Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 20 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.82% 0.75% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £464 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £532 £600 -
% change year-on-year -11.33% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 277 117 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 75.27% 87.31% 80.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 68 57
10th Percentile £190 £350 £226
25th Percentile £213 £417 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £545 £544 £575
90th Percentile £634 £588 £602
East Midlands median daily rate £463 £425 £413
% change year-on-year +8.82% +2.91% -13.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 9 16
10th Percentile £12.98 - £12.08
25th Percentile £13.53 - £12.74
Median hourly rate £16.35 £13.81 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year +18.39% -0.68% -30.48%
75th Percentile £18.08 £16.11 £16.97
90th Percentile £19.03 £17.87 £22.25
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £16.82
% change year-on-year -4.61% +12.22% -25.27%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2026. 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
Nottingham -16 3 £530 +6.00% 2
Site Reliability Engineering
East Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
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%) 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