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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 228 216
Rank change year-on-year -18 -12 +64
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 141 167 212
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 1.06% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.18% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 123 152
10th Percentile £429 £465 £475
25th Percentile £500 £622 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £725 £663
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +9.43% +1.92%
75th Percentile £669 £810 £739
90th Percentile £716 £838 £810
England median daily rate £550 £675 £638
% change year-on-year -18.52% +5.88% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - -
Median hourly rate £56.00 - -
75th Percentile £59.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £74.39 £75.00
% change year-on-year -24.72% -0.81% +3.45%

All Process and 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 13,188 14,190 17,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.79% 89.85% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,704 9,175 12,401
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 166 233
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.81
25th Percentile £24.56 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +4.55% -9.80%
75th Percentile £47.63 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 -6 21 £610 -13.78% 8
South London - 7 £530 - 1
West London - 2 £388 - 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 1 (0.71%) Apache
1 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.71%) Confluence
1 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
1 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.71%) SAP PS
1 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 87 (61.70%) AWS
2 49 (34.75%) Azure
3 42 (29.79%) GitHub
4 36 (25.53%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (17.02%) Amazon EKS
5 24 (17.02%) Serverless
6 21 (14.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (12.06%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (12.06%) GCP
8 16 (11.35%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (11.35%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (10.64%) Amazon S3
9 15 (10.64%) Datadog
10 14 (9.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (9.93%) Azure AKS
10 14 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (7.09%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (4.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (4.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (4.26%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.38%) Firewall
2 7 (4.96%) DNS
3 6 (4.26%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.55%) Multicast
4 5 (3.55%) tcpdump
4 5 (3.55%) Wireshark
5 3 (2.13%) Network Security
6 2 (1.42%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.71%) HTTP
7 1 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.26%) Flink
5 5 (3.55%) Data Hub
5 5 (3.55%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.55%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.84%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.84%) MySQL
6 4 (2.84%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.13%) Power BI
7 3 (2.13%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (12.77%) Git
2 15 (10.64%) GitLab
2 15 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.55%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.84%) Gradle
4 4 (2.84%) Jaeger
4 4 (2.84%) Maven
4 4 (2.84%) Selenium
5 3 (2.13%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.42%) JIRA
6 2 (1.42%) PVCS
7 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.71%) git-flow
General
1 30 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.31%) Finance
3 12 (8.51%) Banking
4 10 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.09%) Front Office
5 7 (4.96%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.84%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Billing
8 1 (0.71%) Games
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 68 (48.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 51 (36.17%) Site Engineer
3 30 (21.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (19.15%) Senior
5 14 (9.93%) Python Engineer
6 11 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (7.80%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (7.09%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (5.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.67%) Consultant
9 7 (4.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) Kafka Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.55%) GCP Engineer
11 5 (3.55%) Lead
12 4 (2.84%) DBA
12 4 (2.84%) Senior DevOps
12 4 (2.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (2.84%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.77%) Kafka
2 7 (4.96%) Node.js
2 7 (4.96%) REST
3 5 (3.55%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (3.55%) GraphQL
3 5 (3.55%) Middleware
3 5 (3.55%) Ultra Messaging
4 4 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.84%) YAML
5 3 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.42%) .NET
6 2 (1.42%) Loki
6 2 (1.42%) React
6 2 (1.42%) Spring
6 2 (1.42%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.71%) OAuth
7 1 (0.71%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.71%) RESTful
7 1 (0.71%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.60%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.22%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.67%) Fixed Income
4 8 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.96%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.96%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.96%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.26%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.42%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.42%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.42%) Replication
7 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.71%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.71%) Online Games
8 1 (0.71%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 33 (23.40%) Linux
2 6 (4.26%) Unix
3 3 (2.13%) VMS
4 2 (1.42%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.42%) Windows
5 1 (0.71%) Android
5 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.71%) CentOS
5 1 (0.71%) Debian
5 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (61.70%) CI/CD
2 86 (60.99%) DevOps
3 73 (51.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (46.81%) Observability
5 41 (29.08%) Containerisation
6 32 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (19.15%) Agile
8 23 (16.31%) Technical Leadership
9 22 (15.60%) AI
9 22 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (14.89%) GitOps
11 19 (13.48%) Incident Response
11 19 (13.48%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (13.48%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (12.77%) Migration
13 17 (12.06%) High Availability
14 16 (11.35%) Analytics
14 16 (11.35%) Microservices
15 15 (10.64%) Data Protection
15 15 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (58.87%) Python
2 39 (27.66%) Bash
3 32 (22.70%) Go
4 31 (21.99%) Java
5 20 (14.18%) SQL
6 14 (9.93%) PowerShell
6 14 (9.93%) PromQL
7 9 (6.38%) Ruby
8 5 (3.55%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.84%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.13%) Bicep
10 3 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.42%) Scala
12 1 (0.71%) C
12 1 (0.71%) C#
12 1 (0.71%) Perl
12 1 (0.71%) PHP
12 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.71%) Rust
12 1 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.38%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.13%) Degree
7 2 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.42%) CISSP
7 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.71%) CCSP
8 1 (0.71%) CEH
8 1 (0.71%) CISM
8 1 (0.71%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.13%) GDPR
1 3 (2.13%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.42%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.42%) SLA
3 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
3 1 (0.71%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (27.66%) Docker
2 7 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) GPFS
3 1 (0.71%) KVM
3 1 (0.71%) Lustre
3 1 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (48.94%) Terraform
2 65 (46.10%) Kubernetes
3 41 (29.08%) Grafana
4 32 (22.70%) Prometheus
5 19 (13.48%) Ansible
6 16 (11.35%) Argo
7 8 (5.67%) ITRS Geneos
7 8 (5.67%) Puppet
8 5 (3.55%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.42%) Kibana
9 2 (1.42%) Opsgenie
9 2 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.71%) Graphite
10 1 (0.71%) Istio
10 1 (0.71%) logstash
10 1 (0.71%) Packer
10 1 (0.71%) Podman
10 1 (0.71%) Salt
Vendors
1 26 (18.44%) Splunk
2 21 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.38%) Dynatrace
4 7 (4.96%) PagerDuty
5 6 (4.26%) Google
6 5 (3.55%) Oracle
6 5 (3.55%) Solace
6 5 (3.55%) TIBCO
7 4 (2.84%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.42%) Confluent
8 2 (1.42%) Databricks
8 2 (1.42%) Qualys
9 1 (0.71%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.71%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.71%) Intel
9 1 (0.71%) New Relic
9 1 (0.71%) Remedy
9 1 (0.71%) SAP
9 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.71%) VMware