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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 201 248
Rank change year-on-year -6 +47 +9
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 204 156 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.24% 1.22% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.34% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 114 83
10th Percentile £401 £408 £465
25th Percentile £488 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £663 £838 £711
90th Percentile £724 - £795
England median daily rate £530 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -21.48% +22.73% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £49.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £54.14 £75.00
% change year-on-year -3.03% -27.81% -11.76%

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 14,808 11,647 16,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.77% 91.28% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,938 7,820 11,448
10th Percentile £351 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 164 341
10th Percentile £18.09 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.97 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £76.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%

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 20 March 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
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 20 March 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 -15 23 £538 -4.44% 22
South London - 10 £530 - 1
West London - 3 £375 -
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 (2.94%) Confluence
2 4 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.49%) Apache
5 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.49%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) BASE24
2 1 (0.49%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 97 (47.55%) Azure
2 94 (46.08%) AWS
3 79 (38.73%) GitHub
4 54 (26.47%) GitHub Actions
5 42 (20.59%) GCP
6 30 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (12.25%) Serverless
8 24 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (11.27%) Amazon S3
10 19 (9.31%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (9.31%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (8.82%) Datadog
12 17 (8.33%) Azure AKS
12 17 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (6.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 13 (6.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.76%) Firewall
2 14 (6.86%) DNS
2 14 (6.86%) Network Security
3 8 (3.92%) VPN
4 7 (3.43%) Ethernet
4 7 (3.43%) InfiniBand
4 7 (3.43%) NetScaler
4 7 (3.43%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.43%) Wireless
5 5 (2.45%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.96%) MPLS
6 4 (1.96%) Multicast
6 4 (1.96%) tcpdump
6 4 (1.96%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.98%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.98%) Internet
8 2 (0.98%) WAN
9 1 (0.49%) NaaS
9 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (4.90%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.41%) Flink
4 9 (4.41%) MySQL
4 9 (4.41%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.43%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.43%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.43%) Power BI
6 6 (2.94%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.94%) Data Hub
6 6 (2.94%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.94%) Redis
7 4 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.96%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.98%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (19.61%) Jenkins
2 26 (12.75%) GitLab
3 21 (10.29%) Git
4 14 (6.86%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.94%) JIRA
6 4 (1.96%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.98%) Gatling
8 1 (0.49%) git-flow
8 1 (0.49%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
General
1 32 (15.69%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.75%) Finance
3 18 (8.82%) Banking
3 18 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.88%) Front Office
5 8 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.92%) Retail
6 4 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.47%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.98%) Billing
8 2 (0.98%) Legal
9 1 (0.49%) Games
9 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (39.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 60 (29.41%) Site Engineer
3 42 (20.59%) Senior
4 34 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (12.25%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (9.80%) Architect
7 17 (8.33%) Lead
8 15 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (6.86%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (4.41%) Migration Engineer
10 9 (4.41%) Technical Architect
11 8 (3.92%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.43%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 7 (3.43%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 6 (2.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.94%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.24%) Kafka
2 19 (9.31%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (7.35%) Spring
4 14 (6.86%) Spring Boot
5 12 (5.88%) REST
6 11 (5.39%) Node.js
7 10 (4.90%) React
8 7 (3.43%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.43%) OAuth
8 7 (3.43%) OAuth2
8 7 (3.43%) OpenID
9 6 (2.94%) LangChain
10 5 (2.45%) gRPC
11 4 (1.96%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (1.96%) Hibernate
11 4 (1.96%) JPA
11 4 (1.96%) Middleware
11 4 (1.96%) RESTful
11 4 (1.96%) Spring Cloud
11 4 (1.96%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 42 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.86%) Mainframe
3 14 (6.86%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.90%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.43%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.98%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.98%) PKI
7 2 (0.98%) Replication
8 1 (0.49%) APACS
8 1 (0.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.49%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.49%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 41 (20.10%) Linux
2 13 (6.37%) Unix
2 13 (6.37%) VMS
3 8 (3.92%) Windows
4 2 (0.98%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.49%) CentOS
5 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (61.76%) DevOps
2 121 (59.31%) CI/CD
3 107 (52.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (45.59%) Observability
5 56 (27.45%) Containerisation
6 44 (21.57%) Migration
7 42 (20.59%) Agile
8 38 (18.63%) Platform Engineering
9 34 (16.67%) Microservices
10 33 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (15.20%) Incident Response
11 31 (15.20%) Technical Leadership
12 29 (14.22%) AI
13 23 (11.27%) Software Engineering
14 22 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (10.29%) Load Balancing
15 21 (10.29%) Roadmaps
16 20 (9.80%) Analytics
16 20 (9.80%) Security Testing
17 19 (9.31%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (37.75%) Python
2 39 (19.12%) Java
3 27 (13.24%) SQL
4 24 (11.76%) Bash
5 17 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 15 (7.35%) Go
6 15 (7.35%) Ruby
7 8 (3.92%) Bicep
8 2 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.98%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.49%) C#
9 1 (0.49%) C++
9 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.49%) Scala
9 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 54 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 11 (5.39%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.45%) Degree
8 4 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.47%) CCSP
9 3 (1.47%) CISSP
10 2 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.49%) CCIE
11 1 (0.49%) CCNP
11 1 (0.49%) CSPO
11 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.43%) NIST
2 6 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.94%) QA
2 6 (2.94%) SLA
3 5 (2.45%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.47%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.98%) GDPR
5 2 (0.98%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.98%) PSD2
5 2 (0.98%) SEPA
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.49%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (25.00%) Docker
2 12 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.96%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.49%) GPFS
4 1 (0.49%) Lustre
4 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 115 (56.37%) Terraform
2 92 (45.10%) Kubernetes
3 41 (20.10%) Ansible
4 36 (17.65%) Grafana
5 33 (16.18%) Prometheus
6 19 (9.31%) Argo
7 9 (4.41%) Puppet
8 7 (3.43%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (2.94%) Istio
9 6 (2.94%) Salt
10 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.47%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.98%) Cilium
11 2 (0.98%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.49%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.49%) CASB
12 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.49%) Kibana
12 1 (0.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 28 (13.73%) Splunk
3 22 (10.78%) Google
4 12 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 11 (5.39%) Oracle
6 9 (4.41%) Cisco
6 9 (4.41%) PagerDuty
7 8 (3.92%) Aruba
8 7 (3.43%) Arista
8 7 (3.43%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.43%) F5
8 7 (3.43%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.94%) BigPanda
10 5 (2.45%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.96%) Databricks
11 4 (1.96%) Solace
11 4 (1.96%) TIBCO
12 3 (1.47%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.98%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.98%) New Relic