Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 206 232
Rank change year-on-year -11 +26 +36
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 186 156 158
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 1.15% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.27% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 127 106
10th Percentile £400 £490 £450
25th Percentile £475 £656 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £725 £661
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +9.64% +5.80%
75th Percentile £673 £838 £750
90th Percentile £775 - £810
England median daily rate £530 £700 £572
% change year-on-year -24.29% +22.38% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £49.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £63.79 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.69% -14.95% -11.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,766 12,313 16,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.73% 90.57% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,152 7,857 11,594
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 153 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.40 £19.49
Median hourly rate £34.75 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +25.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.62 £55.25 £51.25
90th Percentile £69.94 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 12 February 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
Central London -4 18 £600 -13.04% 13
South London - 9 £530 - 4
West London - 3 £375 - 2
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.54%) Apache
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.54%) Confluence
2 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.54%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) BASE24
1 1 (0.54%) Maximo
1 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 87 (46.77%) AWS
2 86 (46.24%) Azure
3 72 (38.71%) GitHub
4 53 (28.49%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (19.35%) GCP
6 28 (15.05%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (13.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (13.44%) Serverless
8 22 (11.83%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (10.75%) Amazon S3
10 19 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (7.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (7.53%) Azure AKS
13 14 (7.53%) Datadog
14 12 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (5.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.83%) Firewall
2 12 (6.45%) DNS
2 12 (6.45%) Network Security
3 7 (3.76%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.23%) Ethernet
4 6 (3.23%) InfiniBand
4 6 (3.23%) NetScaler
4 6 (3.23%) Wireless
5 5 (2.69%) VPN
6 4 (2.15%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (2.15%) Multicast
6 4 (2.15%) tcpdump
6 4 (2.15%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.61%) MPLS
7 3 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (1.08%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.75%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (8.60%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (5.91%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.84%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.84%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.30%) Flink
5 8 (4.30%) MySQL
6 6 (3.23%) BigQuery
6 6 (3.23%) Data Hub
6 6 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.23%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.23%) Redis
7 5 (2.69%) Power BI
8 4 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.15%) DocumentDB
8 4 (2.15%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.08%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.08%) Tableau
10 1 (0.54%) Big Data
10 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 38 (20.43%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.83%) GitLab
3 16 (8.60%) Git
4 14 (7.53%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.15%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.15%) Jaeger
6 3 (1.61%) JIRA
7 2 (1.08%) Gatling
7 2 (1.08%) PVCS
8 1 (0.54%) git-flow
General
1 32 (17.20%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.52%) Finance
3 16 (8.60%) Banking
4 12 (6.45%) Front Office
5 11 (5.91%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.30%) Retail
7 3 (1.61%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Billing
9 1 (0.54%) Games
9 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 77 (41.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 56 (30.11%) Site Engineer
3 42 (22.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (17.20%) Senior
5 24 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (7.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (5.91%) Lead
9 10 (5.38%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (5.38%) Consultant
10 9 (4.84%) Architect
10 9 (4.84%) Migration Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.59%) Kafka
2 18 (9.68%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (8.06%) Spring
4 14 (7.53%) Spring Boot
5 13 (6.99%) Node.js
6 10 (5.38%) React
7 9 (4.84%) REST
8 7 (3.76%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.76%) OAuth
8 7 (3.76%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.76%) OpenID
9 6 (3.23%) LangChain
10 4 (2.15%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (2.15%) gRPC
10 4 (2.15%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.15%) JPA
10 4 (2.15%) Middleware
10 4 (2.15%) RESTful
10 4 (2.15%) Spring Cloud
10 4 (2.15%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 37 (19.89%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.14%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.53%) Mainframe
4 10 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.38%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.76%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.08%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.08%) PKI
8 2 (1.08%) Replication
8 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.54%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (23.66%) Linux
2 16 (8.60%) Unix
3 13 (6.99%) VMS
4 7 (3.76%) Windows
5 1 (0.54%) Android
5 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.54%) CentOS
5 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (65.05%) DevOps
2 111 (59.68%) CI/CD
3 99 (53.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (45.70%) Observability
5 46 (24.73%) Containerisation
6 39 (20.97%) Migration
7 35 (18.82%) Agile
8 31 (16.67%) AI
9 29 (15.59%) Incident Response
9 29 (15.59%) Technical Leadership
10 27 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
11 26 (13.98%) Microservices
11 26 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (11.29%) Analytics
12 21 (11.29%) Load Balancing
13 20 (10.75%) Security Testing
14 17 (9.14%) Root Cause Analysis
15 15 (8.06%) Change Control
15 15 (8.06%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (37.63%) Python
2 33 (17.74%) Java
3 26 (13.98%) Bash
4 24 (12.90%) SQL
5 16 (8.60%) Go
6 14 (7.53%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.84%) Ruby
8 6 (3.23%) Bicep
9 5 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.15%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.08%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.54%) C
12 1 (0.54%) C#
12 1 (0.54%) C++
12 1 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.54%) Rust
12 1 (0.54%) Scala
12 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 47 (25.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.91%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.15%) Degree
8 3 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.08%) CCSP
9 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.08%) CISSP
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.23%) NIST
1 6 (3.23%) PCI DSS
1 6 (3.23%) QA
2 5 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.15%) SLA
4 3 (1.61%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.08%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.08%) PSD2
5 2 (1.08%) SEPA
6 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.54%) GDPR
6 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (27.96%) Docker
2 11 (5.91%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.54%) GPFS
4 1 (0.54%) KVM
4 1 (0.54%) Lustre
4 1 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 106 (56.99%) Terraform
2 90 (48.39%) Kubernetes
3 40 (21.51%) Ansible
4 37 (19.89%) Grafana
5 33 (17.74%) Prometheus
6 21 (11.29%) Argo
7 9 (4.84%) Puppet
8 7 (3.76%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (3.23%) Istio
9 6 (3.23%) Salt
10 4 (2.15%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.08%) Cilium
11 2 (1.08%) Opsgenie
11 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.90%) Splunk
3 21 (11.29%) Google
4 7 (3.76%) Aruba
4 7 (3.76%) Cisco
4 7 (3.76%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.76%) Oracle
4 7 (3.76%) PagerDuty
5 6 (3.23%) Arista
5 6 (3.23%) CheckPoint
5 6 (3.23%) F5
5 6 (3.23%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.69%) BigPanda
7 4 (2.15%) Confluent
7 4 (2.15%) Solace
7 4 (2.15%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.61%) Databricks
9 2 (1.08%) Qualys
9 2 (1.08%) Red Hat