Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Nottingham is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 0.94% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £464 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £530 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Nottingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Nottingham. 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 Nottingham with a recognized job title 285 98 111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.34% 87.50% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 69 61
10th Percentile £190 £247 £205
25th Percentile £406 £405 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -8.65%
75th Percentile £588 £530 £550
90th Percentile £650 £588 £600
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £475 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% -10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 19
10th Percentile £12.95 - £12.28
25th Percentile £13.51 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 £11.44 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.86% -18.29% -32.81%
75th Percentile £16.35 £16.50 £14.61
90th Percentile £18.31 £17.87 £16.00
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £16.00 £11.44 £14.00
% change year-on-year +39.86% -18.29% -30.00%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham

For the 6 months to 24 May 2026, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Nottingham region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) CentOS
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Graceful Degradation
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) CentOS
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Graceful Degradation
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat