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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 230 258
Rank change year-on-year +3 +28 +16
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 221 135 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.12% 1.00% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.08% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 78 98
10th Percentile £430 £308 £443
25th Percentile £482 £389 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £519 £703
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% -26.16% +12.40%
75th Percentile £666 £694 £850
90th Percentile £763 £838 -
England median daily rate £537 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +7.40% -9.09% -13.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £58.69 £40.63 -
25th Percentile £61.61 £42.69 -
Median hourly rate £67.93 £50.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.19% - -
75th Percentile £73.97 £56.69 -
90th Percentile £76.72 £58.08 -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year -14.07% - -

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 17,625 12,495 14,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.13% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 8,354 10,656
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 234 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.90 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -7.89% -21.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 23 £476 -17.17% 31
South London - 6 £766 -
West London - 3 £360 - 5
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 5 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.26%) Confluence
2 3 (1.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 7 (3.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) Maximo
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 95 (42.99%) AWS
2 80 (36.20%) Azure
3 62 (28.05%) GitHub
4 40 (18.10%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (17.19%) GCP
6 30 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (12.22%) Datadog
8 23 (10.41%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (9.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (8.14%) Azure AKS
11 17 (7.69%) PaaS
11 17 (7.69%) Serverless
12 16 (7.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 15 (6.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (5.88%) Amazon S3
15 12 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (4.98%) SaaS
17 10 (4.52%) OpenShift
17 10 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.14%) Firewall
2 17 (7.69%) DNS
2 17 (7.69%) VPN
3 8 (3.62%) Network Security
4 5 (2.26%) Ethernet
4 5 (2.26%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.26%) InfiniBand
4 5 (2.26%) NetScaler
4 5 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.26%) Wireless
5 4 (1.81%) MPLS
5 4 (1.81%) SNMP
6 3 (1.36%) Internet
7 2 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.90%) WAN
8 1 (0.45%) Calico
8 1 (0.45%) HTTP
8 1 (0.45%) NaaS
8 1 (0.45%) NGFW
8 1 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.07%) Power BI
2 7 (3.17%) BigQuery
2 7 (3.17%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.71%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.71%) Redis
4 4 (1.81%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.81%) Data Hub
5 3 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.36%) MySQL
6 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.90%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.45%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) Flink
7 1 (0.45%) KDB
7 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (12.67%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.60%) GitLab
3 16 (7.24%) Git
4 4 (1.81%) JIRA
5 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 38 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.93%) Finance
3 25 (11.31%) Banking
4 16 (7.24%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.71%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.26%) Law
9 4 (1.81%) Billing
9 4 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.36%) Games
10 3 (1.36%) Military
11 2 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Legal
11 2 (0.90%) Retail
12 1 (0.45%) Advertising
12 1 (0.45%) Front Office
12 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (28.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 40 (18.10%) Senior
2 40 (18.10%) Site Engineer
3 36 (16.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (10.86%) Architect
5 17 (7.69%) Lead
6 16 (7.24%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (6.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.43%) Technical Architect
10 10 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 6 (2.71%) Developer
13 6 (2.71%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.50%) Kafka
2 17 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (3.62%) REST
5 7 (3.17%) Loki
6 6 (2.71%) Node.js
7 5 (2.26%) Spring
7 5 (2.26%) YAML
8 4 (1.81%) RESTful
8 4 (1.81%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.36%) .NET
9 3 (1.36%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.36%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.90%) ADO
10 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.90%) eBPF
10 2 (0.90%) OpenID
10 2 (0.90%) PySpark
10 2 (0.90%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 54 (24.43%) Cloud Native
2 43 (19.46%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.62%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.62%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.17%) Mainframe
4 7 (3.17%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.71%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.81%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.90%) CMDB
8 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.90%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.03%) Linux
2 12 (5.43%) Windows
3 10 (4.52%) Unix
4 5 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.81%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.90%) VMS
7 1 (0.45%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (61.09%) Observability
2 122 (55.20%) DevOps
3 119 (53.85%) CI/CD
4 99 (44.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (29.86%) Platform Engineering
6 56 (25.34%) Containerisation
7 36 (16.29%) Software Engineering
8 34 (15.38%) Agile
8 34 (15.38%) Incident Response
9 31 (14.03%) AI
10 30 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (13.57%) Microservices
11 24 (10.86%) Infrastructure Automation
12 23 (10.41%) Incident Management
13 21 (9.50%) Event-Driven
14 19 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 19 (8.60%) ITIL
15 18 (8.14%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 82 (37.10%) Python
2 41 (18.55%) Java
3 32 (14.48%) Bash
4 21 (9.50%) Go
4 21 (9.50%) PowerShell
5 19 (8.60%) SQL
6 14 (6.33%) Bicep
7 10 (4.52%) Ruby
8 8 (3.62%) C#
9 5 (2.26%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.36%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.90%) Korn
11 2 (0.90%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) Groovy
12 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.45%) Perl
12 1 (0.45%) PromQL
12 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (25.34%) Security Cleared
2 47 (21.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.07%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.81%) CCSP
6 4 (1.81%) CISSP
6 4 (1.81%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.90%) Degree
8 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.45%) CCIE
9 1 (0.45%) CCNP
9 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.45%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.17%) SLA
2 5 (2.26%) QA
3 4 (1.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.81%) NIST
4 2 (0.90%) GRC
4 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (45.70%) Terraform
2 91 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 60 (27.15%) Grafana
3 60 (27.15%) Prometheus
4 31 (14.03%) Ansible
5 4 (1.81%) Argo
5 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.81%) Packer
6 3 (1.36%) Cilium
6 3 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (1.36%) Salt
6 3 (1.36%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.45%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.45%) CASB
7 1 (0.45%) Istio
7 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.45%) Kibana
7 1 (0.45%) logstash
7 1 (0.45%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (16.74%) Splunk
2 32 (14.48%) Dynatrace
3 20 (9.05%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.79%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.33%) Oracle
6 11 (4.98%) AppDynamics
6 11 (4.98%) Google
7 7 (3.17%) Cisco
8 6 (2.71%) Aruba
8 6 (2.71%) F5
9 5 (2.26%) Arista
9 5 (2.26%) BigPanda
9 5 (2.26%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.26%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.26%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.81%) New Relic
10 4 (1.81%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.36%) Databricks
11 3 (1.36%) VMware
12 2 (0.90%) TOWER Software