Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.16% - 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £506 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
75th Percentile £552 - £625
90th Percentile £647 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 698 414 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 80.69% 91.59% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 185 161
10th Percentile £196 £267 £240
25th Percentile £406 £425 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £400
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% +32.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £652 £575 £550
90th Percentile £750 £688 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £442
% change year-on-year - +13.12% -11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 127 197
10th Percentile £15.99 £16.51 £15.65
25th Percentile £40.00 £23.13 £38.12
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -10.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £74.25 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +92.43%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Hertfordshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 September 2026. 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
Hatfield - 9 £551 -
Site Reliability Engineering
East of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) GCP
1 5 (50.00%) GitHub
1 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 5 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) SNMP
1 5 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) GCP DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) ITSM Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) eBPF
2 5 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (50.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) AIOps
3 5 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 5 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
3 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (50.00%) GitOps
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) ITSM
3 5 (50.00%) Observability
3 5 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (50.00%) Secrets Management
3 5 (50.00%) SIEM
3 5 (50.00%) Use Case
3 5 (50.00%) User Experience
3 5 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Bash
1 5 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
2 5 (50.00%) Argo
2 5 (50.00%) Grafana
2 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cribl.io
1 5 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 5 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Google