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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 235 240
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 +58
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 116 156 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.86% 0.96% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.07% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 113 152
10th Percentile £323 £453 £475
25th Percentile £385 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £710 £659
Median % change year-on-year -25.70% +7.78% +1.35%
75th Percentile £663 £810 £739
90th Percentile £750 £850 £810
England median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £80.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £79.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.59%

All Process and 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 12,450 14,539 19,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.59% 89.26% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,239 9,698 14,258
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 180 225
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.07
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -11.21% +8.00%
75th Percentile £48.94 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -2 25 £610 -14.08% 11
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.59%) Confluence
1 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.72%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) SAP PS
1 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (52.59%) AWS
2 38 (32.76%) Azure
3 28 (24.14%) GitHub
4 21 (18.10%) GCP
5 19 (16.38%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (12.07%) Azure AKS
8 13 (11.21%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (11.21%) Serverless
9 11 (9.48%) Datadog
10 9 (7.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (6.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (5.17%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
14 5 (4.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.62%) DNS
2 9 (7.76%) Firewall
2 9 (7.76%) TCP/IP
3 8 (6.90%) HTTP
4 5 (4.31%) FTP
4 5 (4.31%) SMTP
4 5 (4.31%) SSL
5 3 (2.59%) Network Security
6 2 (1.72%) BGP
6 2 (1.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (1.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (1.72%) OSPF
6 2 (1.72%) SSH
6 2 (1.72%) VPN
7 1 (0.86%) DSL
7 1 (0.86%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.86%) Internet
7 1 (0.86%) Multicast
7 1 (0.86%) SAN
7 1 (0.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.31%) Big Data
1 5 (4.31%) NoSQL
1 5 (4.31%) Power BI
2 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.72%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.86%) MySQL
4 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.21%) Git
2 12 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.90%) GitLab
4 5 (4.31%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.45%) Gradle
5 4 (3.45%) JIRA
5 4 (3.45%) Maven
5 4 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (3.45%) Selenium
5 4 (3.45%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.59%) Jaeger
6 3 (2.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.72%) PVCS
7 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.86%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.86%) JMeter
8 1 (0.86%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.24%) Finance
3 11 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.62%) Banking
5 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.59%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.59%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.86%) Military
6 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (42.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 40 (34.48%) Site Engineer
3 23 (19.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.07%) Senior
5 8 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (6.90%) Python Engineer
6 7 (6.03%) Architect
6 7 (6.03%) Consultant
7 6 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Developer
9 4 (3.45%) GCP Architect
9 4 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) Subject Matter Expert
10 3 (2.59%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (2.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.59%) GCP Data Architect
10 3 (2.59%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (2.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.34%) .NET
2 9 (7.76%) Kafka
3 8 (6.90%) REST
4 7 (6.03%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (6.03%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (6.03%) YAML
5 6 (5.17%) GraphQL
6 4 (3.45%) Node.js
7 3 (2.59%) JSON
7 3 (2.59%) React
8 2 (1.72%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.72%) Middleware
8 2 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.72%) Spring
8 2 (1.72%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.86%) ADO
9 1 (0.86%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (0.86%) RESTful
9 1 (0.86%) Ultra Messaging
9 1 (0.86%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.21%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (6.90%) Data Centre
5 7 (6.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.31%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.59%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.59%) Social Media
8 2 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.86%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.86%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.86%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.97%) Linux
2 8 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (0.86%) Android
3 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.86%) Debian
3 1 (0.86%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (66.38%) DevOps
2 64 (55.17%) CI/CD
3 49 (42.24%) Observability
4 48 (41.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 24 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (19.83%) Microservices
8 21 (18.10%) Artificial Intelligence
9 20 (17.24%) Agile
10 17 (14.66%) GitOps
11 14 (12.07%) Migration
12 13 (11.21%) Data Protection
13 12 (10.34%) High Availability
13 12 (10.34%) Incident Response
14 11 (9.48%) Root Cause Analysis
15 10 (8.62%) Anomaly Detection
15 10 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (8.62%) Incident Management
15 10 (8.62%) Synthetic Monitoring
15 10 (8.62%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (56.03%) Python
2 35 (30.17%) Bash
3 30 (25.86%) Go
4 24 (20.69%) Java
5 21 (18.10%) SQL
6 17 (14.66%) PowerShell
7 16 (13.79%) PromQL
8 13 (11.21%) C#
9 7 (6.03%) Bicep
10 6 (5.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (5.17%) Shell Script
11 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
12 4 (3.45%) Ruby
13 3 (2.59%) CodeQL
13 3 (2.59%) PHP
13 3 (2.59%) Rust
14 2 (1.72%) C++
14 2 (1.72%) JavaScript
15 1 (0.86%) Perl
15 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.76%) AWS Certification
2 8 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.45%) CISSP
4 4 (3.45%) Degree
5 3 (2.59%) CEH
6 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.86%) CCSP
7 1 (0.86%) CISM
7 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.86%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.62%) QA
2 5 (4.31%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.45%) GDPR
4 3 (2.59%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.72%) SLA
5 2 (1.72%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.86%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.86%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (25.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) Ceph
2 1 (0.86%) KVM
2 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (49.14%) Kubernetes
2 51 (43.97%) Terraform
3 37 (31.90%) Grafana
4 30 (25.86%) Prometheus
5 20 (17.24%) Ansible
6 9 (7.76%) Argo
6 9 (7.76%) Progress Chef
7 6 (5.17%) Puppet
8 3 (2.59%) Podman
9 2 (1.72%) Istio
9 2 (1.72%) Packer
9 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.86%) Graphite
10 1 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.86%) Kibana
10 1 (0.86%) logstash
10 1 (0.86%) Salt
10 1 (0.86%) yum
Vendors
1 20 (17.24%) Splunk
2 15 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.76%) Dynatrace
3 9 (7.76%) Google
4 5 (4.31%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.59%) Oracle
6 2 (1.72%) Cisco
6 2 (1.72%) Confluent
6 2 (1.72%) F5
6 2 (1.72%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.72%) SAP
6 2 (1.72%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.86%) Okta
7 1 (0.86%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.86%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.86%) Solace
7 1 (0.86%) Tanium
7 1 (0.86%) Tenable
7 1 (0.86%) Zscaler