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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 234 262
Rank change year-on-year +10 +28 +13
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 228 136 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 1.02% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.10% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 80 96
10th Percentile £401 £308 £425
25th Percentile £475 £361 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -25.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £720 £850
90th Percentile £738 £838 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -13.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £58.69 £40.63 -
25th Percentile £61.61 £42.69 -
Median hourly rate £67.93 £50.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.19% - -
75th Percentile £73.97 £56.69 -
90th Percentile £76.72 £58.08 -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year -14.07% - -

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 17,398 12,312 15,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.16% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 8,218 11,064
10th Percentile £358 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 230 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.91 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +7.50% -27.31%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -17 23 £463 -22.92% 9
South London - 6 £766 - 2
West London - 1 - - 5
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 (2.63%) Confluence
2 5 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 101 (44.30%) AWS
2 90 (39.47%) Azure
3 63 (27.63%) GitHub
4 39 (17.11%) GCP
5 38 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (13.60%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (10.96%) Datadog
8 21 (9.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (8.33%) Serverless
10 18 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (7.89%) Azure AKS
11 16 (7.02%) PaaS
12 15 (6.58%) Amazon S3
13 14 (6.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 13 (5.70%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (4.82%) Power Platform
16 11 (4.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.89%) DNS
1 18 (7.89%) Firewall
1 18 (7.89%) VPN
2 8 (3.51%) Network Security
3 6 (2.63%) Ethernet
3 6 (2.63%) InfiniBand
3 6 (2.63%) NetScaler
3 6 (2.63%) Wireless
4 5 (2.19%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (1.75%) MPLS
5 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.32%) Internet
6 3 (1.32%) SNMP
7 2 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.88%) WAN
8 1 (0.44%) Calico
8 1 (0.44%) NaaS
8 1 (0.44%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.82%) Power BI
2 9 (3.95%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.07%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.07%) Redis
4 6 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.19%) MySQL
5 5 (2.19%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.75%) Data Hub
6 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.88%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.44%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.44%) Flink
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.44%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 28 (12.28%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.33%) GitLab
3 17 (7.46%) Git
4 6 (2.63%) JIRA
5 4 (1.75%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 38 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.47%) Finance
3 26 (11.40%) Banking
4 16 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.07%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.19%) Law
9 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.75%) Retail
10 3 (1.32%) Billing
10 3 (1.32%) Games
10 3 (1.32%) Military
10 3 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Advertising
12 1 (0.44%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 68 (29.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 42 (18.42%) Senior
2 42 (18.42%) Site Engineer
3 36 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (10.53%) Architect
5 17 (7.46%) Lead
6 16 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (6.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (4.82%) Technical Architect
12 8 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.07%) GCP Engineer
14 6 (2.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 6 (2.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.63%) Consultant
14 6 (2.63%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.09%) Kafka
2 18 (7.89%) OpenTelemetry
3 9 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (3.95%) REST
4 7 (3.07%) Loki
5 6 (2.63%) Node.js
5 6 (2.63%) Spring
6 5 (2.19%) RESTful
6 5 (2.19%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.75%) YAML
8 3 (1.32%) .NET
8 3 (1.32%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.32%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.32%) OpenID
8 3 (1.32%) PySpark
8 3 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.88%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.88%) eBPF
9 2 (0.88%) gRPC
9 2 (0.88%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 54 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 43 (18.86%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.70%) Mainframe
4 9 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.51%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.07%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.07%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.32%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.88%) CMDB
9 2 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.88%) PKI
10 1 (0.44%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.60%) Linux
2 13 (5.70%) Unix
3 12 (5.26%) Windows
4 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.44%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (60.96%) Observability
2 132 (57.89%) DevOps
3 123 (53.95%) CI/CD
4 106 (46.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (28.51%) Platform Engineering
6 59 (25.88%) Containerisation
7 36 (15.79%) Agile
8 35 (15.35%) Software Engineering
9 34 (14.91%) AI
9 34 (14.91%) Incident Response
10 32 (14.04%) Microservices
11 28 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (10.96%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (10.09%) Incident Management
14 21 (9.21%) Event-Driven
14 21 (9.21%) ITIL
15 20 (8.77%) Migration
16 19 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
17 18 (7.89%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 82 (35.96%) Python
2 39 (17.11%) Java
3 33 (14.47%) Bash
4 23 (10.09%) SQL
5 22 (9.65%) PowerShell
6 20 (8.77%) Go
7 14 (6.14%) Bicep
8 9 (3.95%) Ruby
9 8 (3.51%) C#
10 5 (2.19%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.88%) Korn
12 2 (0.88%) Scala
12 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.44%) C++
13 1 (0.44%) Groovy
13 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.44%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 59 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 50 (21.93%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.95%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.75%) CCSP
6 4 (1.75%) CISSP
7 3 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.88%) Degree
8 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CCIE
9 1 (0.44%) CCNP
9 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.44%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.51%) SLA
2 5 (2.19%) NIST
3 4 (1.75%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.75%) QA
4 3 (1.32%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) GDPR
6 1 (0.44%) GRC
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (17.54%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (46.93%) Terraform
2 94 (41.23%) Kubernetes
3 61 (26.75%) Prometheus
4 60 (26.32%) Grafana
5 32 (14.04%) Ansible
6 4 (1.75%) Argo
6 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.75%) Packer
6 4 (1.75%) Salt
7 3 (1.32%) Cilium
7 3 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.88%) Puppet
8 2 (0.88%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.44%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.44%) Istio
9 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.44%) Kibana
9 1 (0.44%) logstash
9 1 (0.44%) Nagios
Vendors
1 42 (18.42%) Splunk
2 32 (14.04%) Dynatrace
3 23 (10.09%) Microsoft
4 16 (7.02%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.70%) Oracle
6 12 (5.26%) Google
7 11 (4.82%) AppDynamics
8 8 (3.51%) Cisco
9 7 (3.07%) Aruba
10 6 (2.63%) Arista
10 6 (2.63%) BigPanda
10 6 (2.63%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.63%) F5
10 6 (2.63%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.75%) Databricks
11 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.75%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.88%) Hitachi
12 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.88%) Sybase