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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 216 273
Rank change year-on-year +18 +57 +3
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 218 129 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.06% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.15% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 90 89
10th Percentile £400 £308 £445
25th Percentile £475 £454 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £838 £850
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £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 16,137 11,264 15,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.21% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,779 7,595 11,054
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
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 238 182 310
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.90
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £31.67 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +17.61% +13.83% -29.04%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.23 £66.78
England median hourly rate £45.25 £28.48 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.88% -21.97% -2.14%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -13 25 £525 -10.64% 15
South London - 5 £630 - 5
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 84 (38.53%) AWS
3 83 (38.07%) GitHub
4 50 (22.94%) GitHub Actions
5 48 (22.02%) GCP
6 25 (11.47%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (9.17%) Serverless
8 19 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (8.72%) Azure AKS
8 19 (8.72%) Datadog
9 15 (6.88%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 13 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (5.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
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 28 (12.84%) Firewall
2 20 (9.17%) DNS
3 16 (7.34%) VPN
4 14 (6.42%) 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 10 (4.59%) BigQuery
1 10 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.13%) Power BI
2 9 (4.13%) Redis
3 8 (3.67%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.21%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.21%) MySQL
5 6 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.83%) DocumentDB
6 4 (1.83%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.83%) Flink
6 4 (1.83%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.38%) Data Hub
7 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.92%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (16.51%) 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
1 27 (12.39%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.63%) Banking
3 17 (7.80%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.67%) Retail
6 4 (1.83%) Games
6 4 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.38%) Front Office
7 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.92%) Legal
9 1 (0.46%) Advertising
9 1 (0.46%) Billing
9 1 (0.46%) Law
9 1 (0.46%) Military
9 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (31.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 42 (19.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (19.27%) Senior
2 42 (19.27%) Site Engineer
3 26 (11.93%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (11.01%) Architect
5 20 (9.17%) Lead
6 19 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (4.59%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (4.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.67%) Migration Engineer
10 8 (3.67%) Technical Architect
11 7 (3.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.21%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 7 (3.21%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.21%) Developer
12 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%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.83%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.83%) JPA
9 4 (1.83%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 44 (20.18%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.01%) 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%) PKI
8 2 (0.92%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.46%) APACS
9 1 (0.46%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.46%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.93%) Linux
2 12 (5.50%) Unix
3 10 (4.59%) VMS
3 10 (4.59%) Windows
4 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.46%) Debian
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (64.68%) DevOps
2 122 (55.96%) CI/CD
3 115 (52.75%) Observability
4 110 (50.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (26.61%) Containerisation
6 44 (20.18%) Platform Engineering
7 39 (17.89%) Migration
8 38 (17.43%) Agile
9 36 (16.51%) AI
9 36 (16.51%) Microservices
10 30 (13.76%) Incident Response
11 29 (13.30%) Software Engineering
12 25 (11.47%) Load Balancing
13 24 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (10.55%) Analytics
15 22 (10.09%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (8.72%) Event-Driven
16 19 (8.72%) Incident Management
16 19 (8.72%) Infrastructure Automation
17 17 (7.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 58 (26.61%) Python
2 31 (14.22%) Java
3 26 (11.93%) SQL
4 17 (7.80%) Bash
5 16 (7.34%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.88%) Go
7 11 (5.05%) Bicep
7 11 (5.05%) Ruby
8 8 (3.67%) C#
9 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.92%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.46%) C++
10 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.46%) PromQL
10 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (30.28%) 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
6 4 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.83%) CCSP
6 4 (1.83%) CISSP
6 4 (1.83%) DV Cleared
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 7 (3.21%) QA
3 6 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.29%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.38%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.92%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.92%) PSD2
6 2 (0.92%) SEPA
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) GDPR
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (19.72%) Docker
2 7 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 120 (55.05%) Terraform
2 101 (46.33%) Kubernetes
3 47 (21.56%) Prometheus
4 44 (20.18%) Grafana
5 41 (18.81%) Ansible
6 12 (5.50%) 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%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.92%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.46%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.46%) CASB
11 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.46%) Kibana
11 1 (0.46%) logstash
Vendors
1 34 (15.60%) Microsoft
1 34 (15.60%) Splunk
2 24 (11.01%) Google
3 19 (8.72%) Dynatrace
4 12 (5.50%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.59%) Oracle
6 9 (4.13%) Cisco
7 8 (3.67%) AppDynamics
7 8 (3.67%) Aruba
8 7 (3.21%) Arista
8 7 (3.21%) BigPanda
8 7 (3.21%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.21%) F5
8 7 (3.21%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.29%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.38%) Databricks
10 3 (1.38%) New Relic
10 3 (1.38%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.92%) Salesforce