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 £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 4 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 3.28% - 6.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.57% - 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile - - £518
25th Percentile £538 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £550
75th Percentile £616 - £575
90th Percentile £621 - £607
Gloucestershire median daily rate £575 - £550

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 112 80 132
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.80% 98.77% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 60 84
10th Percentile £156 £513 £363
25th Percentile £380 £547 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £616 £676 £691
90th Percentile £750 £793 £754
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile - - £31.85
25th Percentile £12.43 £55.00 £56.38
Median hourly rate £12.56 £60.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -79.07% -15.79% -12.58%
75th Percentile £52.75 £65.00 £74.06
90th Percentile £84.55 - £74.63
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.17 £65.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -48.97% +73.33% -46.43%

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 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 2 April 2026, 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 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) AMQP
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
3 2 (50.00%) InfluxDB
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (25.00%) DataOps
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) Maven

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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) npm
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) AMQP
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle