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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 213 217
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +50
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 168 159 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 1.11% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.23% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 122 126
10th Percentile £426 £500 £491
25th Percentile £500 £650 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £602 £725 £674
Median % change year-on-year -16.97% +7.65% +3.62%
75th Percentile £670 £810 £750
90th Percentile £774 £838 £810
England median daily rate £550 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £74.39 £75.00
% change year-on-year -29.43% -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 13,094 12,910 16,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.52% 90.24% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,658 8,267 11,566
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 160 246
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.09 £17.11
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.38% -13.08%
75th Percentile £53.44 £54.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.24 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +23.66%

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 January 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 4 January 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 +1 22 £610 -13.78% 43
South London - 7 £530 - 42
West London - 3 £375 - 51
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 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.60%) Apache
2 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) BASE24
1 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.60%) SAP PS
1 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (52.38%) AWS
2 75 (44.64%) Azure
3 70 (41.67%) GitHub
4 59 (35.12%) GitHub Actions
5 32 (19.05%) GCP
6 29 (17.26%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (16.07%) Serverless
8 23 (13.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (11.31%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (10.71%) Amazon S3
11 18 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (9.52%) Azure AKS
13 15 (8.93%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (8.93%) Datadog
14 11 (6.55%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (6.55%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (6.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (5.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.31%) Firewall
2 10 (5.95%) DNS
3 9 (5.36%) Network Security
4 5 (2.98%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.38%) Multicast
5 4 (2.38%) tcpdump
5 4 (2.38%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.60%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.60%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.60%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.60%) SSH
7 1 (0.60%) VPN
7 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.12%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.36%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.76%) Flink
5 7 (4.17%) MySQL
5 7 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.57%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.98%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.98%) Data Hub
7 5 (2.98%) Redis
8 4 (2.38%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.79%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.79%) Power BI
10 2 (1.19%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.60%) Big Data
11 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 21 (12.50%) GitLab
3 18 (10.71%) Git
4 9 (5.36%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.38%) Jaeger
5 4 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.79%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.79%) Gradle
6 3 (1.79%) Maven
6 3 (1.79%) Selenium
7 2 (1.19%) Gatling
7 2 (1.19%) JIRA
7 2 (1.19%) PVCS
8 1 (0.60%) git-flow
General
1 30 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.07%) Finance
3 14 (8.33%) Banking
4 12 (7.14%) Front Office
5 8 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.98%) Retail
8 3 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Games
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 71 (42.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 47 (27.98%) Site Engineer
3 42 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (16.67%) Senior
5 22 (13.10%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (5.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Lead
9 9 (5.36%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Python Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Consultant
11 6 (3.57%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 6 (3.57%) Developer
11 6 (3.57%) Kafka Engineer
11 6 (3.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.98%) Lead DevOps
12 5 (2.98%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.29%) Kafka
2 12 (7.14%) Node.js
2 12 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (7.14%) REST
2 12 (7.14%) Spring
2 12 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 9 (5.36%) React
4 6 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.57%) GraphQL
4 6 (3.57%) OAuth
4 6 (3.57%) OAuth2
4 6 (3.57%) OpenID
5 5 (2.98%) LangChain
6 4 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (2.38%) Middleware
6 4 (2.38%) Ultra Messaging
6 4 (2.38%) YAML
7 3 (1.79%) Hibernate
7 3 (1.79%) JPA
7 3 (1.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (20.24%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.76%) Mainframe
5 7 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.17%) Fixed Income
5 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.19%) Replication
7 2 (1.19%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.60%) APACS
8 1 (0.60%) CUDA
8 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.60%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.60%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.60%) Online Games
8 1 (0.60%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.64%) Linux
2 13 (7.74%) VMS
3 8 (4.76%) Unix
4 3 (1.79%) Windows
5 1 (0.60%) Android
5 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.60%) CentOS
5 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (67.86%) DevOps
2 107 (63.69%) CI/CD
3 98 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (41.67%) Observability
5 47 (27.98%) Containerisation
6 38 (22.62%) Migration
7 32 (19.05%) Agile
8 31 (18.45%) AI
9 28 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
10 25 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (13.69%) Microservices
12 22 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (12.50%) Incident Response
14 19 (11.31%) Analytics
14 19 (11.31%) Security Testing
15 18 (10.71%) Load Balancing
16 17 (10.12%) Mentoring
16 17 (10.12%) Root Cause Analysis
17 15 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (43.45%) Python
2 38 (22.62%) Java
3 26 (15.48%) Bash
4 22 (13.10%) Go
5 18 (10.71%) SQL
6 12 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.36%) Ruby
8 5 (2.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.38%) Bicep
9 4 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.79%) PromQL
10 3 (1.79%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) C#
11 1 (0.60%) C++
11 1 (0.60%) Perl
11 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.60%) Rust
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
11 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 35 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.55%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.79%) Degree
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.60%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.57%) QA
2 5 (2.98%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.38%) NIST
4 3 (1.79%) ISO 8583
4 3 (1.79%) SLA
5 2 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.19%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.19%) PSD2
5 2 (1.19%) SEPA
6 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (30.95%) Docker
2 10 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.60%) GPFS
4 1 (0.60%) KVM
4 1 (0.60%) Lustre
4 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 102 (60.71%) Terraform
2 87 (51.79%) Kubernetes
3 33 (19.64%) Ansible
4 31 (18.45%) Grafana
5 23 (13.69%) Prometheus
6 22 (13.10%) Argo
7 9 (5.36%) Puppet
8 7 (4.17%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (3.57%) Istio
10 5 (2.98%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.19%) Opsgenie
11 2 (1.19%) Salt
11 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 30 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.50%) Google
3 18 (10.71%) Splunk
4 9 (5.36%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.17%) PagerDuty
6 6 (3.57%) Oracle
7 4 (2.38%) Confluent
7 4 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.38%) Solace
7 4 (2.38%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.19%) Databricks
8 2 (1.19%) Qualys
8 2 (1.19%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.60%) Aruba
9 1 (0.60%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.60%) F5
9 1 (0.60%) Genesys
9 1 (0.60%) HP
9 1 (0.60%) Intel
9 1 (0.60%) New Relic