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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 97 139
Rank change year-on-year +3 +42 +38
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 30 28 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.66% 1.31% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.44% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 27
10th Percentile £342 £603 £544
25th Percentile £455 £635 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £705 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +4.44% +3.85%
75th Percentile £696 £711 £725
90th Percentile £725 £925 £749
Central London median daily rate £600 £708 £675
% change year-on-year -15.19% +4.81% +3.85%

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 1,701 1,946 3,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.87% 91.10% 91.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 1,348 2,138
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

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 4 July 2025.

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering within the City of London region over the 6 months to 4 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Site Reliability Engineering
Central 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 1 (3.33%) Apache
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) GitHub
3 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (16.67%) PaaS
5 4 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (13.33%) GCP
5 4 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (13.33%) Serverless
6 3 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (6.67%) IaaS
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.33%) Datadog
8 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.33%) SaaS
8 1 (3.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) DNS
1 4 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.00%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) FTP
3 2 (6.67%) HTTP
3 2 (6.67%) SMTP
3 2 (6.67%) SSL
4 1 (3.33%) Internet
4 1 (3.33%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.33%) NAS
4 1 (3.33%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) SAN
4 1 (3.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Big Data
1 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.00%) OLAP
2 3 (10.00%) OLTP
2 3 (10.00%) SAP BW
2 3 (10.00%) SAP Data Services
2 3 (10.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.33%) Gradle
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Maven
3 1 (3.33%) Selenium
3 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.33%) Subversion
3 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.33%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Site Engineer
1 8 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Architect
3 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Principal Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.67%) GCP Architect
5 2 (6.67%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) .NET
2 4 (13.33%) Web Services
3 3 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (6.67%) JSON
4 2 (6.67%) Kafka
4 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (6.67%) Spring
4 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.33%) ADO
5 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.33%) LDAP
5 1 (3.33%) Middleware
5 1 (3.33%) REST
5 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.67%) Social Media
5 1 (3.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Solaris
3 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) DevOps
2 20 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 18 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 18 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (46.67%) Observability
5 8 (26.67%) Agile
5 8 (26.67%) Microservices
6 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (23.33%) Service-Level Objective
7 6 (20.00%) Migration
8 5 (16.67%) Analytics
8 5 (16.67%) Chaos Engineering
8 5 (16.67%) GitOps
8 5 (16.67%) Incident Response
8 5 (16.67%) Low Latency
9 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (13.33%) High Availability
9 4 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) Bash
3 6 (20.00%) SQL
4 5 (16.67%) Bicep
4 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.33%) Go
5 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.00%) C#
6 3 (10.00%) Java
7 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (3.33%) C++
8 1 (3.33%) Perl
8 1 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) QA
1 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) NFS
2 1 (3.33%) Veritas File System
2 1 (3.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Terraform
2 13 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 9 (30.00%) Ansible
3 9 (30.00%) Grafana
4 8 (26.67%) Prometheus
5 3 (10.00%) Puppet
6 2 (6.67%) Argo
6 2 (6.67%) Podman
6 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.33%) Control-M
7 1 (3.33%) Istio
7 1 (3.33%) Netcool
7 1 (3.33%) Packer
7 1 (3.33%) QRadar
7 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (3.33%) Tivoli
7 1 (3.33%) yum
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) SAP
2 3 (10.00%) Splunk
3 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) BMC
4 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Qualys
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) SaltStack
4 1 (3.33%) TOWER Software
4 1 (3.33%) VMware