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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 234 246
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +17
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 225 134 139
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 0.98% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.06% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 80 100
10th Percentile £430 £308 £450
25th Percentile £485 £396 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £708
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -25.80% +13.20%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £850
90th Percentile £756 £838 -
England median daily rate £537 £488 £585
% change year-on-year +10.15% -16.60% -8.31%
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 17,802 12,600 14,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.23% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,756 8,430 10,474
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 240 222
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £20.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.63
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -13.36% -20.27%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -28 23 £476 -20.63% 27
South London - 6 £766 -
West London - 3 £360 - 7
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 5 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.22%) Confluence
2 3 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.89%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 7 (3.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) Maximo
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.44%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.44%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 97 (43.11%) AWS
2 81 (36.00%) Azure
3 61 (27.11%) GitHub
4 40 (17.78%) GCP
4 40 (17.78%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (13.78%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (12.00%) Datadog
7 23 (10.22%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (8.44%) Azure AKS
10 18 (8.00%) Serverless
11 16 (7.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 16 (7.11%) PaaS
12 15 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (5.78%) Amazon S3
14 12 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (4.89%) Entra ID
15 11 (4.89%) SaaS
16 10 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.00%) Firewall
2 17 (7.56%) DNS
2 17 (7.56%) VPN
3 8 (3.56%) Network Security
4 5 (2.22%) Ethernet
4 5 (2.22%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.22%) InfiniBand
4 5 (2.22%) NetScaler
4 5 (2.22%) SNMP
4 5 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.22%) Wireless
5 4 (1.78%) MPLS
6 3 (1.33%) Internet
7 2 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.89%) SSL
7 2 (0.89%) WAN
8 1 (0.44%) Calico
8 1 (0.44%) HTTP
8 1 (0.44%) NaaS
8 1 (0.44%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.00%) Power BI
2 7 (3.11%) BigQuery
2 7 (3.11%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.67%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.67%) Redis
4 4 (1.78%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.78%) Data Hub
4 4 (1.78%) MySQL
5 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.89%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.44%) Flink
7 1 (0.44%) KDB
7 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.89%) GitLab
3 17 (7.56%) Git
4 4 (1.78%) JIRA
5 3 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.89%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.44%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 37 (16.44%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.67%) Finance
3 25 (11.11%) Banking
4 16 (7.11%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.67%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.22%) Law
9 4 (1.78%) Billing
9 4 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.78%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.33%) Games
10 3 (1.33%) Military
11 2 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Legal
11 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Retail
12 1 (0.44%) Advertising
12 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 64 (28.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 41 (18.22%) Senior
3 39 (17.33%) Site Engineer
4 37 (16.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (10.67%) Architect
6 17 (7.56%) Lead
7 16 (7.11%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (5.33%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.11%) GCP Engineer
14 6 (2.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.67%) Developer
15 5 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.78%) Kafka
2 17 (7.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.00%) REST
5 7 (3.11%) Loki
6 6 (2.67%) Node.js
7 5 (2.22%) Spring
7 5 (2.22%) YAML
8 4 (1.78%) .NET
8 4 (1.78%) RESTful
8 4 (1.78%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.33%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.33%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.33%) OpenID
9 3 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.89%) ADO
10 2 (0.89%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.89%) eBPF
10 2 (0.89%) OAuth
10 2 (0.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 56 (24.89%) Cloud Native
2 43 (19.11%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.56%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.11%) Mainframe
4 7 (3.11%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.11%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.33%) PKI
7 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.89%) CMDB
8 2 (0.89%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.22%) Linux
2 13 (5.78%) Windows
3 10 (4.44%) Unix
4 5 (2.22%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.89%) VMS
7 1 (0.44%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (62.22%) Observability
2 124 (55.11%) DevOps
3 121 (53.78%) CI/CD
4 101 (44.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (29.78%) Platform Engineering
6 58 (25.78%) Containerisation
7 37 (16.44%) Incident Response
7 37 (16.44%) Software Engineering
8 35 (15.56%) Agile
9 32 (14.22%) AI
10 31 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (13.33%) Microservices
12 24 (10.67%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (10.22%) Incident Management
14 21 (9.33%) Event-Driven
15 20 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 19 (8.44%) ITIL
17 18 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 18 (8.00%) Test Automation
18 17 (7.56%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 84 (37.33%) Python
2 43 (19.11%) Java
3 33 (14.67%) Bash
4 22 (9.78%) Go
5 21 (9.33%) PowerShell
6 18 (8.00%) SQL
7 15 (6.67%) Bicep
8 10 (4.44%) C#
8 10 (4.44%) Ruby
9 6 (2.67%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.33%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.33%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.89%) C++
11 2 (0.89%) Korn
11 2 (0.89%) Scala
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) Perl
12 1 (0.44%) PromQL
12 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.56%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.78%) CCSP
6 4 (1.78%) CISSP
7 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.89%) Degree
8 2 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
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 7 (3.11%) SLA
2 6 (2.67%) QA
3 4 (1.78%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.78%) NIST
4 2 (0.89%) GRC
4 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (15.11%) Docker
2 4 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (45.33%) Terraform
2 94 (41.78%) Kubernetes
3 61 (27.11%) Prometheus
4 60 (26.67%) Grafana
5 32 (14.22%) Ansible
6 5 (2.22%) Argo
7 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.78%) Packer
7 4 (1.78%) ZABBIX
8 3 (1.33%) Cilium
8 3 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.33%) Salt
9 2 (0.89%) Puppet
10 1 (0.44%) Istio
10 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.44%) Kibana
10 1 (0.44%) logstash
10 1 (0.44%) Nagios
10 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (16.44%) Splunk
2 33 (14.67%) Dynatrace
3 19 (8.44%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.22%) Oracle
6 12 (5.33%) Google
7 11 (4.89%) AppDynamics
8 7 (3.11%) Cisco
9 6 (2.67%) Aruba
9 6 (2.67%) F5
10 5 (2.22%) Arista
10 5 (2.22%) BigPanda
10 5 (2.22%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.22%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.22%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.78%) New Relic
11 4 (1.78%) VMware
11 4 (1.78%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.33%) Databricks
13 2 (0.89%) PagerDuty