Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.41% - 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% - 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 - £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £398
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.85%
75th Percentile £444 - £399
90th Percentile - - £400
South West median daily rate £538 £600 £531
% change year-on-year -10.42% +12.94% -18.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 197 104 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.61% 90.43% 78.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 72 95
10th Percentile £263 £250 £184
25th Percentile £350 £368 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £594
90th Percentile £627 £724 £625
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 5 31
10th Percentile £40.37 £12.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £12.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -53.73% -
75th Percentile £58.75 - £42.50
90th Percentile - £20.01 £55.46
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Somerset

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 16 March 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
Taunton - 4 £438 -
Site Reliability Engineering
South West

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Code
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Graceful Degradation
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
2 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA