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 £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 113 108
Rank change year-on-year -25 -5 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 3 6 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.35% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.37% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 12
10th Percentile - £485 £510
25th Percentile £375 £575 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £664 £710
Median % change year-on-year -39.74% -6.51% +5.19%
75th Percentile £425 £712 £718
90th Percentile - £741 £771
Central London median daily rate £400 £647 £710
% change year-on-year -38.18% -8.87% +5.19%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 2,099 1,622 1,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 93.92% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,417 1,086 1,240
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.56%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 16
10th Percentile £17.06 £17.08 £17.25
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £22.84
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.15 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.74% -41.35% +33.33%
75th Percentile £34.51 £56.75 £112.00
90th Percentile £61.25 £65.57 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.07 £27.83 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.86% -20.50% -1.41%

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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 City of London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Akamai
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
3 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
3 1 (33.33%) Fastly
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code

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 1 (33.33%) Akamai
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
1 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
1 1 (33.33%) Fastly
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (33.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Loki
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Genomics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PromQL
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft