Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > North of England

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the North of England is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 September 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
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 158 181
Rank change year-on-year -22 +23 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 12 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.025% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.32% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 10
10th Percentile - £508 £509
25th Percentile - £511 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £558 £619
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% -9.90% -4.81%
75th Percentile - £591 £672
90th Percentile - £614 £738
England median daily rate £463 £597 £650
% change year-on-year -22.53% -8.15% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,637 3,804 4,830
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 92.15% 94.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,377 2,211 3,249
10th Percentile £250 £276 £263
25th Percentile £364 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £644 £675 £675
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 244 204
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.22 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £17.65
Median hourly rate £22.45 £32.50 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year -30.94% +44.25% +7.29%
75th Percentile £47.12 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.79 £70.00 £57.01
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +70.66%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
North West -14 1 £700 +14.94% 2
Site Reliability Engineer
England

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 September 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 North of England region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes