Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Gloucestershire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 50 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.26% 0.29% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.30% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £513 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.25% +9.27%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £578
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £563 £545 £580
% change year-on-year +3.21% -6.03% -3.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 326 337 377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.24% 96.29% 92.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 215 236
10th Percentile £282 £300 £357
25th Percentile £425 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £547 £555
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -1.44% -1.77%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £691
90th Percentile £700 £738 £753
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £526
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.99% +0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 23 44
10th Percentile £13.50 £26.90 £28.28
25th Percentile £26.25 £58.75 -
Median hourly rate £33.17 £67.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -50.86% +38.55% -18.80%
75th Percentile £58.75 £71.25 £78.09
90th Percentile £68.54 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £59.68
% change year-on-year -38.46% +8.91% -8.18%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Cheltenham +7 1 £600 +14.29% 2
Site Reliability Engineer
South West

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Gloucestershire region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) npm
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle