Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Site Reliability Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 137 158
Rank change year-on-year +23 +21 -30
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 19 36 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 0.97% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.06% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 35
10th Percentile £590 £540 £525
25th Percentile £628 £625 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £701
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.21% +21.83%
75th Percentile £708 £731 £784
90th Percentile £780 £755 £865
Central London median daily rate £675 £650 £700
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% +21.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Site Reliability Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,007 3,394 3,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.16% 91.73% 91.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 2,270 2,995
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 28 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £19.79 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £37.75 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.77% -7.93% +78.26%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London

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 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Solr
1 1 (5.26%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) GitHub
3 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) Akamai
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) IaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) PaaS
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) DHCP
2 1 (5.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) MongoDB
2 4 (21.05%) MySQL
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
3 3 (15.79%) RDBMS
3 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
2 3 (15.79%) Subversion
3 2 (10.53%) AppScan
3 2 (10.53%) Burp Suite
3 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Site Engineer
1 14 (73.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Python Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Java Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (5.26%) Head of IT
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) Kafka
1 11 (57.89%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (36.84%) RESTful
3 4 (21.05%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.26%) LDAP
4 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (36.84%) Algorithms
2 7 (36.84%) Data Structures
3 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
5 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (68.42%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) DevOps
2 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (42.11%) Microservices
3 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (36.84%) Analytical Thinking
4 7 (36.84%) Task Automation
5 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
6 4 (21.05%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) Information Security
7 3 (15.79%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 3 (15.79%) Change Control
7 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.79%) Project Management
7 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
8 2 (10.53%) Application Security
8 2 (10.53%) Observability
8 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) Shell Script
3 9 (47.37%) Java
4 7 (36.84%) Go
5 5 (26.32%) C++
6 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
7 3 (15.79%) Bash
8 1 (5.26%) Ruby
8 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (15.79%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) Grafana
2 13 (68.42%) Kubernetes
2 13 (68.42%) Prometheus
3 10 (52.63%) Consul
4 6 (31.58%) Ansible
4 6 (31.58%) Terraform
5 4 (21.05%) Progress Chef
5 4 (21.05%) Puppet
6 3 (15.79%) Graylog
6 3 (15.79%) Nagios
7 2 (10.53%) HP Fortify
7 2 (10.53%) Nessus
7 2 (10.53%) WebInspect
8 1 (5.26%) Kibana
8 1 (5.26%) logstash
8 1 (5.26%) Opsgenie
8 1 (5.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (52.63%) SaltStack
3 4 (21.05%) Splunk
4 2 (10.53%) Adobe
4 2 (10.53%) Checkmarx
4 2 (10.53%) New Relic
4 2 (10.53%) PagerDuty
4 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
4 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 2 (10.53%) Veracode
5 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.26%) IBM