Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 108 131
Rank change year-on-year +14 +23 +22
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 25 18 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.42% 0.82% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 0.90% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 32
10th Percentile £355 £590 £528
25th Percentile £469 £628 £624
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £675 £663
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +1.89% -7.05%
75th Percentile £694 £710 £725
90th Percentile £716 £803 £755
Central London median daily rate £635 £675 £663
% change year-on-year -5.93% +1.89% -5.39%

All Process and 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 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London.

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

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 2 May 2025.

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) Apache
2 2 (8.00%) nginx
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) GitHub
3 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (16.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (16.00%) PaaS
4 4 (16.00%) Serverless
5 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (4.00%) Datadog
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (4.00%) IaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
1 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.00%) FTP
2 2 (8.00%) HTTP
2 2 (8.00%) SMTP
2 2 (8.00%) SSL
3 1 (4.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Big Data
1 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (12.00%) OLAP
1 3 (12.00%) OLTP
1 3 (12.00%) SAP BW
1 3 (12.00%) SAP Data Services
1 3 (12.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) Subversion
3 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.00%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Senior
1 5 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 5 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Azure Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Principal Data Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.00%) Web Services
3 2 (8.00%) JSON
3 2 (8.00%) Kafka
3 2 (8.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.00%) LDAP
4 1 (4.00%) Middleware
4 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Social Media
4 1 (4.00%) Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) Solaris
3 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) DevOps
2 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (52.00%) Containerisation
3 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (40.00%) Observability
5 7 (28.00%) Service-Level Objective
6 6 (24.00%) Agile
7 5 (20.00%) Analytics
7 5 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
7 5 (20.00%) Low Latency
7 5 (20.00%) Microservices
8 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (16.00%) High Availability
8 4 (16.00%) Incident Response
8 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
9 3 (12.00%) ITSM
9 3 (12.00%) Migration
9 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Bash
3 4 (16.00%) Bicep
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) Groovy
5 2 (8.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.00%) C++
6 1 (4.00%) Go
6 1 (4.00%) Java
6 1 (4.00%) Perl
6 1 (4.00%) Ruby
6 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) QA
1 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) NFS
2 1 (4.00%) Veritas File System
2 1 (4.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Ansible
1 11 (44.00%) Terraform
2 10 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (20.00%) Grafana
3 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (12.00%) Puppet
5 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.00%) Argo
6 1 (4.00%) Control-M
6 1 (4.00%) Netcool
6 1 (4.00%) Podman
6 1 (4.00%) QRadar
6 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (4.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) SAP
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) BMC
4 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Qualys
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) SaltStack
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) TOWER Software
4 1 (4.00%) VMware