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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 226 275
Rank change year-on-year +14 +49 +8
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 219 127 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 1.05% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.14% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 89 89
10th Percentile £400 £308 £445
25th Percentile £475 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £680
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -11.76% +8.80%
75th Percentile £675 £838 £850
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £52.35 - -
25th Percentile £54.00 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% - -
75th Percentile £69.40 £49.75 -
90th Percentile £74.89 - -
England median hourly rate £55.50 £79.00 -
% change year-on-year -29.75% - -

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 16,181 11,140 15,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.43% 92.20% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,808 7,503 11,081
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £762 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 182 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £30.90 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.54% +10.68% -29.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.68 £63.23 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -19 23 £525 -8.70% 17
South London - 4 £723 - 5
West London - 3 £388 - 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 6 (2.74%) Confluence
2 5 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.46%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) BASE24
2 1 (0.46%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 103 (47.03%) Azure
2 83 (37.90%) AWS
3 81 (36.99%) GitHub
4 51 (23.29%) GCP
5 49 (22.37%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (11.42%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (9.59%) Serverless
8 20 (9.13%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (9.13%) Datadog
9 18 (8.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (8.22%) Azure AKS
10 16 (7.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 15 (6.85%) Amazon S3
12 14 (6.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (5.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (5.02%) OpenShift
14 11 (5.02%) PaaS
15 10 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.33%) Firewall
2 20 (9.13%) DNS
3 16 (7.31%) VPN
4 14 (6.39%) Network Security
5 7 (3.20%) Ethernet
5 7 (3.20%) InfiniBand
5 7 (3.20%) NetScaler
5 7 (3.20%) Wireless
6 5 (2.28%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (1.83%) MPLS
8 3 (1.37%) Internet
8 3 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.91%) WAN
10 1 (0.46%) NaaS
10 1 (0.46%) NGFW
10 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.02%) BigQuery
2 9 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.11%) Power BI
2 9 (4.11%) Redis
3 8 (3.65%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.20%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.20%) MySQL
5 5 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.83%) DocumentDB
6 4 (1.83%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.83%) Flink
7 3 (1.37%) Data Hub
7 3 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.37%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.91%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (16.89%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.96%) GitLab
3 18 (8.22%) Git
4 13 (5.94%) Artifactory
5 7 (3.20%) JIRA
6 3 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.37%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.91%) Gatling
8 1 (0.46%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
General
1 29 (13.24%) Finance
2 27 (12.33%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.05%) Banking
4 17 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.65%) Retail
7 4 (1.83%) Games
7 4 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.37%) Front Office
8 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.91%) Billing
9 2 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.91%) Legal
9 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.46%) Advertising
10 1 (0.46%) Law
10 1 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 67 (30.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 41 (18.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (18.72%) Site Engineer
3 40 (18.26%) Senior
4 24 (10.96%) Architect
4 24 (10.96%) Azure Engineer
5 20 (9.13%) Lead
6 19 (8.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (4.57%) GCP Engineer
9 8 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.65%) Migration Engineer
9 8 (3.65%) Technical Architect
10 7 (3.20%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.20%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (3.20%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 7 (3.20%) Data Engineer
10 7 (3.20%) Developer
11 6 (2.74%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.96%) OpenTelemetry
2 22 (10.05%) Kafka
3 14 (6.39%) Spring
4 13 (5.94%) Spring Boot
5 11 (5.02%) REST
6 9 (4.11%) Node.js
6 9 (4.11%) React
7 8 (3.65%) Loki
8 7 (3.20%) OAuth
8 7 (3.20%) OpenID
8 7 (3.20%) RESTful
9 6 (2.74%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.74%) LangChain
9 6 (2.74%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.28%) gRPC
11 4 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.83%) Hibernate
11 4 (1.83%) JPA
11 4 (1.83%) Spring Cloud
12 3 (1.37%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.55%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.33%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.39%) Mainframe
4 11 (5.02%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.20%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.37%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.91%) CMDB
8 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.91%) PKI
8 2 (0.91%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.46%) APACS
9 1 (0.46%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.46%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.87%) Linux
2 12 (5.48%) Unix
3 10 (4.57%) VMS
3 10 (4.57%) Windows
4 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.46%) Debian
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (63.01%) DevOps
2 123 (56.16%) CI/CD
3 118 (53.88%) Observability
4 113 (51.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (26.03%) Containerisation
6 47 (21.46%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (17.35%) Migration
8 37 (16.89%) AI
8 37 (16.89%) Microservices
9 35 (15.98%) Agile
10 32 (14.61%) Incident Response
11 29 (13.24%) Software Engineering
12 24 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (10.96%) Load Balancing
13 22 (10.05%) Analytics
13 22 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (9.13%) Incident Management
15 19 (8.68%) Event-Driven
15 19 (8.68%) Infrastructure Automation
16 17 (7.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 62 (28.31%) Python
2 34 (15.53%) Java
3 26 (11.87%) SQL
4 18 (8.22%) Go
5 16 (7.31%) Bash
5 16 (7.31%) PowerShell
6 11 (5.02%) Bicep
6 11 (5.02%) Ruby
7 8 (3.65%) C#
8 2 (0.91%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.91%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.46%) C++
9 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.46%) PromQL
9 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (29.68%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.03%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.02%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.74%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.83%) CCSP
6 4 (1.83%) CISSP
6 4 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.91%) Degree
7 2 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.46%) CCIE
8 1 (0.46%) CCNP
8 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) CSPO
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.65%) NIST
1 8 (3.65%) SLA
2 7 (3.20%) QA
3 6 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.28%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.37%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.91%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.91%) PSD2
6 2 (0.91%) SEPA
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) GDPR
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (19.63%) Docker
2 6 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 122 (55.71%) Terraform
2 106 (48.40%) Kubernetes
3 49 (22.37%) Prometheus
4 45 (20.55%) Grafana
5 40 (18.26%) Ansible
6 12 (5.48%) Argo
7 6 (2.74%) Istio
8 5 (2.28%) Salt
9 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.83%) Packer
10 3 (1.37%) Puppet
11 2 (0.91%) Cilium
11 2 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.46%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.46%) CASB
12 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.46%) Kibana
12 1 (0.46%) logstash
Vendors
1 36 (16.44%) Splunk
2 32 (14.61%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.42%) Google
4 19 (8.68%) Dynatrace
5 12 (5.48%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.57%) Oracle
7 9 (4.11%) Cisco
8 8 (3.65%) AppDynamics
8 8 (3.65%) Aruba
9 7 (3.20%) Arista
9 7 (3.20%) BigPanda
9 7 (3.20%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.20%) F5
9 7 (3.20%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.28%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.37%) Databricks
11 3 (1.37%) New Relic
11 3 (1.37%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.91%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.91%) Salesforce