Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 51 51
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 4 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.30% 2.44% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 2.81% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 1
10th Percentile £508 £524 -
25th Percentile £519 £525 £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £850
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -29.41% +65.85%
75th Percentile £636 - £875
90th Percentile £656 £603 -
South West median daily rate £543 £550 £725
% change year-on-year -1.36% -24.14% +41.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £74.25
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £87.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 269 392 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.34% 87.11% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 199 258
10th Percentile £220 £363 £371
25th Percentile £356 £469 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £660 £669 £675
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 49
10th Percentile £15.26 £22.50 £32.40
25th Percentile £26.43 £28.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £35.17 £37.52 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -49.98% +95.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £83.72
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £68.75 £64.15
% change year-on-year -63.42% +7.18% +11.56%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Gloucestershire

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 15 September 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 +17 3 £550 -8.33% 4
Site Reliability Engineering
South West

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle