Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 329 331
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +64
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 224 371 580
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.74% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.81% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 236 427
10th Percentile £415 £488 £493
25th Percentile £500 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £683 £700 £738
90th Percentile £843 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £630
% change year-on-year -12.00% -0.79% +14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - £65.18 £48.75
25th Percentile - £69.19 £54.38
Median hourly rate - £79.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - +17.04% +40.63%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £79.38
90th Percentile - £86.50 £84.25
UK median hourly rate - £79.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year - +54.90% +3.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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 -11 126 £630 +0.80% 70
North of England +14 36 £550 -21.43% 25
South East +26 24 £491 -21.18% 18
South West +34 22 £550 -31.25% 16
North West +3 21 £550 -21.43% 19
Yorkshire +8 15 £555 -20.71% 6
West Midlands +34 11 £500 - 1
Midlands +30 11 £500 - 4
East of England +9 1 £475 - 1
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
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 18 (8.04%) Confluence
2 14 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.91%) Apache
4 9 (4.02%) OpenStack
5 7 (3.13%) nginx
6 3 (1.34%) Apache Solr
6 3 (1.34%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.34%) CMS
6 3 (1.34%) Drupal
7 2 (0.89%) IIS
8 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 113 (50.45%) AWS
2 63 (28.13%) Azure
3 34 (15.18%) OpenShift
4 31 (13.84%) GCP
5 23 (10.27%) Serverless
6 21 (9.38%) PaaS
7 20 (8.93%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (8.04%) Snowflake
9 17 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (7.59%) GitHub
10 16 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (7.14%) SaaS
11 14 (6.25%) Amazon S3
12 13 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (4.46%) dbt
13 10 (4.46%) IaaS
14 9 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (3.57%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.61%) DNS
2 22 (9.82%) Firewall
3 15 (6.70%) DHCP
4 11 (4.91%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.02%) NAS
5 9 (4.02%) Network Security
5 9 (4.02%) SAN
6 8 (3.57%) Kerberos
6 8 (3.57%) VLAN
7 7 (3.13%) AMQP
8 5 (2.23%) Internet
9 4 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.34%) SSL
10 3 (1.34%) VPN
11 2 (0.89%) IPv4
11 2 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.45%) Broadband
12 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.59%) NoSQL
2 16 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 16 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 16 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 13 (5.80%) MySQL
5 12 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (4.91%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (4.91%) Big Data
7 10 (4.46%) Apache Arrow
7 10 (4.46%) Dremio
7 10 (4.46%) DynamoDB
8 9 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (3.57%) InfluxDB
10 7 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (2.23%) Couchbase
11 5 (2.23%) Power BI
12 4 (1.79%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.34%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 49 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 35 (15.63%) Git
3 30 (13.39%) JIRA
4 12 (5.36%) SonarQube
5 11 (4.91%) GitLab
6 8 (3.57%) Artifactory
6 8 (3.57%) TeamCity
7 7 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 7 (3.13%) Subversion
8 5 (2.23%) AppScan
8 5 (2.23%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.23%) Burp Suite
9 4 (1.79%) Selenium
10 3 (1.34%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.34%) Snyk
11 2 (0.89%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
General
1 58 (25.89%) Finance
2 35 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.05%) Banking
4 15 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.13%) Retail
7 4 (1.79%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.89%) Electronics
8 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.89%) Marketing
9 1 (0.45%) Advertising
9 1 (0.45%) Front Office
9 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 98 (43.75%) Site Engineer
3 34 (15.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (10.27%) Senior
5 22 (9.82%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (8.93%) Architect
