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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 203 236
Rank change year-on-year -7 +33 +29
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 179 150 170
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 1.09% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.21% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 120 118
10th Percentile £400 £475 £459
25th Percentile £475 £663 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £670
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +8.25% +7.16%
75th Percentile £669 £838 £775
90th Percentile £775 - £810
England median daily rate £530 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -24.29% +21.74% -10.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £49.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £63.79 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.69% -14.95% -11.76%

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 13,555 12,414 16,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.89% 90.56% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,000 7,871 11,674
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 154 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.08 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.27 £19.05
Median hourly rate £34.14 £36.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.18% +20.00% -15.49%
75th Percentile £55.75 £53.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £70.25 £79.63 £72.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - +1.21%

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 5 February 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
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 5 February 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 -2 18 £605 -14.18% 18
South London - 7 £530 - 4
West London - 3 £375 - 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 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) Apache
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) BASE24
1 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 84 (46.93%) AWS
2 83 (46.37%) Azure
3 72 (40.22%) GitHub
4 54 (30.17%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (18.99%) GCP
6 28 (15.64%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (14.53%) Serverless
8 25 (13.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (12.29%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (11.17%) Amazon S3
11 19 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (8.38%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (7.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (7.82%) Azure AKS
14 14 (7.82%) Datadog
15 12 (6.70%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (6.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (6.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.73%) Firewall
2 11 (6.15%) DNS
3 10 (5.59%) Network Security
4 6 (3.35%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.23%) Multicast
5 4 (2.23%) tcpdump
5 4 (2.23%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.68%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.12%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.12%) InfiniBand
7 2 (1.12%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.12%) VPN
7 2 (1.12%) Wireless
8 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (8.94%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (6.15%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.03%) DynamoDB
4 9 (5.03%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.47%) Flink
5 8 (4.47%) MySQL
6 6 (3.35%) BigQuery
6 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.35%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.35%) Redis
7 5 (2.79%) Data Hub
7 5 (2.79%) Power BI
8 4 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.23%) DocumentDB
8 4 (2.23%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.12%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.12%) Tableau
10 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 38 (21.23%) Jenkins
2 23 (12.85%) GitLab
3 17 (9.50%) Git
4 14 (7.82%) Artifactory
5 4 (2.23%) CircleCI
5 4 (2.23%) Jaeger
6 3 (1.68%) JIRA
7 2 (1.12%) Gatling
7 2 (1.12%) PVCS
8 1 (0.56%) git-flow
8 1 (0.56%) Gradle
8 1 (0.56%) Maven
8 1 (0.56%) Selenium
8 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.64%) Finance
3 15 (8.38%) Banking
4 12 (6.70%) Front Office
5 10 (5.59%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.47%) Retail
7 3 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.68%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Billing
9 1 (0.56%) Games
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (42.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 54 (30.17%) Site Engineer
3 42 (23.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (17.32%) Senior
5 24 (13.41%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (8.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Lead
9 10 (5.59%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (5.03%) Consultant
10 9 (5.03%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (5.03%) Migration Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.35%) Architect
13 6 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.64%) Kafka
2 16 (8.94%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (8.38%) Spring
4 14 (7.82%) Spring Boot
5 13 (7.26%) Node.js
6 10 (5.59%) React
6 10 (5.59%) REST
7 7 (3.91%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.91%) OAuth
7 7 (3.91%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.91%) OpenID
8 6 (3.35%) LangChain
9 4 (2.23%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.23%) gRPC
9 4 (2.23%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.23%) JPA
9 4 (2.23%) Middleware
9 4 (2.23%) RESTful
9 4 (2.23%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (2.23%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.11%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.82%) Mainframe
4 11 (6.15%) Public Cloud
5 9 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (5.03%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.91%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.12%) Replication
9 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.56%) CUDA
10 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.56%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.56%) Online Games
10 1 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.23%) Linux
2 13 (7.26%) VMS
3 11 (6.15%) Unix
4 6 (3.35%) Windows
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.56%) CentOS
5 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (66.48%) DevOps
2 112 (62.57%) CI/CD
3 100 (55.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (43.58%) Observability
5 47 (26.26%) Containerisation
6 41 (22.91%) Migration
7 35 (19.55%) Agile
8 30 (16.76%) AI
9 29 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (15.08%) Microservices
10 27 (15.08%) Technical Leadership
11 26 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (13.97%) Platform Engineering
13 24 (13.41%) Incident Response
14 22 (12.29%) Analytics
15 20 (11.17%) Load Balancing
15 20 (11.17%) Security Testing
16 19 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
17 15 (8.38%) Change Control
17 15 (8.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 68 (37.99%) Python
2 34 (18.99%) Java
3 26 (14.53%) Bash
4 23 (12.85%) SQL
5 17 (9.50%) Go
6 14 (7.82%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.03%) Ruby
8 5 (2.79%) Bicep
8 5 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.23%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.56%) C
11 1 (0.56%) C#
11 1 (0.56%) C++
11 1 (0.56%) Perl
11 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.56%) Rust
11 1 (0.56%) Scala
11 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (27.93%) Security Cleared
2 43 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.59%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.47%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.91%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.23%) Degree
8 3 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.35%) PCI DSS
1 6 (3.35%) QA
2 5 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.79%) NIST
3 4 (2.23%) SLA
4 3 (1.68%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.12%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.12%) PSD2
5 2 (1.12%) SEPA
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (29.61%) Docker
2 11 (6.15%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.56%) GPFS
4 1 (0.56%) KVM
4 1 (0.56%) Lustre
4 1 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 108 (60.34%) Terraform
2 88 (49.16%) Kubernetes
3 36 (20.11%) Ansible
4 31 (17.32%) Grafana
5 26 (14.53%) Prometheus
6 21 (11.73%) Argo
7 9 (5.03%) Puppet
8 7 (3.91%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (3.35%) Istio
10 5 (2.79%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.68%) Salt
12 2 (1.12%) Opsgenie
12 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.56%) Cilium
13 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.29%) Google
3 21 (11.73%) Splunk
4 9 (5.03%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.91%) Oracle
5 7 (3.91%) PagerDuty
6 4 (2.23%) Confluent
6 4 (2.23%) Solace
6 4 (2.23%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.68%) Databricks
7 3 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.12%) Arista
8 2 (1.12%) Aruba
8 2 (1.12%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.12%) Cisco
8 2 (1.12%) F5
8 2 (1.12%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.12%) Qualys
8 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.12%) Salesforce