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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 94 99
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 +30
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 23 32 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.96% 1.71% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.82% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 23
10th Percentile £425 £363 £524
25th Percentile £453 £454 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £605 £705
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -14.18% +4.44%
75th Percentile £542 £689 £711
90th Percentile £671 £725 £855
Central London median daily rate £476 £600 £708
% change year-on-year -20.63% -15.19% +4.81%

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 2,085 1,760 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.17% 93.97% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 1,150 1,285
10th Percentile £364 £331 £365
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £797
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £19.19
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £85.63
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%

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 31 July 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 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) GitHub
2 9 (39.13%) AWS
3 8 (34.78%) Azure
4 6 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (21.74%) PaaS
6 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
7 3 (13.04%) GCP
7 3 (13.04%) Power Automate
7 3 (13.04%) PowerApps
8 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.70%) Datadog
8 2 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
8 2 (8.70%) SaaS
8 2 (8.70%) Serverless
8 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
9 1 (4.35%) Fastly
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (4.35%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
2 3 (13.04%) Firewall
2 3 (13.04%) VPN
3 1 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Data Hub
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) GitLab
3 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (21.74%) Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Architect
1 5 (21.74%) Technical Architect
2 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Lead
4 1 (4.35%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Site Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
1 2 (8.70%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) ADO
2 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) Loki
2 1 (4.35%) NgRx
2 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.35%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) Spring
2 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.35%) Vert.x
2 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Cloud Native
1 8 (34.78%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
1 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 17 (73.91%) Observability
3 14 (60.87%) Platform Engineering
4 13 (56.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (43.48%) DevOps
6 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
7 7 (30.43%) Microservices
7 7 (30.43%) Software Engineering
8 6 (26.09%) AI
8 6 (26.09%) Event-Driven
8 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (26.09%) TDD
8 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
9 5 (21.74%) Agile
9 5 (21.74%) API Design
9 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
9 5 (21.74%) Domain-Driven Design
9 5 (21.74%) ERP
9 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (21.74%) UML
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) Ruby
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) Go
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) GRC
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
1 1 (4.35%) QA
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
1 8 (34.78%) Terraform
2 6 (26.09%) Grafana
2 6 (26.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle
1 5 (21.74%) Splunk
2 4 (17.39%) Dynatrace
3 3 (13.04%) AppDynamics
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.70%) Databricks
4 2 (8.70%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) Apple
5 1 (4.35%) Foundry
5 1 (4.35%) Palantir
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.35%) VMware