Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in Berkshire

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 104 109
Rank change year-on-year +27 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 16 20 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.36% 1.01% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.13% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 2
10th Percentile £403 £338 £599
25th Percentile £413 £411 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £492 £685
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -28.20% +19.13%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £745
90th Percentile - £507 £763
South East median daily rate £475 £491 £623
% change year-on-year -3.19% -21.18% +13.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Site Reliability Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Berkshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Berkshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Berkshire

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -15 8 £425 -13.38%
Windsor - 5 £500 -
Reading +30 3 £325 -34.34% 8
Site Reliability Engineering
South East

Site Reliability Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (81.25%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (62.50%) Azure AKS
4 6 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (31.25%) AWS
5 5 (31.25%) Azure Storage
5 5 (31.25%) GitHub
6 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (25.00%) PaaS
7 3 (18.75%) IaaS
7 3 (18.75%) Serverless
8 2 (12.50%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (12.50%) Azure Table
8 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
8 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
9 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
9 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
9 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (25.00%) Big Data
3 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Site Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Consultant
6 2 (12.50%) Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (12.50%) React Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (6.25%) Integration Consultant
7 1 (6.25%) Senior
7 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) ADO
2 4 (25.00%) .NET
3 3 (18.75%) .NET Core
4 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
4 2 (12.50%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) React
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.25%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) SOAP
5 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Configuration Management
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (25.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 4 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
5 4 (25.00%) High Availability
5 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (25.00%) Open Source
5 4 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Server Building
6 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 3 (18.75%) Identity Management
6 3 (18.75%) Observability
7 2 (12.50%) Budgeting
7 2 (12.50%) Cost Management
7 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
7 2 (12.50%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) PowerShell
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Bicep
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
1 10 (62.50%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (12.50%) Grafana
5 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Databricks
3 2 (12.50%) Spotify