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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 234 273
Rank change year-on-year +29 +39 -11
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 221 125 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 1.01% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.09% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 81 96
10th Percentile £401 £308 £450
25th Percentile £475 £363 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -25.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £850
90th Percentile £758 £838 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £573
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.66% -8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £58.69 - -
25th Percentile £61.61 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £67.93 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.66% - -
75th Percentile £73.97 £49.75 -
90th Percentile £76.72 - -
England median hourly rate £58.50 £79.00 -
% change year-on-year -25.95% - -

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 16,816 11,468 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.31% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,190 7,694 11,171
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £436 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 206 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +11.48% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -24 22 £500 -14.89% 9
South London - 5 £810 - 3
West London - 1 - - 2
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 (2.71%) Confluence
2 5 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.26%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 97 (43.89%) Azure
2 89 (40.27%) AWS
3 77 (34.84%) GitHub
4 47 (21.27%) GitHub Actions
5 44 (19.91%) GCP
6 28 (12.67%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (10.41%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (9.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (9.95%) Datadog
8 22 (9.95%) Serverless
9 19 (8.60%) Azure AKS
10 18 (8.14%) Amazon S3
11 16 (7.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (6.79%) PaaS
12 15 (6.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (6.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 12 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (5.43%) OpenShift
15 10 (4.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.86%) Firewall
2 18 (8.14%) DNS
3 16 (7.24%) VPN
4 14 (6.33%) Network Security
5 6 (2.71%) Ethernet
5 6 (2.71%) InfiniBand
5 6 (2.71%) NetScaler
5 6 (2.71%) Wireless
6 5 (2.26%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (1.81%) MPLS
8 3 (1.36%) Internet
8 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.90%) WAN
10 1 (0.45%) Calico
10 1 (0.45%) NaaS
10 1 (0.45%) NGFW
10 1 (0.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.43%) Redis
2 10 (4.52%) Power BI
3 9 (4.07%) MongoDB
3 9 (4.07%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.17%) BigQuery
5 7 (3.17%) MySQL
6 6 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.81%) DocumentDB
7 4 (1.81%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.81%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.90%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.90%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.90%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.90%) Tableau
9 1 (0.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 36 (16.29%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.50%) GitLab
3 17 (7.69%) Git
4 8 (3.62%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.71%) JIRA
6 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.90%) Gatling
7 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 33 (14.93%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.48%) Finance
3 25 (11.31%) Banking
4 15 (6.79%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.26%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.26%) Law
6 5 (2.26%) Retail
7 4 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.36%) Games
8 3 (1.36%) Military
8 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.90%) Billing
9 2 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Legal
10 1 (0.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 67 (30.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 41 (18.55%) Site Engineer
3 39 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (17.65%) Senior
4 25 (11.31%) Architect
5 18 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (8.14%) Lead
6 13 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (4.98%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.07%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.62%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.17%) Developer
11 7 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.86%) Kafka
2 22 (9.95%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (4.98%) REST
3 11 (4.98%) Spring
4 10 (4.52%) Spring Boot
5 8 (3.62%) RESTful
6 7 (3.17%) Loki
6 7 (3.17%) Node.js
6 7 (3.17%) OAuth
6 7 (3.17%) OpenID
7 6 (2.71%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.71%) OAuth2
8 5 (2.26%) gRPC
9 4 (1.81%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.81%) JPA
9 4 (1.81%) Micronaut
9 4 (1.81%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (1.81%) YAML
10 3 (1.36%) .NET
10 3 (1.36%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 36 (16.29%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 11 (4.98%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.17%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.36%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.36%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.36%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.90%) CMDB
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.90%) PKI
9 1 (0.45%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.86%) Linux
2 11 (4.98%) Unix
3 10 (4.52%) Windows
4 6 (2.71%) VMS
5 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.45%) Debian
7 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (61.09%) DevOps
2 127 (57.47%) CI/CD
3 123 (55.66%) Observability
4 110 (49.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (25.34%) Containerisation
6 54 (24.43%) Platform Engineering
7 37 (16.74%) Agile
8 35 (15.84%) AI
8 35 (15.84%) Microservices
9 32 (14.48%) Incident Response
10 28 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (12.67%) Migration
10 28 (12.67%) Software Engineering
11 24 (10.86%) Infrastructure Automation
12 22 (9.95%) Event-Driven
13 21 (9.50%) Load Balancing
13 21 (9.50%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (9.05%) Incident Management
15 19 (8.60%) ITIL
15 19 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (30.77%) Python
2 37 (16.74%) Java
3 27 (12.22%) SQL
4 25 (11.31%) Bash
5 19 (8.60%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.79%) Go
7 14 (6.33%) Bicep
8 8 (3.62%) C#
8 8 (3.62%) Ruby
9 3 (1.36%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.45%) PromQL
11 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 60 (27.15%) Security Cleared
2 52 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.98%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.62%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.26%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.81%) CCSP
6 4 (1.81%) CISSP
7 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.90%) Degree
8 2 (0.90%) 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 (4.07%) NIST
2 8 (3.62%) QA
3 7 (3.17%) SLA
4 6 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.26%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.81%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.90%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.90%) PSD2
7 2 (0.90%) SEPA
8 1 (0.45%) GDPR
8 1 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (19.46%) Docker
2 4 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 116 (52.49%) Terraform
2 103 (46.61%) Kubernetes
3 56 (25.34%) Prometheus
4 54 (24.43%) Grafana
5 39 (17.65%) Ansible
6 7 (3.17%) Argo
7 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.81%) Packer
7 4 (1.81%) Salt
8 3 (1.36%) Cilium
8 3 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.90%) Istio
9 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.90%) Puppet
10 1 (0.45%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.45%) CASB
10 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.45%) Kibana
10 1 (0.45%) logstash
10 1 (0.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 36 (16.29%) Splunk
2 30 (13.57%) Microsoft
3 26 (11.76%) Dynatrace
4 18 (8.14%) Google
5 15 (6.79%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.98%) Oracle
7 9 (4.07%) AppDynamics
8 8 (3.62%) Cisco
9 7 (3.17%) Aruba
10 6 (2.71%) Arista
10 6 (2.71%) BigPanda
10 6 (2.71%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.71%) F5
10 6 (2.71%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.81%) Databricks
11 4 (1.81%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.81%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.90%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.90%) Sybase