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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 106 115
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +58
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 18 25 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.00% 1.17% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.28% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 31
10th Percentile £463 £530 £515
25th Percentile £525 £663 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £708 £663
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% +6.79% +10.42%
75th Percentile £650 £756 £713
90th Percentile - £775 £738
Central London median daily rate £610 £708 £663
% change year-on-year -13.78% +6.79% +10.42%

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 1,653 1,958 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.09% 91.62% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,207 1,661
10th Percentile £336 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £752 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 12
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +62.11% -53.88%
75th Percentile £52.19 £92.50 £40.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £122.20 £71.05
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -11.43% +40.00% -50.50%

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 3 December 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) GitHub
2 8 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (38.89%) Azure
4 6 (33.33%) AWS
5 4 (22.22%) Azure AKS
5 4 (22.22%) GCP
5 4 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (22.22%) Slack
6 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (5.56%) Pulumi
8 1 (5.56%) SaaS
8 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) GitLab
1 5 (27.78%) SonarQube
2 4 (22.22%) Gradle
2 4 (22.22%) Maven
2 4 (22.22%) Selenium
3 3 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (5.56%) Jaeger
4 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Games
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Data Network Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Monitoring Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Network Monitoring Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.56%) Loki
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Media Streaming
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.56%) Online Games
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 13 (72.22%) DevOps
2 13 (72.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (50.00%) Migration
4 8 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 7 (38.89%) Observability
6 5 (27.78%) Agile
6 5 (27.78%) GitOps
7 4 (22.22%) Application Packaging
7 4 (22.22%) High Availability
7 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
7 4 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (16.67%) Change Control
8 3 (16.67%) Load Balancing
8 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
9 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) Go
4 3 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) PromQL
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Terraform
2 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (27.78%) Grafana
4 4 (22.22%) Argo
4 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.56%) Ansible
5 1 (5.56%) Istio
5 1 (5.56%) Podman
5 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Google
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) Tenable