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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 250 238
Rank change year-on-year +15 -12 +3
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 234 112 160
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 0.83% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.90% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 65 114
10th Percentile £425 £335 £475
25th Percentile £482 £463 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £528 £720
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -26.74% +8.68%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £810
90th Percentile £738 £740 £850
England median daily rate £545 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +8.93% -20.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £57.12 - -
25th Percentile £60.30 £53.00 -
Median hourly rate £66.18 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £72.66 £59.00 -
90th Percentile £76.19 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £79.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -27.22% -7.06% +13.33%

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 17,999 12,504 14,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.62% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,775 8,251 9,455
10th Percentile £358 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 245 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.35 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 4 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in London

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 4 October 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 -24 19 £490 -19.67% 45
West London - 4 £360 - 15
South London - 3 £745 - 2
East London - 1 - - 1
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 10 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.85%) Apache
3 2 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.43%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.43%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 116 (49.57%) AWS
2 83 (35.47%) Azure
3 60 (25.64%) GitHub
4 40 (17.09%) GCP
4 40 (17.09%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (10.68%) Datadog
8 20 (8.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (8.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (7.69%) Serverless
11 16 (6.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 15 (6.41%) Amazon S3
13 13 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (5.13%) SaaS
15 11 (4.70%) Azure AKS
15 11 (4.70%) PaaS
16 10 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.12%) DNS
2 14 (5.98%) Firewall
3 11 (4.70%) VPN
4 7 (2.99%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.56%) Network Security
6 5 (2.14%) SNMP
7 4 (1.71%) SSL
8 3 (1.28%) HTTP
8 3 (1.28%) SAN
9 2 (0.85%) Internet
9 2 (0.85%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.43%) BGP
10 1 (0.43%) Calico
10 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.43%) NAS
10 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.43%) RTP
10 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.42%) NoSQL
1 8 (3.42%) Power BI
2 7 (2.99%) MongoDB
2 7 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.99%) Redis
3 6 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.14%) MySQL
5 4 (1.71%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.28%) Data Hub
7 2 (0.85%) Flink
7 2 (0.85%) KDB
7 2 (0.85%) Metadata
7 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 41 (17.52%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.26%) GitLab
3 16 (6.84%) Git
4 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.85%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.85%) JIRA
5 2 (0.85%) Maven
5 2 (0.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.43%) JUnit
6 1 (0.43%) Mockito
6 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 51 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.23%) Finance
3 25 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (10.68%) Banking
4 9 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.56%) Investment Banking
5 6 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.14%) Law
7 4 (1.71%) Military
7 4 (1.71%) Police
7 4 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.28%) Advertising
8 3 (1.28%) Billing
8 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.28%) Retail
9 2 (0.85%) Front Office
9 2 (0.85%) Games
9 2 (0.85%) Local Government
9 2 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 61 (26.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 44 (18.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (15.38%) Senior
4 33 (14.10%) Site Engineer
5 16 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (6.41%) Architect
6 15 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (6.41%) Lead
7 14 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.27%) Service Manager
8 10 (4.27%) Service Transition Manager
8 10 (4.27%) Transition Manager
9 9 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (3.42%) Scala Engineer
10 8 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (2.99%) Support Engineer
12 6 (2.56%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (46.58%) Terraform
2 32 (13.68%) Kafka
3 22 (9.40%) OpenTelemetry
4 17 (7.26%) REST
5 16 (6.84%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (3.85%) Loki
7 6 (2.56%) Middleware
7 6 (2.56%) Play Framework
8 5 (2.14%) RESTful
8 5 (2.14%) YAML
9 4 (1.71%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.71%) JDBC
9 4 (1.71%) Keycloak
9 4 (1.71%) OAuth
9 4 (1.71%) Spring
9 4 (1.71%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.28%) .NET
10 3 (1.28%) eBPF
10 3 (1.28%) Node.js
10 3 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 64 (27.35%) Cloud Native
2 42 (17.95%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.27%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.99%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.99%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
7 6 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.14%) PKI
8 5 (2.14%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.14%) Replication
8 5 (2.14%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.71%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.28%) CMDB
10 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 47 (20.09%) Linux
2 14 (5.98%) Windows
3 13 (5.56%) Unix
4 8 (3.42%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.14%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.71%) VMS
8 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (61.97%) DevOps
2 136 (58.12%) Observability
3 134 (57.26%) CI/CD
4 116 (49.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (34.19%) Platform Engineering
6 62 (26.50%) Containerisation
7 45 (19.23%) Agile
8 40 (17.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (15.81%) Incident Response
10 36 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (14.53%) Software Engineering
12 33 (14.10%) AI
13 32 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 31 (13.25%) Infrastructure Automation
15 29 (12.39%) Root Cause Analysis
16 28 (11.97%) Microservices
16 28 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (11.11%) Incident Management
18 24 (10.26%) High Availability
18 24 (10.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 87 (37.18%) Python
2 50 (21.37%) Bash
3 36 (15.38%) Java
4 30 (12.82%) SQL
5 28 (11.97%) Go
6 23 (9.83%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.98%) Bicep
8 12 (5.13%) C#
9 11 (4.70%) Scala
10 9 (3.85%) Shell Script
11 8 (3.42%) TypeScript
12 6 (2.56%) JavaScript
13 5 (2.14%) Perl
14 4 (1.71%) Korn
14 4 (1.71%) Ruby
15 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.85%) Groovy
17 1 (0.43%) C++
17 1 (0.43%) F#
17 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 63 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 57 (24.36%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.26%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 4 (1.71%) Degree
8 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.85%) CCSP
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.85%) CISSP
9 2 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.85%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.85%) GIAC
10 1 (0.43%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) QA
2 5 (2.14%) SLA
3 3 (1.28%) GDPR
3 3 (1.28%) NIST
3 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.85%) GRC
4 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.85%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.43%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.43%) GLBA
5 1 (0.43%) SEPA
System Software
1 55 (23.50%) Docker
2 7 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.43%) vSphere
6 1 (0.43%) zsh
Systems Management
1 107 (45.73%) Kubernetes
2 78 (33.33%) Grafana
3 63 (26.92%) Prometheus
4 39 (16.67%) Ansible
5 8 (3.42%) Kibana
6 5 (2.14%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (1.71%) Argo
7 4 (1.71%) Cilium
7 4 (1.71%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.85%) Netcool
8 2 (0.85%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 2 (0.85%) Packer
8 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.85%) Puppet
8 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.85%) systemd
8 2 (0.85%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.85%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 1 (0.43%) Consul
9 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 38 (16.24%) Dynatrace
2 36 (15.38%) Splunk
3 22 (9.40%) Microsoft
4 18 (7.69%) Google
5 14 (5.98%) AppDynamics
6 9 (3.85%) Oracle
7 8 (3.42%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.42%) VMware
8 7 (2.99%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.14%) F5
9 5 (2.14%) New Relic
10 4 (1.71%) Databricks
11 3 (1.28%) BigPanda
12 2 (0.85%) Confluent
12 2 (0.85%) Hitachi
12 2 (0.85%) IBM
12 2 (0.85%) Solace
12 2 (0.85%) Sybase
12 2 (0.85%) TIBCO
12 2 (0.85%) TOWER Software