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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 92 110
Rank change year-on-year -12 +18 +70
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 16 31 37
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.94% 1.48% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.61% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 33
10th Percentile £417 £570 £517
25th Percentile £525 £631 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £710 £668
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +6.37% +11.25%
75th Percentile £615 £756 £725
90th Percentile £687 £805 £748
Central London median daily rate £610 £710 £665
% change year-on-year -14.08% +6.77% +10.83%

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 1,612 1,922 2,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.55% 91.74% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,118 1,181 1,754
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £697
90th Percentile £763 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +36.00% -38.12%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% +27.27% -36.40%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 & 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 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) GCP
2 6 (37.50%) GitHub
3 5 (31.25%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (25.00%) Slack
5 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (18.75%) Azure
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (12.50%) SaaS
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Table
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
7 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) NAS
1 1 (6.25%) SAN
1 1 (6.25%) SSH
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Big Data
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) GitLab
1 5 (31.25%) SonarQube
2 4 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) Gradle
2 4 (25.00%) Maven
2 4 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 2 (12.50%) GCP Architect
3 2 (12.50%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 2 (12.50%) Spring
1 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) ADO
2 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 5 (31.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Android
2 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 11 (68.75%) DevOps
3 10 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 7 (43.75%) Observability
5 6 (37.50%) Migration
6 5 (31.25%) GitOps
6 5 (31.25%) Incident Management
7 4 (25.00%) AI
7 4 (25.00%) Application Packaging
7 4 (25.00%) High Availability
7 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (18.75%) Microservices
8 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (18.75%) SDLC
8 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
9 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
9 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) Java
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
4 5 (31.25%) Bash
5 4 (25.00%) Go
6 3 (18.75%) PromQL
7 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (6.25%) Bicep
8 1 (6.25%) C#
8 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Terraform
2 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (31.25%) Grafana
4 4 (25.00%) Argo
4 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (12.50%) Ansible
5 2 (12.50%) Istio
6 1 (6.25%) Packer
6 1 (6.25%) Podman
6 1 (6.25%) Puppet
6 1 (6.25%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.25%) Tenable