7 17 (7.59%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (5.36%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.91%) Analyst
10 10 (4.46%) Big Data Engineer
10 10 (4.46%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.57%) Banking Analyst
11 8 (3.57%) Banking Business Analyst
12 6 (2.68%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.68%) Business IT Analyst
12 6 (2.68%) IT Analyst
12 6 (2.68%) IT Business Analyst
12 6 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.96%) Kafka
2 27 (12.05%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (10.71%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (6.70%) LDAP
5 12 (5.36%) RESTful
6 10 (4.46%) gRPC
6 10 (4.46%) Protocol Buffers
7 6 (2.68%) YAML
8 5 (2.23%) LAPP Stack
9 4 (1.79%) Node.js
10 3 (1.34%) .NET
10 3 (1.34%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.34%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.45%) J2EE
11 1 (0.45%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (9.38%) Clustering
4 15 (6.70%) Public Cloud
5 13 (5.80%) Algorithms
5 13 (5.80%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.91%) Hedge funds
7 9 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.57%) Replication
9 7 (3.13%) Data Centre
9 7 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (3.13%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (2.23%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (2.23%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.79%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.34%) Distributed Applications
14 2 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 2 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 68 (30.36%) Linux
2 32 (14.29%) Windows
3 23 (10.27%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.57%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (3.57%) Solaris
6 6 (2.68%) Unix
7 5 (2.23%) CentOS
7 5 (2.23%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.23%) VMS
8 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (73.66%) DevOps
2 100 (44.64%) CI/CD
3 61 (27.23%) Agile
4 54 (24.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (18.30%) Microservices
6 34 (15.18%) Containerisation
7 32 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (13.84%) Observability
9 27 (12.05%) Configuration Management
9 27 (12.05%) Software Engineering
10 26 (11.61%) Task Automation
11 25 (11.16%) Test Automation
12 22 (9.82%) Change Management
12 22 (9.82%) Continuous Integration
12 22 (9.82%) ITIL
13 21 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (8.93%) Scrum
15 18 (8.04%) Service Management
16 17 (7.59%) GitOps
16 17 (7.59%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 104 (46.43%) Python
2 64 (28.57%) Go
3 52 (23.21%) Java
4 38 (16.96%) SQL
5 36 (16.07%) Bash
6 33 (14.73%) PowerShell
7 19 (8.48%) Shell Script
8 11 (4.91%) JavaScript
9 10 (4.46%) C
9 10 (4.46%) C#
10 9 (4.02%) F#
11 8 (3.57%) C++
12 5 (2.23%) Bicep
13 4 (1.79%) Groovy
13 4 (1.79%) Ruby
14 3 (1.34%) PHP
15 1 (0.45%) Perl
15 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 34 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.80%) Degree
5 6 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.45%) MCSE
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.50%) QA
2 8 (3.57%) GDPR
2 8 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.34%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.89%) NIST
5 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (26.79%) Docker
2 13 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.91%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 11 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 109 (48.66%) Kubernetes
2 94 (41.96%) Terraform
3 75 (33.48%) Prometheus
4 65 (29.02%) Grafana
5 58 (25.89%) Ansible
6 22 (9.82%) Progress Chef
7 18 (8.04%) Puppet
8 14 (6.25%) Istio
9 11 (4.91%) Consul
9 11 (4.91%) HP Fortify
10 10 (4.46%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (4.02%) Kibana
12 8 (3.57%) EMC NetWorker
12 8 (3.57%) Netcool
12 8 (3.57%) Tivoli
12 8 (3.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 7 (3.13%) Argo
13 7 (3.13%) Graylog
14 6 (2.68%) Nessus
15 5 (2.23%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 36 (16.07%) Splunk
2 35 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.48%) VMware
4 16 (7.14%) Salesforce
5 13 (5.80%) New Relic
6 12 (5.36%) ServiceNow
7 11 (4.91%) SaltStack
8 10 (4.46%) CyberArk
8 10 (4.46%) IBM
8 10 (4.46%) Oracle
9 9 (4.02%) SAP
10 8 (3.57%) Cisco
10 8 (3.57%) Dell
10 8 (3.57%) EMC
10 8 (3.57%) HP
10 8 (3.57%) Isilon
10 8 (3.57%) Qualys
10 8 (3.57%) Serena
11 7 (3.13%) Adobe
11 7 (3.13%) Google