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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 206 263
Rank change year-on-year -3 +57 +2
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 193 155 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 1.19% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.30% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 120 84
10th Percentile £401 £454 £454
25th Percentile £500 £619 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +16.00% -
75th Percentile £669 £838 £725
90th Percentile £742 - £793
England median daily rate £535 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -23.57% +27.27% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £49.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £63.79 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.69% -14.95% -0.33%

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 14,434 11,882 16,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.99% 91.01% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 7,889 11,534
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 162 355
10th Percentile £18.05 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.66 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.67% -17.81%
75th Percentile £56.38 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £77.25 £69.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 9 March 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
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 9 March 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 20 £550 -13.39% 6
South London - 10 £530 - 1
West London - 3 £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 5 (2.59%) Confluence
2 4 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.52%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) BASE24
1 1 (0.52%) Maximo
1 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 96 (49.74%) Azure
2 88 (45.60%) AWS
3 74 (38.34%) GitHub
4 52 (26.94%) GitHub Actions
5 41 (21.24%) GCP
6 30 (15.54%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (13.47%) Serverless
8 24 (12.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (11.92%) Amazon S3
10 20 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (9.84%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (8.81%) Azure AKS
13 17 (8.81%) Datadog
13 17 (8.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (7.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (6.22%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (6.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.92%) Firewall
2 14 (7.25%) Network Security
3 13 (6.74%) DNS
4 8 (4.15%) VPN
5 7 (3.63%) Ethernet
5 7 (3.63%) InfiniBand
5 7 (3.63%) NetScaler
5 7 (3.63%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.63%) Wireless
6 5 (2.59%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (2.07%) MPLS
7 4 (2.07%) Multicast
7 4 (2.07%) tcpdump
7 4 (2.07%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.52%) Internet
10 1 (0.52%) NGFW
10 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.77%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (5.18%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.66%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.15%) DynamoDB
5 8 (4.15%) Flink
5 8 (4.15%) MySQL
6 7 (3.63%) Power BI
7 6 (3.11%) BigQuery
7 6 (3.11%) Data Hub
7 6 (3.11%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.11%) Oracle Database
7 6 (3.11%) Redis
8 4 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.07%) DocumentDB
8 4 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.04%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.04%) Tableau
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.52%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 40 (20.73%) Jenkins
2 25 (12.95%) GitLab
3 19 (9.84%) Git
4 14 (7.25%) Artifactory
5 5 (2.59%) JIRA
6 4 (2.07%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.04%) Gatling
8 1 (0.52%) git-flow
8 1 (0.52%) Jaeger
General
1 28 (14.51%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.95%) Finance
3 17 (8.81%) Banking
4 15 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.22%) Front Office
6 8 (4.15%) Retail
7 4 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Billing
9 1 (0.52%) Games
9 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (40.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 59 (30.57%) Site Engineer
3 38 (19.69%) Senior
4 34 (17.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (12.95%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (7.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (7.25%) Architect
7 14 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (6.74%) Lead
9 9 (4.66%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (4.66%) Migration Engineer
10 8 (4.15%) Consultant
10 8 (4.15%) GCP Engineer
10 8 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.47%) Kafka
2 19 (9.84%) OpenTelemetry
3 15 (7.77%) Spring
4 14 (7.25%) Spring Boot
5 12 (6.22%) Node.js
5 12 (6.22%) REST
6 10 (5.18%) React
7 7 (3.63%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.63%) OAuth
7 7 (3.63%) OAuth2
7 7 (3.63%) OpenID
8 6 (3.11%) LangChain
9 4 (2.07%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (2.07%) gRPC
9 4 (2.07%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.07%) JPA
9 4 (2.07%) Middleware
9 4 (2.07%) RESTful
9 4 (2.07%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (2.07%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.21%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.25%) Mainframe
4 13 (6.74%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.18%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.63%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.04%) PKI
9 2 (1.04%) Replication
9 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 41 (21.24%) Linux
2 13 (6.74%) Unix
2 13 (6.74%) VMS
3 8 (4.15%) Windows
4 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.52%) CentOS
4 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (64.77%) DevOps
2 113 (58.55%) CI/CD
3 100 (51.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (45.08%) Observability
5 49 (25.39%) Containerisation
6 43 (22.28%) Migration
7 39 (20.21%) Agile
8 31 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (15.54%) Incident Response
9 30 (15.54%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (15.54%) Technical Leadership
10 29 (15.03%) AI
11 28 (14.51%) Microservices
12 21 (10.88%) Load Balancing
12 21 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (10.36%) Analytics
13 20 (10.36%) Security Testing
14 19 (9.84%) Incident Management
14 19 (9.84%) Roadmaps
15 16 (8.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (36.79%) Python
2 33 (17.10%) Java
3 26 (13.47%) SQL
4 23 (11.92%) Bash
5 17 (8.81%) PowerShell
6 15 (7.77%) Go
7 9 (4.66%) Ruby
8 7 (3.63%) Bicep
9 3 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.04%) C#
10 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.52%) Scala
11 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (29.53%) Security Cleared
2 49 (25.39%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.22%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.70%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.59%) Degree
8 4 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.55%) CCSP
9 3 (1.55%) CISSP
10 2 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.52%) CCIE
11 1 (0.52%) CCNP
11 1 (0.52%) CSPO
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.63%) NIST
2 6 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.11%) QA
2 6 (3.11%) SLA
3 5 (2.59%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.55%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.04%) GDPR
5 2 (1.04%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.04%) PSD2
5 2 (1.04%) SEPA
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
6 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (26.94%) Docker
2 12 (6.22%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.55%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.52%) GPFS
4 1 (0.52%) Lustre
4 1 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 114 (59.07%) Terraform
2 91 (47.15%) Kubernetes
3 41 (21.24%) Ansible
4 35 (18.13%) Grafana
5 32 (16.58%) Prometheus
6 20 (10.36%) Argo
7 9 (4.66%) Puppet
8 7 (3.63%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (3.11%) Istio
9 6 (3.11%) Salt
10 3 (1.55%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.04%) Cilium
11 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.04%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.52%) CASB
12 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.52%) Kibana
12 1 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.51%) Splunk
3 22 (11.40%) Google
4 11 (5.70%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.66%) Cisco
5 9 (4.66%) PagerDuty
6 8 (4.15%) Aruba
7 7 (3.63%) Arista
7 7 (3.63%) CheckPoint
7 7 (3.63%) F5
7 7 (3.63%) Oracle
7 7 (3.63%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.11%) BigPanda
9 5 (2.59%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.07%) Databricks
10 4 (2.07%) Solace
10 4 (2.07%) TIBCO
11 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.04%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.04%) New Relic