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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 229 271
Rank change year-on-year +24 +42 -5
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 233 127 134
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.22% 1.01% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.09% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 80 94
10th Percentile £401 £308 £450
25th Percentile £475 £361 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% -25.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £850
90th Percentile £738 £838 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £58.69 - -
25th Percentile £61.61 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £67.93 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.66% - -
75th Percentile £73.97 £49.75 -
90th Percentile £76.72 - -
England median hourly rate £58.50 £79.00 -
% change year-on-year -25.95% - -

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 17,007 11,628 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.40% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,350 7,788 11,072
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
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 261 214 309
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -20 24 £481 -19.79% 4
South London - 6 £766 - 1
West London - 1 - - 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 (2.58%) Confluence
2 5 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.86%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.58%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 101 (43.35%) AWS
2 99 (42.49%) Azure
3 77 (33.05%) GitHub
4 48 (20.60%) GitHub Actions
5 46 (19.74%) GCP
6 32 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (10.30%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (9.87%) Datadog
9 22 (9.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (9.44%) Serverless
10 19 (8.15%) Azure AKS
11 18 (7.73%) Amazon S3
11 18 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (6.87%) PaaS
13 15 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (6.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (6.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (5.15%) OpenShift
16 11 (4.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.30%) Firewall
2 20 (8.58%) DNS
3 17 (7.30%) VPN
4 14 (6.01%) Network Security
5 6 (2.58%) Ethernet
5 6 (2.58%) InfiniBand
5 6 (2.58%) NetScaler
5 6 (2.58%) Wireless
6 5 (2.15%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (1.72%) MPLS
7 4 (1.72%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.29%) Internet
9 2 (0.86%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.86%) WAN
10 1 (0.43%) Calico
10 1 (0.43%) NaaS
10 1 (0.43%) NGFW
10 1 (0.43%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.15%) Redis
2 11 (4.72%) Power BI
3 9 (3.86%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.86%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.43%) MySQL
5 7 (3.00%) BigQuery
6 6 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.72%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.72%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.29%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.86%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.86%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.86%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.86%) Tableau
10 1 (0.43%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 37 (15.88%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.01%) GitLab
3 18 (7.73%) Git
4 6 (2.58%) Artifactory
4 6 (2.58%) JIRA
5 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.86%) Gatling
6 2 (0.86%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.43%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
General
1 38 (16.31%) Social Skills
2 34 (14.59%) Finance
3 25 (10.73%) Banking
4 16 (6.87%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.15%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.15%) Law
8 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.72%) Retail
9 3 (1.29%) Billing
9 3 (1.29%) Games
9 3 (1.29%) Military
9 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Legal
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 70 (30.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 44 (18.88%) Site Engineer
3 42 (18.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (17.60%) Senior
5 27 (11.59%) Architect
6 19 (8.15%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (7.73%) Lead
8 17 (7.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (6.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.72%) Technical Architect
12 8 (3.43%) Developer
13 7 (3.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.00%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (3.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.00%) GCP Engineer
13 7 (3.00%) Senior DevOps
13 7 (3.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 6 (2.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.59%) Kafka
2 22 (9.44%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (4.72%) REST
4 10 (4.29%) Spring
5 9 (3.86%) Spring Boot
6 8 (3.43%) OpenID
6 8 (3.43%) RESTful
7 7 (3.00%) Loki
7 7 (3.00%) OAuth
8 6 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.58%) Node.js
8 6 (2.58%) OAuth2
9 5 (2.15%) gRPC
10 4 (1.72%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.72%) JPA
10 4 (1.72%) Micronaut
10 4 (1.72%) Spring Cloud
10 4 (1.72%) YAML
11 3 (1.29%) .NET
11 3 (1.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 56 (24.03%) Cloud Native
2 40 (17.17%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.58%) Mainframe
4 12 (5.15%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.00%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.00%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.29%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.86%) CMDB
8 2 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.86%) PKI
9 1 (0.43%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.45%) Linux
2 13 (5.58%) Unix
3 10 (4.29%) Windows
4 5 (2.15%) VMS
5 3 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.43%) Debian
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (60.94%) DevOps
2 132 (56.65%) Observability
3 130 (55.79%) CI/CD
4 116 (49.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (26.61%) Platform Engineering
6 60 (25.75%) Containerisation
7 39 (16.74%) Agile
8 35 (15.02%) Microservices
9 34 (14.59%) AI
10 32 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (13.73%) Incident Response
11 31 (13.30%) Software Engineering
12 28 (12.02%) Migration
13 25 (10.73%) Infrastructure Automation
14 24 (10.30%) Event-Driven
15 22 (9.44%) Incident Management
15 22 (9.44%) Technical Leadership
16 21 (9.01%) Load Balancing
17 20 (8.58%) ITIL
17 20 (8.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (33.05%) Python
2 41 (17.60%) Java
3 31 (13.30%) Bash
4 28 (12.02%) SQL
5 20 (8.58%) PowerShell
6 19 (8.15%) Go
7 15 (6.44%) Bicep
8 9 (3.86%) Ruby
9 8 (3.43%) C#
10 3 (1.29%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.29%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) C++
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.43%) PromQL
12 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (26.61%) Security Cleared
2 54 (23.18%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.29%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.72%) CCSP
6 4 (1.72%) CISSP
7 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.86%) Degree
8 2 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CCIE
9 1 (0.43%) CCNP
9 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.43%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.43%) NIST
1 8 (3.43%) QA
2 7 (3.00%) SLA
3 5 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.15%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.86%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.86%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.86%) PSD2
5 2 (0.86%) SEPA
6 1 (0.43%) GDPR
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (18.88%) Docker
2 4 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 120 (51.50%) Terraform
2 107 (45.92%) Kubernetes
3 60 (25.75%) Prometheus
4 57 (24.46%) Grafana
5 41 (17.60%) Ansible
6 6 (2.58%) Argo
7 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.72%) Packer
7 4 (1.72%) Salt
8 3 (1.29%) Cilium
8 3 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.86%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.86%) Puppet
10 1 (0.43%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.43%) CASB
10 1 (0.43%) Istio
10 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.43%) Kibana
10 1 (0.43%) logstash
10 1 (0.43%) Nagios
Vendors
1 39 (16.74%) Splunk
2 30 (12.88%) Dynatrace
3 28 (12.02%) Microsoft
4 18 (7.73%) Google
5 15 (6.44%) ServiceNow
6 13 (5.58%) Oracle
7 10 (4.29%) AppDynamics
8 8 (3.43%) Cisco
9 7 (3.00%) Aruba
10 6 (2.58%) Arista
10 6 (2.58%) BigPanda
10 6 (2.58%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.58%) F5
10 6 (2.58%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.72%) Databricks
11 4 (1.72%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.72%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.86%) Foundry
12 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.86%) Sybase