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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 219 209
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 +55
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 162 161 193
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 1.09% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.21% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 121 136
10th Percentile £429 £500 £506
25th Percentile £504 £650 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £602 £725 £663
Median % change year-on-year -16.97% +9.43% +1.92%
75th Percentile £669 £810 £739
90th Percentile £775 £838 £810
England median daily rate £550 £700 £623
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.45% -4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £51.43 - -
25th Percentile £51.69 - -
Median hourly rate £54.25 - -
75th Percentile £57.69 - -
90th Percentile £58.48 - -
England median hourly rate £54.25 £74.39 £75.00
% change year-on-year -27.08% -0.81% +3.45%

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 13,097 13,344 16,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.33% 90.12% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,632 8,554 11,793
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 165 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.16 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +12.31% -16.13%
75th Percentile £53.13 £55.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.91 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 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 21 £610 -13.78% 49
South London - 7 £530 - 9
West London - 3 £375 - 4
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 1 (0.62%) Apache
1 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.62%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) BASE24
1 1 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.62%) SAP PS
1 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (52.47%) AWS
2 69 (42.59%) Azure
3 61 (37.65%) GitHub
4 51 (31.48%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (17.28%) GCP
6 26 (16.05%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (14.81%) Serverless
8 20 (12.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (9.88%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (9.26%) Amazon S3
11 15 (9.26%) Azure AKS
11 15 (9.26%) Datadog
12 13 (8.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (6.79%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (6.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (4.94%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.26%) Firewall
2 7 (4.32%) DNS
3 6 (3.70%) Network Security
3 6 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.09%) Multicast
4 5 (3.09%) tcpdump
4 5 (3.09%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.62%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.62%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.62%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.62%) SSH
6 1 (0.62%) VPN
6 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (4.94%) Flink
4 7 (4.32%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.70%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.09%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.09%) Data Hub
6 5 (3.09%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.09%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.47%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.47%) MySQL
7 4 (2.47%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.23%) Power BI
9 1 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.62%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (17.28%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.11%) GitLab
3 17 (10.49%) Git
4 8 (4.94%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.47%) Jaeger
5 4 (2.47%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.85%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.85%) Gradle
6 3 (1.85%) Maven
6 3 (1.85%) Selenium
7 2 (1.23%) JIRA
7 2 (1.23%) PVCS
8 1 (0.62%) Gatling
8 1 (0.62%) git-flow
General
1 31 (19.14%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.05%) Finance
3 14 (8.64%) Banking
4 12 (7.41%) Front Office
5 8 (4.94%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.09%) Retail
8 4 (2.47%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Billing
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (43.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 48 (29.63%) Site Engineer
3 39 (24.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (17.90%) Senior
5 20 (12.35%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (6.17%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (6.17%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) Lead
10 8 (4.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Consultant
11 6 (3.70%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 6 (3.70%) Kafka Engineer
11 6 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.09%) Developer
12 5 (3.09%) Lead DevOps
12 5 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.96%) Kafka
2 12 (7.41%) Node.js
3 9 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 9 (5.56%) REST
4 8 (4.94%) React
4 8 (4.94%) Spring
4 8 (4.94%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.70%) GraphQL
6 5 (3.09%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (3.09%) LangChain
6 5 (3.09%) Middleware
6 5 (3.09%) Ultra Messaging
7 4 (2.47%) YAML
8 3 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.23%) Loki
9 2 (1.23%) OAuth
9 2 (1.23%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.23%) OpenID
10 1 (0.62%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.17%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.94%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (4.94%) Fixed Income
4 8 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.94%) Mainframe
5 7 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.09%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.23%) Replication
8 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.62%) APACS
9 1 (0.62%) CUDA
9 1 (0.62%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.62%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.62%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.22%) Linux
2 10 (6.17%) VMS
3 8 (4.94%) Unix
4 3 (1.85%) Windows
5 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.62%) Android
6 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.62%) CentOS
6 1 (0.62%) Debian
6 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (65.43%) DevOps
2 100 (61.73%) CI/CD
3 92 (56.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (42.59%) Observability
5 44 (27.16%) Containerisation
6 33 (20.37%) Migration
7 31 (19.14%) AI
8 30 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (17.90%) Agile
10 26 (16.05%) Technical Leadership
11 24 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (12.96%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (12.35%) Incident Response
14 19 (11.73%) Microservices
15 18 (11.11%) Analytics
16 17 (10.49%) Root Cause Analysis
17 16 (9.88%) GitOps
17 16 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 15 (9.26%) High Availability
18 15 (9.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 76 (46.91%) Python
2 33 (20.37%) Java
3 28 (17.28%) Bash
4 25 (15.43%) Go
5 13 (8.02%) PowerShell
5 13 (8.02%) SQL
6 10 (6.17%) Ruby
7 5 (3.09%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (3.09%) PromQL
8 4 (2.47%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.85%) Bicep
9 3 (1.85%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.23%) Scala
11 1 (0.62%) C
11 1 (0.62%) C#
11 1 (0.62%) C++
11 1 (0.62%) Perl
11 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.62%) Rust
11 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 33 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.17%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.32%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.85%) Degree
8 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.62%) CCSP
8 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CISM
8 1 (0.62%) CISSP
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.62%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.85%) SLA
2 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.23%) GDPR
2 2 (1.23%) ISO 8583
2 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.23%) NIST
2 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.23%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.62%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.62%) PSD2
3 1 (0.62%) SEPA
3 1 (0.62%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (29.63%) Docker
2 9 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.62%) GPFS
4 1 (0.62%) KVM
4 1 (0.62%) Lustre
4 1 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 94 (58.02%) Terraform
2 78 (48.15%) Kubernetes
3 34 (20.99%) Grafana
4 29 (17.90%) Ansible
5 25 (15.43%) Prometheus
6 21 (12.96%) Argo
7 9 (5.56%) Puppet
8 8 (4.94%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (3.70%) Istio
10 5 (3.09%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.23%) Kibana
11 2 (1.23%) Opsgenie
11 2 (1.23%) Salt
11 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.62%) Graphite
12 1 (0.62%) logstash
12 1 (0.62%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.73%) Splunk
3 17 (10.49%) Google
4 9 (5.56%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.32%) PagerDuty
6 6 (3.70%) Oracle
7 5 (3.09%) Solace
7 5 (3.09%) TIBCO
8 4 (2.47%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.85%) Confluent
10 2 (1.23%) Databricks
10 2 (1.23%) Qualys
10 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.23%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.62%) Aruba
11 1 (0.62%) Avaloq
11 1 (0.62%) F5
11 1 (0.62%) HP
11 1 (0.62%) Intel
11 1 (0.62%) New Relic