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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 225 260
Rank change year-on-year +12 +35 +18
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 229 133 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.02% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.11% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 79 96
10th Percentile £401 £308 £438
25th Percentile £475 £359 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -25.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £850
90th Percentile £738 £838 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £555
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.91% -11.20%
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 17,155 11,979 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,402 8,003 11,123
10th Percentile £358 £335 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 225 302
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £23.33 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £68.68
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -25 22 £476 -20.63% 19
South London - 6 £766 - 2
West London - 1 - - 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 6 (2.62%) Confluence
2 5 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 98 (42.79%) AWS
2 95 (41.48%) Azure
3 68 (29.69%) GitHub
4 40 (17.47%) GCP
4 40 (17.47%) GitHub Actions
5 32 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (10.48%) Datadog
7 21 (9.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (8.30%) Azure AKS
8 19 (8.30%) Serverless
9 16 (6.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (6.99%) PaaS
10 15 (6.55%) Amazon S3
11 14 (6.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 13 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (5.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (4.80%) Power Platform
15 10 (4.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.73%) Firewall
2 17 (7.42%) DNS
2 17 (7.42%) VPN
3 11 (4.80%) Network Security
4 6 (2.62%) Ethernet
4 6 (2.62%) InfiniBand
4 6 (2.62%) NetScaler
4 6 (2.62%) Wireless
5 5 (2.18%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.75%) MPLS
6 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.31%) Internet
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.87%) WAN
9 1 (0.44%) Calico
9 1 (0.44%) NaaS
9 1 (0.44%) NGFW
9 1 (0.44%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.80%) Power BI
2 9 (3.93%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.06%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.06%) Redis
4 6 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.18%) MySQL
5 5 (2.18%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.75%) Data Hub
6 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.87%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.87%) Tableau
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.44%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.44%) Flink
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.44%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 30 (13.10%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.30%) GitLab
3 18 (7.86%) Git
4 6 (2.62%) JIRA
5 5 (2.18%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.31%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.87%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 37 (16.16%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.97%) Finance
3 25 (10.92%) Banking
4 16 (6.99%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.06%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.18%) Law
9 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.75%) Retail
10 3 (1.31%) Billing
10 3 (1.31%) Games
10 3 (1.31%) Military
10 3 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Advertising
12 1 (0.44%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 70 (30.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 43 (18.78%) Site Engineer
3 41 (17.90%) Senior
4 39 (17.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (10.48%) Architect
6 17 (7.42%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (7.42%) Lead
7 16 (6.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.80%) Technical Architect
11 7 (3.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.06%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (3.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.62%) Consultant
12 6 (2.62%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.04%) Kafka
2 18 (7.86%) OpenTelemetry
3 9 (3.93%) REST
4 8 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (3.06%) Loki
6 6 (2.62%) Node.js
6 6 (2.62%) Spring
7 5 (2.18%) RESTful
7 5 (2.18%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.75%) YAML
9 3 (1.31%) .NET
9 3 (1.31%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.31%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.31%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.31%) OpenID
9 3 (1.31%) PySpark
9 3 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.87%) eBPF
10 2 (0.87%) gRPC
10 2 (0.87%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 54 (23.58%) Cloud Native
2 40 (17.47%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.68%) Mainframe
4 10 (4.37%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.93%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.49%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.06%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.06%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.31%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.31%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.87%) CMDB
10 2 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.87%) PKI
11 1 (0.44%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.54%) Linux
2 13 (5.68%) Unix
3 12 (5.24%) Windows
4 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.87%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (58.95%) DevOps
2 134 (58.52%) Observability
3 124 (54.15%) CI/CD
4 108 (47.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (27.51%) Platform Engineering
6 58 (25.33%) Containerisation
7 37 (16.16%) Agile
8 35 (15.28%) AI
9 33 (14.41%) Incident Response
9 33 (14.41%) Software Engineering
10 31 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (13.54%) Microservices
11 25 (10.92%) Infrastructure Automation
12 24 (10.48%) Migration
13 23 (10.04%) Incident Management
14 21 (9.17%) Event-Driven
15 20 (8.73%) ITIL
15 20 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (8.30%) Analytics
17 18 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 80 (34.93%) Python
2 37 (16.16%) Java
3 33 (14.41%) Bash
4 23 (10.04%) SQL
5 22 (9.61%) PowerShell
6 19 (8.30%) Go
7 15 (6.55%) Bicep
8 9 (3.93%) Ruby
9 8 (3.49%) C#
10 3 (1.31%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.31%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.87%) Korn
11 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) C++
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.44%) PromQL
12 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (26.64%) Security Cleared
2 52 (22.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.93%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.62%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.18%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.75%) CCSP
6 4 (1.75%) CISSP
7 3 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.87%) Degree
8 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CCIE
9 1 (0.44%) CCNP
9 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.44%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.49%) SLA
2 5 (2.18%) NIST
3 4 (1.75%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.75%) QA
4 3 (1.31%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) GDPR
6 1 (0.44%) GRC
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (17.90%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 111 (48.47%) Terraform
2 99 (43.23%) Kubernetes
3 59 (25.76%) Prometheus
4 58 (25.33%) Grafana
5 35 (15.28%) Ansible
6 4 (1.75%) Argo
6 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.75%) Packer
6 4 (1.75%) Salt
7 3 (1.31%) Cilium
7 3 (1.31%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.87%) Puppet
9 1 (0.44%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.44%) Istio
9 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.44%) Kibana
9 1 (0.44%) logstash
9 1 (0.44%) Nagios
9 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (17.47%) Splunk
2 31 (13.54%) Dynatrace
3 25 (10.92%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.99%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.11%) Google
6 13 (5.68%) Oracle
7 10 (4.37%) AppDynamics
8 8 (3.49%) Cisco
9 7 (3.06%) Aruba
10 6 (2.62%) Arista
10 6 (2.62%) BigPanda
10 6 (2.62%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.62%) F5
10 6 (2.62%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.75%) Databricks
11 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.75%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.87%) Hitachi
12 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.87%) Sybase