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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 267 254
Rank change year-on-year +55 -13 -12
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 142 125 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.13% 0.70% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.79% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 80 168
10th Percentile £315 £448 £471
25th Percentile £503 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £648 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +3.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £838 £775 £713
90th Percentile - £850 £750
England median daily rate £613 £550 £638
% change year-on-year +11.36% -13.73% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £71.00
25th Percentile £39.25 - £80.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 - £85.00
75th Percentile £49.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £88.00
England median hourly rate £44.50 - £79.00
% change year-on-year - - +17.04%

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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 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
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 1 May 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 +10 25 £635 -5.93% 12
East London +16 2 £250 - 1
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 36 (25.35%) Apache
2 29 (20.42%) Apache Spark
3 28 (19.72%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (4.93%) nginx
5 6 (4.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (3.52%) Confluence
7 4 (2.82%) SharePoint
8 3 (2.11%) Oracle Coherence
8 3 (2.11%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) SAP BPC
1 2 (1.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (52.82%) AWS
2 48 (33.80%) Serverless
3 45 (31.69%) Amazon ECS
4 43 (30.28%) AWS Lambda
4 43 (30.28%) Azure
5 35 (24.65%) OpenShift
6 28 (19.72%) dbt
7 19 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (11.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (10.56%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (10.56%) Amazon S3
9 15 (10.56%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (9.86%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (9.15%) GCP
12 12 (8.45%) GitHub
13 11 (7.75%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (7.04%) Datadog
15 9 (6.34%) Azure AKS
16 7 (4.93%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.15%) DNS
2 12 (8.45%) HTTP
3 10 (7.04%) TCP/IP
4 8 (5.63%) Firewall
5 6 (4.23%) FTP
5 6 (4.23%) SMTP
5 6 (4.23%) SSL
6 5 (3.52%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.82%) DHCP
8 3 (2.11%) Network Security
9 2 (1.41%) BGP
9 2 (1.41%) DSL
9 2 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (1.41%) OSPF
9 2 (1.41%) VPN
10 1 (0.70%) BIG-IP
10 1 (0.70%) NAS
10 1 (0.70%) SAN
10 1 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.42%) Amazon Athena
1 29 (20.42%) Apache Iceberg
2 28 (19.72%) Apache Arrow
2 28 (19.72%) Apache Ignite
2 28 (19.72%) Dremio
3 14 (9.86%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (9.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (4.23%) Big Data
5 5 (3.52%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.52%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.11%) OLAP
6 3 (2.11%) OLTP
6 3 (2.11%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.11%) Power BI
6 3 (2.11%) SAP BW
6 3 (2.11%) SAP Data Services
6 3 (2.11%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (23.24%) Artifactory
2 30 (21.13%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.63%) Git
4 7 (4.93%) GitLab
5 6 (4.23%) TeamCity
6 5 (3.52%) JIRA
7 4 (2.82%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.11%) JMeter
8 3 (2.11%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.41%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.41%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.70%) Gatling
10 1 (0.70%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.70%) JUnit
10 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.70%) Subversion
10 1 (0.70%) Travis CI
General
1 65 (45.77%) Finance
2 43 (30.28%) Front Office
3 26 (18.31%) Banking
4 17 (11.97%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.41%) International Banking
8 2 (1.41%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.41%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (39.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (36.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 45 (31.69%) AWS Engineer
4 43 (30.28%) AWS DevOps
4 43 (30.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 43 (30.28%) Site Engineer
5 38 (26.76%) Python Engineer
6 31 (21.83%) Data Engineer
7 18 (12.68%) Senior
8 12 (8.45%) Architect
9 9 (6.34%) DevOps Manager
9 9 (6.34%) Finance Manager
10 8 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (5.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Architect
11 6 (4.23%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Unix Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Developer
12 5 (3.52%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.35%) Kafka
2 33 (23.24%) J2EE
3 28 (19.72%) PySpark
4 14 (9.86%) .NET
5 12 (8.45%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (6.34%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (5.63%) JSON
8 5 (3.52%) REST
9 4 (2.82%) LDAP
9 4 (2.82%) Spring
9 4 (2.82%) Web Services
10 3 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.11%) React
10 3 (2.11%) YAML
11 2 (1.41%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.41%) VML
12 1 (0.70%) FastAPI
12 1 (0.70%) Hibernate
12 1 (0.70%) Middleware
12 1 (0.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.08%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.34%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.23%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.52%) Tandem
6 3 (2.11%) Social Media
7 2 (1.41%) Clustering
7 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.70%) Replication
8 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.49%) Linux
2 10 (7.04%) Unix
3 7 (4.93%) Windows
4 4 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.11%) Android
6 2 (1.41%) Debian
6 2 (1.41%) Solaris
6 2 (1.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (80.28%) DevOps
2 95 (66.90%) CI/CD
3 68 (47.89%) Agile
4 53 (37.32%) Software Engineering
5 44 (30.99%) Asset Management
6 41 (28.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (23.94%) Open Source
8 31 (21.83%) Observability
9 28 (19.72%) Data Engineering
10 27 (19.01%) Containerisation
11 20 (14.08%) Microservices
12 17 (11.97%) High Availability
13 16 (11.27%) Service-Level Objective
14 14 (9.86%) Migration
15 13 (9.15%) Test Automation
16 10 (7.04%) Fintech
16 10 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
17 9 (6.34%) Chaos Engineering
17 9 (6.34%) Data Protection
17 9 (6.34%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 87 (61.27%) Python
2 47 (33.10%) Java
3 40 (28.17%) Go
4 18 (12.68%) C#
5 16 (11.27%) PowerShell
6 15 (10.56%) Bash
6 15 (10.56%) JavaScript
7 10 (7.04%) Bicep
8 9 (6.34%) SQL
9 8 (5.63%) Groovy
9 8 (5.63%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (4.93%) Shell Script
11 6 (4.23%) Ruby
12 3 (2.11%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.41%) PHP
14 1 (0.70%) C++
14 1 (0.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (4.23%) Degree
1 6 (4.23%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.11%) AWS Certification
2 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (1.41%) CEH
3 2 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.41%) CISSP
3 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.63%) QA
2 3 (2.11%) GDPR
3 2 (1.41%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.41%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.41%) SLA
4 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 62 (43.66%) Docker
2 6 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.70%) Ceph
4 1 (0.70%) NFS
4 1 (0.70%) Veritas File System
4 1 (0.70%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 89 (62.68%) Kubernetes
2 86 (60.56%) Terraform
3 34 (23.94%) Ansible
4 23 (16.20%) Grafana
4 23 (16.20%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.34%) Puppet
6 7 (4.93%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.41%) Argo
7 2 (1.41%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.41%) Netcool
7 2 (1.41%) Packer
7 2 (1.41%) Podman
7 2 (1.41%) Salt
7 2 (1.41%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.70%) Control-M
8 1 (0.70%) Kibana
8 1 (0.70%) logstash
8 1 (0.70%) QRadar
8 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (12.68%) Splunk
2 17 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.04%) Dynatrace
4 9 (6.34%) Oracle
5 8 (5.63%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.52%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.52%) SAP
7 4 (2.82%) Google
8 3 (2.11%) Cisco
8 3 (2.11%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.11%) F5
9 2 (1.41%) Adobe
9 2 (1.41%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.41%) IBM
9 2 (1.41%) New Relic
9 2 (1.41%) Qualys
9 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.41%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.41%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.41%) SolarWinds