Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Leeds is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.26% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £338 - £625
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £325 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 725 452 849
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.77% 94.36% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 275 554
10th Percentile £312 £263 £275
25th Percentile £411 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £600
90th Percentile £657 £688 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 20 12
10th Percentile - £16.94 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £19.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £16.25 £24.18 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +92.98% -78.49%
75th Percentile £28.75 £38.75 £15.24
90th Percentile £74.00 £97.18 £21.30
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £25.84 £15.50
% change year-on-year -26.47% +66.71% -54.11%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 7 February 2026, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Anthos
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudability
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Go

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Anthos
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox