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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 213 255
Rank change year-on-year 0 +42 +7
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 185 156 144
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 1.16% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.28% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 124 94
10th Percentile £400 £475 £466
25th Percentile £484 £650 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £613
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +18.37% -2.00%
75th Percentile £672 £838 £725
90th Percentile £775 - £807
England median daily rate £533 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -23.93% +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 14,309 12,214 16,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.33% 90.73% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,601 7,904 11,472
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% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 158 346
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -14.89%
75th Percentile £56.98 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.31% -2.26%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +5 20 £550 -13.39% 16
South London - 10 £530 - 3
West London - 3 £375 - 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 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.08%) Confluence
1 2 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (0.54%) Apache
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.54%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) BASE24
1 1 (0.54%) Maximo
1 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 89 (48.11%) Azure
2 85 (45.95%) AWS
3 72 (38.92%) GitHub
4 52 (28.11%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (20.00%) GCP
6 25 (13.51%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (12.97%) Serverless
8 20 (10.81%) Amazon S3
9 19 (10.27%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (7.03%) Azure AKS
14 12 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (6.49%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (5.95%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (5.95%) Datadog
15 11 (5.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.35%) Firewall
2 13 (7.03%) Network Security
3 12 (6.49%) DNS
4 7 (3.78%) Ethernet
4 7 (3.78%) InfiniBand
4 7 (3.78%) NetScaler
4 7 (3.78%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.78%) Wireless
5 6 (3.24%) VPN
6 5 (2.70%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (2.16%) MPLS
7 4 (2.16%) Multicast
7 4 (2.16%) tcpdump
7 4 (2.16%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.62%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.08%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (5.95%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.86%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.86%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.32%) Flink
5 8 (4.32%) MySQL
6 6 (3.24%) BigQuery
6 6 (3.24%) Data Hub
6 6 (3.24%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.24%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.24%) Power BI
6 6 (3.24%) Redis
7 4 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.16%) DocumentDB
7 4 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.08%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.08%) Tableau
9 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (19.46%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.35%) GitLab
3 17 (9.19%) Git
4 14 (7.57%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.16%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.62%) JIRA
7 2 (1.08%) Gatling
8 1 (0.54%) git-flow
8 1 (0.54%) Jaeger
General
1 29 (15.68%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.51%) Finance
3 17 (9.19%) Banking
4 12 (6.49%) Front Office
5 11 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.32%) Retail
7 3 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.62%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.54%) Billing
9 1 (0.54%) Games
9 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (41.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 57 (30.81%) Site Engineer
3 37 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (18.38%) Senior
5 24 (12.97%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (7.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (7.03%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (6.49%) Architect
9 11 (5.95%) Lead
10 10 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (4.86%) Consultant
11 9 (4.86%) Migration Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) GCP Engineer
13 7 (3.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.78%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 7 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.78%) Python Engineer
13 7 (3.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 6 (3.24%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.59%) Kafka
2 17 (9.19%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (8.11%) Spring
4 14 (7.57%) Spring Boot
5 11 (5.95%) Node.js
6 10 (5.41%) React
6 10 (5.41%) REST
7 7 (3.78%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.78%) OAuth
7 7 (3.78%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.78%) OpenID
8 6 (3.24%) LangChain
9 4 (2.16%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.16%) gRPC
9 4 (2.16%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.16%) JPA
9 4 (2.16%) Middleware
9 4 (2.16%) RESTful
9 4 (2.16%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (2.16%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.54%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.57%) Mainframe
4 12 (6.49%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.41%) Public Cloud
6 8 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.78%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.08%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.08%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.08%) PKI
9 2 (1.08%) Replication
9 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (22.70%) Linux
2 13 (7.03%) Unix
2 13 (7.03%) VMS
3 7 (3.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.54%) CentOS
4 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (65.41%) DevOps
2 107 (57.84%) CI/CD
3 100 (54.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 84 (45.41%) Observability
5 46 (24.86%) Containerisation
6 38 (20.54%) Migration
7 36 (19.46%) Agile
8 33 (17.84%) AI
9 30 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
10 29 (15.68%) Incident Response
11 27 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (14.59%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (12.97%) Microservices
13 23 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (11.35%) Analytics
14 21 (11.35%) Load Balancing
15 20 (10.81%) Security Testing
16 17 (9.19%) Incident Management
17 16 (8.65%) Root Cause Analysis
18 15 (8.11%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 68 (36.76%) Python
2 30 (16.22%) Java
3 24 (12.97%) Bash
3 24 (12.97%) SQL
4 16 (8.65%) Go
5 15 (8.11%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.86%) Ruby
7 6 (3.24%) Bicep
8 3 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.54%) C#
10 1 (0.54%) Scala
10 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 49 (26.49%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.49%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.86%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.32%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.16%) Degree
8 3 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.62%) CCSP
8 3 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.62%) CISSP
9 2 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.24%) NIST
1 6 (3.24%) QA
2 5 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.16%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.62%) ISO 8583
4 3 (1.62%) SLA
5 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.08%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.08%) PSD2
5 2 (1.08%) SEPA
6 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.54%) GDPR
6 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (26.49%) Docker
2 12 (6.49%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.54%) GPFS
4 1 (0.54%) Lustre
4 1 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 109 (58.92%) Terraform
2 87 (47.03%) Kubernetes
3 40 (21.62%) Ansible
4 34 (18.38%) Grafana
5 30 (16.22%) Prometheus
6 21 (11.35%) Argo
7 9 (4.86%) Puppet
8 7 (3.78%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (3.24%) Istio
9 6 (3.24%) Salt
10 3 (1.62%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.08%) Cilium
11 2 (1.08%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.54%) Kibana
12 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 33 (17.84%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.43%) Splunk
3 21 (11.35%) Google
4 8 (4.32%) Aruba
4 8 (4.32%) Cisco
4 8 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.78%) Arista
5 7 (3.78%) CheckPoint
5 7 (3.78%) F5
5 7 (3.78%) Oracle
5 7 (3.78%) PagerDuty
5 7 (3.78%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.24%) BigPanda
7 5 (2.70%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.16%) Databricks
8 4 (2.16%) Solace
8 4 (2.16%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.08%) Foundry
9 2 (1.08%) Palantir
9 2 (1.08%) Red Hat