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 24 October 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 111 115
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 5 16 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.30% 0.76% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.81% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 24
10th Percentile £465 £498 £529
25th Percentile £525 £603 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £647 £710 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% +5.19% +12.50%
75th Percentile £714 £731 £725
90th Percentile £742 £775 £738
Central London median daily rate £561 £710 £675
% change year-on-year -20.99% +5.19% +12.50%

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 1,577 1,976 2,703
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 93.47% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 1,212 1,884
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £423 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 14
10th Percentile £16.79 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.08 £25.06 £18.06
Median hourly rate £27.04 £57.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.98% +55.41% -8.64%
75th Percentile £41.19 £112.00 £48.25
90th Percentile £64.66 £137.50 £63.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -2.78% -11.11%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Bash
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Git
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (60.00%) Go
3 3 (60.00%) Grafana
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (40.00%) PromQL
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Splunk
4 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation

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 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Table
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Observability
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
5 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Bash
3 3 (60.00%) Go
4 2 (40.00%) PromQL
5 1 (20.00%) Bicep
5 1 (20.00%) C#
5 1 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk