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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 100 120
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 +61
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 23 29 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.31% 1.39% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.52% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 36
10th Percentile £401 £590 £515
25th Percentile £544 £652 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £710 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +5.19% +12.50%
75th Percentile £696 £744 £725
90th Percentile £725 £785 £744
Central London median daily rate £610 £710 £675
% change year-on-year -14.08% +5.19% +12.50%

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 1,661 1,913 2,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.27% 92.02% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,212 1,878
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

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
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 September 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 17 September 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) AWS
1 9 (39.13%) GitHub
2 7 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (26.09%) GCP
4 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (17.39%) Azure
4 4 (17.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (17.39%) Slack
5 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (8.70%) SaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.35%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) FTP
2 1 (4.35%) HTTP
2 1 (4.35%) Internet
2 1 (4.35%) NAS
2 1 (4.35%) SAN
2 1 (4.35%) SMTP
2 1 (4.35%) SSH
2 1 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Big Data
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) GitLab
2 5 (21.74%) SonarQube
3 4 (17.39%) Git
3 4 (17.39%) Gradle
3 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 4 (17.39%) Maven
3 4 (17.39%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Site Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) GCP Architect
4 2 (8.70%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
1 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (8.70%) Spring
1 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.35%) ADO
2 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (26.09%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.70%) Social Media
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Android
3 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
2 16 (69.57%) DevOps
2 16 (69.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (56.52%) Containerisation
4 10 (43.48%) Observability
5 6 (26.09%) Migration
6 5 (21.74%) GitOps
6 5 (21.74%) Incident Management
7 4 (17.39%) Application Packaging
7 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (17.39%) High Availability
7 4 (17.39%) Microservices
7 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (17.39%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (13.04%) Agile
8 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (13.04%) SDLC
8 3 (13.04%) Task Automation
8 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Bash
3 7 (30.43%) Java
4 6 (26.09%) SQL
5 5 (21.74%) Go
6 3 (13.04%) PromQL
7 2 (8.70%) Bicep
7 2 (8.70%) C#
7 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.35%) C++
8 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Terraform
2 14 (60.87%) Kubernetes
3 7 (30.43%) Grafana
4 5 (21.74%) Ansible
4 5 (21.74%) Argo
4 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.70%) Istio
5 2 (8.70%) Podman
5 2 (8.70%) Puppet
6 1 (4.35%) Packer
6 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.35%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) Tenable