Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 332 368
Rank change year-on-year +31 +36 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 49 65 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.37% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.40% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 52 90
10th Percentile £305 £477 £498
25th Percentile £331 £583 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £710 £641
Median % change year-on-year -29.58% +10.72% +2.60%
75th Percentile £569 £850 £713
90th Percentile £700 - £746
England median daily rate £425 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -26.09% -11.54% +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 - £65.50

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 11,371 16,351 24,216
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 93.53% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,722 11,827 17,651
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £441 £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 £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 322 279
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.07 £22.69
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.66 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -23.18% +2.86%
75th Percentile £49.75 £46.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £61.85 £65.03 £82.50
England median hourly rate £29.30 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.87% -16.67% +91.49%

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 30 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 30 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 -2 6 £600 -11.76% 13
East London - 2 £250 - 2
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 49 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 35 (71.43%) DevOps
3 26 (53.06%) Kubernetes
4 22 (44.90%) Python
5 21 (42.86%) Azure
5 21 (42.86%) Terraform
6 20 (40.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (40.82%) CI/CD
7 19 (38.78%) Observability
8 18 (36.73%) Grafana
8 18 (36.73%) Prometheus
8 18 (36.73%) AWS
9 13 (26.53%) C#
10 12 (24.49%) Jenkins
10 12 (24.49%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (24.49%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
11 11 (22.45%) Service-Level Objective
11 11 (22.45%) Splunk
11 11 (22.45%) Linux
11 11 (22.45%) Agile
12 10 (20.41%) PowerShell
12 10 (20.41%) Microservices
12 10 (20.41%) Ansible
12 10 (20.41%) Docker
13 9 (18.37%) Software Engineering
13 9 (18.37%) Finance
14 8 (16.33%) Migration
14 8 (16.33%) ITSM
14 8 (16.33%) Incident Management

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 2 (4.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) nginx
2 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.04%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.86%) Azure
2 18 (36.73%) AWS
3 12 (24.49%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (24.49%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (16.33%) Azure AKS
4 8 (16.33%) GCP
5 7 (14.29%) Datadog
5 7 (14.29%) GitHub
6 6 (12.24%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon S3
7 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (10.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.12%) Serverless
8 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) DNS
2 4 (8.16%) DHCP
2 4 (8.16%) Kerberos
3 3 (6.12%) HTTP
3 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.08%) FTP
4 2 (4.08%) SMTP
4 2 (4.08%) SSL
5 1 (2.04%) NAS
5 1 (2.04%) SAN
5 1 (2.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.12%) Power BI
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.04%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.29%) TeamCity
3 6 (12.24%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (10.20%) Git
4 5 (10.20%) GitLab
5 3 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.04%) JIRA
7 1 (2.04%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Finance
3 7 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.08%) International Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Front Office
6 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) .NET
1 7 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (12.24%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (10.20%) JSON
4 3 (6.12%) Kafka
4 3 (6.12%) LDAP
4 3 (6.12%) Spring
5 2 (4.08%) YAML
6 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.04%) ADO
6 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (12.24%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.20%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.08%) Social Media
5 1 (2.04%) Clustering
5 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.45%) Linux
2 6 (12.24%) Windows
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.12%) Android
5 2 (4.08%) Unix
6 1 (2.04%) Debian
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.04%) Solaris
6 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 35 (71.43%) DevOps
3 20 (40.82%) CI/CD
3 20 (40.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (38.78%) Observability
5 11 (22.45%) Agile
5 11 (22.45%) Service-Level Objective
6 10 (20.41%) Microservices
7 9 (18.37%) Software Engineering
8 8 (16.33%) Containerisation
8 8 (16.33%) Incident Management
8 8 (16.33%) ITSM
8 8 (16.33%) Migration
9 7 (14.29%) Data Protection
9 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.24%) High Availability
11 5 (10.20%) Capacity Planning
11 5 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence
12 4 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) Python
2 13 (26.53%) C#
3 10 (20.41%) PowerShell
4 8 (16.33%) Bash
4 8 (16.33%) Bicep
5 5 (10.20%) Go
5 5 (10.20%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (10.20%) Ruby
6 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.16%) Shell Script
6 4 (8.16%) SQL
7 3 (6.12%) CodeQL
7 3 (6.12%) Java
8 1 (2.04%) Groovy
8 1 (2.04%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Docker
2 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (53.06%) Kubernetes
2 21 (42.86%) Terraform
3 18 (36.73%) Grafana
3 18 (36.73%) Prometheus
4 10 (20.41%) Ansible
5 4 (8.16%) Progress Chef
5 4 (8.16%) Puppet
6 1 (2.04%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (2.04%) Istio
6 1 (2.04%) Netcool
6 1 (2.04%) Podman
6 1 (2.04%) Tivoli
6 1 (2.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Splunk
2 5 (10.20%) Dynatrace
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.16%) Google
4 3 (6.12%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco
5 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.04%) EMC
5 1 (2.04%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) Isilon
5 1 (2.04%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.04%) Qualys
5 1 (2.04%) Serena
5 1 (2.04%) Sybase
5 1 (2.04%) TOWER Software
5 1 (2.04%) VMware