Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 96 111
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 +35
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 20 22 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.99% 1.22% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.33% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 16
10th Percentile £423 £424 £547
25th Percentile £463 £455 £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £661
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -9.26% +1.73%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £711
90th Percentile - £693 £725
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £655
% change year-on-year -8.33% -8.40% +0.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Site Reliability Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,799 1,653 2,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.71% 91.58% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 1,037 1,498
10th Percentile £357 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.19% -5.29%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

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

Site Reliability Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) GitHub
2 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (45.00%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (30.00%) AWS
4 6 (30.00%) GCP
5 4 (20.00%) Serverless
6 3 (15.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (5.00%) Datadog
8 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (5.00%) Stackdriver
8 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Hub
1 2 (10.00%) Hazelcast
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
1 2 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) Gatling
4 1 (5.00%) Jaeger
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Games
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Data Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Monitoring Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (15.00%) Kafka
2 3 (15.00%) Spring
2 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.00%) Apache Avro
3 2 (10.00%) JSON
3 2 (10.00%) Micronaut
3 2 (10.00%) OAuth
3 2 (10.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (10.00%) OpenID
3 2 (10.00%) PySpark
3 2 (10.00%) Quarkus
3 2 (10.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) Apache Beam
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) LangChain
4 1 (5.00%) Loki
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) APACS
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Media Streaming
3 1 (5.00%) Online Games
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (50.00%) Observability
4 9 (45.00%) DevOps
5 7 (35.00%) Agile
6 6 (30.00%) Migration
7 5 (25.00%) AI
7 5 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (25.00%) Secrets Management
8 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
8 4 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
8 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (20.00%) Microservices
8 4 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (15.00%) Analytics
9 3 (15.00%) Change Control
9 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
9 3 (15.00%) Data Engineering
9 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (15.00%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) Python
3 6 (30.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO 8583
2 2 (10.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (10.00%) PSD2
2 2 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) SEPA
3 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Terraform
2 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (20.00%) Grafana
3 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.00%) Argo
5 2 (10.00%) Ansible
6 1 (5.00%) Istio
6 1 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Google
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) Confluent
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Foundry
3 2 (10.00%) Palantir
4 1 (5.00%) Apple
4 1 (5.00%) HP