Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Sheffield is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - -21
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.20% - 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% - 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £520
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.71%
75th Percentile - - £530
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - £520
% change year-on-year - - -25.71%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 890 289 335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.72% 91.46% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 189 206
10th Percentile £363 £207 £368
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £469 £481
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -2.55% -14.63%
75th Percentile £553 £556 £588
90th Percentile £675 £644 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.42% -0.11% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 10
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £18.10 £11.33
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.42% -16.58% +24.15%
75th Percentile £32.52 £18.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £34.77 £18.51 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £13.60
% change year-on-year +40.42% +34.99% -23.28%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Sheffield

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 8 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 Sheffield region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) YAML

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
Site Reliability Engineer jobs