Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in Central London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 105 132
Rank change year-on-year +3 +27 +44
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 32 30 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.55% 1.26% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.38% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 35
10th Percentile £356 £534 £524
25th Percentile £454 £622 £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £708 £675
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% +4.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £696 £724 £719
90th Percentile £725 £849 £748
London median daily rate £513 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -26.79% +12.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,931 2,178 3,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.69% 91.47% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,261 1,507 2,272
10th Percentile £338 £359 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £713
90th Percentile £775 £791 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 25
10th Percentile £22.08 £20.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.63 £16.61
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £50.75 £44.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £88.38 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.81 £33.29 £41.50
% change year-on-year -7.45% -19.80% +16.90%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Central London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Central London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Central London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 19 July 2025. 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
City of London +2 31 £588 -16.67% 14
City of Westminster 0 1 £475 -34.48% 1
West End of London - 1 £475 -
Site Reliability Engineering
London

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
2 10 (31.25%) AWS
3 9 (28.13%) GitHub
4 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (15.63%) PaaS
7 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (12.50%) GCP
7 4 (12.50%) Serverless
8 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
9 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (6.25%) IaaS
9 2 (6.25%) Slack
10 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
10 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
2 3 (9.38%) Firewall
2 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.25%) FTP
3 2 (6.25%) HTTP
3 2 (6.25%) SMTP
3 2 (6.25%) SSL
4 1 (3.13%) Internet
4 1 (3.13%) NAS
4 1 (3.13%) Network Security
4 1 (3.13%) SAN
4 1 (3.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Big Data
1 5 (15.63%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.38%) OLAP
2 3 (9.38%) OLTP
2 3 (9.38%) SAP BW
2 3 (9.38%) SAP Data Services
2 3 (9.38%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) GitLab
3 3 (9.38%) Git
4 2 (6.25%) Gradle
4 2 (6.25%) Maven
4 2 (6.25%) Selenium
4 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.13%) JIRA
5 1 (3.13%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (31.25%) Finance
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Site Engineer
1 10 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Architect
3 5 (15.63%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Principal Data Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) GCP Architect
6 2 (6.25%) GCP Data Architect
6 2 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) .NET
2 4 (12.50%) Web Services
3 3 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (6.25%) JSON
4 2 (6.25%) Kafka
4 2 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (6.25%) Spring
4 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.13%) ADO
5 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.13%) Middleware
5 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (46.88%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) DevOps
2 21 (65.63%) CI/CD
2 21 (65.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 16 (50.00%) Observability
5 8 (25.00%) Agile
5 8 (25.00%) Microservices
6 7 (21.88%) Migration
6 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.88%) Service-Level Objective
7 6 (18.75%) GitOps
7 6 (18.75%) Incident Response
8 5 (15.63%) Analytics
8 5 (15.63%) Chaos Engineering
8 5 (15.63%) Low Latency
8 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
9 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (12.50%) High Availability
9 4 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Python
2 10 (31.25%) Bash
3 7 (21.88%) SQL
4 5 (15.63%) Bicep
4 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.50%) Go
5 4 (12.50%) Java
6 3 (9.38%) C#
7 2 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (3.13%) C++
8 1 (3.13%) Ruby
8 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.13%) QA
1 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (53.13%) Terraform
2 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
3 10 (31.25%) Grafana
4 8 (25.00%) Ansible
4 8 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.38%) Argo
5 3 (9.38%) Puppet
6 2 (6.25%) Podman
6 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.13%) Istio
7 1 (3.13%) Packer
7 1 (3.13%) yum
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) SAP
3 2 (6.25%) Google
3 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) TOWER Software