Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 260 271
Rank change year-on-year +32 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 134 137 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.01% 0.78% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.88% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 97 153
10th Percentile £308 £425 £463
25th Percentile £359 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £725 £850 £713
90th Percentile £838 - £749
England median daily rate £500 £550 £631
% change year-on-year -9.09% -12.87% +0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £40.63 - £69.50
25th Percentile £42.69 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £50.25 - £82.50
75th Percentile £56.69 - £86.25
90th Percentile £58.08 - £88.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 - £78.00

All Process and 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 12,246 15,579 23,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.54% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,177 11,085 16,913
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 294 268
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.96 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.77
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -26.42% +13.25%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London.

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 +8 30 £600 -15.19% 65
East London - 2 £250 - 3
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (11.19%) Apache
2 14 (10.45%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (10.45%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.48%) Confluence
4 5 (3.73%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.24%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (2.24%) SAS
6 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) SAP BPC
1 2 (1.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (47.76%) AWS
2 43 (32.09%) Azure
3 24 (17.91%) Serverless
4 21 (15.67%) GCP
4 21 (15.67%) GitHub
5 20 (14.93%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (14.18%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (13.43%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (12.69%) OpenShift
9 14 (10.45%) Datadog
9 14 (10.45%) dbt
10 11 (8.21%) Azure AKS
10 11 (8.21%) Azure Sentinel
11 10 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (5.22%) PaaS
14 6 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (4.48%) Amazon S3
14 6 (4.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.19%) DNS
2 12 (8.96%) TCP/IP
3 10 (7.46%) Firewall
4 9 (6.72%) HTTP
5 6 (4.48%) FTP
5 6 (4.48%) SMTP
5 6 (4.48%) SSL
6 5 (3.73%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.99%) DHCP
8 3 (2.24%) Network Security
9 2 (1.49%) BGP
9 2 (1.49%) DSL
9 2 (1.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (1.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (1.49%) NAS
9 2 (1.49%) OSPF
9 2 (1.49%) SAN
9 2 (1.49%) VPN
10 1 (0.75%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.75%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.19%) Amazon Athena
1 15 (11.19%) Apache Iceberg
2 14 (10.45%) Apache Arrow
2 14 (10.45%) Apache Ignite
2 14 (10.45%) Dremio
3 9 (6.72%) Big Data
4 6 (4.48%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.73%) Power BI
6 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.24%) OLAP
7 3 (2.24%) OLTP
7 3 (2.24%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.24%) SAP BW
7 3 (2.24%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (2.24%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (15.67%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.45%) Artifactory
2 14 (10.45%) Git
3 9 (6.72%) GitLab
4 8 (5.97%) TeamCity
5 6 (4.48%) JIRA
5 6 (4.48%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (2.24%) JMeter
6 3 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.24%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.49%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.49%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.75%) Gatling
8 1 (0.75%) Gradle
8 1 (0.75%) Maven
8 1 (0.75%) Selenium
8 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.75%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (29.10%) Finance
2 24 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.43%) Banking
4 14 (10.45%) Front Office
5 6 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.49%) International Banking
9 2 (1.49%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (44.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 56 (41.79%) Site Engineer
3 30 (22.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (14.93%) Python Engineer
5 19 (14.18%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (12.69%) Data Engineer
7 16 (11.94%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (11.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 14 (10.45%) Architect
8 14 (10.45%) Senior
9 6 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.73%) Developer
10 5 (3.73%) GCP Architect
10 5 (3.73%) Lead
10 5 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.73%) Windows Engineer
11 4 (2.99%) Azure Architect
11 4 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (2.99%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.99%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.42%) Kafka
2 18 (13.43%) .NET
3 14 (10.45%) J2EE
3 14 (10.45%) PySpark
4 11 (8.21%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (5.97%) JSON
7 6 (4.48%) Spring
8 5 (3.73%) REST
9 4 (2.99%) LDAP
9 4 (2.99%) Web Services
10 3 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.24%) React
10 3 (2.24%) Spring Boot
10 3 (2.24%) YAML
11 2 (1.49%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.49%) Middleware
11 2 (1.49%) VML
12 1 (0.75%) ADO
12 1 (0.75%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.67%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.19%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.73%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.73%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.24%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.24%) Social Media
6 2 (1.49%) Clustering
6 2 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.91%) Linux
2 8 (5.97%) Windows
3 4 (2.99%) Unix
3 4 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.24%) Android
5 2 (1.49%) Debian
5 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.49%) Solaris
5 2 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (72.39%) DevOps
2 78 (58.21%) CI/CD
3 55 (41.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (36.57%) Observability
5 47 (35.07%) Agile
6 36 (26.87%) Containerisation
7 28 (20.90%) Microservices
8 26 (19.40%) Software Engineering
9 17 (12.69%) GitOps
9 17 (12.69%) Open Source
9 17 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (12.69%) Service-Level Objective
10 16 (11.94%) Asset Management
10 16 (11.94%) Data Protection
10 16 (11.94%) Migration
11 14 (10.45%) Data Engineering
12 13 (9.70%) High Availability
12 13 (9.70%) Test Automation
13 11 (8.21%) Incident Response
14 10 (7.46%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (55.22%) Python
2 34 (25.37%) Go
3 32 (23.88%) Bash
4 30 (22.39%) Java
5 23 (17.16%) PowerShell
6 22 (16.42%) SQL
7 21 (15.67%) C#
8 13 (9.70%) Bicep
9 8 (5.97%) JavaScript
9 8 (5.97%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (5.22%) Ruby
11 4 (2.99%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.24%) CodeQL
12 3 (2.24%) PHP
12 3 (2.24%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.49%) Rust
14 1 (0.75%) C++
14 1 (0.75%) Perl
14 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (6.72%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.22%) AWS Certification
3 4 (2.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.99%) CISSP
3 4 (2.99%) Degree
3 4 (2.99%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.24%) CEH
4 3 (2.24%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.75%) CCSP
6 1 (0.75%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.96%) QA
2 5 (3.73%) GDPR
3 3 (2.24%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.24%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.49%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (23.88%) Docker
2 6 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.75%) Ceph
4 1 (0.75%) NFS
4 1 (0.75%) Veritas File System
4 1 (0.75%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 62 (46.27%) Terraform
3 36 (26.87%) Grafana
4 35 (26.12%) Prometheus
5 28 (20.90%) Ansible
6 9 (6.72%) Puppet
7 7 (5.22%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.99%) Argo
8 4 (2.99%) Packer
9 3 (2.24%) Podman
10 2 (1.49%) Kibana
10 2 (1.49%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.49%) logstash
10 2 (1.49%) Netcool
10 2 (1.49%) Salt
10 2 (1.49%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.75%) Control-M
11 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.75%) yum
Vendors
1 25 (18.66%) Splunk
2 19 (14.18%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.72%) Oracle
4 7 (5.22%) Google
4 7 (5.22%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.73%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.73%) SAP
6 3 (2.24%) Cisco
7 2 (1.49%) Adobe
7 2 (1.49%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.49%) F5
7 2 (1.49%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.49%) IBM
7 2 (1.49%) New Relic
7 2 (1.49%) Qualys
7 2 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.49%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.49%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.49%) VMware
8 1 (0.75%) SaltStack