Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 331 370
Rank change year-on-year +30 +39 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 52 60 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.41% 0.34% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.36% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 46 98
10th Percentile £304 £489 £504
25th Percentile £356 £559 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £685 £641
Median % change year-on-year -25.18% +6.82% +2.60%
75th Percentile £747 £850 £713
90th Percentile £838 - £750
England median daily rate £500 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -11.11% -13.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £44.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £49.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.50 - £65.25

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in London

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in London

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in London

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -5 5 £527 -20.75% 7
East London +16 2 £250 - 1
Site Reliability Engineer
England

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 37 (71.15%) DevOps
3 33 (63.46%) Kubernetes
4 28 (53.85%) Python
5 27 (51.92%) Terraform
6 26 (50.00%) CI/CD
7 21 (40.38%) AWS
8 19 (36.54%) Azure
8 19 (36.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (36.54%) Docker
9 18 (34.62%) Jenkins
10 16 (30.77%) Ansible
10 16 (30.77%) Grafana
10 16 (30.77%) Prometheus
11 15 (28.85%) Observability
11 15 (28.85%) Agile
12 14 (26.92%) Finance
13 13 (25.00%) Software Engineering
13 13 (25.00%) Splunk
14 12 (23.08%) Linux
15 11 (21.15%) Java
16 10 (19.23%) Service-Level Objective
16 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
16 10 (19.23%) C#
16 10 (19.23%) Go
16 10 (19.23%) High Availability
17 9 (17.31%) Banking
17 9 (17.31%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (17.31%) Containerisation
17 9 (17.31%) Dynatrace

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (11.54%) Apache
2 5 (9.62%) nginx
2 5 (9.62%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 21 (40.38%) AWS
2 19 (36.54%) Azure
3 9 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (17.31%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (13.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (13.46%) GCP
6 6 (11.54%) Amazon S3
6 6 (11.54%) Azure AKS
7 5 (9.62%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (9.62%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (9.62%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (9.62%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (9.62%) Datadog
7 5 (9.62%) OpenShift
7 5 (9.62%) Serverless
8 3 (5.77%) GitHub
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) DNS
1 6 (11.54%) HTTP
2 4 (7.69%) DHCP
2 4 (7.69%) Kerberos
3 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.85%) FTP
4 2 (3.85%) SMTP
4 2 (3.85%) SSL
5 1 (1.92%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.92%) NAS
5 1 (1.92%) SAN
5 1 (1.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (9.62%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.85%) Power BI
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.92%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.92%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.92%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 18 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.62%) Artifactory
2 5 (9.62%) GitLab
2 5 (9.62%) TeamCity
3 4 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (5.77%) Git
5 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.92%) JIRA
5 1 (1.92%) Travis CI
General
1 14 (26.92%) Finance
2 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Front Office
5 3 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) International Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.31%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (11.54%) .NET
2 6 (11.54%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (9.62%) J2EE
3 5 (9.62%) JSON
4 3 (5.77%) Kafka
4 3 (5.77%) LDAP
4 3 (5.77%) Spring
5 2 (3.85%) YAML
6 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.46%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (9.62%) Tandem
5 2 (3.85%) Social Media
6 1 (1.92%) Clustering
6 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.08%) Linux
2 6 (11.54%) Unix
3 5 (9.62%) Windows
4 4 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.77%) Android
6 2 (3.85%) Debian
6 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.92%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 37 (71.15%) DevOps
3 26 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (36.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (28.85%) Agile
5 15 (28.85%) Observability
6 13 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 10 (19.23%) High Availability
7 10 (19.23%) Service-Level Objective
8 9 (17.31%) Containerisation
9 8 (15.38%) Microservices
9 8 (15.38%) Migration
10 7 (13.46%) Asset Management
10 7 (13.46%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (11.54%) Data Protection
11 6 (11.54%) Incident Management
11 6 (11.54%) ITSM
11 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (11.54%) SDLC
12 5 (9.62%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 28 (53.85%) Python
2 11 (21.15%) Java
3 10 (19.23%) C#
3 10 (19.23%) Go
4 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 7 (13.46%) Bash
6 5 (9.62%) Bicep
6 5 (9.62%) Groovy
6 5 (9.62%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (9.62%) Ruby
6 5 (9.62%) Shell Script
7 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
2 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (36.54%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (63.46%) Kubernetes
2 27 (51.92%) Terraform
3 16 (30.77%) Ansible
3 16 (30.77%) Grafana
3 16 (30.77%) Prometheus
4 4 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 4 (7.69%) Puppet
5 1 (1.92%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (1.92%) Netcool
5 1 (1.92%) Podman
5 1 (1.92%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Splunk
2 9 (17.31%) Dynatrace
3 6 (11.54%) ServiceNow
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.69%) AppDynamics
6 3 (5.77%) Google
7 2 (3.85%) Oracle
8 1 (1.92%) Cisco
8 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.92%) EMC
8 1 (1.92%) F5
8 1 (1.92%) IBM
8 1 (1.92%) Isilon
8 1 (1.92%) Qualys
8 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.92%) Serena
8 1 (1.92%) Sybase
8 1 (1.92%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.92%) VMware