Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 326 328
Rank change year-on-year +50 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 219 223 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.90% 0.60% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.69% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 155 236
10th Percentile £330 £421 £488
25th Percentile £452 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -13.73% -1.92%
75th Percentile £788 £688 £700
90th Percentile £838 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £65.18
25th Percentile £39.25 - £69.19
Median hourly rate £44.50 - £79.00
75th Percentile £49.75 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £86.50
UK median hourly rate £44.50 - £79.00
% change year-on-year - - +54.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +55 142 £700 +8.11% 151
South East +45 23 £475 -3.19% 34
South West +45 21 £550 - 16
North of England -4 13 £475 -13.64% 56
Midlands +22 11 £431 -13.80% 21
West Midlands +11 8 £375 -25.00% 17
Yorkshire 0 7 £650 +17.12% 11
North West +2 6 £475 -13.64% 40
East Midlands - 3 £700 - 4
East of England +30 1 £438 -7.89% 15
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 39 (17.81%) Apache
2 32 (14.61%) Apache Spark
3 28 (12.79%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (4.57%) nginx
5 7 (3.20%) Confluence
6 6 (2.74%) OpenStack
7 5 (2.28%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.37%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (1.37%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) SAP BPC
1 2 (0.91%) Shopify
2 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 104 (47.49%) AWS
2 84 (38.36%) Azure
3 51 (23.29%) Serverless
4 45 (20.55%) Amazon ECS
5 43 (19.63%) AWS Lambda
6 40 (18.26%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (18.26%) OpenShift
7 28 (12.79%) dbt
8 25 (11.42%) GitHub
9 23 (10.50%) GCP
10 21 (9.59%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (9.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (9.13%) Azure AKS
12 18 (8.22%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (7.76%) Amazon S3
14 14 (6.39%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (5.48%) Datadog
15 12 (5.48%) PaaS
16 11 (5.02%) Azure Sentinel
17 10 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.39%) DNS
2 12 (5.48%) HTTP
3 11 (5.02%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.11%) Firewall
5 6 (2.74%) FTP
5 6 (2.74%) Kerberos
5 6 (2.74%) SMTP
5 6 (2.74%) SSL
6 5 (2.28%) Network Security
7 4 (1.83%) DHCP
8 2 (0.91%) BGP
8 2 (0.91%) DSL
8 2 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.91%) OSPF
8 2 (0.91%) VPN
9 1 (0.46%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.46%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.46%) SAN
9 1 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.24%) Amazon Athena
1 29 (13.24%) Apache Iceberg
2 28 (12.79%) Apache Arrow
2 28 (12.79%) Apache Ignite
2 28 (12.79%) Dremio
3 17 (7.76%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (7.31%) Big Data
5 14 (6.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (5.94%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.28%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.28%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.28%) Power BI
10 3 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.37%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.37%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.37%) SAP Data Services
10 3 (1.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 46 (21.00%) Jenkins
2 33 (15.07%) Artifactory
3 18 (8.22%) Git
4 12 (5.48%) JIRA
5 10 (4.57%) GitLab
6 7 (3.20%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.83%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.37%) JMeter
8 3 (1.37%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.37%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.91%) Subversion
10 1 (0.46%) Gatling
10 1 (0.46%) GoCD
10 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.46%) JUnit
10 1 (0.46%) Postman
10 1 (0.46%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.46%) Vagrant
General
1 79 (36.07%) Finance
2 43 (19.63%) Front Office
2 43 (19.63%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.16%) Banking
4 8 (3.65%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.20%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.74%) Electronics
6 6 (2.74%) Legal
6 6 (2.74%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.74%) Marketing
7 5 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.37%) Retail
10 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.91%) International Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Military
11 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (40.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 73 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 68 (31.05%) Site Engineer
4 50 (22.83%) AWS Engineer
5 45 (20.55%) AWS DevOps
5 45 (20.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 39 (17.81%) Python Engineer
7 31 (14.16%) Data Engineer
8 23 (10.50%) Architect
9 21 (9.59%) Senior
10 20 (9.13%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (6.39%) Developer
12 10 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.11%) Azure Developer
13 9 (4.11%) C# Developer
13 9 (4.11%) DevOps Manager
13 9 (4.11%) Finance Manager
13 9 (4.11%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.65%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (18.26%) Kafka
2 33 (15.07%) J2EE
3 28 (12.79%) PySpark
4 26 (11.87%) .NET
5 17 (7.76%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (4.57%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (3.65%) JSON
7 8 (3.65%) YAML
8 7 (3.20%) ADO
8 7 (3.20%) REST
9 6 (2.74%) CSS
9 6 (2.74%) HTML
9 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (2.28%) LDAP
10 5 (2.28%) React
10 5 (2.28%) Web Services
11 4 (1.83%) Spring
12 3 (1.37%) GraphQL
12 3 (1.37%) Node.js
12 3 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 20 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.57%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (4.11%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.65%) Management Information System
6 7 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.28%) Tandem
8 3 (1.37%) Clustering
8 3 (1.37%) Social Media
9 2 (0.91%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.46%) FMCG
10 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.89%) Linux
2 14 (6.39%) Windows
3 11 (5.02%) Unix
4 10 (4.57%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.20%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.37%) Android
7 3 (1.37%) Solaris
8 2 (0.91%) Debian
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (73.52%) DevOps
2 137 (62.56%) CI/CD
3 83 (37.90%) Agile
4 63 (28.77%) Software Engineering
5 61 (27.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (23.29%) Observability
7 45 (20.55%) Containerisation
8 44 (20.09%) Asset Management
9 39 (17.81%) Open Source
10 33 (15.07%) Data Engineering
11 28 (12.79%) Microservices
11 28 (12.79%) Migration
12 27 (12.33%) Test Automation
13 25 (11.42%) High Availability
14 23 (10.50%) Configuration Management
15 22 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (9.13%) Service-Level Objective
17 18 (8.22%) Continuous Delivery
17 18 (8.22%) Incident Response
18 17 (7.76%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (52.05%) Python
2 49 (22.37%) Java
3 43 (19.63%) Go
4 40 (18.26%) PowerShell
5 30 (13.70%) C#
5 30 (13.70%) SQL
6 29 (13.24%) Bash
7 22 (10.05%) JavaScript
8 16 (7.31%) Bicep
9 8 (3.65%) Groovy
9 8 (3.65%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (3.65%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.74%) Ruby
11 3 (1.37%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.91%) Perl
12 2 (0.91%) PHP
13 1 (0.46%) C++
13 1 (0.46%) F#
Qualifications
1 22 (10.05%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.31%) Degree
3 12 (5.48%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.02%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.11%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.91%) CEH
7 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.91%) CISSP
7 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.57%) QA
2 3 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.37%) GDPR
3 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.91%) SLA
4 1 (0.46%) COBIT
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (37.44%) Docker
2 14 (6.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.91%) NFS
5 2 (0.91%) Veritas File System
5 2 (0.91%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.46%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 131 (59.82%) Kubernetes
2 120 (54.79%) Terraform
3 61 (27.85%) Ansible
4 36 (16.44%) Grafana
4 36 (16.44%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.48%) Progress Chef
6 11 (5.02%) Puppet
7 3 (1.37%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.37%) Netcool
7 3 (1.37%) Packer
7 3 (1.37%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.91%) Argo
8 2 (0.91%) Control-M
8 2 (0.91%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.91%) Podman
8 2 (0.91%) QRadar
8 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.91%) Salt
9 1 (0.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.59%) Splunk
3 16 (7.31%) Google
4 14 (6.39%) Oracle
5 12 (5.48%) Dynatrace
6 11 (5.02%) SAP
7 10 (4.57%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.28%) AppDynamics
8 5 (2.28%) Databricks
9 4 (1.83%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.83%) VMware
10 3 (1.37%) BMC
10 3 (1.37%) Cisco
10 3 (1.37%) F5
10 3 (1.37%) IBM
10 3 (1.37%) Qualys
10 3 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.91%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.91%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.91%) SolarWinds