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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 246 248
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 226 123 149
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 0.92% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.99% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 70 106
10th Percentile £430 £308 £450
25th Percentile £475 £358 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £525 £703
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -25.27% +8.08%
75th Percentile £628 £656 £821
90th Percentile £738 £728 £850
England median daily rate £537 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +13.05% -20.83% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £55.35 - -
25th Percentile £55.88 £53.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% - -
75th Percentile £69.40 £59.00 -
90th Percentile £74.89 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £79.00 -
% change year-on-year -27.22% - -

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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 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 20 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 20 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 -20 21 £463 -24.18% 10
West London - 4 £360 - 3
South London - 3 £745 - 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 5 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.21%) Confluence
2 4 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.88%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) IIS
Business Applications
1 7 (3.10%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.44%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.44%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 102 (45.13%) AWS
2 80 (35.40%) Azure
3 60 (26.55%) GitHub
4 39 (17.26%) GCP
4 39 (17.26%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (13.72%) Datadog
6 30 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (11.95%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (9.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (8.41%) Serverless
10 16 (7.08%) Azure AKS
10 16 (7.08%) PaaS
11 15 (6.64%) Amazon S3
11 15 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (6.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 14 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (5.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (4.87%) Entra ID
14 11 (4.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.96%) DNS
2 16 (7.08%) Firewall
3 13 (5.75%) VPN
4 6 (2.65%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.21%) SNMP
6 4 (1.77%) Network Security
6 4 (1.77%) SSL
7 3 (1.33%) HTTP
7 3 (1.33%) Internet
8 2 (0.88%) SAN
9 1 (0.44%) Calico
9 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.44%) NaaS
9 1 (0.44%) NAS
9 1 (0.44%) NGFW
9 1 (0.44%) RTP
9 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.54%) Power BI
2 7 (3.10%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.65%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.65%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.65%) Redis
4 5 (2.21%) MySQL
4 5 (2.21%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.33%) Data Hub
7 2 (0.88%) Flink
7 2 (0.88%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.88%) KDB
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (12.83%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.41%) GitLab
3 18 (7.96%) Git
4 4 (1.77%) JIRA
5 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.44%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 45 (19.91%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.26%) Finance
3 26 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.62%) Banking
5 14 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.65%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.21%) Law
9 4 (1.77%) Billing
9 4 (1.77%) Games
9 4 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.77%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.33%) Military
11 2 (0.88%) Advertising
11 2 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.88%) Front Office
11 2 (0.88%) Legal
11 2 (0.88%) Retail
12 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (27.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 39 (17.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (17.26%) Senior
3 36 (15.93%) Site Engineer
4 20 (8.85%) Architect
5 17 (7.52%) Lead
5 17 (7.52%) Platform Engineer
6 15 (6.64%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.42%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.54%) Support Engineer
11 7 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.10%) Service Manager
11 7 (3.10%) Service Transition Manager
11 7 (3.10%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (45.58%) Terraform
2 24 (10.62%) Kafka
3 16 (7.08%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (5.75%) REST
5 5 (2.21%) .NET
5 5 (2.21%) Loki
5 5 (2.21%) Node.js
5 5 (2.21%) YAML
6 4 (1.77%) Middleware
6 4 (1.77%) RESTful
7 3 (1.33%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.33%) OpenID
7 3 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.33%) Spring
7 3 (1.33%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.88%) ADO
8 2 (0.88%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.88%) Micronaut
8 2 (0.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 62 (27.43%) Cloud Native
2 47 (20.80%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.54%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.10%) Mainframe
4 7 (3.10%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.21%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (2.21%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.21%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.77%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.33%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.60%) Linux
2 14 (6.19%) Windows
3 9 (3.98%) Unix
4 7 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.65%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.33%) VMS
8 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.44%) Debian
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (59.29%) Observability
2 130 (57.52%) DevOps
3 129 (57.08%) CI/CD
4 104 (46.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (32.74%) Platform Engineering
6 60 (26.55%) Containerisation
7 37 (16.37%) Incident Response
8 36 (15.93%) Agile
9 35 (15.49%) Software Engineering
10 33 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (14.60%) Microservices
11 29 (12.83%) Infrastructure Automation
11 29 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (11.50%) AI
13 24 (10.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 24 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (10.62%) Root Cause Analysis
14 23 (10.18%) Event-Driven
14 23 (10.18%) Incident Management
15 22 (9.73%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 88 (38.94%) Python
2 44 (19.47%) Java
3 38 (16.81%) Bash
4 24 (10.62%) PowerShell
5 22 (9.73%) Go
6 19 (8.41%) SQL
7 16 (7.08%) Bicep
8 12 (5.31%) C#
9 10 (4.42%) Ruby
10 7 (3.10%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.77%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.77%) Perl
11 4 (1.77%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.33%) Korn
12 3 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.88%) C++
13 2 (0.88%) Scala
14 1 (0.44%) Groovy
14 1 (0.44%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 52 (23.01%) Security Cleared
2 43 (19.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.98%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.10%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.88%) Degree
8 1 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.44%) CCIE
8 1 (0.44%) CCNP
8 1 (0.44%) CCSP
8 1 (0.44%) CISSP
8 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.44%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.42%) QA
2 7 (3.10%) SLA
3 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.33%) GDPR
3 3 (1.33%) NIST
3 3 (1.33%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.88%) GRC
5 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.44%) NCSC
5 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (15.49%) Docker
2 5 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 89 (39.38%) Kubernetes
2 61 (26.99%) Grafana
3 57 (25.22%) Prometheus
4 32 (14.16%) Ansible
5 4 (1.77%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.77%) Packer
5 4 (1.77%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.33%) Argo
7 2 (0.88%) Puppet
8 1 (0.44%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.44%) CASB
8 1 (0.44%) Control-M
8 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.44%) Kibana
8 1 (0.44%) logstash
8 1 (0.44%) Nagios
8 1 (0.44%) SCOM
8 1 (0.44%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (16.81%) Dynatrace
2 36 (15.93%) Splunk
3 24 (10.62%) Microsoft
4 16 (7.08%) Oracle
5 14 (6.19%) AppDynamics
6 12 (5.31%) Google
7 10 (4.42%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.10%) New Relic
9 6 (2.65%) VMware
10 4 (1.77%) F5
10 4 (1.77%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.77%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.88%) Databricks
11 2 (0.88%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.88%) Hitachi
11 2 (0.88%) PagerDuty
11 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.88%) Solace
11 2 (0.88%) Sybase
11 2 (0.88%) TIBCO