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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 232 265
Rank change year-on-year +5 +33 +1
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 219 140 133
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 1.03% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.12% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 83 98
10th Percentile £413 £308 £425
25th Percentile £475 £374 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £703
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -27.05% +12.40%
75th Percentile £647 £692 £850
90th Percentile £760 £838 -
England median daily rate £534 £500 £555
% change year-on-year +6.80% -9.91% -12.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £58.69 £40.63 -
25th Percentile £61.61 £42.69 -
Median hourly rate £67.93 £50.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.19% - -
75th Percentile £73.97 £56.69 -
90th Percentile £76.72 £58.08 -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year -14.07% - -

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 17,703 12,488 15,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.09% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,731 8,359 10,820
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 238 265
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -3.22% -21.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.40 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -21 24 £463 -19.57% 15
South London - 6 £766 -
West London - 1 - - 4
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%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) CMS
5 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 7 (3.20%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 91 (41.55%) AWS
2 82 (37.44%) Azure
3 62 (28.31%) GitHub
4 38 (17.35%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (16.89%) GCP
6 30 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (11.42%) Datadog
8 20 (9.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (9.13%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (8.22%) Azure AKS
10 17 (7.76%) PaaS
10 17 (7.76%) Serverless
11 15 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (6.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 13 (5.94%) Amazon S3
14 12 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (5.02%) OpenShift
15 11 (5.02%) SaaS
16 10 (4.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.22%) Firewall
2 17 (7.76%) DNS
2 17 (7.76%) VPN
3 8 (3.65%) Network Security
4 5 (2.28%) Ethernet
4 5 (2.28%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.28%) InfiniBand
4 5 (2.28%) NetScaler
4 5 (2.28%) Wireless
5 4 (1.83%) MPLS
5 4 (1.83%) SNMP
5 4 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.37%) Internet
7 2 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.91%) WAN
8 1 (0.46%) Calico
8 1 (0.46%) NaaS
8 1 (0.46%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.11%) Power BI
2 8 (3.65%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.20%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.74%) Redis
5 4 (1.83%) Data Hub
5 4 (1.83%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.37%) MySQL
6 3 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.91%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.91%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.46%) ClickHouse
8 1 (0.46%) Flink
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.46%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 26 (11.87%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.76%) GitLab
3 16 (7.31%) Git
4 5 (2.28%) JIRA
5 3 (1.37%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.91%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.46%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
General
1 38 (17.35%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.61%) Finance
3 25 (11.42%) Banking
4 16 (7.31%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.74%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.28%) Law
9 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.37%) Billing
10 3 (1.37%) Games
10 3 (1.37%) Military
10 3 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.91%) Legal
11 2 (0.91%) Retail
12 1 (0.46%) Advertising
12 1 (0.46%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 62 (28.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 38 (17.35%) Senior
2 38 (17.35%) Site Engineer
3 36 (16.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (10.96%) Architect
5 18 (8.22%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (7.76%) Lead
7 15 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.39%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.48%) Technical Architect
10 10 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.20%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (2.74%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.74%) Developer
14 5 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.59%) Kafka
2 17 (7.76%) OpenTelemetry
3 9 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (3.20%) Loki
4 7 (3.20%) REST
5 6 (2.74%) Node.js
6 5 (2.28%) Spring
6 5 (2.28%) YAML
7 4 (1.83%) RESTful
7 4 (1.83%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.37%) .NET
8 3 (1.37%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.37%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.91%) ADO
9 2 (0.91%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.91%) eBPF
9 2 (0.91%) OpenID
9 2 (0.91%) PySpark
9 2 (0.91%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 53 (24.20%) Cloud Native
2 43 (19.63%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.65%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.65%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.20%) Mainframe
4 7 (3.20%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.20%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.37%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.37%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.91%) CMDB
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.79%) Linux
2 12 (5.48%) Windows
3 9 (4.11%) Unix
4 4 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.91%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.91%) VMS
6 1 (0.46%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (61.64%) Observability
2 122 (55.71%) DevOps
3 118 (53.88%) CI/CD
4 102 (46.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (30.14%) Platform Engineering
6 57 (26.03%) Containerisation
7 36 (16.44%) Software Engineering
8 35 (15.98%) Agile
9 33 (15.07%) Incident Response
10 32 (14.61%) AI
11 31 (14.16%) Microservices
12 30 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.96%) Infrastructure Automation
14 23 (10.50%) Incident Management
15 21 (9.59%) Event-Driven
16 19 (8.68%) ITIL
17 18 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 18 (8.22%) Migration
17 18 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
18 17 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 79 (36.07%) Python
2 39 (17.81%) Java
3 31 (14.16%) Bash
4 21 (9.59%) PowerShell
5 19 (8.68%) Go
6 18 (8.22%) SQL
7 14 (6.39%) Bicep
8 10 (4.57%) Ruby
9 8 (3.65%) C#
10 5 (2.28%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.37%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.91%) Korn
12 2 (0.91%) Scala
13 1 (0.46%) C++
13 1 (0.46%) Groovy
13 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.46%) PromQL
13 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (26.94%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.83%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.11%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.20%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.28%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.83%) CCSP
6 4 (1.83%) CISSP
7 3 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.91%) Degree
8 2 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.46%) CCIE
9 1 (0.46%) CCNP
9 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.46%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.20%) SLA
2 4 (1.83%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.83%) NIST
2 4 (1.83%) QA
3 2 (0.91%) GRC
3 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.46%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (15.98%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (46.12%) Terraform
2 90 (41.10%) Kubernetes
3 59 (26.94%) Grafana
3 59 (26.94%) Prometheus
4 28 (12.79%) Ansible
5 4 (1.83%) Argo
5 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.83%) Packer
6 3 (1.37%) Cilium
6 3 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (1.37%) Salt
6 3 (1.37%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.46%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.46%) CASB
7 1 (0.46%) Istio
7 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.46%) Kibana
7 1 (0.46%) logstash
7 1 (0.46%) Puppet
7 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (17.35%) Splunk
2 32 (14.61%) Dynatrace
3 21 (9.59%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.85%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.39%) Oracle
6 12 (5.48%) Google
7 11 (5.02%) AppDynamics
8 7 (3.20%) Cisco
9 6 (2.74%) Aruba
10 5 (2.28%) Arista
10 5 (2.28%) BigPanda
10 5 (2.28%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.28%) F5
10 5 (2.28%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.28%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.83%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.37%) Databricks
13 2 (0.91%) New Relic
13 2 (0.91%) PagerDuty
13 2 (0.91%) Salesforce