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 17 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 65 71
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 9 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.51% 0.28% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 0.29% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
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 532 687 810
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.26% 96.22% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 450 541
10th Percentile £177 £200 £260
25th Percentile £334 £373 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £540 £623 £600
90th Percentile £638 £732 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 26
10th Percentile - £15.61 £13.10
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.00 £15.22
Median hourly rate £14.00 £34.56 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.49% +81.91% +5.56%
75th Percentile £26.51 £53.13 £64.06
90th Percentile £34.29 £56.25 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +19.76% - +16.67%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer 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 and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 Birmingham region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) SIEM
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
4 4 (44.44%) Ansible
4 4 (44.44%) Docker
4 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Degree
4 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 4 (44.44%) Bash
4 4 (44.44%) Python
4 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
5 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 3 (33.33%) Change Management
5 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (33.33%) Unix
5 3 (33.33%) Linux
5 3 (33.33%) Validation
5 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 3 (33.33%) Puppet
5 3 (33.33%) Splunk
5 3 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (33.33%) Observability
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) SIEM
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Change Management
5 3 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 3 (33.33%) Observability
5 3 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (33.33%) Validation
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Kibana
2 3 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) BT