Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > Midlands

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the Midlands is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 162 207
Rank change year-on-year +35 +45 -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.11% 0.12% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £380 - £419
25th Percentile £425 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £569
Median % change year-on-year - -12.09% -
75th Percentile - - £683
90th Percentile - - £723
England median daily rate £561 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.65% +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,509 3,279 4,924
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 94.47% 95.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 2,308 3,602
10th Percentile £208 £223 £205
25th Percentile £325 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £459
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +3.49% +14.75%
75th Percentile £588 £582 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 133 179
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.25 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.50 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.60 £59.50 £32.10
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the Midlands

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the Midlands

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the Midlands

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +36 3 £500 -
Site Reliability Engineer
England

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Packer
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Packer
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix