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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 214 225
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 +51
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 164 167 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.11% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.23% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 124 136
10th Percentile £428 £466 £491
25th Percentile £502 £623 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £725 £663
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% +9.43% +1.92%
75th Percentile £669 £810 £744
90th Percentile £775 £838 £810
England median daily rate £550 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £51.43 - -
25th Percentile £51.69 - -
Median hourly rate £54.25 - -
75th Percentile £57.69 - -
90th Percentile £58.48 - -
England median hourly rate £54.25 £74.39 £75.00
% change year-on-year -27.08% -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 13,078 13,523 16,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.37% 90.12% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,615 8,692 12,023
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 165 235
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.04 £18.40
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.91%
75th Percentile £52.19 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.10 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 0 22 £610 -13.48% 10
South London - 7 £530 - 3
West London - 3 £375 - 2
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 (0.61%) Apache
1 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.61%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) BASE24
1 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.61%) SAP PS
1 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (55.49%) AWS
2 65 (39.63%) Azure
3 60 (36.59%) GitHub
4 49 (29.88%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (16.46%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (15.24%) GCP
6 25 (15.24%) Serverless
7 23 (14.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (10.98%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (10.37%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (9.76%) Datadog
11 15 (9.15%) Amazon S3
11 15 (9.15%) Azure AKS
12 14 (8.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (6.71%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (6.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
15 7 (4.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.93%) Firewall
2 8 (4.88%) DNS
3 6 (3.66%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.05%) Multicast
4 5 (3.05%) tcpdump
4 5 (3.05%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.83%) Network Security
5 3 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.61%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.61%) HTTP
6 1 (0.61%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.61%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.61%) SSH
6 1 (0.61%) VPN
6 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (4.88%) Flink
4 7 (4.27%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.66%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.05%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.05%) Data Hub
6 5 (3.05%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.44%) MySQL
7 4 (2.44%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.22%) Power BI
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (14.63%) Jenkins
2 20 (12.20%) Git
3 19 (11.59%) GitLab
4 7 (4.27%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.44%) Jaeger
5 4 (2.44%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.83%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.83%) Gradle
6 3 (1.83%) Maven
6 3 (1.83%) Selenium
7 2 (1.22%) JIRA
7 2 (1.22%) PVCS
8 1 (0.61%) git-flow
General
1 32 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.24%) Finance
3 13 (7.93%) Banking
4 12 (7.32%) Front Office
5 10 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.05%) Retail
8 4 (2.44%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Billing
10 1 (0.61%) Games
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (45.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 53 (32.32%) Site Engineer
3 37 (22.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (20.73%) Senior
5 19 (11.59%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (8.54%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (6.71%) Python Engineer
9 10 (6.10%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (5.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.49%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (5.49%) Lead
11 8 (4.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.88%) Consultant
12 6 (3.66%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 6 (3.66%) Kafka Engineer
12 6 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.66%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 5 (3.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.05%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.20%) Kafka
2 12 (7.32%) Node.js
3 9 (5.49%) React
3 9 (5.49%) REST
4 8 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (4.27%) Spring
5 7 (4.27%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.66%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.66%) GraphQL
7 5 (3.05%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (3.05%) LangChain
7 5 (3.05%) Middleware
7 5 (3.05%) Ultra Messaging
8 4 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.44%) YAML
9 2 (1.22%) .NET
9 2 (1.22%) Loki
10 1 (0.61%) OAuth
10 1 (0.61%) RESTful
10 1 (0.61%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.49%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (4.88%) Fixed Income
4 8 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.88%) Mainframe
4 8 (4.88%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.05%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.22%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.22%) Replication
8 2 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.61%) APACS
9 1 (0.61%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.61%) CUDA
9 1 (0.61%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.61%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.61%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 36 (21.95%) Linux
2 8 (4.88%) Unix
3 7 (4.27%) VMS
4 3 (1.83%) Windows
5 2 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.61%) Android
6 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.61%) CentOS
6 1 (0.61%) Debian
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (65.24%) DevOps
2 101 (61.59%) CI/CD
3 89 (54.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (45.73%) Observability
5 46 (28.05%) Containerisation
6 34 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (18.90%) AI
8 29 (17.68%) Agile
9 28 (17.07%) Migration
10 25 (15.24%) Technical Leadership
11 23 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (13.41%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (12.80%) GitOps
13 21 (12.80%) Incident Response
14 20 (12.20%) Root Cause Analysis
15 19 (11.59%) Microservices
16 18 (10.98%) Analytics
16 18 (10.98%) High Availability
17 16 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 14 (8.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 83 (50.61%) Python
2 35 (21.34%) Bash
3 33 (20.12%) Java
4 30 (18.29%) Go
5 17 (10.37%) SQL
6 15 (9.15%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.10%) PromQL
7 10 (6.10%) Ruby
8 5 (3.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.44%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.44%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.83%) Bicep
11 2 (1.22%) Scala
12 1 (0.61%) C
12 1 (0.61%) C#
12 1 (0.61%) C++
12 1 (0.61%) Perl
12 1 (0.61%) PHP
12 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (21.34%) Security Cleared
2 31 (18.90%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.10%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.27%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.83%) Degree
9 2 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.22%) CISSP
9 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.61%) CCSP
10 1 (0.61%) CEH
10 1 (0.61%) CISM
10 1 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.83%) GDPR
1 3 (1.83%) PCI DSS
1 3 (1.83%) SLA
2 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.22%) NIST
3 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.61%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.61%) QA
3 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (29.27%) Docker
2 8 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.61%) GPFS
4 1 (0.61%) KVM
4 1 (0.61%) Lustre
4 1 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 92 (56.10%) Terraform
2 80 (48.78%) Kubernetes
3 38 (23.17%) Grafana
4 29 (17.68%) Prometheus
5 25 (15.24%) Ansible
6 22 (13.41%) Argo
7 9 (5.49%) Puppet
8 8 (4.88%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (3.66%) Istio
10 5 (3.05%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.22%) Kibana
11 2 (1.22%) Opsgenie
11 2 (1.22%) Salt
11 2 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.61%) Graphite
12 1 (0.61%) logstash
12 1 (0.61%) Packer
12 1 (0.61%) Podman
Vendors
1 26 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.24%) Splunk
3 14 (8.54%) Google
4 9 (5.49%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.27%) PagerDuty
6 6 (3.66%) Oracle
7 5 (3.05%) Solace
7 5 (3.05%) TIBCO
8 4 (2.44%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.22%) Confluent
9 2 (1.22%) Databricks
9 2 (1.22%) Qualys
9 2 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.22%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.61%) Arista
10 1 (0.61%) BigPanda
10 1 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.61%) Okta
10 1 (0.61%) Tanium
10 1 (0.61%) Tenable