Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 96 101
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 +32
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 21 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.81% 0.95% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.09% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 12
10th Percentile £409 £457 £511
25th Percentile £413 £458 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £482 £725
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -33.52% +26.09%
75th Percentile £524 £500 £750
90th Percentile £561 £507 £784
South East median daily rate £463 £482 £725
% change year-on-year -4.05% -33.52% +26.09%

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 1,060 1,466 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.46% 87.05% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 756 1,016
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £695 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 72 62
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.51 £18.50
25th Percentile £16.66 £48.28 £47.73
Median hourly rate £32.18 £61.60 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +3.75% +44.13%
75th Percentile £59.44 £71.89 £72.25
90th Percentile £87.28 £87.32 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.75 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.82% +9.24% +61.54%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Berkshire over the 6 months to 16 September 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 16 September 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 +2 19 £425 -11.83% 1
Reading +25 1 £500 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) Azure Storage
3 12 (57.14%) Azure AKS
3 12 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (47.62%) PaaS
5 9 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (42.86%) IaaS
6 6 (28.57%) AWS
6 6 (28.57%) GCP
7 5 (23.81%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (14.29%) Azure Table
8 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
8 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
9 2 (9.52%) Azure API Management
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Functions
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (9.52%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (14.29%) Power BI
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Postman
1 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Site Engineer
1 16 (76.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Junior
4 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) ADO
2 5 (23.81%) .NET
2 5 (23.81%) .NET Core
3 4 (19.05%) ARM Templates
4 2 (9.52%) RESTful
4 2 (9.52%) SOAP
4 2 (9.52%) Swagger
4 2 (9.52%) WSDL
4 2 (9.52%) XSLT
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) High Availability
3 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (28.57%) Release Management
5 5 (23.81%) Business Continuity
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (23.81%) Task Automation
6 4 (19.05%) Incident Management
7 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (14.29%) Identity Management
7 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (9.52%) API Testing
8 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (4.76%) API Design
9 1 (4.76%) Integration Testing
9 1 (4.76%) Microservices
9 1 (4.76%) OOP
9 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) SQL
2 9 (42.86%) Python
3 6 (28.57%) Go
3 6 (28.57%) Java
4 5 (23.81%) C#
5 4 (19.05%) Bicep
6 3 (14.29%) Bash
6 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
7 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 18 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (23.81%) Terraform
3 4 (19.05%) Grafana
3 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft