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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 219 235
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 +25
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 175 151 175
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.21% 1.09% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.21% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 120 119
10th Percentile £400 £475 £460
25th Percentile £475 £650 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £725 £655
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +10.69% +0.77%
75th Percentile £669 £810 £750
90th Percentile £771 £838 £810
England median daily rate £531 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -24.11% +21.74% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £74.39 £75.00
% change year-on-year -29.43% -0.81% -11.76%

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 13,214 12,475 16,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.00% 90.45% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,766 7,927 11,738
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 155 320
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.24
25th Percentile £24.89 £24.66 £19.49
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.20 £79.50 £72.84
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -6.70% +7.35%

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 26 January 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
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 26 January 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 +1 19 £600 -14.89% 19
South London - 7 £530 - 5
West London - 3 £375 - 2
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 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.57%) Apache
2 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.57%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.57%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) BASE24
1 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.57%) SAP PS
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (48.00%) AWS
2 82 (46.86%) Azure
3 72 (41.14%) GitHub
4 54 (30.86%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (17.71%) GCP
6 29 (16.57%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (14.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (14.86%) Serverless
8 22 (12.57%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (11.43%) Amazon S3
10 19 (10.86%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (8.57%) Azure AKS
12 15 (8.57%) Datadog
13 14 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (6.86%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (6.29%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.43%) Firewall
2 10 (5.71%) DNS
2 10 (5.71%) Network Security
3 5 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.29%) Multicast
4 4 (2.29%) tcpdump
4 4 (2.29%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.14%) Ethernet
6 2 (1.14%) InfiniBand
6 2 (1.14%) NetScaler
6 2 (1.14%) VPN
6 2 (1.14%) Wireless
7 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (9.14%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.14%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.14%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.57%) Flink
5 8 (4.57%) MySQL
6 6 (3.43%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.43%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.43%) Redis
7 5 (2.86%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.86%) Data Hub
7 5 (2.86%) Power BI
8 4 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.29%) DocumentDB
8 4 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.14%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.14%) Tableau
10 1 (0.57%) Big Data
10 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (20.57%) Jenkins
2 21 (12.00%) GitLab
3 17 (9.71%) Git
4 14 (8.00%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.29%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.29%) Jaeger
6 3 (1.71%) JIRA
7 2 (1.14%) Gatling
7 2 (1.14%) PVCS
7 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.57%) git-flow
8 1 (0.57%) Gradle
8 1 (0.57%) Maven
8 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 33 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.43%) Finance
3 14 (8.00%) Banking
4 12 (6.86%) Front Office
5 8 (4.57%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.00%) Retail
7 3 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.71%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Billing
8 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Games
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (42.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 52 (29.71%) Site Engineer
3 43 (24.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (16.57%) Senior
5 24 (13.71%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (5.71%) Consultant
8 10 (5.71%) Lead
9 9 (5.14%) Migration Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) Architect
12 6 (3.43%) Developer
12 6 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.86%) Kafka
2 13 (7.43%) OpenTelemetry
2 13 (7.43%) Spring
2 13 (7.43%) Spring Boot
3 12 (6.86%) Node.js
4 10 (5.71%) REST
5 9 (5.14%) React
6 7 (4.00%) OAuth
6 7 (4.00%) OAuth2
6 7 (4.00%) OpenID
7 6 (3.43%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.86%) LangChain
9 4 (2.29%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.29%) gRPC
9 4 (2.29%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.29%) JPA
9 4 (2.29%) Middleware
9 4 (2.29%) RESTful
9 4 (2.29%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (2.29%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.43%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (8.00%) Mainframe
3 11 (6.29%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.14%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.00%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.71%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.14%) Replication
9 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.57%) APACS
10 1 (0.57%) CUDA
10 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.57%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.57%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.57%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.57%) Linux
2 13 (7.43%) VMS
3 11 (6.29%) Unix
4 4 (2.29%) Windows
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) CentOS
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (68.00%) DevOps
2 109 (62.29%) CI/CD
3 100 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (41.14%) Observability
5 45 (25.71%) Containerisation
6 41 (23.43%) Migration
7 35 (20.00%) Agile
8 29 (16.57%) AI
9 28 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (14.86%) Technical Leadership
11 25 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (13.71%) Microservices
13 23 (13.14%) Incident Response
14 21 (12.00%) Analytics
15 20 (11.43%) Security Testing
16 19 (10.86%) Load Balancing
16 19 (10.86%) Root Cause Analysis
17 15 (8.57%) Change Control
17 15 (8.57%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 66 (37.71%) Python
2 32 (18.29%) Java
3 26 (14.86%) Bash
4 22 (12.57%) SQL
5 15 (8.57%) Go
6 14 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.14%) Ruby
8 5 (2.86%) Bicep
8 5 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.29%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.71%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.57%) C
11 1 (0.57%) C#
11 1 (0.57%) C++
11 1 (0.57%) Perl
11 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.57%) Rust
11 1 (0.57%) Scala
11 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 44 (25.14%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.57%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.29%) Degree
8 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.57%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.00%) QA
2 6 (3.43%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.86%) NIST
4 4 (2.29%) SLA
5 3 (1.71%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.14%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.14%) PSD2
6 2 (1.14%) SEPA
7 1 (0.57%) GDPR
7 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (29.14%) Docker
2 11 (6.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.57%) GPFS
4 1 (0.57%) KVM
4 1 (0.57%) Lustre
4 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 106 (60.57%) Terraform
2 82 (46.86%) Kubernetes
3 35 (20.00%) Ansible
4 29 (16.57%) Grafana
5 23 (13.14%) Prometheus
6 20 (11.43%) Argo
7 10 (5.71%) Puppet
8 7 (4.00%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (3.43%) Istio
10 5 (2.86%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.71%) Salt
12 2 (1.14%) Opsgenie
12 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.43%) Google
2 20 (11.43%) Splunk
3 9 (5.14%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.00%) Oracle
4 7 (4.00%) PagerDuty
5 4 (2.29%) Confluent
5 4 (2.29%) Solace
5 4 (2.29%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.71%) Databricks
6 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.14%) Arista
7 2 (1.14%) Aruba
7 2 (1.14%) BigPanda
7 2 (1.14%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco
7 2 (1.14%) F5
7 2 (1.14%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.14%) Qualys
7 2 (1.14%) Salesforce