Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hatfield

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Hertfordshire > Hatfield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hatfield requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hatfield 6.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £549 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £552 - -
90th Percentile £694 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 - £600

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hatfield

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 Hatfield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 46 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hatfield 78.29% 97.87% 83.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 35 44
10th Percentile £323 £224 £140
25th Percentile £453 £483 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £348
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +58.27% -33.81%
75th Percentile £552 £600 £481
90th Percentile £709 £665 £521
Hertfordshire median daily rate £515 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -6.36% +33.33% -19.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 6 11
10th Percentile £14.81 £15.99 £13.82
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.18 £13.86
Median hourly rate £18.27 £16.74 £15.10
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +10.83% +8.83%
75th Percentile £19.71 £17.24 -
90th Percentile £20.09 £17.48 £15.40
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £62.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -19.68% +24.50% -20.00%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hatfield

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Hatfield

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hatfield

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hatfield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Hatfield over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Hatfield

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hatfield 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 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SNMP
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) eBPF
1 4 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 4 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) ITSM
3 4 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (50.00%) Runbook
3 4 (50.00%) Secrets Management
3 4 (50.00%) SIEM
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (50.00%) Use Case
3 4 (50.00%) User Experience
3 4 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bash
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Argo
2 4 (50.00%) Grafana
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cribl.io
1 4 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) VMware