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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 214 255
Rank change year-on-year +14 +41 +10
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 218 135 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.21% 1.09% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.18% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 96 91
10th Percentile £400 £310 £425
25th Percentile £475 £461 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £678 £672
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% +0.86% +7.52%
75th Percentile £675 £838 £850
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -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 15,948 11,394 15,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.35% 92.23% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,673 7,685 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 187 308
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.24 £15.81
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +21.78% -25.23%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.83
England median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -10 25 £525 -17.32% 23
South London - 5 £630 - 2
West London - 3 £388 - 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 (2.75%) Confluence
2 4 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.46%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) BASE24
2 1 (0.46%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 106 (48.62%) Azure
2 82 (37.61%) AWS
2 82 (37.61%) GitHub
3 50 (22.94%) GitHub Actions
4 48 (22.02%) GCP
5 24 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (9.17%) Serverless
7 19 (8.72%) Azure AKS
8 18 (8.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (8.26%) Datadog
9 15 (6.88%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 13 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (5.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (5.05%) OpenShift
13 11 (5.05%) PaaS
14 10 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.30%) Firewall
2 20 (9.17%) DNS
3 16 (7.34%) VPN
4 15 (6.88%) Network Security
5 7 (3.21%) Ethernet
5 7 (3.21%) InfiniBand
5 7 (3.21%) NetScaler
5 7 (3.21%) Wireless
6 5 (2.29%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (1.83%) MPLS
8 3 (1.38%) Internet
8 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.92%) WAN
10 1 (0.46%) NaaS
10 1 (0.46%) NGFW
10 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.59%) BigQuery
3 9 (4.13%) Power BI
4 8 (3.67%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.67%) Redis
5 7 (3.21%) MySQL
6 6 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.75%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.29%) Flink
8 4 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.83%) DocumentDB
8 4 (1.83%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.38%) Data Hub
9 3 (1.38%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.92%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (15.60%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.55%) GitLab
3 18 (8.26%) Git
4 13 (5.96%) Artifactory
5 7 (3.21%) JIRA
6 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.92%) Gatling
7 2 (0.92%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.46%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
General
1 27 (12.39%) Finance
2 25 (11.47%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.63%) Banking
4 17 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.67%) Retail
7 4 (1.83%) Front Office
7 4 (1.83%) Games
7 4 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.92%) Legal
9 1 (0.46%) Advertising
9 1 (0.46%) Billing
9 1 (0.46%) Military
9 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (32.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 44 (20.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 43 (19.72%) Senior
3 43 (19.72%) Site Engineer
4 26 (11.93%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (11.01%) Architect
6 20 (9.17%) Lead
7 19 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.59%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Migration Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Technical Architect
12 7 (3.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.21%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.21%) Developer
13 6 (2.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.55%) Kafka
1 23 (10.55%) OpenTelemetry
2 14 (6.42%) Spring
3 13 (5.96%) Spring Boot
4 11 (5.05%) REST
5 9 (4.13%) Node.js
5 9 (4.13%) React
6 7 (3.21%) Loki
6 7 (3.21%) OAuth
6 7 (3.21%) OpenID
6 7 (3.21%) RESTful
7 6 (2.75%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.75%) LangChain
7 6 (2.75%) OAuth2
8 5 (2.29%) gRPC
9 4 (1.83%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.83%) JPA
9 4 (1.83%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.38%) .NET
10 3 (1.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.64%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.55%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.88%) Mainframe
4 11 (5.05%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.13%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.21%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.92%) CMDB
8 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.92%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.92%) PKI
8 2 (0.92%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.46%) APACS
9 1 (0.46%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.47%) Linux
2 12 (5.50%) Unix
3 10 (4.59%) VMS
4 9 (4.13%) Windows
5 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.92%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.46%) Debian
6 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (64.68%) DevOps
2 122 (55.96%) CI/CD
3 114 (52.29%) Observability
4 109 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (26.61%) Containerisation
6 44 (20.18%) Platform Engineering
7 40 (18.35%) Agile
7 40 (18.35%) Migration
8 36 (16.51%) AI
8 36 (16.51%) Microservices
9 30 (13.76%) Incident Response
10 29 (13.30%) Software Engineering
11 26 (11.93%) Load Balancing
12 24 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (10.55%) Analytics
13 23 (10.55%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (8.72%) Event-Driven
14 19 (8.72%) Incident Management
14 19 (8.72%) Infrastructure Automation
15 17 (7.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 57 (26.15%) Python
2 32 (14.68%) Java
3 27 (12.39%) SQL
4 15 (6.88%) Bash
4 15 (6.88%) Go
4 15 (6.88%) PowerShell
5 11 (5.05%) Bicep
5 11 (5.05%) Ruby
6 8 (3.67%) C#
7 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.92%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.46%) C++
8 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.46%) PromQL
8 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (30.73%) Security Cleared
2 58 (26.61%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.05%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.75%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.29%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.83%) CCSP
6 4 (1.83%) CISSP
7 2 (0.92%) Degree
7 2 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.46%) CCIE
8 1 (0.46%) CCNP
8 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) CSPO
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.67%) NIST
1 8 (3.67%) SLA
2 6 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.75%) QA
3 5 (2.29%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.38%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.92%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.92%) PSD2
5 2 (0.92%) SEPA
6 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) GRC
6 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (19.27%) Docker
2 8 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 119 (54.59%) Terraform
2 100 (45.87%) Kubernetes
3 45 (20.64%) Prometheus
4 42 (19.27%) Grafana
5 40 (18.35%) Ansible
6 13 (5.96%) Argo
7 6 (2.75%) Istio
8 5 (2.29%) Salt
9 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.83%) Packer
9 4 (1.83%) Puppet
10 2 (0.92%) Cilium
10 2 (0.92%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.46%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.46%) CASB
11 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.46%) Kibana
11 1 (0.46%) logstash
Vendors
1 35 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.60%) Splunk
3 24 (11.01%) Google
4 19 (8.72%) Dynatrace
5 12 (5.50%) ServiceNow
6 11 (5.05%) Oracle
7 9 (4.13%) Cisco
8 8 (3.67%) AppDynamics
8 8 (3.67%) Aruba
9 7 (3.21%) Arista
9 7 (3.21%) BigPanda
9 7 (3.21%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.21%) F5
9 7 (3.21%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.29%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.38%) Databricks
11 3 (1.38%) New Relic
11 3 (1.38%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.92%) Confluent
12 2 (0.92%) Salesforce