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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 256 237
Rank change year-on-year +19 -19 +1
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 232 119 158
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.14% 0.88% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.95% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 71 115
10th Percentile £425 £325 £463
25th Percentile £475 £399 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £525 £710
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% -26.06% +7.17%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £810
90th Percentile £738 £750 £850
England median daily rate £543 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +8.68% -16.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £55.35 - -
25th Percentile £55.88 £53.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% - -
75th Percentile £69.40 £59.00 -
90th Percentile £74.89 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £79.00 -
% change year-on-year -27.22% - -

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 18,084 12,490 14,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.58% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,262 9,757
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 257 180
10th Percentile £16.71 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.38 £48.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -24 19 £463 -24.18% 47
West London - 4 £360 - 14
South London - 3 £745 - 2
East London - 1 - - 1
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 4 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.86%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (0.86%) CMS
2 2 (0.86%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (2.59%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.43%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.43%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 108 (46.55%) AWS
2 79 (34.05%) Azure
3 63 (27.16%) GitHub
4 42 (18.10%) GitHub Actions
5 40 (17.24%) GCP
6 27 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (11.21%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (10.78%) Datadog
9 20 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (8.19%) Serverless
11 18 (7.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 15 (6.47%) Amazon S3
14 14 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (6.03%) PaaS
15 12 (5.17%) SaaS
16 11 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (4.74%) Azure AKS
17 10 (4.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 9 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.33%) DNS
2 13 (5.60%) Firewall
3 11 (4.74%) VPN
4 6 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.16%) Network Security
5 5 (2.16%) SNMP
6 4 (1.72%) SSL
7 3 (1.29%) HTTP
7 3 (1.29%) SAN
8 2 (0.86%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.43%) Calico
9 1 (0.43%) Internet
9 1 (0.43%) NaaS
9 1 (0.43%) NAS
9 1 (0.43%) RTP
9 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.02%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.02%) Power BI
3 6 (2.59%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.59%) Redis
3 6 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.16%) MySQL
5 4 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.29%) Data Hub
6 3 (1.29%) Flink
7 2 (0.86%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.86%) KDB
7 2 (0.86%) Metadata
7 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (12.93%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.19%) GitLab
3 17 (7.33%) Git
4 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.86%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.86%) JIRA
6 1 (0.43%) JUnit
6 1 (0.43%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.43%) Maven
6 1 (0.43%) Mockito
6 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 49 (21.12%) Social Skills
2 42 (18.10%) Finance
3 28 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.78%) Banking
5 12 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.59%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.16%) Law
7 5 (2.16%) Military
8 4 (1.72%) Billing
8 4 (1.72%) Games
8 4 (1.72%) Police
8 4 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.29%) Retail
10 2 (0.86%) Advertising
10 2 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.86%) Front Office
11 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (26.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 43 (18.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (15.09%) Site Engineer
4 34 (14.66%) Senior
5 23 (9.91%) Architect
6 16 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (6.90%) Lead
7 15 (6.47%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (6.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (4.31%) Service Manager
10 10 (4.31%) Service Transition Manager
10 10 (4.31%) Transition Manager
11 9 (3.88%) Technical Architect
12 8 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.02%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.02%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (46.98%) Terraform
2 32 (13.79%) Kafka
3 18 (7.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 16 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (6.03%) REST
6 9 (3.88%) Loki
7 5 (2.16%) YAML
8 4 (1.72%) Keycloak
8 4 (1.72%) Middleware
8 4 (1.72%) Node.js
8 4 (1.72%) RESTful
8 4 (1.72%) Spring
8 4 (1.72%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.29%) .NET
9 3 (1.29%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.29%) eBPF
9 3 (1.29%) OpenID
9 3 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.86%) ADO
10 2 (0.86%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 67 (28.88%) Cloud Native
2 48 (20.69%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.31%) Security Posture
4 9 (3.88%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.02%) Mainframe
5 7 (3.02%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.59%) Distributed Applications
6 6 (2.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (2.59%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.59%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.16%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.16%) Replication
8 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.72%) PKI
8 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 42 (18.10%) Linux
2 14 (6.03%) Windows
3 10 (4.31%) Unix
4 8 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.59%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.29%) VMS
7 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.43%) Debian
7 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (61.64%) DevOps
2 139 (59.91%) Observability
3 137 (59.05%) CI/CD
4 118 (50.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (34.48%) Platform Engineering
6 59 (25.43%) Containerisation
7 39 (16.81%) Incident Response
8 38 (16.38%) Software Engineering
9 37 (15.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (15.09%) Agile
11 34 (14.66%) Microservices
12 33 (14.22%) AI
12 33 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (13.36%) Infrastructure Automation
14 30 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 27 (11.64%) Event-Driven
15 27 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (11.64%) Root Cause Analysis
16 23 (9.91%) Incident Management
17 22 (9.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 91 (39.22%) Python
2 45 (19.40%) Bash
3 40 (17.24%) Java
4 27 (11.64%) Go
5 22 (9.48%) PowerShell
6 21 (9.05%) SQL
7 14 (6.03%) Bicep
8 12 (5.17%) C#
9 10 (4.31%) Ruby
10 8 (3.45%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.59%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.16%) Perl
13 4 (1.72%) JavaScript
14 3 (1.29%) Korn
15 2 (0.86%) C++
15 2 (0.86%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.86%) Scala
16 1 (0.43%) F#
16 1 (0.43%) Groovy
16 1 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 59 (25.43%) Security Cleared
2 53 (22.84%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.90%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.02%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 4 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.29%) CCSP
8 3 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.29%) CISSP
8 3 (1.29%) Degree
9 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.86%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.86%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.74%) QA
2 5 (2.16%) SLA
3 3 (1.29%) GDPR
4 2 (0.86%) GRC
4 2 (0.86%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.86%) NIST
4 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.43%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (18.53%) Docker
2 7 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.29%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (43.53%) Kubernetes
2 66 (28.45%) Grafana
3 61 (26.29%) Prometheus
4 38 (16.38%) Ansible
5 5 (2.16%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (1.72%) Argo
6 4 (1.72%) Cilium
6 4 (1.72%) ZABBIX
7 3 (1.29%) Packer
8 2 (0.86%) Puppet
8 2 (0.86%) systemd
9 1 (0.43%) Control-M
9 1 (0.43%) Istio
9 1 (0.43%) Kibana
9 1 (0.43%) logstash
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.43%) Nagios
9 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.43%) SCOM
9 1 (0.43%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 38 (16.38%) Dynatrace
2 35 (15.09%) Splunk
3 23 (9.91%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.47%) Oracle
5 14 (6.03%) Google
6 13 (5.60%) AppDynamics
7 8 (3.45%) VMware
8 7 (3.02%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.59%) New Relic
9 6 (2.59%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.16%) F5
11 3 (1.29%) BigPanda
12 2 (0.86%) Amdocs
12 2 (0.86%) Confluent
12 2 (0.86%) Hitachi
12 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.86%) Solace
12 2 (0.86%) Sybase
12 2 (0.86%) TIBCO
12 2 (0.86%) TOWER Software