Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in Reading

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 57 87 85
Rank change year-on-year +30 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 0.34% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.37% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £411 -
25th Percentile £313 £443 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £495 £620
Median % change year-on-year -34.34% -20.16% -11.43%
75th Percentile £338 £524 £655
90th Percentile - £532 -
Berkshire median daily rate £470 £492 £685
% change year-on-year -4.44% -28.20% +19.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Reading

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Reading

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js Developer
1 2 (66.67%) React Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Observability
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Spotify