Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £425 £445 £491
% change year-on-year -4.49% -9.31% -27.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 265 104 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 78.40% 89.66% 78.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 61 121
10th Percentile £225 £185 £150
25th Percentile £363 £250 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £500
90th Percentile £697 £688 £623
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.86% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 11 33
10th Percentile £13.88 £13.08 £11.70
25th Percentile £19.34 £23.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £25.30 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.41% +29.74% -35.49%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.30 £30.50
90th Percentile £59.00 - £65.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Oxford - 1 - - 1
Site Reliability Engineering
South East

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform