Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
South West > Bristol

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Bristol is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 69 78
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.37% 0.13% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.14% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £583
25th Percentile - - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £725
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -25.52% -14.71%
75th Percentile £625 - £738
90th Percentile £685 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £725
% change year-on-year - -27.59% +41.46%

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 752 740 989
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 95.36% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 412 631
10th Percentile £219 £213 £275
25th Percentile £375 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £735 £718 £700
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 99 126
10th Percentile £13.46 £16.66 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.00 £53.13
Median hourly rate £48.46 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.02% +0.77% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £67.84 £74.55 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -50.00% +15.06% -10.33%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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 Bristol.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Bristol

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies 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 13 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 13 November 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 Bristol region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Datadog
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Datadog
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Objectives and Key Results
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Synthetic Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef