Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
South East median daily rate £425 £550 £493
% change year-on-year -22.73% +11.56% -0.15%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 481 274 548
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 96.82% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 198 397
10th Percentile £246 £207 £275
25th Percentile £394 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £743
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 7 43
10th Percentile £15.78 £13.45 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.96 £17.13
Median hourly rate £25.08 £19.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.97% -13.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £32.81 £55.63 £30.00
90th Percentile £39.63 £62.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £29.81 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.87% -5.56% -

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 21 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes - 1 £402 - 1
Site Reliability Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 21 February 2026, 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jaeger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform