Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in Cardiff

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 33 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.25% 0.94% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £520 £644 -
25th Percentile £531 £652 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £666 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.62% - -
75th Percentile £574 £679 -
90th Percentile £581 £686 -
South Wales median daily rate £556 £666 -
% change year-on-year -16.62% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Cardiff

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Cardiff

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Nagios
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft