Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
South East > Berkshire

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Berkshire is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 95 117
Rank change year-on-year +10 +22 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 13 15 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.08% 0.88% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 0.96% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 2
10th Percentile £409 £458 -
25th Percentile £413 £464 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £438 £500 -
90th Percentile £546 £503 -
South East median daily rate £425 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -14.40% -0.70% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,107 1,558 1,666
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.65% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 846 1,060
10th Percentile £325 £313 £302
25th Percentile £413 £438 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.91% +4.85%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 87 59
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.35 £17.11
25th Percentile £16.66 £50.26 £29.75
Median hourly rate £34.80 £61.60 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -43.51% +8.29% +118.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.32 £72.96
90th Percentile £87.64 £93.00 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £49.37
% change year-on-year -56.15% +16.18% +119.40%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Berkshire

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Berkshire

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in Berkshire

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 August 2025. 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
Wokingham -8 12 £425 -12.82% 3
Site Reliability Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 17 August 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Azure
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 13 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 9 (69.23%) Azure AKS
3 9 (69.23%) Azure Storage
3 9 (69.23%) DevOps
3 9 (69.23%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (69.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (69.23%) ADO
3 9 (69.23%) SQL
4 7 (53.85%) Python
5 6 (46.15%) PaaS
5 6 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (46.15%) IaaS
6 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
6 4 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (30.77%) AWS
6 4 (30.77%) Go
6 4 (30.77%) High Availability
6 4 (30.77%) GCP
6 4 (30.77%) Java
6 4 (30.77%) Release Management
6 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
6 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
7 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
7 3 (23.08%) C#
7 3 (23.08%) .NET
7 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) Azure AKS
2 9 (69.23%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) Azure Storage
3 6 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (46.15%) IaaS
3 6 (46.15%) PaaS
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 4 (30.77%) GCP
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Table
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (23.08%) Power Automate
5 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (23.08%) Power BI
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) ADO
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Core
2 3 (23.08%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 9 (69.23%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) High Availability
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Release Management
5 3 (23.08%) Business Continuity
5 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
5 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) Go
3 4 (30.77%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) Bash
4 3 (23.08%) Bicep
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft