 7 (6.42%) Oracle
5 7 (6.42%) Qualys
5 7 (6.42%) Serena
6 2 (1.83%) Checkmarx
6 2 (1.83%) Google
6 2 (1.83%) Veritas
7 1 (0.92%) Databricks
7 1 (0.92%) Veracode