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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 229 270
Rank change year-on-year +17 +41 -4
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 226 125 134
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.22% 1.03% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.12% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 83 92
10th Percentile £400 £308 £450
25th Percentile £475 £403 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £799 £850
90th Percentile £775 £838 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £52.35 - -
25th Percentile £54.00 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% - -
75th Percentile £69.40 £49.75 -
90th Percentile £74.89 - -
England median hourly rate £55.50 £79.00 -
% change year-on-year -29.75% - -

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 16,474 11,204 15,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 92.30% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,987 7,490 11,076
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £683 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 196 317
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +15.18% -28.21%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.50 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 24 £500 -14.89% 20
South London - 4 £766 - 3
West London - 2 £375 - 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 6 (2.65%) Confluence
2 5 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.21%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) BASE24
2 1 (0.44%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 103 (45.58%) Azure
2 85 (37.61%) AWS
3 84 (37.17%) GitHub
4 51 (22.57%) GCP
5 50 (22.12%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (11.06%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (9.73%) Datadog
8 20 (8.85%) Serverless
9 19 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (7.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (7.52%) Azure AKS
11 17 (7.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 15 (6.64%) Amazon S3
12 15 (6.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (5.75%) PaaS
13 13 (5.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (4.87%) OpenShift
15 10 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (4.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.39%) Firewall
2 19 (8.41%) DNS
3 17 (7.52%) VPN
4 14 (6.19%) Network Security
5 7 (3.10%) Ethernet
5 7 (3.10%) InfiniBand
5 7 (3.10%) NetScaler
5 7 (3.10%) Wireless
6 5 (2.21%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (1.77%) MPLS
8 3 (1.33%) Internet
8 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.88%) WAN
10 1 (0.44%) NaaS
10 1 (0.44%) NGFW
10 1 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.44%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.87%) BigQuery
1 11 (4.87%) Redis
2 10 (4.42%) Power BI
3 9 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.54%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.65%) MySQL
6 4 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.77%) DocumentDB
6 4 (1.77%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.77%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.88%) Flink
8 2 (0.88%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.88%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (16.81%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.18%) GitLab
3 17 (7.52%) Git
4 13 (5.75%) Artifactory
5 7 (3.10%) JIRA
6 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.88%) Gatling
7 2 (0.88%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 35 (15.49%) Finance
2 34 (15.04%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.50%) Banking
4 15 (6.64%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.54%) Retail
7 5 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.21%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.33%) Games
9 3 (1.33%) Law
9 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.88%) Billing
10 2 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.88%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Military
11 1 (0.44%) Advertising
11 1 (0.44%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 69 (30.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 42 (18.58%) Site Engineer
3 40 (17.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (17.70%) Senior
4 25 (11.06%) Architect
5 23 (10.18%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (8.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (8.85%) Lead
7 13 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (4.42%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (3.98%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.54%) Developer
10 8 (3.54%) Migration Engineer
10 8 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.10%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.10%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.10%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 6 (2.65%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.06%) OpenTelemetry
2 23 (10.18%) Kafka
3 14 (6.19%) Spring
4 13 (5.75%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.87%) REST
6 10 (4.42%) Node.js
7 8 (3.54%) React
8 7 (3.10%) Loki
8 7 (3.10%) OAuth
8 7 (3.10%) OpenID
8 7 (3.10%) RESTful
9 6 (2.65%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.65%) LangChain
9 6 (2.65%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.21%) gRPC
11 4 (1.77%) Hibernate
11 4 (1.77%) JPA
11 4 (1.77%) Spring Cloud
11 4 (1.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.68%) Cloud Native
2 32 (14.16%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.19%) Mainframe
4 11 (4.87%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.10%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.33%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.88%) CMDB
8 2 (0.88%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.88%) PKI
9 1 (0.44%) APACS
9 1 (0.44%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.44%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.50%) Linux
2 12 (5.31%) Unix
3 11 (4.87%) Windows
4 10 (4.42%) VMS
5 3 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.44%) Debian
7 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (61.95%) DevOps
2 126 (55.75%) CI/CD
3 122 (53.98%) Observability
4 116 (51.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (23.89%) Containerisation
6 51 (22.57%) Platform Engineering
7 39 (17.26%) AI
8 37 (16.37%) Microservices
8 37 (16.37%) Migration
9 35 (15.49%) Agile
10 31 (13.72%) Incident Response
11 29 (12.83%) Software Engineering
12 26 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (11.06%) Load Balancing
14 22 (9.73%) Infrastructure Automation
15 21 (9.29%) Analytics
15 21 (9.29%) Event-Driven
15 21 (9.29%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (8.41%) Incident Management
16 19 (8.41%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 63 (27.88%) Python
2 34 (15.04%) Java
3 27 (11.95%) SQL
4 20 (8.85%) Bash
5 18 (7.96%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.64%) Go
7 12 (5.31%) Bicep
8 9 (3.98%) Ruby
9 8 (3.54%) C#
10 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) C++
12 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.44%) PromQL
12 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 58 (25.66%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.87%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.54%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.77%) CCSP
6 4 (1.77%) CISSP
6 4 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.88%) Degree
7 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.44%) CCIE
8 1 (0.44%) CCNP
8 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.44%) CSPO
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.98%) NIST
2 8 (3.54%) QA
2 8 (3.54%) SLA
3 6 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.21%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.33%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.88%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.88%) PSD2
6 2 (0.88%) SEPA
7 1 (0.44%) GDPR
7 1 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (19.03%) Docker
2 5 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 122 (53.98%) Terraform
2 105 (46.46%) Kubernetes
3 52 (23.01%) Prometheus
4 49 (21.68%) Grafana
5 43 (19.03%) Ansible
6 10 (4.42%) Argo
7 6 (2.65%) Istio
8 5 (2.21%) Salt
9 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.77%) Packer
10 3 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.33%) Puppet
11 2 (0.88%) Cilium
11 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.44%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.44%) CASB
12 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.44%) Kibana
12 1 (0.44%) logstash
Vendors
1 35 (15.49%) Splunk
2 32 (14.16%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.06%) Google
4 20 (8.85%) Dynatrace
5 12 (5.31%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.87%) Oracle
7 9 (3.98%) AppDynamics
7 9 (3.98%) Cisco
8 8 (3.54%) Aruba
9 7 (3.10%) Arista
9 7 (3.10%) BigPanda
9 7 (3.10%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.10%) F5
9 7 (3.10%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.21%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.77%) Databricks
11 4 (1.77%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.88%) Foundry
12 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.88%) Sybase