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

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 218 220
Rank change year-on-year -36 +2 +85
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 118 165 215
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 1.06% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.18% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 118 157
10th Percentile £356 £463 £475
25th Percentile £463 £600 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £663
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +9.43% +1.92%
75th Percentile £663 £810 £750
90th Percentile £752 £838 £810
England median daily rate £525 £638 £638
% change year-on-year -17.65% - -1.92%
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 £79.00 £74.39 £75.00
% change year-on-year +6.19% -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 12,561 13,945 18,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.42% 89.18% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,256 8,980 13,172
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 168 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.42
25th Percentile £25.04 £25.17 £21.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £38.75 £39.09
Median % change year-on-year -21.29% -0.86% +4.23%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.23 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -12.36% +27.14%

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 2 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 2 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 -10 18 £610 -14.08% 35
South London - 1 £515 - 6
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 (0.85%) Apache
1 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.85%) Confluence
1 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.85%) SAP PS
1 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (57.63%) AWS
2 36 (30.51%) Azure
3 28 (23.73%) GitHub
4 21 (17.80%) GCP
5 20 (16.95%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (15.25%) Serverless
7 13 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (10.17%) Datadog
9 11 (9.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (9.32%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (9.32%) Azure AKS
10 10 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (8.47%) Amazon S3
11 9 (7.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (6.78%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (5.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.08%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.24%) Multicast
2 5 (4.24%) tcpdump
2 5 (4.24%) Wireshark
3 3 (2.54%) DNS
3 3 (2.54%) Firewall
4 2 (1.69%) SSH
5 1 (0.85%) HTTP
5 1 (0.85%) Internet
5 1 (0.85%) NAS
5 1 (0.85%) Network Security
5 1 (0.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.93%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.24%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.39%) Power BI
4 3 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.54%) Big Data
4 3 (2.54%) MySQL
5 2 (1.69%) Flink
5 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (11.86%) Git
2 13 (11.02%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.47%) GitLab
4 5 (4.24%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.39%) Gradle
5 4 (3.39%) Maven
5 4 (3.39%) Selenium
6 3 (2.54%) Jaeger
6 3 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.69%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.69%) JIRA
7 2 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.69%) PVCS
7 2 (1.69%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.10%) Finance
3 11 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.63%) Banking
5 6 (5.08%) Front Office
6 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.69%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.85%) Billing
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 48 (40.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 34 (28.81%) Site Engineer
3 25 (21.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (12.71%) Senior
5 9 (7.63%) Python Engineer
6 8 (6.78%) Consultant
7 6 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Architect
8 5 (4.24%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) DBA
9 4 (3.39%) Developer
9 4 (3.39%) Subject Matter Expert
10 3 (2.54%) GCP Data Architect
10 3 (2.54%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.63%) Kafka
2 7 (5.93%) Node.js
2 7 (5.93%) REST
3 5 (4.24%) .NET
3 5 (4.24%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.24%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (4.24%) GraphQL
3 5 (4.24%) Middleware
3 5 (4.24%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (3.39%) YAML
5 3 (2.54%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.69%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.69%) React
6 2 (1.69%) Spring
6 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.85%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.85%) ADO
7 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.85%) Loki
7 1 (0.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.02%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.93%) Data Centre
4 7 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (5.08%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.39%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.54%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.54%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.85%) CUDA
9 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.85%) Replication
9 1 (0.85%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.64%) Linux
2 8 (6.78%) Unix
3 3 (2.54%) Windows
4 2 (1.69%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.85%) CentOS
5 1 (0.85%) Debian
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) VMS
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (61.02%) DevOps
2 61 (51.69%) CI/CD
3 57 (48.31%) Observability
4 50 (42.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (22.88%) Containerisation
7 25 (21.19%) AI
8 18 (15.25%) GitOps
9 16 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (13.56%) Microservices
10 15 (12.71%) Data Protection
11 13 (11.02%) Agile
11 13 (11.02%) Capacity Planning
11 13 (11.02%) Incident Response
11 13 (11.02%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (9.32%) Migration
13 11 (9.32%) Task Automation
13 11 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 65 (55.08%) Python
2 33 (27.97%) Bash
3 30 (25.42%) Go
4 25 (21.19%) Java
5 22 (18.64%) SQL
6 15 (12.71%) PowerShell
6 15 (12.71%) PromQL
7 6 (5.08%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.24%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.39%) Bicep
9 4 (3.39%) C#
10 3 (2.54%) CodeQL
10 3 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.54%) Rust
11 2 (1.69%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.69%) Ruby
11 2 (1.69%) Scala
12 1 (0.85%) Perl
12 1 (0.85%) PHP
12 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (9.32%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.63%) AWS Certification
3 8 (6.78%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.54%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.69%) CISSP
5 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) CCSP
6 1 (0.85%) CEH
6 1 (0.85%) CISM
6 1 (0.85%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) QA
2 3 (2.54%) GDPR
2 3 (2.54%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.69%) SLA
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.85%) NIST
4 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (25.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) KVM
2 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (44.92%) Kubernetes
2 46 (38.98%) Terraform
3 34 (28.81%) Grafana
4 31 (26.27%) Prometheus
5 13 (11.02%) Ansible
6 10 (8.47%) Argo
7 5 (4.24%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (3.39%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.69%) Istio
9 2 (1.69%) Kibana
9 2 (1.69%) Packer
9 2 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.85%) Graphite
10 1 (0.85%) logstash
10 1 (0.85%) Podman
10 1 (0.85%) Puppet
10 1 (0.85%) yum
Vendors
1 23 (19.49%) Splunk
2 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.47%) Dynatrace
4 7 (5.93%) Google
5 5 (4.24%) Solace
5 5 (4.24%) TIBCO
6 4 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.54%) Oracle
8 2 (1.69%) Confluent
8 2 (1.69%) Databricks
9 1 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.85%) Genesys
9 1 (0.85%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.85%) Okta
9 1 (0.85%) Remedy
9 1 (0.85%) SAP
9 1 (0.85%) Tanium
9 1 (0.85%) Tenable
9 1 (0.85%) VMware
9 1 (0.85%) Zscaler