Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 255 265
Rank change year-on-year +40 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 135 135 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.09% 0.77% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.87% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 91 155
10th Percentile £310 £425 £463
25th Percentile £461 £516 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £672 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% +7.52% -3.85%
75th Percentile £838 £850 £713
90th Percentile - - £744
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £71.00
25th Percentile £39.25 - £80.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 - £85.00
75th Percentile £49.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £88.00
England median hourly rate £79.00 - £79.00

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 11,393 15,485 23,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.20% 88.60% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,687 11,108 17,072
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 308 267
10th Percentile £16.04 £15.81 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.86 £20.00 £22.45
Median hourly rate £33.00 £27.92 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +18.19% -25.23% +2.55%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £63.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.83 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 21 May 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 +11 26 £635 -5.93% 21
East London +15 2 £250 - 1
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (22.96%) Apache
2 24 (17.78%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (17.78%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.19%) nginx
4 5 (3.70%) Confluence
4 5 (3.70%) OpenStack
5 4 (2.96%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.22%) Oracle Coherence
6 3 (2.22%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) SAP BPC
1 2 (1.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (47.41%) AWS
2 44 (32.59%) Azure
3 37 (27.41%) Serverless
4 34 (25.19%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (23.70%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (20.00%) OpenShift
7 24 (17.78%) dbt
8 20 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (13.33%) GCP
10 17 (12.59%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (9.63%) GitHub
12 11 (8.15%) Azure AKS
12 11 (8.15%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (8.15%) Datadog
13 10 (7.41%) Amazon S3
13 10 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (5.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.63%) DNS
2 12 (8.89%) HTTP
3 10 (7.41%) TCP/IP
4 8 (5.93%) Firewall
5 6 (4.44%) FTP
5 6 (4.44%) SMTP
5 6 (4.44%) SSL
6 5 (3.70%) Kerberos
7 4 (2.96%) DHCP
8 3 (2.22%) Network Security
9 2 (1.48%) BGP
9 2 (1.48%) DSL
9 2 (1.48%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (1.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (1.48%) OSPF
9 2 (1.48%) VPN
10 1 (0.74%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.74%) NAS
10 1 (0.74%) SAN
10 1 (0.74%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.52%) Amazon Athena
1 25 (18.52%) Apache Iceberg
2 24 (17.78%) Apache Arrow
2 24 (17.78%) Apache Ignite
2 24 (17.78%) Dremio
3 9 (6.67%) Big Data
4 6 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.22%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.22%) OLAP
5 3 (2.22%) OLTP
5 3 (2.22%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.22%) Power BI
5 3 (2.22%) SAP BW
5 3 (2.22%) SAP Data Services
5 3 (2.22%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.74%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 26 (19.26%) Artifactory
1 26 (19.26%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.93%) Git
2 8 (5.93%) TeamCity
3 7 (5.19%) GitLab
4 6 (4.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (3.70%) JIRA
6 3 (2.22%) JMeter
6 3 (2.22%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.48%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.48%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.74%) Gatling
8 1 (0.74%) JUnit
8 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.74%) Subversion
8 1 (0.74%) Travis CI
General
1 54 (40.00%) Finance
2 31 (22.96%) Front Office
3 19 (14.07%) Banking
4 18 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.96%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.48%) International Banking
7 2 (1.48%) Retail
8 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (37.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 43 (31.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (31.85%) Site Engineer
3 33 (24.44%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (22.96%) AWS DevOps
4 31 (22.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 29 (21.48%) Python Engineer
6 27 (20.00%) Data Engineer
7 14 (10.37%) Architect
8 13 (9.63%) Senior
9 5 (3.70%) Azure Architect
9 5 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Developer
9 5 (3.70%) GCP Architect
9 5 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.70%) Unix Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Windows Engineer
10 4 (2.96%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (2.96%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.96%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.96%) Kafka
2 26 (19.26%) J2EE
3 24 (17.78%) PySpark
4 15 (11.11%) .NET
5 10 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (5.93%) JSON
8 6 (4.44%) Spring
9 5 (3.70%) REST
10 4 (2.96%) LDAP
10 4 (2.96%) Web Services
11 3 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (2.22%) React
11 3 (2.22%) Spring Boot
11 3 (2.22%) YAML
12 2 (1.48%) GraphQL
12 2 (1.48%) VML
13 1 (0.74%) FastAPI
13 1 (0.74%) Hibernate
13 1 (0.74%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.04%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.59%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.22%) Social Media
6 2 (1.48%) Clustering
6 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.48%) Tandem
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.74%) Replication
7 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.04%) Linux
2 9 (6.67%) Unix
3 7 (5.19%) Windows
4 4 (2.96%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.22%) Android
6 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.48%) Solaris
7 1 (0.74%) Debian
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (76.30%) DevOps
2 84 (62.22%) CI/CD
3 60 (44.44%) Agile
4 43 (31.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (30.37%) Software Engineering
6 33 (24.44%) Observability
7 32 (23.70%) Asset Management
8 31 (22.96%) Containerisation
9 28 (20.74%) Open Source
10 24 (17.78%) Data Engineering
11 23 (17.04%) Microservices
12 16 (11.85%) Migration
12 16 (11.85%) Service-Level Objective
13 15 (11.11%) High Availability
14 12 (8.89%) Test Automation
15 10 (7.41%) ITSM
15 10 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (6.67%) Chaos Engineering
16 9 (6.67%) Data Protection
16 9 (6.67%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 77 (57.04%) Python
2 41 (30.37%) Java
3 34 (25.19%) Go
4 20 (14.81%) C#
5 17 (12.59%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.11%) Bash
7 12 (8.89%) Bicep
7 12 (8.89%) JavaScript
8 10 (7.41%) SQL
9 8 (5.93%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (5.93%) Shell Script
10 7 (5.19%) Groovy
11 6 (4.44%) Ruby
12 3 (2.22%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.48%) PHP
13 2 (1.48%) Rust
14 1 (0.74%) C++
14 1 (0.74%) CodeQL
14 1 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (5.93%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.70%) Degree
3 4 (2.96%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.22%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.48%) CEH
5 2 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.48%) CISSP
5 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.41%) QA
2 3 (2.22%) GDPR
3 2 (1.48%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.48%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.48%) SLA
4 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (36.30%) Docker
2 6 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.74%) Ceph
4 1 (0.74%) NFS
4 1 (0.74%) Veritas File System
4 1 (0.74%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (57.04%) Kubernetes
2 76 (56.30%) Terraform
3 32 (23.70%) Ansible
4 21 (15.56%) Grafana
4 21 (15.56%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.67%) Puppet
6 7 (5.19%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.48%) Argo
7 2 (1.48%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.48%) Netcool
7 2 (1.48%) Packer
7 2 (1.48%) Podman
7 2 (1.48%) Salt
7 2 (1.48%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.74%) Control-M
8 1 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.74%) Kibana
8 1 (0.74%) logstash
8 1 (0.74%) QRadar
8 1 (0.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 17 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.11%) Splunk
3 9 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.93%) Oracle
5 7 (5.19%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.44%) Google
7 5 (3.70%) SAP
8 4 (2.96%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.22%) Cisco
10 2 (1.48%) Adobe
10 2 (1.48%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.48%) F5
10 2 (1.48%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.48%) IBM
10 2 (1.48%) New Relic
10 2 (1.48%) Qualys
10 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.48%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.48%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.48%) VMware