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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 246 242
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +25
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 222 131 143
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 0.96% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.04% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 78 101
10th Percentile £430 £308 £450
25th Percentile £485 £389 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -25.00% +10.89%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £825
90th Percentile £740 £760 £850
England median daily rate £537 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +13.05% -20.83% -6.98%
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 17,950 12,547 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.29% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 8,389 10,191
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 £660 £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 297 247 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.58 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -15.71% -15.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £62.70 £71.50
England median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -23 23 £476 -19.62% 35
South London - 6 £766 -
West London - 4 £360 - 5
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 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.25%) Confluence
2 4 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 7 (3.15%) 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 99 (44.59%) AWS
2 80 (36.04%) Azure
3 61 (27.48%) GitHub
4 40 (18.02%) GitHub Actions
5 38 (17.12%) GCP
6 30 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (12.61%) Datadog
8 25 (11.26%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (9.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (8.56%) Serverless
11 18 (8.11%) Azure AKS
12 16 (7.21%) PaaS
13 15 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (6.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 13 (5.86%) Amazon S3
15 12 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (4.95%) Entra ID
16 11 (4.95%) SaaS
17 10 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.66%) VPN
2 16 (7.21%) Firewall
3 15 (6.76%) DNS
4 8 (3.60%) Network Security
5 5 (2.25%) Ethernet
5 5 (2.25%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (2.25%) InfiniBand
5 5 (2.25%) NetScaler
5 5 (2.25%) SNMP
5 5 (2.25%) Wireless
6 4 (1.80%) MPLS
6 4 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.35%) Internet
7 3 (1.35%) SSL
8 2 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.90%) HTTP
8 2 (0.90%) WAN
9 1 (0.45%) Calico
9 1 (0.45%) NaaS
9 1 (0.45%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.05%) Power BI
2 7 (3.15%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.70%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.70%) Redis
4 4 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.80%) Data Hub
4 4 (1.80%) MySQL
5 3 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.90%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.45%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.45%) Flink
7 1 (0.45%) KDB
7 1 (0.45%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 28 (12.61%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.11%) GitLab
3 17 (7.66%) Git
4 4 (1.80%) JIRA
5 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 37 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.41%) Finance
3 24 (10.81%) Banking
4 16 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.25%) Law
9 4 (1.80%) Billing
9 4 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.35%) Games
10 3 (1.35%) Military
10 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Advertising
12 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (27.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 41 (18.47%) Senior
3 37 (16.67%) Site Engineer
4 36 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (10.81%) Architect
6 16 (7.21%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (7.21%) Lead
6 16 (7.21%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (5.41%) Technical Architect
9 10 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (2.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.70%) Developer
12 6 (2.70%) GCP Engineer
13 5 (2.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.91%) Kafka
2 13 (5.86%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (4.50%) REST
5 5 (2.25%) .NET
5 5 (2.25%) Loki
5 5 (2.25%) Node.js
5 5 (2.25%) YAML
6 4 (1.80%) RESTful
7 3 (1.35%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.35%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.35%) OpenID
7 3 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.35%) Spring
7 3 (1.35%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.90%) ADO
8 2 (0.90%) Micronaut
8 2 (0.90%) OAuth
8 2 (0.90%) PySpark
8 2 (0.90%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 56 (25.23%) Cloud Native
2 41 (18.47%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.60%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.15%) Mainframe
4 7 (3.15%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.15%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.80%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.90%) CMDB
8 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.45%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.96%) Linux
2 11 (4.95%) Unix
3 10 (4.50%) Windows
4 6 (2.70%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.90%) VMS
7 1 (0.45%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (59.91%) Observability
2 125 (56.31%) DevOps
3 120 (54.05%) CI/CD
4 100 (45.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (30.63%) Platform Engineering
6 55 (24.77%) Containerisation
7 36 (16.22%) Software Engineering
8 35 (15.77%) Agile
8 35 (15.77%) Incident Response
9 31 (13.96%) AI
9 31 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (12.16%) Microservices
11 24 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
12 23 (10.36%) Incident Management
13 21 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (9.01%) Event-Driven
15 19 (8.56%) ITIL
15 19 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (8.11%) Test Automation
17 17 (7.66%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 84 (37.84%) Python
2 42 (18.92%) Java
3 35 (15.77%) Bash
4 22 (9.91%) Go
5 21 (9.46%) PowerShell
6 18 (8.11%) SQL
7 15 (6.76%) Bicep
8 11 (4.95%) C#
9 10 (4.50%) Ruby
10 7 (3.15%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.80%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.35%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.90%) C++
13 2 (0.90%) Korn
13 2 (0.90%) Perl
13 2 (0.90%) Scala
14 1 (0.45%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) PromQL
14 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (23.87%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.05%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.25%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.80%) CCSP
6 4 (1.80%) CISSP
7 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.35%) 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 7 (3.15%) QA
1 7 (3.15%) SLA
2 4 (1.80%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.80%) NIST
3 2 (0.90%) GRC
3 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (13.96%) Docker
2 4 (1.80%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (45.05%) Terraform
2 88 (39.64%) Kubernetes
3 57 (25.68%) Prometheus
4 56 (25.23%) Grafana
5 31 (13.96%) Ansible
6 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.80%) Packer
6 4 (1.80%) ZABBIX
7 3 (1.35%) Argo
7 3 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (1.35%) Salt
8 2 (0.90%) Puppet
9 1 (0.45%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.45%) Cilium
9 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.45%) Kibana
9 1 (0.45%) logstash
9 1 (0.45%) Nagios
9 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (16.22%) Splunk
2 34 (15.32%) Dynatrace
3 19 (8.56%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.76%) ServiceNow
5 14 (6.31%) Oracle
6 11 (4.95%) AppDynamics
7 10 (4.50%) Google
8 7 (3.15%) Cisco
8 7 (3.15%) F5
9 6 (2.70%) Aruba
10 5 (2.25%) Arista
10 5 (2.25%) BigPanda
10 5 (2.25%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.25%) New Relic
10 5 (2.25%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.25%) VMware
11 4 (1.80%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.35%) Databricks
12 3 (1.35%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.90%) Salesforce