Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in England

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > England

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 412 478
Rank change year-on-year +23 +66 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 87 125 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.37% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 101 116
10th Percentile £307 £473 £500
25th Percentile £355 £510 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £710 £700
90th Percentile £700 £850 £738
UK median daily rate £438 £575 £645
% change year-on-year -23.91% -10.85% +3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £65.05
25th Percentile £39.25 - £65.13
Median hourly rate £44.50 - £65.50
75th Percentile £49.75 - £67.88
90th Percentile - - £69.15
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £110.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -59.55% +67.94% -

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 22,187 34,108 44,948
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.74% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,690 22,536 31,954
10th Percentile £293 £285 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.05% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 918 2,538 1,319
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.15 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.30 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.87% -16.67% +91.49%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.60 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +87.50%

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 30 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 30 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 +31 49 £500 -29.58% 84
South East +49 13 £425 -13.59% 188
South West +41 10 £370 -32.73% 81
Midlands +23 8 £375 -25.00% 124
West Midlands +22 8 £375 -25.00% 68
North of England -4 3 £508 -7.73% 159
North West +2 2 £700 +27.27% 79
East of England +33 1 £438 -27.08% 100
Yorkshire +11 1 £315 -43.50% 64
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 87 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 52 (59.77%) DevOps
3 50 (57.47%) Kubernetes
4 43 (49.43%) Azure
5 41 (47.13%) CI/CD
6 32 (36.78%) Terraform
6 32 (36.78%) Python
7 31 (35.63%) AWS
8 27 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (28.74%) Prometheus
10 24 (27.59%) Grafana
10 24 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (26.44%) Social Skills
12 22 (25.29%) C#
13 21 (24.14%) Observability
14 18 (20.69%) Azure AKS
15 17 (19.54%) Docker
15 17 (19.54%) .NET
15 17 (19.54%) Software Engineering
15 17 (19.54%) PowerShell
16 16 (18.39%) SQL
16 16 (18.39%) Bash
16 16 (18.39%) Jenkins
17 15 (17.24%) GCP
17 15 (17.24%) Ansible
17 15 (17.24%) Finance
17 15 (17.24%) Agile
17 15 (17.24%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (17.24%) Containerisation
18 14 (16.09%) Service-Level Objective

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 2 (2.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) nginx
2 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.15%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 43 (49.43%) Azure
2 31 (35.63%) AWS
3 24 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (20.69%) Azure AKS
5 15 (17.24%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (17.24%) GCP
6 10 (11.49%) Azure Storage
6 10 (11.49%) GitHub
7 9 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (9.20%) IaaS
8 8 (9.20%) PaaS
9 7 (8.05%) Amazon S3
9 7 (8.05%) Datadog
10 6 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
11 5 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.75%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (4.60%) Azure Table
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.90%) DNS
2 4 (4.60%) DHCP
2 4 (4.60%) Kerberos
3 3 (3.45%) HTTP
3 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.30%) FTP
4 2 (2.30%) SMTP
4 2 (2.30%) SSL
5 1 (1.15%) NAS
5 1 (1.15%) Network Security
5 1 (1.15%) SAN
5 1 (1.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.49%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (6.90%) Power BI
3 4 (4.60%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.15%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.15%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 16 (18.39%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.05%) TeamCity
3 6 (6.90%) GitLab
3 6 (6.90%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (5.75%) Git
5 3 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.15%) GoCD
7 1 (1.15%) JIRA
7 1 (1.15%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.24%) Finance
3 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.05%) Banking
4 7 (8.05%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.90%) Electronics
5 6 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.90%) Marketing
6 3 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) International Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Legal
8 1 (1.15%) Front Office
8 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Military
8 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.54%) .NET
2 12 (13.79%) ADO
3 8 (9.20%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (9.20%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (6.90%) CSS
4 6 (6.90%) HTML
5 5 (5.75%) JSON
6 4 (4.60%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.60%) ARM Templates
6 4 (4.60%) Kafka
6 4 (4.60%) YAML
7 3 (3.45%) LDAP
7 3 (3.45%) Spring
8 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Data Protection Act
1 7 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
1 7 (8.05%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.30%) Social Media
4 1 (1.15%) Clustering
4 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.15%) FMCG
4 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.94%) Linux
2 6 (6.90%) Windows
3 4 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.45%) Android
5 2 (2.30%) Unix
6 1 (1.15%) Debian
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.15%) Solaris
6 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 52 (59.77%) DevOps
3 41 (47.13%) CI/CD
4 27 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (24.14%) Observability
6 17 (19.54%) Software Engineering
7 15 (17.24%) Agile
7 15 (17.24%) Containerisation
8 14 (16.09%) Service-Level Objective
9 12 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (13.79%) Incident Management
9 12 (13.79%) Migration
10 11 (12.64%) Microservices
11 10 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (11.49%) Continuous Delivery
11 10 (11.49%) Service Management
12 8 (9.20%) Computer Science
12 8 (9.20%) High Availability
12 8 (9.20%) ITSM
12 8 (9.20%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (36.78%) Python
2 22 (25.29%) C#
3 17 (19.54%) PowerShell
4 16 (18.39%) Bash
4 16 (18.39%) SQL
5 11 (12.64%) Bicep
5 11 (12.64%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.05%) Go
7 5 (5.75%) Java
7 5 (5.75%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (5.75%) Ruby
7 5 (5.75%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.45%) CodeQL
9 1 (1.15%) Groovy
9 1 (1.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.49%) Azure Certification
3 8 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.20%) Degree
3 8 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.15%) GDPR
2 1 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (19.54%) Docker
2 6 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (57.47%) Kubernetes
2 32 (36.78%) Terraform
3 25 (28.74%) Prometheus
4 24 (27.59%) Grafana
5 15 (17.24%) Ansible
6 5 (5.75%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.60%) Puppet
8 1 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (1.15%) Istio
8 1 (1.15%) Netcool
8 1 (1.15%) Podman
8 1 (1.15%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (13.79%) Google
2 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.64%) Splunk
3 6 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 6 (6.90%) SAP
3 6 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.45%) Oracle
5 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.30%) VMware
6 1 (1.15%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco
6 1 (1.15%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.15%) EMC
6 1 (1.15%) IBM
6 1 (1.15%) Isilon
6 1 (1.15%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.15%) Pega
6 1 (1.15%) Qualys
6 1 (1.15%) Serena
6 1 (1.15%) Sybase