Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 80 108
Rank change year-on-year -24 +28 +22
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 3 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.17% 0.19% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.22% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £556 - -
25th Percentile £564 £431 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% -7.89% -47.22%
75th Percentile £602 £444 -
90th Percentile £612 - -
England median daily rate £530 £715 £565
% change year-on-year -25.87% +26.55% -13.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £63.79 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.69% -14.95% -0.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,470 913 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 80.86% 86.38% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 437 820
10th Percentile £197 £249 £250
25th Percentile £350 £375 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £694 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 150 466
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.06 £17.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.23 £40.75 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -50.36% +24.43% +27.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in the East of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 18 February 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £581 - 1
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (33.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Slack
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) InfiniBand
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Grid Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) GPFS
1 1 (33.33%) Lustre
1 1 (33.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Consul
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace