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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 311 344
Rank change year-on-year +37 +33 -16
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 218 235 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.89% 0.64% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.75% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 167 211
10th Percentile £313 £423 £475
25th Percentile £413 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% -1.42%
75th Percentile £770 £689 £703
90th Percentile £838 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.09% -12.00% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £46.10 - £65.20
25th Percentile £56.38 - £70.50
Median hourly rate £79.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £89.75 - £85.00
90th Percentile £92.90 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £79.00 £110.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -28.18% +37.50% -

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 22,329 31,491 43,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.40% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,605 20,622 30,435
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 949 2,249 1,535
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%

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 18 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 18 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 +49 139 £681 +3.89% 239
South East +36 23 £450 -7.75% 94
South West +34 17 £550 - 26
North of England +2 16 £538 -2.27% 68
Midlands +19 13 £375 -25.00% 38
West Midlands +4 10 £375 -25.00% 22
North West +1 9 £475 -13.64% 37
Yorkshire +8 7 £650 +16.07% 23
East of England +27 3 £438 -27.08% 23
East Midlands - 3 £700 - 14
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 35 (16.06%) Apache
2 29 (13.30%) Apache Spark
3 26 (11.93%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.13%) nginx
5 7 (3.21%) Confluence
6 5 (2.29%) OpenStack
6 5 (2.29%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.38%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (1.38%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) SAP BPC
1 2 (0.92%) Shopify
2 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 94 (43.12%) AWS
2 85 (38.99%) Azure
3 43 (19.72%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (19.27%) Serverless
5 36 (16.51%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (15.60%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (15.60%) OpenShift
7 28 (12.84%) GCP
8 26 (11.93%) dbt
8 26 (11.93%) GitHub
9 24 (11.01%) Azure AKS
9 24 (11.01%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (6.42%) Datadog
11 13 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (5.96%) PaaS
12 12 (5.50%) Amazon S3
13 11 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (5.05%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (4.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.42%) DNS
2 12 (5.50%) HTTP
3 11 (5.05%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.13%) Firewall
5 6 (2.75%) FTP
5 6 (2.75%) Kerberos
5 6 (2.75%) SMTP
5 6 (2.75%) SSL
6 5 (2.29%) Network Security
7 4 (1.83%) DHCP
8 2 (0.92%) BGP
8 2 (0.92%) DSL
8 2 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.92%) OSPF
8 2 (0.92%) VPN
9 1 (0.46%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.46%) NAS
9 1 (0.46%) SAN
9 1 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.39%) Amazon Athena
1 27 (12.39%) Apache Iceberg
2 26 (11.93%) Apache Arrow
2 26 (11.93%) Apache Ignite
2 26 (11.93%) Dremio
3 18 (8.26%) Big Data
4 11 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (3.21%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.75%) Power BI
9 4 (1.83%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.38%) OLAP
10 3 (1.38%) OLTP
10 3 (1.38%) SAP BW
10 3 (1.38%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 42 (19.27%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.84%) Artifactory
3 18 (8.26%) Git
4 12 (5.50%) JIRA
5 10 (4.59%) GitLab
6 9 (4.13%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (1.83%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.38%) JMeter
9 3 (1.38%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.38%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.92%) Subversion
11 1 (0.46%) Gatling
11 1 (0.46%) GoCD
11 1 (0.46%) JUnit
11 1 (0.46%) Postman
11 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.46%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.46%) Vagrant
General
1 71 (32.57%) Finance
2 42 (19.27%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.14%) Front Office
4 25 (11.47%) Banking
5 10 (4.59%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.21%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.75%) Electronics
7 6 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.75%) Marketing
8 5 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.29%) Retail
9 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.83%) Legal
10 3 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (0.92%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.92%) International Banking
12 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.46%) Military
12 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (39.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 70 (32.11%) Site Engineer
3 62 (28.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (18.35%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (16.06%) AWS DevOps
5 35 (16.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 32 (14.68%) Python Engineer
7 29 (13.30%) Data Engineer
8 26 (11.93%) Architect
9 22 (10.09%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (8.26%) Senior
11 14 (6.42%) Developer
12 9 (4.13%) Azure Developer
12 9 (4.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.13%) C# Developer
13 8 (3.67%) Azure Architect
13 8 (3.67%) Support Engineer
14 6 (2.75%) Applications Developer
14 6 (2.75%) Applications Engineer
14 6 (2.75%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.43%) Kafka
2 28 (12.84%) J2EE
3 27 (12.39%) .NET
4 26 (11.93%) PySpark
5 15 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (4.59%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (4.13%) ADO
8 8 (3.67%) JSON
9 7 (3.21%) REST
9 7 (3.21%) YAML
10 6 (2.75%) CSS
10 6 (2.75%) HTML
10 6 (2.75%) Spring
11 5 (2.29%) LDAP
11 5 (2.29%) React
11 5 (2.29%) Web Services
12 4 (1.83%) .NET Core
12 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Graph
12 4 (1.83%) Spring Boot
13 3 (1.38%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.84%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.09%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.59%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (3.67%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.38%) Clustering
6 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.38%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.38%) Social Media
7 2 (0.92%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.92%) Tandem
8 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) FMCG
8 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (16.51%) Linux
2 13 (5.96%) Windows
3 10 (4.59%) Unix
4 9 (4.13%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.75%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.38%) Android
7 3 (1.38%) Solaris
8 1 (0.46%) Debian
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (71.56%) DevOps
2 129 (59.17%) CI/CD
3 78 (35.78%) Agile
4 65 (29.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (25.69%) Software Engineering
6 54 (24.77%) Observability
7 50 (22.94%) Containerisation
8 35 (16.06%) Open Source
9 34 (15.60%) Asset Management
10 32 (14.68%) Microservices
11 31 (14.22%) Migration
12 30 (13.76%) Data Engineering
13 29 (13.30%) Test Automation
14 23 (10.55%) Configuration Management
14 23 (10.55%) High Availability
14 23 (10.55%) Incident Management
15 21 (9.63%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (9.17%) Service-Level Objective
17 18 (8.26%) Continuous Delivery
17 18 (8.26%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 107 (49.08%) Python
2 48 (22.02%) Java
3 39 (17.89%) Go
3 39 (17.89%) PowerShell
4 31 (14.22%) C#
4 31 (14.22%) SQL
5 30 (13.76%) Bash
6 19 (8.72%) Bicep
6 19 (8.72%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.13%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.67%) Groovy
8 8 (3.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (2.75%) Ruby
10 3 (1.38%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.92%) Perl
11 2 (0.92%) PHP
11 2 (0.92%) Rust
12 1 (0.46%) C++
12 1 (0.46%) CodeQL
Qualifications
1 21 (9.63%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.34%) Degree
3 12 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.13%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.13%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.92%) APMG
8 2 (0.92%) CEH
8 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.92%) CISSP
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.05%) QA
2 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.38%) GDPR
3 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.92%) 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 68 (31.19%) Docker
2 12 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.92%) NFS
5 2 (0.92%) Veritas File System
5 2 (0.92%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.46%) Ceph
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (56.42%) Kubernetes
2 109 (50.00%) Terraform
3 56 (25.69%) Ansible
4 36 (16.51%) Grafana
4 36 (16.51%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.50%) Progress Chef
6 10 (4.59%) Puppet
7 3 (1.38%) Netcool
7 3 (1.38%) Packer
7 3 (1.38%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.92%) Argo
8 2 (0.92%) Control-M
8 2 (0.92%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.92%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.92%) Podman
8 2 (0.92%) QRadar
8 2 (0.92%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.92%) Salt
9 1 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 33 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.63%) Splunk
3 16 (7.34%) Google
4 14 (6.42%) Oracle
5 13 (5.96%) Dynatrace
6 11 (5.05%) SAP
7 9 (4.13%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.29%) AppDynamics
8 5 (2.29%) Databricks
9 4 (1.83%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.83%) VMware
10 3 (1.38%) BMC
10 3 (1.38%) Cisco
10 3 (1.38%) IBM
10 3 (1.38%) Qualys
11 2 (0.92%) F5
11 2 (0.92%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.92%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.92%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.92%) SolarWinds