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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 258 233
Rank change year-on-year +24 -25 -7
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 237 111 158
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 0.83% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.90% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 64 114
10th Percentile £425 £333 £475
25th Percentile £481 £461 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £526 £720
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -26.91% +8.68%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £810
90th Percentile £738 £743 £850
England median daily rate £540 £492 £625
% change year-on-year +9.76% -21.28% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £57.12 - -
25th Percentile £60.30 £53.00 -
Median hourly rate £66.18 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £72.66 £59.00 -
90th Percentile £76.19 - -
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 17,967 12,400 14,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.57% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,762 8,167 9,402
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £664 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 240 183
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.22 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.03 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £64.78 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -23 19 £490 -19.67% 40
West London - 4 £360 - 9
South London - 3 £745 - 2
East London - 1 - - 3
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 10 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.84%) Apache
3 2 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.84%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) CMS
4 1 (0.42%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.42%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.42%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 119 (50.21%) AWS
2 89 (37.55%) Azure
3 60 (25.32%) GitHub
4 44 (18.57%) GCP
5 41 (17.30%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (10.97%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (10.55%) Datadog
9 21 (8.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (8.02%) Serverless
12 16 (6.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 15 (6.33%) Amazon S3
14 13 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (5.49%) PaaS
15 11 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (4.22%) Azure AKS
16 10 (4.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.02%) DNS
2 14 (5.91%) Firewall
3 11 (4.64%) VPN
4 7 (2.95%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.53%) Network Security
6 5 (2.11%) SNMP
7 4 (1.69%) SSL
8 3 (1.27%) HTTP
8 3 (1.27%) SAN
9 2 (0.84%) Internet
9 2 (0.84%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.42%) BGP
10 1 (0.42%) Calico
10 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.42%) NAS
10 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.42%) RTP
10 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.38%) NoSQL
1 8 (3.38%) Power BI
2 7 (2.95%) MongoDB
2 7 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.95%) Redis
3 6 (2.53%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.11%) MySQL
5 4 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.69%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.27%) Data Hub
7 2 (0.84%) Flink
7 2 (0.84%) KDB
7 2 (0.84%) Metadata
7 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.42%) Big Data
8 1 (0.42%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (18.99%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.02%) Git
3 18 (7.59%) GitLab
4 4 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.84%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.84%) JIRA
5 2 (0.84%) Maven
5 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.42%) JUnit
6 1 (0.42%) Mockito
6 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 54 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.99%) Finance
3 26 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.55%) Banking
5 9 (3.80%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.53%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.11%) Law
8 4 (1.69%) Military
8 4 (1.69%) Police
8 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.27%) Advertising
9 3 (1.27%) Billing
9 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Retail
10 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.84%) Front Office
10 2 (0.84%) Games
10 2 (0.84%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 63 (26.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 47 (19.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (15.19%) Senior
4 33 (13.92%) Site Engineer
5 18 (7.59%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (7.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (7.17%) Lead
7 16 (6.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (6.33%) Architect
9 14 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (4.22%) Service Manager
10 10 (4.22%) Service Transition Manager
10 10 (4.22%) Transition Manager
11 9 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (3.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) Scala Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.95%) Support Engineer
14 6 (2.53%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (45.99%) Terraform
2 32 (13.50%) Kafka
3 23 (9.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 17 (7.17%) REST
5 16 (6.75%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (3.80%) Loki
7 6 (2.53%) Middleware
7 6 (2.53%) Play Framework
8 4 (1.69%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.69%) JDBC
8 4 (1.69%) Keycloak
8 4 (1.69%) OAuth
8 4 (1.69%) RESTful
8 4 (1.69%) Spring
8 4 (1.69%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.69%) YAML
9 3 (1.27%) .NET
9 3 (1.27%) eBPF
9 3 (1.27%) OpenID
9 3 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 65 (27.43%) Cloud Native
2 42 (17.72%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.22%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.80%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.38%) PKI
7 7 (2.95%) Mainframe
8 6 (2.53%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.53%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.11%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.11%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.11%) Replication
10 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.25%) Linux
2 15 (6.33%) Windows
3 13 (5.49%) Unix
4 8 (3.38%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.11%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.69%) VMS
8 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (62.45%) DevOps
2 137 (57.81%) CI/CD
3 134 (56.54%) Observability
4 116 (48.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (33.76%) Platform Engineering
6 64 (27.00%) Containerisation
7 44 (18.57%) Agile
8 41 (17.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (16.03%) Incident Response
10 37 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (14.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 33 (13.92%) Software Engineering
13 31 (13.08%) AI
14 30 (12.66%) Infrastructure Automation
14 30 (12.66%) Root Cause Analysis
15 29 (12.24%) Microservices
15 29 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
16 26 (10.97%) Incident Management
17 25 (10.55%) Test Automation
18 24 (10.13%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 90 (37.97%) Python
2 54 (22.78%) Bash
3 36 (15.19%) Java
4 30 (12.66%) SQL
5 28 (11.81%) Go
6 27 (11.39%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.49%) Bicep
8 11 (4.64%) C#
8 11 (4.64%) Scala
9 9 (3.80%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.38%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.53%) JavaScript
12 5 (2.11%) Perl
13 4 (1.69%) Korn
13 4 (1.69%) Ruby
14 3 (1.27%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.84%) Groovy
16 1 (0.42%) C++
16 1 (0.42%) PHP
16 1 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 66 (27.85%) Security Cleared
2 60 (25.32%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.59%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.95%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (2.53%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 4 (1.69%) Degree
9 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.84%) CCSP
10 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.84%) CISSP
10 2 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.84%) GIAC
11 1 (0.42%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.06%) QA
2 5 (2.11%) SLA
3 3 (1.27%) GDPR
3 3 (1.27%) NIST
3 3 (1.27%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.84%) GRC
4 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.84%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.42%) FedRAMP
5 1 (0.42%) GLBA
5 1 (0.42%) SEPA
System Software
1 58 (24.47%) Docker
2 7 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.27%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.42%) vSphere
6 1 (0.42%) zsh
Systems Management
1 111 (46.84%) Kubernetes
2 79 (33.33%) Grafana
3 63 (26.58%) Prometheus
4 40 (16.88%) Ansible
5 8 (3.38%) Kibana
6 5 (2.11%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (1.69%) Argo
7 4 (1.69%) Cilium
7 4 (1.69%) ZABBIX
8 3 (1.27%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.27%) Puppet
9 2 (0.84%) Netcool
9 2 (0.84%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 2 (0.84%) Packer
9 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.84%) systemd
9 2 (0.84%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.84%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 1 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.42%) Istio
Vendors
1 36 (15.19%) Dynatrace
1 36 (15.19%) Splunk
2 23 (9.70%) Microsoft
3 19 (8.02%) Google
4 14 (5.91%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.80%) Oracle
6 8 (3.38%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.38%) VMware
7 7 (2.95%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.11%) F5
8 5 (2.11%) New Relic
9 4 (1.69%) Databricks
10 3 (1.27%) BigPanda
11 2 (0.84%) Confluent
11 2 (0.84%) Hitachi
11 2 (0.84%) IBM
11 2 (0.84%) Solace
11 2 (0.84%) Sybase
11 2 (0.84%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.84%) TOWER Software