Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 148 170
Rank change year-on-year -5 +22 +29
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 16 36 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.48% 0.78% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.91% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 22
10th Percentile £447 £436 £565
25th Percentile £463 £511 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £688
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -20.00% +9.13%
75th Percentile £700 £576 £700
90th Percentile £709 £590 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £75.65 - -
25th Percentile £78.88 - £65.25
Median hourly rate £87.00 - £65.50
75th Percentile £92.38 - £65.75
90th Percentile £93.95 - -
England median hourly rate £79.00 - £79.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,972 3,945 5,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.65% 85.39% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 2,422 3,502
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 365 204
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.54
Median hourly rate £25.43 £17.72 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +43.51% -36.35% +46.53%
75th Percentile £57.93 £45.00 £43.94
90th Percentile £81.55 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
North West +4 9 £475 -13.64% 39
Yorkshire +8 7 £650 +16.07% 23
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Site Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) React Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Service Management Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ADO
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
1 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) DevOps
2 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Incident Management
3 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (43.75%) Migration
3 7 (43.75%) Observability
4 6 (37.50%) Microservices
4 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
5 5 (31.25%) Data Analysis
6 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (25.00%) Chaos Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) Data Migration
6 4 (25.00%) Design Patterns
6 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) COBIT
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (31.25%) Ansible
3 4 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (12.50%) Terraform
5 1 (6.25%) Grafana
5 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) BMC
2 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.25%) Remedy
2 1 (6.25%) SendGrid
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow