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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.52% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £391 - -
25th Percentile £393 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 - -
75th Percentile £399 - -
90th Percentile £401 - -
South East median daily rate £414 £500 £491
% change year-on-year -17.23% +1.90% -21.49%

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 453 254 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.78% 92.70% 85.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 187 340
10th Percentile £228 £210 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +5.37% -
75th Percentile £588 £599 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £651
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 8 35
10th Percentile £15.74 £15.85 £15.91
25th Percentile £16.13 £18.40 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.32 £38.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% +59.38% +50.00%
75th Percentile £29.61 £60.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £33.44 £67.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £25.20 £45.65 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.81% +1.44% -

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 3 March 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 - 3 £396 - 4
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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jaeger
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitOps
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (66.67%) GRC
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Rancher
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Istio