Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Cheltenham is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 36 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 1.00% 1.02% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £519 -
25th Percentile £575 £528 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £625 £603 -
90th Percentile - £616 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £563 -
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheltenham with a recognized job title 88 195 188
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.00% 99.49% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 107 103
10th Percentile £409 £413 £336
25th Percentile £472 £522 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -3.93%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £675
90th Percentile £757 £966 £730
Gloucestershire median daily rate £488 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.36% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 5
10th Percentile - - £23.40
25th Percentile £13.50 £63.75 £24.75
Median hourly rate £14.00 £67.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -79.26% +125.00% -54.02%
75th Percentile £25.25 £73.75 £36.00
90th Percentile £60.10 - £51.90
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.17 £67.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -50.86% +38.55% -19.82%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Cheltenham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Cheltenham

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 23 November 2025, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheltenham region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) npm
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle