Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the North West

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 114 116 116
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +18
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 6 21 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 0.76% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.88% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 33
10th Percentile - £425 £605
25th Percentile £463 £481 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -21.43% +10.41%
75th Percentile £488 £575 -
90th Percentile £668 £578 £760
England median daily rate £613 £550 £638
% change year-on-year +11.36% -13.73% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.50 - £79.00
% change year-on-year - - +17.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North West

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North West

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the North West

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the North West 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
Cheshire 0 4 £475 +5.56% 6
Manchester +1 1 £775 +40.91% 30
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Service Management Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 4 (66.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) IT Governance
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL
5 1 (16.67%) ITSM
5 1 (16.67%) Microservices
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
5 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Service Management
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Ansible
3 4 (66.67%) Progress Chef
4 2 (33.33%) Terraform
5 1 (16.67%) Grafana
5 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) BMC
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow