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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 232 240
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 224 129 142
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 0.95% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.03% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 76 100
10th Percentile £427 £308 £450
25th Percentile £478 £379 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -25.00% +9.80%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £827
90th Percentile £738 £738 £850
England median daily rate £530 £475 £597
% change year-on-year +11.58% -20.44% -7.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £58.69 - -
25th Percentile £61.61 £53.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.93 £56.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% - -
75th Percentile £73.97 £59.00 -
90th Percentile £76.72 - -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £79.00 -
% change year-on-year -26.58% - -

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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -32 23 £476 -19.62% 30
South London - 6 £766 -
West London - 4 £360 - 6
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 5 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.23%) Confluence
2 4 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.89%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 7 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.45%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 100 (44.64%) AWS
2 81 (36.16%) Azure
3 61 (27.23%) GitHub
4 40 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
5 39 (17.41%) GCP
6 29 (12.95%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (12.95%) Datadog
7 26 (11.61%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (8.93%) Serverless
10 18 (8.04%) Azure AKS
11 16 (7.14%) PaaS
12 15 (6.70%) Amazon S3
12 15 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (6.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 13 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (4.91%) Entra ID
15 11 (4.91%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.59%) DNS
1 17 (7.59%) VPN
2 16 (7.14%) Firewall
3 7 (3.13%) Network Security
4 5 (2.23%) SNMP
5 4 (1.79%) Ethernet
5 4 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (1.79%) InfiniBand
5 4 (1.79%) MPLS
5 4 (1.79%) NetScaler
5 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.79%) Wireless
6 3 (1.34%) Internet
6 3 (1.34%) SSL
7 2 (0.89%) HTTP
7 2 (0.89%) WAN
8 1 (0.45%) Calico
8 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.45%) NaaS
8 1 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.02%) Power BI
2 7 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.68%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.68%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.68%) Redis
4 4 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.79%) MySQL
4 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.34%) Data Hub
6 2 (0.89%) Flink
6 2 (0.89%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) KDB
7 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (12.95%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.48%) GitLab
3 18 (8.04%) Git
4 4 (1.79%) JIRA
5 3 (1.34%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.89%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 37 (16.52%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.29%) Finance
3 23 (10.27%) Banking
4 17 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.23%) Law
8 5 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.79%) Billing
9 4 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.34%) Games
10 3 (1.34%) Military
11 2 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.89%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Advertising
12 1 (0.45%) Front Office
12 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 41 (18.30%) Senior
3 38 (16.96%) Site Engineer
4 36 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (10.27%) Architect
6 17 (7.59%) Lead
6 17 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.36%) Technical Architect
10 10 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 6 (2.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.68%) Developer
13 6 (2.68%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (2.68%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.82%) Kafka
2 13 (5.80%) OpenTelemetry
2 13 (5.80%) REST
3 12 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.23%) .NET
4 5 (2.23%) Loki
4 5 (2.23%) Node.js
4 5 (2.23%) YAML
5 4 (1.79%) RESTful
6 3 (1.34%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.34%) GraphQL
6 3 (1.34%) OpenID
6 3 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.34%) Spring
6 3 (1.34%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.89%) ADO
7 2 (0.89%) Micronaut
7 2 (0.89%) OAuth
7 2 (0.89%) PySpark
8 1 (0.45%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 58 (25.89%) Cloud Native
2 41 (18.30%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.13%) Mainframe
3 7 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.23%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.34%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.34%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.89%) CMDB
8 2 (0.89%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.84%) Linux
2 12 (5.36%) Windows
3 9 (4.02%) Unix
4 6 (2.68%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.34%) VMS
7 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.45%) Debian
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (59.82%) Observability
2 128 (57.14%) DevOps
3 121 (54.02%) CI/CD
4 102 (45.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (30.36%) Platform Engineering
6 57 (25.45%) Containerisation
7 37 (16.52%) Incident Response
8 36 (16.07%) Software Engineering
9 35 (15.63%) Agile
10 31 (13.84%) AI
10 31 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (12.50%) Microservices
12 24 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
13 23 (10.27%) Incident Management
14 21 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 21 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (8.93%) ITIL
15 20 (8.93%) ITSM
16 19 (8.48%) High Availability
16 19 (8.48%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 84 (37.50%) Python
2 42 (18.75%) Java
3 37 (16.52%) Bash
4 23 (10.27%) PowerShell
5 22 (9.82%) Go
6 18 (8.04%) SQL
7 16 (7.14%) Bicep
8 11 (4.91%) C#
9 10 (4.46%) Ruby
10 7 (3.13%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.79%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.34%) Korn
12 3 (1.34%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.89%) C++
13 2 (0.89%) Perl
13 2 (0.89%) Scala
14 1 (0.45%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) PromQL
14 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.09%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.46%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.23%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.34%) CCSP
7 3 (1.34%) CISSP
7 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.89%) Degree
8 2 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.45%) CCIE
9 1 (0.45%) CCNP
9 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.45%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.02%) QA
2 8 (3.57%) SLA
3 3 (1.34%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.34%) NIST
3 3 (1.34%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.89%) GDPR
4 2 (0.89%) GRC
5 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (15.18%) Docker
2 5 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 104 (46.43%) Terraform
2 90 (40.18%) Kubernetes
3 57 (25.45%) Grafana
3 57 (25.45%) Prometheus
4 30 (13.39%) Ansible
5 4 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.79%) Packer
5 4 (1.79%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.34%) Argo
6 3 (1.34%) Salt
7 2 (0.89%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.45%) CASB
8 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.45%) Kibana
8 1 (0.45%) logstash
8 1 (0.45%) Nagios
8 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (16.07%) Splunk
2 34 (15.18%) Dynatrace
3 22 (9.82%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.70%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.25%) Oracle
6 11 (4.91%) AppDynamics
6 11 (4.91%) Google
7 6 (2.68%) F5
7 6 (2.68%) VMware
8 5 (2.23%) BigPanda
8 5 (2.23%) Cisco
8 5 (2.23%) New Relic
9 4 (1.79%) Arista
9 4 (1.79%) Aruba
9 4 (1.79%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.79%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.79%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.34%) Databricks
10 3 (1.34%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.89%) PagerDuty