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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 212 264
Rank change year-on-year +5 +52 -8
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 221 140 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.26% 1.10% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.19% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 103 85
10th Percentile £401 £315 £435
25th Percentile £500 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £838 £750
90th Percentile £775 - £850
England median daily rate £537 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -12.33% +11.36% -13.73%
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 £44.50 -
% change year-on-year +24.72% - -

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 15,562 11,733 15,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.06% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,427 7,976 11,319
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 172 330
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.53 £15.99
25th Percentile £25.11 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +20.00% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.38 £63.70 £65.78
England median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 £538 -15.35% 11
South London - 9 £530 -
West London - 3 £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 (2.71%) Confluence
2 4 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) BASE24
2 1 (0.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 105 (47.51%) Azure
2 94 (42.53%) AWS
3 85 (38.46%) GitHub
4 54 (24.43%) GitHub Actions
5 48 (21.72%) GCP
6 32 (14.48%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (12.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (11.76%) Serverless
9 25 (11.31%) Amazon S3
9 25 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (9.95%) Azure AKS
11 20 (9.05%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (9.05%) Datadog
12 19 (8.60%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (6.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 11 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (4.98%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.22%) Firewall
2 16 (7.24%) DNS
2 16 (7.24%) Network Security
3 10 (4.52%) VPN
4 7 (3.17%) Ethernet
4 7 (3.17%) InfiniBand
4 7 (3.17%) NetScaler
4 7 (3.17%) Wireless
5 5 (2.26%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.81%) MPLS
6 4 (1.81%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.90%) Internet
8 2 (0.90%) WAN
9 1 (0.45%) NaaS
9 1 (0.45%) NGFW
9 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.07%) BigQuery
3 9 (4.07%) MySQL
4 8 (3.62%) Flink
4 8 (3.62%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.62%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.17%) Power BI
6 6 (2.71%) Data Hub
6 6 (2.71%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.71%) Redis
7 5 (2.26%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.81%) DocumentDB
8 4 (1.81%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.90%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 27 (12.22%) GitLab
3 24 (10.86%) Git
4 14 (6.33%) Artifactory
5 7 (3.17%) JIRA
6 4 (1.81%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.90%) Gatling
7 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.45%) git-flow
8 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 30 (13.57%) Finance
2 28 (12.67%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.95%) Banking
4 20 (9.05%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.62%) Retail
7 7 (3.17%) Front Office
8 4 (1.81%) Games
8 4 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.90%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Billing
11 1 (0.45%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (37.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 59 (26.70%) Site Engineer
3 48 (21.72%) Senior
4 35 (15.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (11.31%) Architect
5 25 (11.31%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (9.50%) Lead
7 19 (8.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.07%) Migration Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.62%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (3.62%) Technical Architect
12 7 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (3.17%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 7 (3.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 6 (2.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.71%) Developer
13 6 (2.71%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.22%) Kafka
2 22 (9.95%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (6.79%) Spring
4 14 (6.33%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.98%) REST
6 9 (4.07%) Node.js
6 9 (4.07%) React
7 7 (3.17%) OAuth
7 7 (3.17%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.17%) OpenID
8 6 (2.71%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.71%) LangChain
8 6 (2.71%) RESTful
9 5 (2.26%) gRPC
9 5 (2.26%) Loki
10 4 (1.81%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.81%) JPA
10 4 (1.81%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.36%) Apache Avro
11 3 (1.36%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.62%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.50%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.79%) Mainframe
4 14 (6.33%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.43%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.26%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.26%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.81%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.90%) CMDB
9 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.90%) PKI
9 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.45%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.45%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 36 (16.29%) Linux
2 12 (5.43%) Unix
2 12 (5.43%) VMS
3 9 (4.07%) Windows
4 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.45%) Debian
5 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (61.99%) DevOps
2 132 (59.73%) CI/CD
3 117 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 109 (49.32%) Observability
5 62 (28.05%) Containerisation
6 47 (21.27%) Agile
7 45 (20.36%) Migration
8 40 (18.10%) Platform Engineering
9 38 (17.19%) Microservices
10 34 (15.38%) AI
11 33 (14.93%) Incident Response
12 30 (13.57%) Technical Leadership
13 29 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (12.67%) Software Engineering
15 25 (11.31%) Analytics
16 23 (10.41%) Load Balancing
17 22 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
18 20 (9.05%) High Availability
18 20 (9.05%) Security Testing
19 18 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 73 (33.03%) Python
2 38 (17.19%) Java
3 28 (12.67%) SQL
4 21 (9.50%) Bash
5 18 (8.14%) Go
6 16 (7.24%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.79%) Ruby
8 10 (4.52%) Bicep
9 6 (2.71%) C#
10 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.45%) Scala
11 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (30.32%) Security Cleared
2 57 (25.79%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.43%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.07%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.71%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.26%) Degree
7 4 (1.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.81%) CCSP
7 4 (1.81%) CISSP
7 4 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.45%) CCIE
10 1 (0.45%) CCNP
10 1 (0.45%) CSPO
10 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.62%) NIST
2 7 (3.17%) SLA
3 6 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.71%) QA
4 5 (2.26%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.36%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.90%) GDPR
6 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.90%) PSD2
6 2 (0.90%) SEPA
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (23.53%) Docker
2 12 (5.43%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.81%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.45%) GPFS
4 1 (0.45%) Lustre
4 1 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 128 (57.92%) Terraform
2 98 (44.34%) Kubernetes
3 44 (19.91%) Ansible
4 35 (15.84%) Grafana
5 34 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 18 (8.14%) Argo
7 9 (4.07%) Puppet
8 6 (2.71%) Istio
8 6 (2.71%) Salt
9 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.81%) Packer
10 3 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.90%) Cilium
11 2 (0.90%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.45%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.45%) CASB
12 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.45%) Kibana
12 1 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 40 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 31 (14.03%) Splunk
3 23 (10.41%) Google
4 13 (5.88%) Oracle
5 11 (4.98%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.98%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.07%) Cisco
6 9 (4.07%) PagerDuty
7 8 (3.62%) Aruba
8 7 (3.17%) Arista
8 7 (3.17%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.17%) F5
8 7 (3.17%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.71%) BigPanda
10 5 (2.26%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.36%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.36%) Databricks
11 3 (1.36%) New Relic
12 2 (0.90%) Confluent
12 2 (0.90%) Foundry