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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 221 266
Rank change year-on-year +9 +45 +2
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 229 128 134
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 1.05% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.13% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 83 92
10th Percentile £400 £308 £450
25th Percentile £469 £374 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -25.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £850
90th Percentile £775 £838 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -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 16,527 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.38 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -14 24 £500 -14.89% 14
South London - 4 £766 - 2
West London - 2 £375 - 3
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 (2.62%) Confluence
2 5 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) BASE24
2 1 (0.44%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 102 (44.54%) Azure
2 87 (37.99%) AWS
3 84 (36.68%) GitHub
4 51 (22.27%) GitHub Actions
5 50 (21.83%) GCP
6 27 (11.79%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (10.04%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (9.61%) Datadog
8 22 (9.61%) Serverless
9 21 (9.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (7.86%) Amazon S3
10 18 (7.86%) Azure AKS
11 17 (7.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (7.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 15 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (6.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (6.11%) PaaS
14 12 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.80%) OpenShift
16 10 (4.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.23%) Firewall
2 18 (7.86%) DNS
3 17 (7.42%) VPN
4 14 (6.11%) Network Security
5 7 (3.06%) Ethernet
5 7 (3.06%) InfiniBand
5 7 (3.06%) NetScaler
5 7 (3.06%) Wireless
6 5 (2.18%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (1.75%) MPLS
8 3 (1.31%) Internet
8 3 (1.31%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.87%) WAN
10 1 (0.44%) Calico
10 1 (0.44%) NaaS
10 1 (0.44%) NGFW
10 1 (0.44%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.80%) BigQuery
1 11 (4.80%) Redis
2 10 (4.37%) Power BI
3 8 (3.49%) MongoDB
3 8 (3.49%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.62%) MySQL
5 4 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.75%) DocumentDB
5 4 (1.75%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.87%) Data Hub
6 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.87%) Flink
6 2 (0.87%) Hazelcast
6 2 (0.87%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (17.47%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.92%) GitLab
3 18 (7.86%) Git
4 12 (5.24%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.62%) JIRA
6 3 (1.31%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.87%) Gatling
7 2 (0.87%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 35 (15.28%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.85%) Finance
3 25 (10.92%) Banking
4 15 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.49%) Retail
7 5 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.18%) Law
8 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.75%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.31%) Games
9 3 (1.31%) Military
9 3 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.87%) Billing
10 2 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Advertising
11 1 (0.44%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 70 (30.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 43 (18.78%) Senior
3 42 (18.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (17.90%) Site Engineer
5 25 (10.92%) Architect
6 22 (9.61%) Azure Engineer
7 21 (9.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (8.73%) Lead
9 14 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.37%) GCP Engineer
11 10 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) Technical Architect
13 8 (3.49%) Developer
13 8 (3.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
14 7 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.92%) OpenTelemetry
2 23 (10.04%) Kafka
3 14 (6.11%) Spring
4 13 (5.68%) Spring Boot
5 12 (5.24%) REST
6 11 (4.80%) Node.js
7 8 (3.49%) React
8 7 (3.06%) Loki
8 7 (3.06%) OAuth
8 7 (3.06%) OpenID
8 7 (3.06%) RESTful
9 6 (2.62%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.62%) LangChain
9 6 (2.62%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.18%) gRPC
11 4 (1.75%) Hibernate
11 4 (1.75%) JPA
11 4 (1.75%) Spring Cloud
11 4 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.02%) Cloud Native
2 34 (14.85%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.68%) Mainframe
4 10 (4.37%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.93%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.06%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.31%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.31%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.87%) CMDB
8 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.87%) PKI
9 1 (0.44%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.48%) Linux
2 11 (4.80%) Unix
3 10 (4.37%) VMS
3 10 (4.37%) Windows
4 3 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) Debian
6 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (62.01%) DevOps
2 130 (56.77%) CI/CD
3 124 (54.15%) Observability
4 119 (51.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (25.33%) Containerisation
6 53 (23.14%) Platform Engineering
7 41 (17.90%) AI
8 38 (16.59%) Microservices
9 36 (15.72%) Agile
9 36 (15.72%) Migration
10 32 (13.97%) Incident Response
10 32 (13.97%) Software Engineering
11 26 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (10.92%) Load Balancing
13 23 (10.04%) Infrastructure Automation
14 22 (9.61%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (9.17%) Event-Driven
15 21 (9.17%) Incident Management
16 20 (8.73%) Analytics
17 19 (8.30%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 65 (28.38%) Python
2 35 (15.28%) Java
3 26 (11.35%) SQL
4 21 (9.17%) Bash
5 18 (7.86%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.55%) Go
7 12 (5.24%) Bicep
8 8 (3.49%) C#
8 8 (3.49%) Ruby
9 3 (1.31%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.31%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.44%) C++
10 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.44%) PromQL
10 1 (0.44%) Scala
10 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (29.26%) Security Cleared
2 59 (25.76%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.80%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.37%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.18%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.75%) CCSP
6 4 (1.75%) CISSP
7 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.87%) Degree
8 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CCIE
9 1 (0.44%) CCNP
9 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.44%) CSPO
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.93%) NIST
2 8 (3.49%) QA
3 7 (3.06%) SLA
4 6 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.18%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.31%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.87%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.87%) PSD2
7 2 (0.87%) SEPA
8 1 (0.44%) GDPR
8 1 (0.44%) GRC
8 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (20.09%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 125 (54.59%) Terraform
2 107 (46.72%) Kubernetes
3 52 (22.71%) Prometheus
4 51 (22.27%) Grafana
5 42 (18.34%) Ansible
6 11 (4.80%) Argo
7 6 (2.62%) Istio
8 5 (2.18%) Salt
9 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.75%) Packer
10 3 (1.31%) Cilium
10 3 (1.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.87%) Puppet
12 1 (0.44%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.44%) CASB
12 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.44%) Kibana
12 1 (0.44%) logstash
Vendors
1 37 (16.16%) Splunk
2 31 (13.54%) Microsoft
3 25 (10.92%) Google
4 22 (9.61%) Dynatrace
5 14 (6.11%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.37%) Oracle
7 9 (3.93%) AppDynamics
7 9 (3.93%) Cisco
8 8 (3.49%) Aruba
9 7 (3.06%) Arista
9 7 (3.06%) BigPanda
9 7 (3.06%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.06%) F5
9 7 (3.06%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.75%) Databricks
10 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.75%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.87%) Foundry
11 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.87%) Sybase