Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in Bristol

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
South West > Bristol

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Bristol is £370, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.49% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £355 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 - -
75th Percentile £427 - -
90th Percentile £558 - -
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £800
% change year-on-year -9.09% -31.25% +53.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 512 1,004 1,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 94.99% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 541 805
10th Percentile £213 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £564 £613 £630
90th Percentile £650 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 218 142
10th Percentile £18.51 £36.25 £30.97
25th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +55.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £86.23
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Bristol

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Bristol

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

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

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in Bristol

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Bristol region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Azure Certification
3 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (75.00%) User Experience
3 6 (75.00%) GCP
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (75.00%) Software Delivery
3 6 (75.00%) Service Management
3 6 (75.00%) Service Delivery
3 6 (75.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (75.00%) Electronics
3 6 (75.00%) Telecoms
3 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 6 (75.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (75.00%) Programme Management
3 6 (75.00%) TDD
3 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (75.00%) Google
3 6 (75.00%) Marketing
3 6 (75.00%) Web Development
3 6 (75.00%) Degree
3 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (75.00%) Digital Marketing
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (75.00%) C#
3 6 (75.00%) HTML

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (75.00%) Electronics
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
1 6 (75.00%) Manufacturing
1 6 (75.00%) Marketing
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
1 6 (75.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) CSS
1 6 (75.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (75.00%) Digital Marketing
3 6 (75.00%) Programme Management
3 6 (75.00%) Service Delivery
3 6 (75.00%) Service Management
3 6 (75.00%) Software Delivery
3 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (75.00%) TDD
3 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (75.00%) User Experience
3 6 (75.00%) Web Development
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
1 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Google
1 6 (75.00%) SAP