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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 222 261
Rank change year-on-year +6 +39 +18
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 222 124 133
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.21% 1.03% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.11% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 84 92
10th Percentile £400 £308 £450
25th Percentile £475 £405 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £791 £850
90th Percentile £775 £838 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £555
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.91% -11.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £52.35 - -
25th Percentile £54.00 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% - -
75th Percentile £69.40 £49.75 -
90th Percentile £74.89 - -
England median hourly rate £55.50 £79.00 -
% change year-on-year -29.75% - -

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 16,273 11,140 15,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.30% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,862 7,463 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 193 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +14.29% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £63.20 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 23 £500 -14.89% 22
South London - 4 £766 - 3
West London - 2 £375 - 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 6 (2.70%) Confluence
2 5 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) BASE24
2 1 (0.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 103 (46.40%) Azure
2 83 (37.39%) AWS
3 81 (36.49%) GitHub
4 51 (22.97%) GCP
5 47 (21.17%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (9.01%) Datadog
8 20 (9.01%) Serverless
9 18 (8.11%) Azure AKS
10 17 (7.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 16 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (6.76%) Amazon S3
12 15 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (5.86%) PaaS
13 13 (5.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (4.95%) OpenShift
15 10 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (4.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.16%) Firewall
2 18 (8.11%) DNS
3 16 (7.21%) VPN
4 14 (6.31%) Network Security
5 7 (3.15%) Ethernet
5 7 (3.15%) InfiniBand
5 7 (3.15%) NetScaler
5 7 (3.15%) Wireless
6 5 (2.25%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (1.80%) MPLS
8 3 (1.35%) Internet
8 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.90%) WAN
10 1 (0.45%) NaaS
10 1 (0.45%) NGFW
10 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.95%) BigQuery
2 9 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.05%) Power BI
2 9 (4.05%) Redis
3 8 (3.60%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.70%) MySQL
5 4 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.80%) DocumentDB
5 4 (1.80%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.80%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.35%) Flink
6 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.90%) Hazelcast
7 2 (0.90%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (16.22%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.36%) GitLab
3 17 (7.66%) Git
4 13 (5.86%) Artifactory
5 7 (3.15%) JIRA
6 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.90%) Gatling
7 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 34 (15.32%) Finance
2 33 (14.86%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.26%) Banking
4 14 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.60%) Retail
7 5 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.35%) Games
9 3 (1.35%) Law
9 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.90%) Billing
10 2 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.90%) Front Office
10 2 (0.90%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Advertising
11 1 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 67 (30.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 41 (18.47%) Site Engineer
3 40 (18.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (18.02%) Senior
4 25 (11.26%) Architect
5 24 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (9.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (9.01%) Lead
7 13 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.50%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (4.05%) Technical Architect
11 8 (3.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.60%) Migration Engineer
11 8 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.15%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.15%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 7 (3.15%) Developer
13 6 (2.70%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.81%) OpenTelemetry
2 21 (9.46%) Kafka
3 14 (6.31%) Spring
4 13 (5.86%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.95%) REST
6 9 (4.05%) Node.js
6 9 (4.05%) React
7 7 (3.15%) Loki
7 7 (3.15%) OAuth
7 7 (3.15%) OpenID
7 7 (3.15%) RESTful
8 6 (2.70%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.70%) LangChain
8 6 (2.70%) OAuth2
9 5 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.25%) gRPC
10 4 (1.80%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.80%) JPA
10 4 (1.80%) Spring Cloud
10 4 (1.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (22.07%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.06%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.31%) Mainframe
4 11 (4.95%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.15%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.90%) CMDB
8 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.90%) PKI
8 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.45%) APACS
9 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.45%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.71%) Linux
2 12 (5.41%) Unix
3 11 (4.95%) Windows
4 10 (4.50%) VMS
5 3 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.45%) Debian
7 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (62.16%) DevOps
2 124 (55.86%) CI/CD
3 117 (52.70%) Observability
4 112 (50.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (23.87%) Containerisation
6 49 (22.07%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (17.12%) AI
7 38 (17.12%) Migration
8 37 (16.67%) Microservices
9 34 (15.32%) Agile
10 31 (13.96%) Incident Response
11 29 (13.06%) Software Engineering
12 25 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.81%) Load Balancing
14 21 (9.46%) Analytics
14 21 (9.46%) Infrastructure Automation
15 20 (9.01%) Event-Driven
15 20 (9.01%) Incident Management
15 20 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (8.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 61 (27.48%) Python
2 33 (14.86%) Java
3 26 (11.71%) SQL
4 18 (8.11%) Bash
4 18 (8.11%) PowerShell
5 16 (7.21%) Go
6 12 (5.41%) Bicep
7 9 (4.05%) Ruby
8 8 (3.60%) C#
9 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.45%) C++
10 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.45%) PromQL
10 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 56 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.95%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.60%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.80%) CCSP
6 4 (1.80%) CISSP
6 4 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.90%) Degree
7 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.45%) CCIE
8 1 (0.45%) CCNP
8 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.45%) CSPO
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.60%) NIST
1 8 (3.60%) QA
1 8 (3.60%) SLA
2 6 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.25%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.35%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.90%) PSD2
5 2 (0.90%) SEPA
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) GRC
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 45 (20.27%) Docker
2 5 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 121 (54.50%) Terraform
2 104 (46.85%) Kubernetes
3 49 (22.07%) Prometheus
4 46 (20.72%) Grafana
5 41 (18.47%) Ansible
6 11 (4.95%) Argo
7 6 (2.70%) Istio
8 5 (2.25%) Salt
9 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.80%) Packer
10 3 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.35%) Puppet
11 2 (0.90%) Cilium
11 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.45%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.45%) CASB
12 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.45%) Kibana
12 1 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 34 (15.32%) Splunk
2 32 (14.41%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.26%) Google
4 19 (8.56%) Dynatrace
5 12 (5.41%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.95%) Oracle
7 9 (4.05%) Cisco
8 8 (3.60%) AppDynamics
8 8 (3.60%) Aruba
9 7 (3.15%) Arista
9 7 (3.15%) BigPanda
9 7 (3.15%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.15%) F5
9 7 (3.15%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.25%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.80%) Databricks
11 4 (1.80%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.90%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.90%) Sybase