Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in the South East

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > South East

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the South East is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 188 221
Rank change year-on-year +40 +33 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 11 17 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 0.31% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.33% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 1
10th Percentile - £471 -
25th Percentile £413 £484 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £497 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -9.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £484 £500 £575
90th Percentile £531 £504 -
England median daily rate £500 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -11.11% -13.46% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the South East

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the South East

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the South East

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +34 5 £425 -14.40% 1
Berkshire +22 5 £425 -14.40% 1
Hampshire - 4 £500 - 2
Surrey +16 1 - - 1
East Sussex - 1 £475 -
Site Reliability Engineer
England

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 11 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) Terraform
4 5 (45.45%) Azure AKS
4 5 (45.45%) Azure Storage
4 5 (45.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 5 (45.45%) ADO
5 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
5 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
5 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (27.27%) ARM Templates
6 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
6 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (27.27%) IaaS
6 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
6 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
6 3 (27.27%) Workflow
6 3 (27.27%) C#
6 3 (27.27%) .NET
6 3 (27.27%) Python
6 3 (27.27%) PaaS
6 3 (27.27%) Bash
7 2 (18.18%) AWS

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (54.55%) Azure
1 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Azure AKS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure Storage
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (27.27%) IaaS
3 3 (27.27%) PaaS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Table
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
4 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) Datadog
5 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (18.18%) Power BI
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) ADO
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) ARM Templates
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Workflow
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (9.09%) Agile
6 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
6 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 1 (9.09%) Observability
6 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) PagerDuty