Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 122 159
Rank change year-on-year +22 +37 +47
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 11 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.57% 0.40% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.49% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 6
10th Percentile £302 £330 -
25th Percentile £375 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.80% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £540 £688 £575
90th Percentile £725 - £700
England median daily rate £613 £550 £638
% change year-on-year +11.36% -13.73% -1.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +11 8 £375 -25.00% 17
East Midlands - 3 £700 - 4
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
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 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Site Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Architect
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ADO
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
1 5 (45.45%) SIEM
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Opsview
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) BT
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) PagerDuty
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk