Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in 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 citing Site Reliability Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
South East median daily rate £425 £500 £491
% change year-on-year -15.00% +1.90% -20.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 418 260 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 81.01% 91.87% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 192 353
10th Percentile £257 £201 £279
25th Percentile £363 £381 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £578 £599 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £748
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 32
10th Percentile £15.91 £14.20 £15.87
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -19.09% +42.32%
75th Percentile £29.61 £53.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £34.72 £56.00 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.88 £47.50
% change year-on-year -41.35% -9.73% +5.56%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering 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 - 3
Site Reliability Engineering
South East

Site Reliability Engineering
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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
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
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