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 £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 130 143
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 +62
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 7 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.27% 0.074% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.080% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £525
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile - - £713
90th Percentile - - £735
England median daily rate £450 £594 £645
% change year-on-year -24.24% -7.91% -0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £56.00 - £70.00

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,287 2,489 2,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.51% 92.60% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,496 1,641 1,957
10th Percentile £220 £250 £223
25th Percentile £358 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.63% +1.58%
75th Percentile £556 £598 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 127 105
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.66 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.91 £14.26 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.58 £20.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.90% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £31.72 £37.50 £42.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.14 £69.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.63% +68.64%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies 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 29 August 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
West Midlands -3 7 £375 - 3
Site Reliability Engineer
England

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 29 August 2025, 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 7 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) SIEM
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Bash
4 2 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (28.57%) Docker
4 2 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Use Case
5 1 (14.29%) Unix
5 1 (14.29%) Linux
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
5 1 (14.29%) BT
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Kibana
5 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (14.29%) Puppet
5 1 (14.29%) Splunk

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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) SIEM
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Use Case
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Kibana
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) BT
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk