Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 4 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.17% 4.95% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 5.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £700 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £538 £550 -
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 166 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 89.13% 91.21% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 83 75
10th Percentile £183 £357 £287
25th Percentile £335 £438 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £515 £647 £568
90th Percentile £579 £700 £638
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £520 £463
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.43% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 15
10th Percentile £18.21 £17.95 £19.80
25th Percentile £21.89 £44.91 £24.40
Median hourly rate £37.66 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.23% +14.29% +196.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £69.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £78.75 £70.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) InfiniBand
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCIE
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
1 1 (25.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) GPFS
1 1 (25.00%) Lustre
1 1 (25.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Consul
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds