Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Birmingham is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 65 73
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 13 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.02% 0.28% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 0.29% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £364 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £375 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 582 683 780
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.51% 95.79% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 440 530
10th Percentile £213 £200 £260
25th Percentile £363 £354 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £602 £600
90th Percentile £641 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 14 25
10th Percentile - £15.45 £13.87
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.69 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £25.06 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.18% +22.26% +7.89%
75th Percentile £26.51 £51.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.06 £56.65 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.80 £22.29
% change year-on-year +15.39% -2.22% +25.79%

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 19 October 2025, 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 13 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 9 (69.23%) Data Ingestion
2 9 (69.23%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (69.23%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (69.23%) Kibana
2 9 (69.23%) Migration
2 9 (69.23%) Observability
2 9 (69.23%) Splunk
3 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
3 8 (61.54%) Docker
3 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
4 6 (46.15%) Ansible
4 6 (46.15%) Bash
4 6 (46.15%) Change Management
4 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
4 6 (46.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (46.15%) Dashboard Development
4 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
4 6 (46.15%) Degree
4 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
4 6 (46.15%) Knowledge Transfer
4 6 (46.15%) Linux
4 6 (46.15%) Performance Metrics
4 6 (46.15%) Proactive Monitoring
4 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (46.15%) Puppet
4 6 (46.15%) Python
4 6 (46.15%) Unix
4 6 (46.15%) 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) Elasticsearch
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (69.23%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
1 6 (46.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 9 (69.23%) Data Ingestion
2 9 (69.23%) Migration
2 9 (69.23%) Observability
3 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
4 6 (46.15%) Change Management
4 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
4 6 (46.15%) Dashboard Development
4 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
4 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
4 6 (46.15%) Knowledge Transfer
4 6 (46.15%) Performance Metrics
4 6 (46.15%) Proactive Monitoring
4 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (46.15%) Validation
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 4 (30.77%) SIEM
6 3 (23.08%) Project Management
7 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Bash
1 6 (46.15%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kibana
2 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
3 6 (46.15%) Ansible
3 6 (46.15%) Puppet
4 2 (15.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Splunk