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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 101 108
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 +54
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 19 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.03% 0.95% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.03% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 22
10th Percentile £463 £663 £525
25th Percentile £500 £668 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £708 £661
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% +6.99% +1.73%
75th Percentile £650 £747 £713
90th Percentile £665 £775 £738
Central London median daily rate £610 £708 £655
% change year-on-year -13.78% +8.02% +0.77%

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 1,651 1,750 2,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.39% 92.06% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,066 1,552
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.75%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £770 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £571
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.66% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.73 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +35.24% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.12 £94.94 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.08 £114.55 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

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 17 January 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 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) GitHub
2 11 (57.89%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (52.63%) Azure
4 6 (31.58%) AWS
4 6 (31.58%) GCP
5 4 (21.05%) Azure AKS
6 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (15.79%) Serverless
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
7 2 (10.53%) Slack
8 1 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.26%) Cloud Run
8 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 1 (5.26%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Hazelcast
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.53%) Redis
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.26%) Data Hub
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) GitLab
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) SonarQube
3 2 (10.53%) Gatling
3 2 (10.53%) Gradle
3 2 (10.53%) Maven
3 2 (10.53%) Selenium
4 1 (5.26%) Jaeger
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Games
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Site Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Network Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (15.79%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) Apache Avro
3 2 (10.53%) JSON
3 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 2 (10.53%) Micronaut
3 2 (10.53%) OAuth
3 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
3 2 (10.53%) OpenID
3 2 (10.53%) Quarkus
3 2 (10.53%) React
4 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Beam
4 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.26%) LangChain
4 1 (5.26%) Loki
4 1 (5.26%) Node.js
4 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) APACS
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Media Streaming
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 12 (63.16%) DevOps
2 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
3 8 (42.11%) Observability
4 7 (36.84%) Migration
5 6 (31.58%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) Microservices
6 4 (21.05%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (21.05%) Secrets Management
7 3 (15.79%) AI
7 3 (15.79%) Change Control
7 3 (15.79%) Clean Code
7 3 (15.79%) Cloud Operations
7 3 (15.79%) GitOps
7 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
7 3 (15.79%) Low Latency
7 3 (15.79%) SDLC
7 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
7 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Java
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Go
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO 8583
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) ISO 20022
2 2 (10.53%) PSD2
2 2 (10.53%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) Terraform
2 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
3 5 (26.32%) Argo
4 4 (21.05%) Grafana
4 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
5 3 (15.79%) Ansible
6 2 (10.53%) Istio
7 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Confluent
3 2 (10.53%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.26%) Foundry
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) Palantir
4 1 (5.26%) Tenable