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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 230 222
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 +64
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 136 167 214
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 1.06% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.18% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 123 153
10th Percentile £434 £465 £475
25th Percentile £500 £622 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £668 £810 £738
90th Percentile £713 £838 £810
England median daily rate £550 £675 £626
% change year-on-year -18.52% +7.91% -3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - -
75th Percentile £59.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £74.39 £75.00
% change year-on-year -24.72% -0.81% +3.45%

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 12,965 14,161 17,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.02% 89.69% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,536 9,145 12,688
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £769 £800 £800
England median daily rate £501 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.22%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £69.17 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 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 0 20 £610 -14.08% 7
South London - 6 £530 - 1
West London - 1 £375 -
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 1 (0.74%) Apache
1 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.74%) Confluence
1 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
1 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.74%) SAP PS
1 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (60.29%) AWS
2 47 (34.56%) Azure
3 39 (28.68%) GitHub
4 33 (24.26%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
6 22 (16.18%) Serverless
7 17 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (11.76%) GCP
9 15 (11.03%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (11.03%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (11.03%) Datadog
10 14 (10.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (10.29%) Amazon S3
10 14 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (10.29%) Azure AKS
11 12 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (6.62%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (5.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (4.41%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.62%) Firewall
2 6 (4.41%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.68%) DNS
3 5 (3.68%) Multicast
3 5 (3.68%) tcpdump
3 5 (3.68%) Wireshark
4 3 (2.21%) Network Security
5 1 (0.74%) HTTP
5 1 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.74%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.15%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.41%) Flink
5 5 (3.68%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.68%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.21%) Data Hub
7 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.21%) MySQL
7 3 (2.21%) Power BI
7 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (11.76%) Git
2 14 (10.29%) GitLab
3 13 (9.56%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.68%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.94%) Gradle
5 4 (2.94%) Jaeger
5 4 (2.94%) Maven
5 4 (2.94%) Selenium
6 2 (1.47%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.47%) JIRA
6 2 (1.47%) PVCS
7 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.74%) git-flow
General
1 28 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.91%) Finance
3 12 (8.82%) Banking
4 10 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.35%) Front Office
5 4 (2.94%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Billing
7 1 (0.74%) Games
7 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 64 (47.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 47 (34.56%) Site Engineer
3 30 (22.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (19.85%) Senior
5 13 (9.56%) Python Engineer
6 10 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (7.35%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.62%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Consultant
9 7 (5.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Kafka Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) GCP Engineer
12 4 (2.94%) DBA
12 4 (2.94%) Developer
12 4 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
12 4 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (2.94%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.50%) Kafka
2 7 (5.15%) Node.js
2 7 (5.15%) REST
3 5 (3.68%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (3.68%) GraphQL
3 5 (3.68%) Middleware
3 5 (3.68%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.94%) YAML
5 3 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.47%) .NET
6 2 (1.47%) Loki
6 2 (1.47%) React
6 2 (1.47%) Spring
6 2 (1.47%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.74%) OAuth
7 1 (0.74%) OpenID
7 1 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.74%) RESTful
7 1 (0.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.56%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.88%) Fixed Income
4 8 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.15%) Data Centre
5 7 (5.15%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.41%) Mainframe
6 6 (4.41%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.47%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.74%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.74%) CUDA
8 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.74%) Online Games
8 1 (0.74%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.06%) Linux
2 6 (4.41%) Unix
3 3 (2.21%) VMS
4 2 (1.47%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.47%) Windows
5 1 (0.74%) Android
5 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.74%) CentOS
5 1 (0.74%) Debian
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (61.03%) DevOps
2 82 (60.29%) CI/CD
3 68 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (45.59%) Observability
5 36 (26.47%) Containerisation
6 31 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (19.85%) Agile
8 22 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (15.44%) AI
9 21 (15.44%) GitOps
10 20 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (13.97%) Incident Response
11 19 (13.97%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (13.24%) Platform Engineering
13 17 (12.50%) Migration
14 16 (11.76%) High Availability
14 16 (11.76%) Microservices
15 15 (11.03%) Analytics
15 15 (11.03%) Data Protection
16 13 (9.56%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 78 (57.35%) Python
2 38 (27.94%) Bash
3 31 (22.79%) Go
3 31 (22.79%) Java
4 20 (14.71%) SQL
5 14 (10.29%) PromQL
6 13 (9.56%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.41%) Ruby
8 5 (3.68%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.47%) Bicep
11 2 (1.47%) Scala
12 1 (0.74%) C
12 1 (0.74%) C#
12 1 (0.74%) C++
12 1 (0.74%) Perl
12 1 (0.74%) PHP
12 1 (0.74%) Rust
12 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.97%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.62%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.68%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.21%) Degree
7 2 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.47%) CISSP
8 1 (0.74%) CCSP
8 1 (0.74%) CEH
8 1 (0.74%) CISM
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.74%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.21%) GDPR
1 3 (2.21%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.47%) SLA
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) NIST
3 1 (0.74%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (27.94%) Docker
2 6 (4.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.74%) GPFS
3 1 (0.74%) KVM
3 1 (0.74%) Lustre
3 1 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (46.32%) Terraform
2 61 (44.85%) Kubernetes
3 40 (29.41%) Grafana
4 30 (22.06%) Prometheus
5 18 (13.24%) Ansible
6 16 (11.76%) Argo
7 8 (5.88%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (5.88%) Puppet
8 5 (3.68%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.47%) Kibana
9 2 (1.47%) Opsgenie
9 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.74%) Graphite
10 1 (0.74%) Istio
10 1 (0.74%) logstash
10 1 (0.74%) Packer
10 1 (0.74%) Podman
10 1 (0.74%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (17.65%) Splunk
2 20 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.62%) Dynatrace
4 7 (5.15%) PagerDuty
5 6 (4.41%) Google
6 5 (3.68%) Oracle
6 5 (3.68%) Solace
6 5 (3.68%) TIBCO
7 4 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.47%) Confluent
8 2 (1.47%) Databricks
8 2 (1.47%) Qualys
9 1 (0.74%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.74%) Black Duck
9 1 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.74%) Okta
9 1 (0.74%) Tanium
9 1 (0.74%) Tenable
9 1 (0.74%) Zscaler