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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 216 266
Rank change year-on-year +18 +50 -13
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 217 143 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.13% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.22% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 105 84
10th Percentile £401 £318 £433
25th Percentile £500 £506 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £613
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +14.29% -2.00%
75th Percentile £675 £838 £741
90th Percentile £738 - £850
England median daily rate £533 £638 £550
% change year-on-year -16.35% +15.91% -14.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £52.35 - -
25th Percentile £54.00 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% - -
75th Percentile £69.40 £49.75 -
90th Percentile £74.89 - -
England median hourly rate £55.50 £44.50 -
% change year-on-year +24.72% - -

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 15,485 11,688 15,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 91.95% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,369 7,938 11,291
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £757 £802 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 334
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.94
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.13 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.93
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -6.67%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -14 23 £538 -10.42% 19
South London - 10 £530 -
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 6 (2.76%) Confluence
2 5 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.92%) Apache
4 2 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) CMS
5 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.46%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.84%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) BASE24
2 1 (0.46%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 101 (46.54%) Azure
2 94 (43.32%) AWS
3 84 (38.71%) GitHub
4 54 (24.88%) GitHub Actions
5 48 (22.12%) GCP
6 32 (14.75%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (13.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (11.52%) Amazon S3
9 24 (11.06%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (11.06%) Serverless
10 21 (9.68%) Azure AKS
11 20 (9.22%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (9.22%) Datadog
12 18 (8.29%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (8.29%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (7.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (5.53%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (5.07%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.98%) Firewall
2 16 (7.37%) Network Security
3 15 (6.91%) DNS
4 9 (4.15%) VPN
5 7 (3.23%) Ethernet
5 7 (3.23%) InfiniBand
5 7 (3.23%) NetScaler
5 7 (3.23%) Wireless
6 5 (2.30%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (1.84%) MPLS
7 4 (1.84%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.92%) Internet
9 2 (0.92%) WAN
10 1 (0.46%) NaaS
10 1 (0.46%) NGFW
10 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.15%) BigQuery
3 9 (4.15%) Flink
3 9 (4.15%) MySQL
4 8 (3.69%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.69%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.23%) Power BI
6 6 (2.76%) Data Hub
6 6 (2.76%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.76%) Redis
7 5 (2.30%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.30%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.84%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.84%) DocumentDB
8 4 (1.84%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.92%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (17.97%) Jenkins
2 27 (12.44%) GitLab
3 24 (11.06%) Git
4 14 (6.45%) Artifactory
5 7 (3.23%) JIRA
6 4 (1.84%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.92%) Gatling
8 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.46%) git-flow
8 1 (0.46%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.46%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
General
1 29 (13.36%) Finance
2 28 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.14%) Banking
4 20 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.69%) Front Office
6 8 (3.69%) Retail
7 4 (1.84%) Games
7 4 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.92%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Billing
10 1 (0.46%) Military
10 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (38.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 60 (27.65%) Site Engineer
3 45 (20.74%) Senior
4 37 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (11.52%) Azure Engineer
6 22 (10.14%) Architect
7 21 (9.68%) Lead
8 19 (8.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (4.15%) Migration Engineer
12 8 (3.69%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (3.69%) Technical Architect
13 7 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.23%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 7 (3.23%) Python Engineer
13 7 (3.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 6 (2.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.76%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.44%) Kafka
2 20 (9.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (6.91%) Spring
4 14 (6.45%) Spring Boot
5 12 (5.53%) REST
6 9 (4.15%) Node.js
6 9 (4.15%) React
7 7 (3.23%) OAuth
7 7 (3.23%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.23%) OpenID
8 6 (2.76%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.76%) LangChain
9 5 (2.30%) gRPC
9 5 (2.30%) RESTful
10 4 (1.84%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.84%) JPA
10 4 (1.84%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (1.38%) Apache Avro
11 3 (1.38%) GraphQL
11 3 (1.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.74%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.45%) Mainframe
3 14 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.15%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.76%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.84%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.84%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.92%) CMDB
8 2 (0.92%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.92%) PKI
8 2 (0.92%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.46%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.46%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 36 (16.59%) Linux
2 12 (5.53%) Unix
2 12 (5.53%) VMS
3 10 (4.61%) Windows
4 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.46%) Debian
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (62.67%) DevOps
2 127 (58.53%) CI/CD
3 111 (51.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (47.93%) Observability
5 58 (26.73%) Containerisation
6 46 (21.20%) Migration
7 44 (20.28%) Agile
8 39 (17.97%) Platform Engineering
9 36 (16.59%) Microservices
10 32 (14.75%) AI
11 31 (14.29%) Incident Response
12 30 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (13.82%) Technical Leadership
13 26 (11.98%) Software Engineering
14 24 (11.06%) Analytics
15 22 (10.14%) Load Balancing
15 22 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (9.22%) High Availability
16 20 (9.22%) Security Testing
17 19 (8.76%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (34.10%) Python
2 37 (17.05%) Java
3 30 (13.82%) SQL
4 22 (10.14%) Bash
5 17 (7.83%) PowerShell
6 16 (7.37%) Go
6 16 (7.37%) Ruby
7 9 (4.15%) Bicep
8 5 (2.30%) C#
9 2 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.92%) Scala
9 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.46%) C++
10 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (31.34%) Security Cleared
2 58 (26.73%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.53%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.15%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.30%) Degree
8 4 (1.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.84%) CCSP
8 4 (1.84%) CISSP
8 4 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.46%) CCIE
11 1 (0.46%) CCNP
11 1 (0.46%) CSPO
11 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.69%) NIST
2 7 (3.23%) SLA
3 6 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.76%) QA
4 5 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.38%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.92%) GDPR
6 2 (0.92%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.92%) PSD2
6 2 (0.92%) SEPA
7 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (23.96%) Docker
2 12 (5.53%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.46%) GPFS
4 1 (0.46%) Lustre
4 1 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 126 (58.06%) Terraform
2 96 (44.24%) Kubernetes
3 43 (19.82%) Ansible
4 32 (14.75%) Grafana
5 31 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.76%) Argo
7 9 (4.15%) Puppet
8 6 (2.76%) Istio
8 6 (2.76%) Salt
9 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.84%) Packer
10 3 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.38%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.92%) Cilium
11 2 (0.92%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.46%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.46%) CASB
12 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.46%) Kibana
12 1 (0.46%) logstash
Vendors
1 38 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.90%) Splunk
3 23 (10.60%) Google
4 13 (5.99%) Oracle
5 11 (5.07%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.15%) Cisco
6 9 (4.15%) Dynatrace
6 9 (4.15%) PagerDuty
7 8 (3.69%) Aruba
8 7 (3.23%) Arista
8 7 (3.23%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.23%) F5
8 7 (3.23%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.76%) BigPanda
10 5 (2.30%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.38%) Databricks
11 3 (1.38%) New Relic
12 2 (0.92%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.92%) Confluent
12 2 (0.92%) Salesforce