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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 243 242
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 222 128 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 0.94% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.02% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 75 100
10th Percentile £427 £308 £450
25th Percentile £475 £374 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -25.00% +9.80%
75th Percentile £631 £665 £827
90th Percentile £738 £740 £850
England median daily rate £530 £475 £597
% change year-on-year +11.58% -20.44% -7.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £58.69 - -
25th Percentile £61.61 £53.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.93 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% - -
75th Percentile £73.97 £59.00 -
90th Percentile £76.72 - -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £79.00 -
% change year-on-year -26.58% - -

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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -30 23 £476 -19.62% 26
South London - 4 £745 - 1
West London - 4 £360 - 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 5 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.25%) Confluence
2 4 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 7 (3.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 99 (44.59%) AWS
2 80 (36.04%) Azure
3 61 (27.48%) GitHub
4 40 (18.02%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (16.67%) GCP
6 30 (13.51%) Datadog
7 29 (13.06%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (12.16%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (9.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (9.01%) Serverless
11 18 (8.11%) Azure AKS
12 16 (7.21%) PaaS
13 15 (6.76%) Amazon S3
13 15 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (6.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 14 (6.31%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (4.95%) Entra ID
16 11 (4.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.66%) DNS
2 16 (7.21%) Firewall
3 14 (6.31%) VPN
4 6 (2.70%) Network Security
5 5 (2.25%) SNMP
5 5 (2.25%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.80%) SSL
7 3 (1.35%) HTTP
7 3 (1.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.45%) Calico
8 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.45%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.45%) MPLS
8 1 (0.45%) NaaS
8 1 (0.45%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.45%) SAN
8 1 (0.45%) WAN
8 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.05%) Power BI
2 7 (3.15%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.70%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.70%) Redis
4 4 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.80%) MySQL
4 4 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.35%) Data Hub
5 3 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.90%) Flink
6 2 (0.90%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.45%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.45%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 29 (13.06%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.56%) GitLab
3 18 (8.11%) Git
4 4 (1.80%) JIRA
5 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 40 (18.02%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.32%) Finance
3 23 (10.36%) Banking
4 19 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.86%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.25%) Law
8 5 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.80%) Billing
9 4 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.35%) Games
10 3 (1.35%) Military
11 2 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Advertising
12 1 (0.45%) Front Office
12 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (28.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 41 (18.47%) Senior
3 38 (17.12%) Site Engineer
4 37 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (9.46%) Architect
6 17 (7.66%) Lead
6 17 (7.66%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (7.21%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (4.95%) Technical Architect
10 10 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.15%) Support Engineer
13 6 (2.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.70%) Developer
13 6 (2.70%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.91%) Kafka
2 14 (6.31%) OpenTelemetry
3 13 (5.86%) REST
4 12 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.25%) .NET
5 5 (2.25%) Loki
5 5 (2.25%) Node.js
5 5 (2.25%) YAML
6 4 (1.80%) RESTful
7 3 (1.35%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.35%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.35%) OpenID
7 3 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.35%) Spring
7 3 (1.35%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.90%) ADO
8 2 (0.90%) Micronaut
8 2 (0.90%) OAuth
8 2 (0.90%) PySpark
9 1 (0.45%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 58 (26.13%) Cloud Native
2 42 (18.92%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.15%) Mainframe
3 7 (3.15%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.15%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.15%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.80%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (1.80%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.35%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) CMDB
8 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.51%) Linux
2 12 (5.41%) Windows
3 7 (3.15%) Unix
4 6 (2.70%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.35%) VMS
7 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.45%) Debian
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (59.01%) Observability
2 128 (57.66%) DevOps
3 123 (55.41%) CI/CD
4 103 (46.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 70 (31.53%) Platform Engineering
6 57 (25.68%) Containerisation
7 36 (16.22%) Software Engineering
8 35 (15.77%) Agile
8 35 (15.77%) Incident Response
9 32 (14.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (13.06%) Microservices
11 28 (12.61%) AI
12 25 (11.26%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 22 (9.91%) Incident Management
14 22 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (9.46%) Root Cause Analysis
16 20 (9.01%) Event-Driven
16 20 (9.01%) ITIL
16 20 (9.01%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 86 (38.74%) Python
2 42 (18.92%) Java
3 37 (16.67%) Bash
4 23 (10.36%) PowerShell
5 22 (9.91%) Go
6 19 (8.56%) SQL
7 16 (7.21%) Bicep
8 11 (4.95%) C#
9 10 (4.50%) Ruby
10 7 (3.15%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.80%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.35%) Korn
12 3 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.35%) Perl
13 2 (0.90%) C++
13 2 (0.90%) Scala
13 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.45%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 51 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 43 (19.37%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.05%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.15%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.25%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.90%) CCSP
7 2 (0.90%) CISSP
7 2 (0.90%) Degree
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%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.05%) QA
2 8 (3.60%) SLA
3 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.35%) NIST
3 3 (1.35%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.90%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) GRC
5 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (14.86%) Docker
2 5 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (47.75%) Terraform
2 88 (39.64%) Kubernetes
3 55 (24.77%) Grafana
4 54 (24.32%) Prometheus
5 29 (13.06%) Ansible
6 4 (1.80%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.80%) Packer
6 4 (1.80%) ZABBIX
7 3 (1.35%) Argo
8 2 (0.90%) Puppet
9 1 (0.45%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.45%) CASB
9 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.45%) Kibana
9 1 (0.45%) logstash
9 1 (0.45%) Nagios
9 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.45%) systemd
Vendors
1 34 (15.32%) Dynatrace
2 33 (14.86%) Splunk
3 23 (10.36%) Microsoft
4 14 (6.31%) Oracle
5 12 (5.41%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.95%) AppDynamics
6 11 (4.95%) Google
7 6 (2.70%) VMware
8 5 (2.25%) New Relic
9 4 (1.80%) F5
9 4 (1.80%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.80%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.35%) BigPanda
10 3 (1.35%) Databricks
11 2 (0.90%) Cisco
11 2 (0.90%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.90%) Hitachi
11 2 (0.90%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.90%) Sybase