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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 212 264
Rank change year-on-year +14 +52 -14
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 223 138 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.12% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.21% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 99 87
10th Percentile £400 £323 £425
25th Percentile £472 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £655
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% +4.80%
75th Percentile £675 £838 £841
90th Percentile £775 - £850
England median daily rate £533 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.13% +9.09% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £52.35 - -
25th Percentile £54.00 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% - -
75th Percentile £69.40 £49.75 -
90th Percentile £74.89 - -
England median hourly rate £55.50 £61.75 -
% change year-on-year -10.12% - -

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 15,715 11,404 15,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.26% 92.24% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,518 7,710 11,153
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 175 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +23.57% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.45
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -10 27 £538 -15.35% 21
South London - 6 £630 -
West London - 4 £375 - 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 (2.69%) Confluence
2 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) BASE24
2 1 (0.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 107 (47.98%) Azure
2 86 (38.57%) AWS
3 85 (38.12%) GitHub
4 54 (24.22%) GitHub Actions
5 46 (20.63%) GCP
6 24 (10.76%) Amazon EKS
6 24 (10.76%) Serverless
7 23 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (9.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (9.42%) Datadog
9 20 (8.97%) Azure AKS
10 19 (8.52%) Amazon S3
11 16 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (6.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (5.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 11 (4.93%) OpenShift
16 10 (4.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (13.90%) Firewall
2 20 (8.97%) DNS
3 16 (7.17%) Network Security
4 15 (6.73%) VPN
5 7 (3.14%) Ethernet
5 7 (3.14%) InfiniBand
5 7 (3.14%) NetScaler
5 7 (3.14%) Wireless
6 5 (2.24%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (1.79%) MPLS
8 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.90%) Internet
9 2 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.90%) WAN
10 1 (0.45%) NaaS
10 1 (0.45%) NGFW
10 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.04%) BigQuery
3 9 (4.04%) Power BI
4 8 (3.59%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.59%) Redis
5 7 (3.14%) MySQL
6 6 (2.69%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.24%) Flink
8 4 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.79%) Data Hub
8 4 (1.79%) DocumentDB
8 4 (1.79%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.35%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.90%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (16.59%) Jenkins
2 25 (11.21%) GitLab
3 20 (8.97%) Git
4 13 (5.83%) Artifactory
5 7 (3.14%) JIRA
6 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.90%) Gatling
6 2 (0.90%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.45%) Robot Framework
General
1 30 (13.45%) Finance
2 25 (11.21%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.42%) Banking
4 18 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.59%) Retail
7 4 (1.79%) Front Office
7 4 (1.79%) Games
7 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.79%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.90%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Advertising
9 1 (0.45%) Billing
9 1 (0.45%) Military
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (34.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 48 (21.52%) Site Engineer
3 42 (18.83%) Senior
4 41 (18.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (12.11%) Azure Engineer
6 25 (11.21%) Architect
7 22 (9.87%) Lead
8 17 (7.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) Migration Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) Technical Architect
13 7 (3.14%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (3.14%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 7 (3.14%) Data Engineer
13 7 (3.14%) Developer
14 6 (2.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (2.69%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.31%) Kafka
1 23 (10.31%) OpenTelemetry
2 14 (6.28%) Spring
3 13 (5.83%) Spring Boot
4 11 (4.93%) REST
5 9 (4.04%) Node.js
5 9 (4.04%) React
6 7 (3.14%) Loki
6 7 (3.14%) OAuth
6 7 (3.14%) OpenID
6 7 (3.14%) RESTful
7 6 (2.69%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.69%) LangChain
7 6 (2.69%) OAuth2
8 5 (2.24%) gRPC
9 4 (1.79%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.79%) JPA
9 4 (1.79%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.35%) .NET
10 3 (1.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.42%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.73%) Mainframe
4 12 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.38%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.90%) CMDB
8 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.90%) PKI
8 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.45%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.45%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.45%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.00%) Linux
2 12 (5.38%) Unix
3 11 (4.93%) VMS
4 9 (4.04%) Windows
5 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.45%) Debian
6 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (64.13%) DevOps
2 128 (57.40%) CI/CD
3 117 (52.47%) Observability
4 113 (50.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (27.35%) Containerisation
6 46 (20.63%) Agile
7 44 (19.73%) Migration
8 43 (19.28%) Platform Engineering
9 39 (17.49%) Microservices
10 35 (15.70%) AI
11 34 (15.25%) Incident Response
12 28 (12.56%) Load Balancing
12 28 (12.56%) Software Engineering
13 27 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (11.66%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (10.76%) Analytics
16 21 (9.42%) High Availability
17 20 (8.97%) ITIL
18 19 (8.52%) Incident Management
18 19 (8.52%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (26.91%) Python
2 35 (15.70%) Java
3 27 (12.11%) SQL
4 17 (7.62%) Bash
5 15 (6.73%) Go
6 14 (6.28%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.38%) Ruby
8 10 (4.48%) Bicep
9 7 (3.14%) C#
10 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.45%) PromQL
11 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (31.39%) Security Cleared
2 61 (27.35%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.93%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.04%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.79%) CCSP
6 4 (1.79%) CISSP
6 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.35%) Degree
8 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.45%) CCIE
9 1 (0.45%) CCNP
9 1 (0.45%) CSPO
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.59%) NIST
1 8 (3.59%) SLA
2 6 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.69%) QA
3 5 (2.24%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.35%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.90%) PSD2
5 2 (0.90%) SEPA
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) GRC
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 45 (20.18%) Docker
2 10 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 124 (55.61%) Terraform
2 100 (44.84%) Kubernetes
3 43 (19.28%) Prometheus
4 41 (18.39%) Ansible
4 41 (18.39%) Grafana
5 13 (5.83%) Argo
6 6 (2.69%) Istio
7 5 (2.24%) Puppet
7 5 (2.24%) Salt
8 4 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.79%) Packer
9 3 (1.35%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.90%) Cilium
11 1 (0.45%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.45%) CASB
11 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.45%) Kibana
11 1 (0.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 36 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 34 (15.25%) Splunk
3 22 (9.87%) Google
4 18 (8.07%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.93%) Oracle
5 11 (4.93%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.04%) Cisco
7 8 (3.59%) Aruba
8 7 (3.14%) AppDynamics
8 7 (3.14%) Arista
8 7 (3.14%) BigPanda
8 7 (3.14%) CheckPoint
8 7 (3.14%) F5
8 7 (3.14%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.24%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.79%) PagerDuty
11 3 (1.35%) Databricks
11 3 (1.35%) New Relic
12 2 (0.90%) Confluent
12 2 (0.90%) Foundry