Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 70 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 17 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.29% 0.55% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 0.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 0
10th Percentile £286 £445 -
25th Percentile £320 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -
75th Percentile £638 £575 -
90th Percentile £706 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £483 £638
% change year-on-year -1.55% -24.31% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 768 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.03% 84.49% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 533 619
10th Percentile £312 £356 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £649
90th Percentile £725 £698 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 74
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.65 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.25 £21.48
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £50.71
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -30.98% +16.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £49.63 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Hampshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Hampshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Farnborough - 8 £320 -
Basingstoke - 1 £650 -
Portsmouth - 1 - - 1
Romsey - 1 £770 -
Southampton - 1 £530 -
Site Reliability Engineering
South East

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Serverless
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
1 6 (35.29%) GitLab
2 5 (29.41%) Gatling
2 5 (29.41%) JMeter
2 5 (29.41%) LoadRunner
3 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
1 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Performance Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Testing Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Site Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Nagios Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.88%) gRPC
1 1 (5.88%) Kafka
1 1 (5.88%) Keycloak
1 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Incident Response
2 7 (41.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (35.29%) Performance Testing
3 6 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Observability
6 3 (17.65%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
7 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) Bash
3 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) Degree
5 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Ansible
1 10 (58.82%) Grafana
1 10 (58.82%) Terraform
2 9 (52.94%) Prometheus
3 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
4 4 (23.53%) Puppet
5 2 (11.76%) Podman
5 2 (11.76%) vRealize
6 1 (5.88%) Nagios
6 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) PagerDuty
3 1 (5.88%) Tenable