Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Home Counties requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank - - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 0 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties - - 20.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £425 £458 £491
% change year-on-year -7.10% -6.76% -32.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14 7 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 93.33% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £500 £559 -
25th Percentile £513 £574 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £597 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +25.68% -13.64%
75th Percentile £669 £621 £488
90th Percentile £675 £635 -
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in the Home Counties