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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 260 233
Rank change year-on-year +24 -27 +20
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 231 107 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 0.80% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.86% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 64 113
10th Percentile £425 £333 £463
25th Percentile £485 £461 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £710
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -22.54% +7.17%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £810
90th Percentile £739 £743 £850
England median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £55.35 - -
25th Percentile £55.88 £53.00 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% - -
75th Percentile £69.40 £59.00 -
90th Percentile £74.89 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £79.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year -27.22% -7.06% +13.33%

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 18,097 12,373 14,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.52% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,869 8,168 9,467
10th Percentile £360 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -25 19 £490 -19.67% 37
West London - 4 £360 - 18
South London - 3 £745 - 2
East London - 1 - - 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 8 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.87%) CMS
3 2 (0.87%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.43%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.43%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 111 (48.05%) AWS
2 80 (34.63%) Azure
3 59 (25.54%) GitHub
4 40 (17.32%) GitHub Actions
5 39 (16.88%) GCP
6 27 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (11.26%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (11.26%) Datadog
8 20 (8.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (8.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (7.79%) Serverless
11 15 (6.49%) Amazon S3
11 15 (6.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 14 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (5.19%) SaaS
14 11 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (4.76%) Azure AKS
14 11 (4.76%) PaaS
15 10 (4.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.36%) DNS
2 12 (5.19%) Firewall
3 10 (4.33%) VPN
4 6 (2.60%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.16%) Network Security
5 5 (2.16%) SNMP
6 4 (1.73%) SSL
7 3 (1.30%) HTTP
7 3 (1.30%) SAN
8 2 (0.87%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.43%) Calico
9 1 (0.43%) Internet
9 1 (0.43%) NAS
9 1 (0.43%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.03%) NoSQL
1 7 (3.03%) Power BI
2 6 (2.60%) BigQuery
2 6 (2.60%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.60%) Redis
2 6 (2.60%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.73%) MySQL
5 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.30%) Data Hub
6 2 (0.87%) Flink
6 2 (0.87%) KDB
6 2 (0.87%) Metadata
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 17 (7.36%) GitLab
3 15 (6.49%) Git
4 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.87%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.87%) JIRA
6 1 (0.43%) JUnit
6 1 (0.43%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.43%) Maven
6 1 (0.43%) Mockito
6 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 46 (19.91%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.61%) Finance
3 25 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (10.82%) Banking
4 10 (4.33%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.60%) Investment Banking
5 6 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.16%) Games
6 5 (2.16%) Law
6 5 (2.16%) Military
7 4 (1.73%) Police
8 3 (1.30%) Billing
8 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.30%) Retail
8 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.87%) Advertising
9 2 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.87%) Local Government
9 2 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 61 (26.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 41 (17.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (16.02%) Senior
4 34 (14.72%) Site Engineer
5 18 (7.79%) Architect
6 16 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (6.93%) Lead
7 14 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.33%) Service Manager
9 10 (4.33%) Service Transition Manager
9 10 (4.33%) Transition Manager
10 8 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.46%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (3.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.03%) Support Engineer
12 6 (2.60%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (46.75%) Terraform
2 31 (13.42%) Kafka
3 19 (8.23%) OpenTelemetry
4 16 (6.93%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (6.49%) REST
6 9 (3.90%) Loki
7 5 (2.16%) Middleware
7 5 (2.16%) YAML
8 4 (1.73%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.73%) Keycloak
8 4 (1.73%) Node.js
8 4 (1.73%) Play Framework
8 4 (1.73%) RESTful
8 4 (1.73%) Spring
8 4 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.30%) .NET
9 3 (1.30%) eBPF
9 3 (1.30%) JDBC
9 3 (1.30%) OpenID
10 2 (0.87%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 63 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 42 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.33%) Security Posture
4 9 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.03%) Mainframe
6 7 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.60%) Distributed Applications
7 6 (2.60%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.16%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.16%) Replication
9 4 (1.73%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.73%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.73%) PKI
10 3 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (18.18%) Linux
2 14 (6.06%) Windows
3 11 (4.76%) Unix
4 8 (3.46%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.60%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.30%) VMS
7 1 (0.43%) Debian
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (61.04%) DevOps
2 137 (59.31%) Observability
3 129 (55.84%) CI/CD
4 113 (48.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (32.47%) Platform Engineering
6 59 (25.54%) Containerisation
7 39 (16.88%) Incident Response
8 38 (16.45%) Agile
8 38 (16.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (13.85%) AI
10 32 (13.85%) Software Engineering
11 31 (13.42%) Infrastructure Automation
12 30 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 28 (12.12%) Microservices
13 28 (12.12%) Root Cause Analysis
14 27 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (11.26%) High Availability
16 23 (9.96%) Incident Management
17 21 (9.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 82 (35.50%) Python
2 43 (18.61%) Bash
3 34 (14.72%) Java
4 27 (11.69%) SQL
5 26 (11.26%) Go
6 22 (9.52%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.06%) Bicep
8 12 (5.19%) C#
9 8 (3.46%) Scala
9 8 (3.46%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.03%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.16%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.16%) Perl
11 5 (2.16%) Ruby
12 4 (1.73%) Korn
13 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.43%) F#
14 1 (0.43%) Groovy
14 1 (0.43%) PromQL
14 1 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 61 (26.41%) Security Cleared
2 55 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.36%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 4 (1.73%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.30%) CCSP
8 3 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.30%) CISSP
8 3 (1.30%) Degree
9 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.87%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.76%) QA
2 5 (2.16%) SLA
3 3 (1.30%) GDPR
4 2 (0.87%) GRC
4 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.87%) NIST
4 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.43%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (20.78%) Docker
2 7 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.30%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.87%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (43.72%) Kubernetes
2 72 (31.17%) Grafana
3 60 (25.97%) Prometheus
4 38 (16.45%) Ansible
5 7 (3.03%) Kibana
6 5 (2.16%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (1.73%) Argo
7 4 (1.73%) Cilium
7 4 (1.73%) ZABBIX
8 3 (1.30%) Packer
9 2 (0.87%) Puppet
9 2 (0.87%) systemd
10 1 (0.43%) Control-M
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.43%) Nagios
10 1 (0.43%) Netcool
10 1 (0.43%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.43%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.43%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 38 (16.45%) Dynatrace
2 36 (15.58%) Splunk
3 23 (9.96%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.63%) AppDynamics
4 13 (5.63%) Google
5 12 (5.19%) Oracle
6 8 (3.46%) VMware
7 7 (3.03%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.60%) New Relic
8 6 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.16%) F5
10 3 (1.30%) BigPanda
11 2 (0.87%) Confluent
11 2 (0.87%) Databricks
11 2 (0.87%) Hitachi
11 2 (0.87%) Solace
11 2 (0.87%) Sybase
11 2 (0.87%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.87%) TOWER Software
12 1 (0.43%) SAP