Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
West Midlands > Birmingham

As of 6 June 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Birmingham.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 40 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 6 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.66% 1.60% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 1.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £375 -
West Midlands median daily rate £544 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +45.00% -25.00% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 836 442 696
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 88.58% 93.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 294 483
10th Percentile £313 £160 £250
25th Percentile £413 £363 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £572 £575
90th Percentile £688 £651 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 40 42
10th Percentile £16.25 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.15 £12.62 £16.63
Median hourly rate £24.53 £14.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.21% -50.88% +42.50%
75th Percentile £33.75 £24.44 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £31.66 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £21.53 £19.77
% change year-on-year +57.91% +8.88% -1.15%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 6 June 2026, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 6 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 6 (100.00%) Kibana
1 6 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 6 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Puppet
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk
1 6 (100.00%) Unix
1 6 (100.00%) Validation

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 6 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 6 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 6 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Kibana
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk