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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 229 264
Rank change year-on-year +12 +35 +7
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 231 138 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 1.02% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.11% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 82 96
10th Percentile £401 £308 £425
25th Percentile £475 £368 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -25.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £714 £850
90th Percentile £740 £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 17,586 12,456 15,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.16% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,692 8,329 11,079
10th Percentile £360 £331 £338
25th Percentile £440 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 234 288
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.82 £24.66 £20.03
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +6.45% -27.57%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -14 25 £463 -21.28% 25
South London - 6 £766 -
West London - 1 - - 4
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 (2.60%) Confluence
2 5 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
Business Applications
1 7 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 101 (43.72%) AWS
2 90 (38.96%) Azure
3 63 (27.27%) GitHub
4 39 (16.88%) GCP
5 37 (16.02%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (10.82%) Datadog
8 20 (8.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (8.66%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (7.79%) Azure AKS
9 18 (7.79%) Serverless
10 17 (7.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (7.36%) PaaS
11 14 (6.06%) Amazon S3
11 14 (6.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 13 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (4.76%) OpenShift
13 11 (4.76%) SaaS
13 11 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.79%) Firewall
1 18 (7.79%) VPN
2 17 (7.36%) DNS
3 8 (3.46%) Network Security
4 6 (2.60%) Ethernet
4 6 (2.60%) InfiniBand
4 6 (2.60%) NetScaler
4 6 (2.60%) Wireless
5 5 (2.16%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.73%) MPLS
6 4 (1.73%) SNMP
6 4 (1.73%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.30%) Internet
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.87%) WAN
9 1 (0.43%) Calico
9 1 (0.43%) NaaS
9 1 (0.43%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.76%) Power BI
2 9 (3.90%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.03%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.60%) Redis
5 5 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.73%) Data Hub
6 4 (1.73%) MySQL
6 4 (1.73%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.73%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.87%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.43%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.43%) Flink
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.43%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 27 (11.69%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.79%) Git
2 18 (7.79%) GitLab
3 6 (2.60%) JIRA
4 4 (1.73%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.87%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.43%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
General
1 39 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.72%) Finance
3 26 (11.26%) Banking
4 16 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.16%) Law
8 4 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.73%) Retail
9 3 (1.30%) Billing
9 3 (1.30%) Games
9 3 (1.30%) Military
9 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 68 (29.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 42 (18.18%) Senior
2 42 (18.18%) Site Engineer
3 36 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (10.39%) Architect
5 17 (7.36%) Lead
6 16 (6.93%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.19%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.46%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (3.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.03%) GCP Engineer
12 6 (2.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.60%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.60%) Consultant
12 6 (2.60%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.52%) Kafka
2 17 (7.36%) OpenTelemetry
3 9 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (3.46%) REST
5 7 (3.03%) Loki
6 6 (2.60%) Node.js
7 5 (2.16%) Spring
8 4 (1.73%) RESTful
8 4 (1.73%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.73%) YAML
9 3 (1.30%) .NET
9 3 (1.30%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.30%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.30%) PySpark
9 3 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.87%) ADO
10 2 (0.87%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.87%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.87%) eBPF
10 2 (0.87%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 54 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 43 (18.61%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.63%) Mainframe
4 9 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.46%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.46%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.87%) CMDB
9 2 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.87%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.42%) Linux
2 13 (5.63%) Unix
3 12 (5.19%) Windows
4 4 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (61.04%) Observability
2 132 (57.14%) DevOps
3 123 (53.25%) CI/CD
4 106 (45.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (29.00%) Platform Engineering
6 60 (25.97%) Containerisation
7 36 (15.58%) Agile
7 36 (15.58%) Incident Response
7 36 (15.58%) Software Engineering
8 34 (14.72%) AI
9 32 (13.85%) Microservices
10 30 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (10.82%) Infrastructure Automation
12 24 (10.39%) Incident Management
13 22 (9.52%) ITIL
14 21 (9.09%) Event-Driven
15 20 (8.66%) Migration
16 19 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (8.23%) Technical Leadership
17 18 (7.79%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 83 (35.93%) Python
2 39 (16.88%) Java
3 33 (14.29%) Bash
4 22 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 22 (9.52%) SQL
5 20 (8.66%) Go
6 14 (6.06%) Bicep
7 10 (4.33%) Ruby
8 8 (3.46%) C#
9 5 (2.16%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.87%) Korn
11 2 (0.87%) Scala
11 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) C++
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.43%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 60 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 51 (22.08%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.90%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.60%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.73%) CCSP
6 4 (1.73%) CISSP
7 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.87%) Degree
8 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CCIE
9 1 (0.43%) CCNP
9 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.43%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.46%) SLA
2 4 (1.73%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.73%) NIST
3 3 (1.30%) QA
4 2 (0.87%) GRC
4 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (16.88%) Docker
2 4 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (45.89%) Terraform
2 93 (40.26%) Kubernetes
3 61 (26.41%) Prometheus
4 60 (25.97%) Grafana
5 32 (13.85%) Ansible
6 4 (1.73%) Argo
6 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.73%) Packer
6 4 (1.73%) Salt
7 3 (1.30%) Cilium
7 3 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (1.30%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.87%) Puppet
9 1 (0.43%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.43%) Kibana
9 1 (0.43%) logstash
9 1 (0.43%) Nagios
9 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (18.18%) Splunk
2 32 (13.85%) Dynatrace
3 23 (9.96%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.93%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.06%) Oracle
6 12 (5.19%) Google
7 11 (4.76%) AppDynamics
8 8 (3.46%) Cisco
9 7 (3.03%) Aruba
10 6 (2.60%) Arista
10 6 (2.60%) BigPanda
10 6 (2.60%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.60%) F5
10 6 (2.60%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.16%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.73%) Databricks
12 4 (1.73%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.87%) Hitachi
13 2 (0.87%) New Relic
13 2 (0.87%) PagerDuty