Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in England

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > England

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 429 466
Rank change year-on-year +32 +37 +97
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 88 113 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.33% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 89 142
10th Percentile £307 £474 £500
25th Percentile £355 £510 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -13.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £709
90th Percentile £775 £850 £761
UK median daily rate £488 £560 £650
% change year-on-year -12.95% -13.85% +4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.03
25th Percentile £39.25 - £65.06
Median hourly rate £44.50 - £65.25
75th Percentile £49.75 - £65.56
90th Percentile - - £65.68
UK median hourly rate £44.50 - £65.25

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +30 52 £513 -25.18% 73
South West +47 13 £500 -9.09% 9
South East +40 11 £438 -11.88% 14
Midlands +24 5 £375 -25.00% 8
West Midlands +16 5 £375 -25.00% 6
North of England +3 2 £315 -42.73% 15
North West +8 1 - - 10
Yorkshire +1 1 £315 -42.73% 4
East of England - 1 £438 - 9
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 54 (61.36%) Kubernetes
3 51 (57.95%) DevOps
4 45 (51.14%) CI/CD
5 41 (46.59%) Azure
6 39 (44.32%) Terraform
7 38 (43.18%) Python
8 35 (39.77%) AWS
9 27 (30.68%) Docker
9 27 (30.68%) Social Skills
10 25 (28.41%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (26.14%) Ansible
12 22 (25.00%) Jenkins
12 22 (25.00%) Prometheus
12 22 (25.00%) Agile
13 21 (23.86%) Grafana
14 20 (22.73%) Software Engineering
14 20 (22.73%) C#
14 20 (22.73%) Finance
15 18 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (20.45%) PowerShell
15 18 (20.45%) Observability
16 16 (18.18%) Containerisation
16 16 (18.18%) .NET
16 16 (18.18%) Linux
17 15 (17.05%) SQL
18 14 (15.91%) GCP
18 14 (15.91%) Bash
18 14 (15.91%) Microsoft
18 14 (15.91%) Migration

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (6.82%) Apache
2 5 (5.68%) nginx
2 5 (5.68%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.14%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 41 (46.59%) Azure
2 35 (39.77%) AWS
3 18 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (15.91%) GCP
5 12 (13.64%) Azure AKS
6 11 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 8 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (7.95%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (7.95%) OpenShift
9 6 (6.82%) Datadog
9 6 (6.82%) GitHub
10 5 (5.68%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (5.68%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.68%) IaaS
10 5 (5.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) DNS
1 6 (6.82%) HTTP
2 4 (4.55%) DHCP
2 4 (4.55%) Kerberos
3 3 (3.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.27%) FTP
4 2 (2.27%) SMTP
4 2 (2.27%) SSL
5 1 (1.14%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.14%) NAS
5 1 (1.14%) Network Security
5 1 (1.14%) SAN
5 1 (1.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.55%) Power BI
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.14%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.14%) ClickHouse
5 1 (1.14%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.14%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 22 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.82%) GitLab
3 5 (5.68%) Artifactory
3 5 (5.68%) TeamCity
4 4 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.41%) Git
6 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.14%) GoCD
6 1 (1.14%) JIRA
6 1 (1.14%) Travis CI
General
1 27 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.73%) Finance
3 9 (10.23%) Banking
4 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.95%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.82%) Electronics
6 6 (6.82%) Front Office
6 6 (6.82%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.82%) Marketing
7 5 (5.68%) Legal
8 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.27%) International Banking
9 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Military
10 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.18%) .NET
2 11 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (7.95%) ADO
3 7 (7.95%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (6.82%) CSS
4 6 (6.82%) HTML
5 5 (5.68%) J2EE
5 5 (5.68%) JSON
5 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (4.55%) Kafka
6 4 (4.55%) YAML
7 3 (3.41%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.41%) LDAP
7 3 (3.41%) Spring
8 2 (2.27%) .NET Core
9 1 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
1 9 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.95%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.68%) Tandem
5 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Social Media
6 1 (1.14%) Clustering
6 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.14%) FMCG
6 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.18%) Linux
2 6 (6.82%) Unix
2 6 (6.82%) Windows
3 5 (5.68%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.41%) Android
5 2 (2.27%) Debian
5 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 51 (57.95%) DevOps
3 45 (51.14%) CI/CD
4 25 (28.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (25.00%) Agile
6 20 (22.73%) Software Engineering
7 18 (20.45%) Observability
8 16 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 14 (15.91%) Migration
10 13 (14.77%) Service-Level Objective
11 12 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (13.64%) High Availability
12 11 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (11.36%) Continuous Delivery
13 10 (11.36%) Service Management
14 9 (10.23%) Change Management
14 9 (10.23%) Incident Response
14 9 (10.23%) Microservices
15 8 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (9.09%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (43.18%) Python
2 20 (22.73%) C#
3 18 (20.45%) PowerShell
4 15 (17.05%) SQL
5 14 (15.91%) Bash
6 12 (13.64%) Go
6 12 (13.64%) Java
7 11 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 7 (7.95%) Bicep
9 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
10 5 (5.68%) Groovy
10 5 (5.68%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (5.68%) Ruby
11 1 (1.14%) F#
Qualifications
1 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.23%) Azure Certification
3 8 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.09%) Degree
3 8 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.14%) GDPR
2 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (30.68%) Docker
2 9 (10.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (61.36%) Kubernetes
2 39 (44.32%) Terraform
3 23 (26.14%) Ansible
4 22 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 21 (23.86%) Grafana
6 5 (5.68%) Progress Chef
6 5 (5.68%) Puppet
7 1 (1.14%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (1.14%) Netcool
7 1 (1.14%) Podman
7 1 (1.14%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (15.91%) Google
1 14 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.77%) Splunk
3 10 (11.36%) Dynatrace
4 7 (7.95%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.82%) SAP
6 4 (4.55%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.27%) Oracle
7 2 (2.27%) VMware
8 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.14%) BT
8 1 (1.14%) Cisco
8 1 (1.14%) EMC
8 1 (1.14%) IBM
8 1 (1.14%) Pega
8 1 (1.14%) Qualys
8 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.14%) Serena
8 1 (1.14%) Sybase
8 1 (1.14%) TOWER Software