Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Central London > City of London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the City of London is £647, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 118 123
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 9 11 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.51% 0.51% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.54% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 21
10th Percentile £448 £492 £563
25th Percentile £531 £550 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £647 £711 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +5.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £756 £713
90th Percentile £657 £775 £738
Central London median daily rate £624 £711 £671
% change year-on-year -12.31% +5.92% +11.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,663 2,022 2,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.35% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,241 1,806
10th Percentile £329 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £766 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 14
10th Percentile £20.02 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £24.50 £19.51
Median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.87% +91.67% -29.82%
75th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £48.25
90th Percentile £64.48 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £25.49
% change year-on-year -20.71% +37.34% -39.68%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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 the City of London.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 29 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 City of London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (77.78%) GitHub
2 7 (77.78%) Terraform
3 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (55.56%) Azure
4 5 (55.56%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (55.56%) Python
5 4 (44.44%) Agile
5 4 (44.44%) AWS
5 4 (44.44%) Go
5 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
5 4 (44.44%) Migration
5 4 (44.44%) Observability
6 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
6 3 (33.33%) Change Control
6 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 3 (33.33%) Firewall
6 3 (33.33%) Git
6 3 (33.33%) Grafana
6 3 (33.33%) High Availability
6 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
6 3 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 3 (33.33%) Splunk
6 3 (33.33%) SQL

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 7 (77.78%) GitHub
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
4 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jaeger
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
1 1 (11.11%) Loki
1 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Media Streaming
3 1 (11.11%) Online Games
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 4 (44.44%) Observability
4 3 (33.33%) Change Control
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) High Availability
4 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (22.22%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Go
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) Bash
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) PromQL
5 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Grafana
3 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft