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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 201 250
Rank change year-on-year -12 +49 +5
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 196 155 138
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.21% 1.17% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.28% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 122 86
10th Percentile £401 £456 £450
25th Percentile £500 £631 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +16.00% -
75th Percentile £672 £838 £725
90th Percentile £775 - £800
England median daily rate £538 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -23.21% +27.27% -15.38%
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% -0.33%

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 14,657 12,070 15,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.19% 90.95% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,833 7,901 11,413
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% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 156 343
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.66 £19.21
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £52.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £77.95 £72.00
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -16 21 £563 -11.42% 28
South London - 10 £530 - 1
West London - 3 £375 - 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 4 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.53%) Confluence
3 2 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.51%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) BASE24
1 1 (0.51%) Maximo
1 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 95 (48.47%) Azure
2 90 (45.92%) AWS
3 75 (38.27%) GitHub
4 53 (27.04%) GitHub Actions
5 41 (20.92%) GCP
6 30 (15.31%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (13.78%) Serverless
8 25 (12.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (11.73%) Amazon S3
10 21 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (9.69%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (9.18%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (8.67%) Azure AKS
13 17 (8.67%) Datadog
14 15 (7.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (7.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (6.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 12 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
16 12 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.73%) Firewall
2 14 (7.14%) Network Security
3 13 (6.63%) DNS
4 7 (3.57%) Ethernet
4 7 (3.57%) InfiniBand
4 7 (3.57%) NetScaler
4 7 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.57%) Wireless
5 6 (3.06%) VPN
6 5 (2.55%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (2.04%) MPLS
7 4 (2.04%) Multicast
7 4 (2.04%) tcpdump
7 4 (2.04%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.53%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.02%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.51%) Internet
10 1 (0.51%) NGFW
10 1 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.65%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (5.61%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.59%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.59%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.08%) Flink
5 8 (4.08%) MySQL
6 6 (3.06%) BigQuery
6 6 (3.06%) Data Hub
6 6 (3.06%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.06%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.06%) Power BI
6 6 (3.06%) Redis
7 4 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.04%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.02%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.02%) Tableau
9 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.51%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 39 (19.90%) Jenkins
2 24 (12.24%) GitLab
3 19 (9.69%) Git
4 14 (7.14%) Artifactory
5 5 (2.55%) JIRA
6 4 (2.04%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.02%) Gatling
8 1 (0.51%) git-flow
8 1 (0.51%) Jaeger
General
1 30 (15.31%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.27%) Finance
3 17 (8.67%) Banking
4 13 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.12%) Front Office
6 8 (4.08%) Retail
7 4 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.53%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Billing
10 1 (0.51%) Games
10 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (40.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 60 (30.61%) Site Engineer
3 38 (19.39%) Senior
4 37 (18.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (12.76%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (7.65%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (7.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (6.12%) Architect
7 12 (6.12%) Lead
8 10 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (4.59%) Consultant
9 9 (4.59%) Migration Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.06%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.78%) Kafka
2 19 (9.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (7.65%) Spring
4 14 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 13 (6.63%) Node.js
6 12 (6.12%) REST
7 10 (5.10%) React
8 7 (3.57%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.57%) OAuth
8 7 (3.57%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.57%) OpenID
9 6 (3.06%) LangChain
10 4 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (2.04%) gRPC
10 4 (2.04%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.04%) JPA
10 4 (2.04%) Loki
10 4 (2.04%) Middleware
10 4 (2.04%) RESTful
10 4 (2.04%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.14%) Mainframe
4 13 (6.63%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.10%) Public Cloud
6 8 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.57%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.02%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.02%) PKI
9 2 (1.02%) Replication
9 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.51%) APACS
10 1 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.51%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 42 (21.43%) Linux
2 13 (6.63%) Unix
2 13 (6.63%) VMS
3 8 (4.08%) Windows
4 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.51%) CentOS
4 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (64.80%) DevOps
2 115 (58.67%) CI/CD
3 103 (52.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (46.43%) Observability
5 49 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 41 (20.92%) Migration
7 39 (19.90%) Agile
8 33 (16.84%) AI
9 32 (16.33%) Incident Response
10 31 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (15.82%) Platform Engineering
11 30 (15.31%) Technical Leadership
12 26 (13.27%) Microservices
13 25 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (11.73%) Analytics
15 21 (10.71%) Load Balancing
16 20 (10.20%) Security Testing
17 19 (9.69%) Incident Management
18 17 (8.67%) Software Engineering
19 16 (8.16%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 73 (37.24%) Python
2 32 (16.33%) Java
3 25 (12.76%) SQL
4 24 (12.24%) Bash
5 17 (8.67%) PowerShell
6 16 (8.16%) Go
7 9 (4.59%) Ruby
8 7 (3.57%) Bicep
9 3 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.02%) C#
10 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.51%) Scala
11 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 50 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.12%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.10%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.55%) Degree
8 4 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.53%) CCSP
9 3 (1.53%) CISSP
10 2 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.51%) CCIE
11 1 (0.51%) CCNP
11 1 (0.51%) CSPO
11 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.57%) NIST
2 6 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.06%) QA
2 6 (3.06%) SLA
3 5 (2.55%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.53%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.02%) GDPR
5 2 (1.02%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.02%) PSD2
5 2 (1.02%) SEPA
6 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.51%) NCSC
6 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (26.53%) Docker
2 12 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.51%) GPFS
4 1 (0.51%) Lustre
4 1 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 117 (59.69%) Terraform
2 90 (45.92%) Kubernetes
3 41 (20.92%) Ansible
4 37 (18.88%) Grafana
5 33 (16.84%) Prometheus
6 21 (10.71%) Argo
7 9 (4.59%) Puppet
8 7 (3.57%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (3.06%) Istio
9 6 (3.06%) Salt
10 3 (1.53%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.02%) Cilium
11 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.02%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.51%) CASB
12 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.51%) Kibana
12 1 (0.51%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.29%) Splunk
3 21 (10.71%) Google
4 11 (5.61%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.59%) Cisco
5 9 (4.59%) PagerDuty
6 8 (4.08%) Aruba
7 7 (3.57%) Arista
7 7 (3.57%) CheckPoint
7 7 (3.57%) F5
7 7 (3.57%) Oracle
7 7 (3.57%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.06%) BigPanda
8 6 (3.06%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.04%) Databricks
9 4 (2.04%) Solace
9 4 (2.04%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.53%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.02%) Confluent
11 2 (1.02%) Red Hat