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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 228 224
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 +71
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 136 170 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 1.07% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.19% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 124 149
10th Percentile £425 £466 £475
25th Percentile £500 £615 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £725 £663
Median % change year-on-year -16.69% +9.43% +1.92%
75th Percentile £669 £810 £750
90th Percentile £750 £838 £810
England median daily rate £550 £663 £634
% change year-on-year -17.01% +4.58% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - -
75th Percentile £59.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £74.39 £75.00
% change year-on-year -24.72% -0.81% +3.45%

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 12,972 14,232 17,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 89.44% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,522 9,196 12,900
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -3.42% -3.47%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 174 243
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.61
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.31 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% +3.36% -6.68%
75th Percentile £47.13 £56.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.43 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.65% -19.66% +25.35%

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 -1 19 £610 -14.08% 11
South London - 5 £528 - 1
West London - 1 £375 -
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 1 (0.74%) Apache
1 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.74%) Confluence
1 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
1 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.74%) SAP PS
1 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (59.56%) AWS
2 45 (33.09%) Azure
3 37 (27.21%) GitHub
4 32 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (16.18%) Amazon EKS
5 22 (16.18%) Serverless
6 16 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (11.76%) GCP
7 15 (11.03%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (11.03%) Datadog
8 14 (10.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (10.29%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (10.29%) Azure AKS
9 13 (9.56%) Amazon S3
9 13 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (7.35%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (5.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (4.41%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (4.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.88%) Firewall
2 7 (5.15%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.41%) DNS
4 5 (3.68%) Multicast
4 5 (3.68%) tcpdump
4 5 (3.68%) Wireshark
5 3 (2.21%) Network Security
6 2 (1.47%) SSH
7 1 (0.74%) HTTP
7 1 (0.74%) Internet
7 1 (0.74%) NAS
7 1 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.74%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.09%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.41%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.68%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.68%) Flink
4 5 (3.68%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.94%) Power BI
6 3 (2.21%) Data Hub
6 3 (2.21%) MySQL
6 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (12.50%) Git
2 15 (11.03%) Jenkins
3 14 (10.29%) GitLab
4 5 (3.68%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.94%) Gradle
5 4 (2.94%) Maven
5 4 (2.94%) Selenium
6 3 (2.21%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.47%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.47%) JIRA
7 2 (1.47%) PVCS
8 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.74%) git-flow
General
1 29 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.91%) Finance
3 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.35%) Banking
5 9 (6.62%) Front Office
6 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.21%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Billing
9 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 64 (47.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 49 (36.03%) Site Engineer
3 30 (22.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (18.38%) Senior
5 12 (8.82%) Python Engineer
6 10 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) AWS DevOps
7 9 (6.62%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Consultant
9 7 (5.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) GCP Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Kafka Engineer
12 4 (2.94%) DBA
12 4 (2.94%) Developer
12 4 (2.94%) Subject Matter Expert
13 3 (2.21%) Automation Engineer
13 3 (2.21%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.03%) Kafka
2 7 (5.15%) Node.js
2 7 (5.15%) REST
3 5 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.68%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (3.68%) GraphQL
3 5 (3.68%) Middleware
3 5 (3.68%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (2.94%) YAML
5 3 (2.21%) .NET
5 3 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.47%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.47%) React
6 2 (1.47%) Spring
6 2 (1.47%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.74%) Loki
7 1 (0.74%) OAuth
7 1 (0.74%) OpenID
7 1 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.29%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.15%) Data Centre
5 7 (5.15%) Fixed Income
5 7 (5.15%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.41%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.68%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.47%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.74%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.74%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.74%) Replication
9 1 (0.74%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.26%) Linux
2 8 (5.88%) Unix
3 3 (2.21%) VMS
3 3 (2.21%) Windows
4 2 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.74%) Android
5 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.74%) CentOS
5 1 (0.74%) Debian
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (62.50%) DevOps
2 81 (59.56%) CI/CD
3 68 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (46.32%) Observability
5 35 (25.74%) Containerisation
6 33 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (18.38%) Agile
8 24 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (16.18%) AI
10 21 (15.44%) GitOps
11 20 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (13.97%) Incident Response
12 19 (13.97%) Root Cause Analysis
13 17 (12.50%) Microservices
14 16 (11.76%) Data Protection
14 16 (11.76%) High Availability
14 16 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (11.03%) Migration
16 14 (10.29%) Analytics
17 13 (9.56%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 76 (55.88%) Python
2 40 (29.41%) Bash
3 30 (22.06%) Go
4 29 (21.32%) Java
5 22 (16.18%) SQL
6 15 (11.03%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.03%) PromQL
7 6 (4.41%) Ruby
8 5 (3.68%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.21%) Bicep
10 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.47%) C#
11 2 (1.47%) Scala
12 1 (0.74%) C++
12 1 (0.74%) Perl
12 1 (0.74%) PHP
12 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.74%) Rust
12 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.62%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.21%) Degree
7 2 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.47%) CISSP
7 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.74%) CCSP
8 1 (0.74%) CEH
8 1 (0.74%) CISM
8 1 (0.74%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.21%) GDPR
1 3 (2.21%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.47%) SLA
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) NIST
3 1 (0.74%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (27.94%) Docker
2 5 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) GPFS
3 1 (0.74%) KVM
3 1 (0.74%) Lustre
3 1 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (45.59%) Terraform
2 61 (44.85%) Kubernetes
3 41 (30.15%) Grafana
4 32 (23.53%) Prometheus
5 18 (13.24%) Ansible
6 15 (11.03%) Argo
7 8 (5.88%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (5.15%) Puppet
9 5 (3.68%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.47%) Istio
10 2 (1.47%) Kibana
10 2 (1.47%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.47%) Packer
10 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.74%) Graphite
11 1 (0.74%) logstash
11 1 (0.74%) Podman
11 1 (0.74%) Salt
11 1 (0.74%) yum
Vendors
1 26 (19.12%) Splunk
2 19 (13.97%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.35%) Dynatrace
4 7 (5.15%) PagerDuty
5 6 (4.41%) Google
5 6 (4.41%) Oracle
6 5 (3.68%) Solace
6 5 (3.68%) TIBCO
7 4 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.47%) Confluent
8 2 (1.47%) Databricks
8 2 (1.47%) Qualys
9 1 (0.74%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.74%) Okta
9 1 (0.74%) Tanium
9 1 (0.74%) Tenable
9 1 (0.74%) Veracode
9 1 (0.74%) Zscaler