Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in the North West

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > North West

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the North West is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 127 167
Rank change year-on-year +3 +40 -33
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 10 40 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 1.22% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 1.29% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 10
10th Percentile £515 £625 £581
25th Percentile £525 £653 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £681
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £575 - £708
90th Percentile £588 £768 £712
England median daily rate £563 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
England median hourly rate - £65.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,588 3,112 3,851
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 94.68% 96.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,709 2,246 2,841
10th Percentile £276 £300 £204
25th Percentile £394 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £550
90th Percentile £676 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 140 179
10th Percentile £11.03 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £32.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.73% +64.39% +11.73%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £61.71 £65.78 £58.75
England median hourly rate £34.21 £43.63 £22.29
% change year-on-year -21.59% +95.74% -0.58%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the North West

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the North West

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester +19 10 £550 -21.43% 6
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 North West region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) E-Commerce
2 7 (70.00%) Retail
3 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 6 (60.00%) Bash
3 6 (60.00%) Splunk
3 6 (60.00%) Git
3 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (60.00%) DynamoDB
3 6 (60.00%) Amazon ELB
3 6 (60.00%) Go
3 6 (60.00%) Ansible
3 6 (60.00%) Docker
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (60.00%) SonarQube
3 6 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (60.00%) Python
3 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) HP Fortify
3 6 (60.00%) Terraform
3 6 (60.00%) Data Lake
3 6 (60.00%) Snowflake
3 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Technical Debt
5 3 (30.00%) ISO 22301
5 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon ELB
2 6 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (60.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Data Lake
1 6 (60.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (30.00%) MySQL
2 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
1 6 (60.00%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (70.00%) Retail
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) E-Commerce
3 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Technical Debt
5 3 (30.00%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) Cost Management
6 2 (20.00%) Identity Management
6 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Bash
1 6 (60.00%) Go
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO 22301
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
1 6 (60.00%) HP Fortify
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Splunk
2 3 (30.00%) Salesforce