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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 211 218
Rank change year-on-year -30 +7 +51
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 151 165 195
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 1.09% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.21% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 121 140
10th Percentile £463 £463 £503
25th Percentile £511 £625 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £725 £656
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +10.48% +0.96%
75th Percentile £669 £810 £739
90th Percentile £738 £838 £810
England median daily rate £550 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £51.43 - -
25th Percentile £51.69 - -
Median hourly rate £54.25 - -
75th Percentile £57.69 - -
90th Percentile £58.48 - -
England median hourly rate £54.25 £74.39 £75.00
% change year-on-year -27.08% -0.81% +3.45%

All Process and 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 13,036 13,640 17,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.47% 89.99% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,595 8,770 12,218
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 234
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.52
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.65 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.51% +6.23% -12.66%
75th Percentile £47.94 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 +3 21 £610 -13.48% 10
South London - 7 £530 - 8
West London - 2 £388 - 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 1 (0.66%) Apache
1 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.66%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.66%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.66%) SAP PS
1 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (60.26%) AWS
2 61 (40.40%) Azure
3 50 (33.11%) GitHub
4 43 (28.48%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (17.88%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (16.56%) Serverless
7 22 (14.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (13.91%) GCP
9 18 (11.92%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (11.26%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (10.60%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (9.93%) Amazon S3
12 15 (9.93%) Azure AKS
12 15 (9.93%) Datadog
13 14 (9.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (7.28%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (5.30%) Amazon Kinesis
16 7 (4.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 7 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.61%) Firewall
2 8 (5.30%) DNS
3 6 (3.97%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.31%) Multicast
4 5 (3.31%) tcpdump
4 5 (3.31%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.99%) Network Security
5 3 (1.99%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.66%) HTTP
6 1 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.66%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.95%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (5.30%) Flink
4 7 (4.64%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.97%) Oracle Database
6 5 (3.31%) Data Hub
6 5 (3.31%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.65%) MySQL
7 4 (2.65%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.32%) Power BI
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (12.58%) Git
1 19 (12.58%) Jenkins
2 15 (9.93%) GitLab
3 5 (3.31%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.65%) Gradle
4 4 (2.65%) Jaeger
4 4 (2.65%) Maven
4 4 (2.65%) Selenium
5 3 (1.99%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.99%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.32%) JIRA
6 2 (1.32%) PVCS
7 1 (0.66%) git-flow
General
1 29 (19.21%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.89%) Finance
3 13 (8.61%) Banking
4 12 (7.95%) Front Office
5 9 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.30%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.65%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Billing
9 1 (0.66%) Games
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 72 (47.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 52 (34.44%) Site Engineer
3 36 (23.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (19.87%) Senior
5 16 (10.60%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (7.95%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (7.28%) Python Engineer
8 10 (6.62%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (5.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) Consultant
11 7 (4.64%) Lead
12 6 (3.97%) Kafka Engineer
12 6 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.31%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (3.31%) Lead DevOps
14 4 (2.65%) Automation Engineer
14 4 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
14 4 (2.65%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.25%) Kafka
2 8 (5.30%) REST
3 7 (4.64%) Node.js
4 5 (3.31%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (3.31%) GraphQL
4 5 (3.31%) Middleware
4 5 (3.31%) Ultra Messaging
5 4 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.65%) React
5 4 (2.65%) YAML
6 3 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.32%) .NET
7 2 (1.32%) Loki
7 2 (1.32%) Spring
7 2 (1.32%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.66%) OAuth
8 1 (0.66%) OpenID
8 1 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.66%) RESTful
8 1 (0.66%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.89%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.96%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.30%) Fixed Income
4 8 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.30%) Mainframe
4 8 (5.30%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.64%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.97%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.32%) Replication
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.66%) CUDA
8 1 (0.66%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.66%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.66%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.66%) Online Games
8 1 (0.66%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 35 (23.18%) Linux
2 7 (4.64%) Unix
2 7 (4.64%) VMS
3 3 (1.99%) Windows
4 2 (1.32%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.66%) Android
5 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.66%) CentOS
5 1 (0.66%) Debian
5 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (64.90%) DevOps
2 94 (62.25%) CI/CD
3 78 (51.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (43.71%) Observability
5 41 (27.15%) Containerisation
6 31 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (18.54%) Agile
8 25 (16.56%) Migration
9 23 (15.23%) Technical Leadership
10 22 (14.57%) AI
10 22 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (14.57%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (12.58%) Incident Response
11 19 (12.58%) Root Cause Analysis
12 17 (11.26%) Analytics
12 17 (11.26%) GitOps
12 17 (11.26%) High Availability
13 15 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (9.27%) Microservices
15 13 (8.61%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 82 (54.30%) Python
2 35 (23.18%) Bash
3 33 (21.85%) Java
4 29 (19.21%) Go
5 16 (10.60%) SQL
6 15 (9.93%) PowerShell
7 10 (6.62%) PromQL
7 10 (6.62%) Ruby
8 5 (3.31%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.65%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.65%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.99%) Bicep
11 2 (1.32%) Scala
12 1 (0.66%) C
12 1 (0.66%) C#
12 1 (0.66%) C++
12 1 (0.66%) Perl
12 1 (0.66%) PHP
12 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (21.19%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.54%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.62%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.64%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.99%) Degree
8 2 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.32%) CISSP
8 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.66%) CCSP
9 1 (0.66%) CEH
9 1 (0.66%) CISM
9 1 (0.66%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.99%) GDPR
1 3 (1.99%) PCI DSS
1 3 (1.99%) SLA
2 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.66%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.66%) NIST
3 1 (0.66%) QA
3 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (28.48%) Docker
2 8 (5.30%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.66%) GPFS
4 1 (0.66%) KVM
4 1 (0.66%) Lustre
4 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (54.30%) Terraform
2 74 (49.01%) Kubernetes
3 37 (24.50%) Grafana
4 28 (18.54%) Prometheus
5 24 (15.89%) Ansible
6 18 (11.92%) Argo
7 9 (5.96%) Puppet
8 8 (5.30%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (3.31%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.32%) Kibana
10 2 (1.32%) Opsgenie
10 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.66%) Graphite
11 1 (0.66%) Istio
11 1 (0.66%) logstash
11 1 (0.66%) Packer
11 1 (0.66%) Podman
11 1 (0.66%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.57%) Splunk
3 10 (6.62%) Google
4 9 (5.96%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.64%) PagerDuty
6 6 (3.97%) Oracle
7 5 (3.31%) Solace
7 5 (3.31%) TIBCO
8 4 (2.65%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.32%) Confluent
9 2 (1.32%) Databricks
9 2 (1.32%) Qualys
9 2 (1.32%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.66%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.66%) Black Duck
10 1 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.66%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.66%) Okta
10 1 (0.66%) Tanium
10 1 (0.66%) Tenable