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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 261 244
Rank change year-on-year +13 -17 +1
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 229 109 158
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 0.81% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.87% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 65 114
10th Percentile £425 £335 £463
25th Percentile £484 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £711
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -22.59% +7.25%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £810
90th Percentile £742 £750 £850
England median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £55.35 - -
25th Percentile £55.88 £53.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% - -
75th Percentile £69.40 £59.00 -
90th Percentile £74.89 - -
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 18,055 12,462 14,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.50% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 8,241 9,589
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 183
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.80 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.42 £25.04 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -16.44% -1.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -29 19 £490 -19.67% 36
West London - 4 £360 - 19
South London - 3 £745 - 2
East London - 1 - - 2
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 8 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.31%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.87%) CMS
3 2 (0.87%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.44%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.44%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 111 (48.47%) AWS
2 80 (34.93%) Azure
3 60 (26.20%) GitHub
4 40 (17.47%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (16.59%) GCP
6 27 (11.79%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (10.92%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (10.48%) Datadog
9 19 (8.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (7.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (7.42%) Serverless
11 15 (6.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 14 (6.11%) Amazon S3
13 13 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (5.24%) SaaS
15 11 (4.80%) Azure AKS
15 11 (4.80%) PaaS
16 10 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (3.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.42%) DNS
2 11 (4.80%) Firewall
3 10 (4.37%) VPN
4 6 (2.62%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.18%) Network Security
5 5 (2.18%) SNMP
6 4 (1.75%) SSL
7 3 (1.31%) HTTP
7 3 (1.31%) SAN
8 2 (0.87%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.44%) Calico
9 1 (0.44%) Internet
9 1 (0.44%) NAS
9 1 (0.44%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.49%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.06%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.06%) Power BI
2 7 (3.06%) Redis
3 6 (2.62%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.18%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.18%) MySQL
5 3 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.31%) Data Hub
6 2 (0.87%) Flink
6 2 (0.87%) KDB
6 2 (0.87%) Metadata
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (15.28%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.42%) GitLab
3 15 (6.55%) Git
4 3 (1.31%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.87%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.87%) JIRA
6 1 (0.44%) JUnit
6 1 (0.44%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.44%) Maven
6 1 (0.44%) Mockito
6 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 48 (20.96%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.21%) Finance
3 26 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.92%) Banking
5 10 (4.37%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.62%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.18%) Law
7 5 (2.18%) Military
8 4 (1.75%) Police
9 3 (1.31%) Billing
9 3 (1.31%) Games
9 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.31%) Retail
9 3 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.87%) Advertising
10 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.87%) Local Government
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 59 (25.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 41 (17.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (15.72%) Senior
4 33 (14.41%) Site Engineer
5 16 (6.99%) Architect
6 15 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (6.55%) Lead
7 14 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (6.11%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.68%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.37%) Service Manager
9 10 (4.37%) Service Transition Manager
9 10 (4.37%) Transition Manager
10 8 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.06%) Support Engineer
12 6 (2.62%) Administrator
12 6 (2.62%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (46.29%) Terraform
2 32 (13.97%) Kafka
3 22 (9.61%) OpenTelemetry
4 16 (6.99%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (6.99%) REST
5 9 (3.93%) Loki
6 6 (2.62%) Middleware
7 5 (2.18%) RESTful
7 5 (2.18%) YAML
8 4 (1.75%) JDBC
8 4 (1.75%) Keycloak
8 4 (1.75%) Node.js
8 4 (1.75%) OAuth
8 4 (1.75%) Play Framework
8 4 (1.75%) Spring
8 4 (1.75%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.31%) .NET
9 3 (1.31%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.31%) eBPF
9 3 (1.31%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 63 (27.51%) Cloud Native
2 42 (18.34%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.37%) Security Posture
4 9 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.06%) Mainframe
5 7 (3.06%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.62%) Distributed Applications
6 6 (2.62%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.62%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.62%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.18%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.18%) Replication
8 4 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.75%) PKI
9 3 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (19.21%) Linux
2 14 (6.11%) Windows
3 12 (5.24%) Unix
4 8 (3.49%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.62%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.31%) VMS
7 1 (0.44%) Debian
7 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (62.01%) DevOps
2 136 (59.39%) Observability
3 128 (55.90%) CI/CD
4 111 (48.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (32.31%) Platform Engineering
6 57 (24.89%) Containerisation
7 40 (17.47%) Agile
8 37 (16.16%) Incident Response
8 37 (16.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (14.41%) AI
11 32 (13.97%) Software Engineering
12 31 (13.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (13.10%) Infrastructure Automation
14 29 (12.66%) Microservices
15 28 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (12.23%) Root Cause Analysis
16 24 (10.48%) Incident Management
17 23 (10.04%) High Availability
18 21 (9.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 82 (35.81%) Python
2 45 (19.65%) Bash
3 34 (14.85%) Java
4 28 (12.23%) SQL
5 27 (11.79%) Go
6 22 (9.61%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.11%) Bicep
8 12 (5.24%) C#
9 9 (3.93%) Scala
9 9 (3.93%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.49%) Shell Script
11 6 (2.62%) JavaScript
12 5 (2.18%) Perl
12 5 (2.18%) Ruby
13 4 (1.75%) Korn
14 3 (1.31%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.44%) F#
15 1 (0.44%) Groovy
15 1 (0.44%) PromQL
15 1 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 61 (26.64%) Security Cleared
2 55 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.42%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.06%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.31%) CCSP
8 3 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.31%) CISSP
8 3 (1.31%) Degree
9 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.87%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.80%) QA
2 5 (2.18%) SLA
3 3 (1.31%) GDPR
4 2 (0.87%) GRC
4 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.87%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.87%) NIST
4 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.44%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (21.40%) Docker
2 7 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.87%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
5 1 (0.44%) zsh
Systems Management
1 102 (44.54%) Kubernetes
2 73 (31.88%) Grafana
3 61 (26.64%) Prometheus
4 38 (16.59%) Ansible
5 7 (3.06%) Kibana
6 5 (2.18%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (1.75%) Argo
7 4 (1.75%) Cilium
7 4 (1.75%) ZABBIX
8 3 (1.31%) Packer
9 2 (0.87%) Netcool
9 2 (0.87%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 2 (0.87%) Puppet
9 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.87%) systemd
9 2 (0.87%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.87%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 1 (0.44%) Control-M
10 1 (0.44%) Nagios
10 1 (0.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 39 (17.03%) Dynatrace
2 37 (16.16%) Splunk
3 22 (9.61%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.55%) Google
5 13 (5.68%) AppDynamics
6 10 (4.37%) Oracle
7 8 (3.49%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.49%) VMware
8 6 (2.62%) New Relic
8 6 (2.62%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.18%) F5
10 3 (1.31%) BigPanda
11 2 (0.87%) Confluent
11 2 (0.87%) Databricks
11 2 (0.87%) Hitachi
11 2 (0.87%) IBM
11 2 (0.87%) Solace
11 2 (0.87%) Sybase
11 2 (0.87%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.87%) TOWER Software