Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 68 81
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 +17
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.38% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.30% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £515 £583
25th Percentile - £519 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £725
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -26.55% +3.57%
75th Percentile £625 £539 £738
90th Percentile £685 £540 -
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Site Reliability Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 691 658 908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 86.48% 85.79% 86.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 357 564
10th Percentile £252 £225 £302
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -12.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £650
90th Percentile £741 £750 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 91 120
10th Percentile £15.18 £36.00 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £61.25 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +0.77% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Bristol

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Bristol over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Bristol

Site Reliability Engineering
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
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
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
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%) Observability
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