Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the South East

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 136 181 204
Rank change year-on-year +45 +23 +19
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 23 24 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.43% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.51% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 12
10th Percentile - £338 £491
25th Percentile £413 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £491 £623
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% -21.18% +13.18%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £676
90th Percentile - £521 £753
England median daily rate £613 £550 £638
% change year-on-year +11.36% -13.73% -1.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the South East

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the South East

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the South East

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +39 16 £470 -4.44% 2
Berkshire +27 16 £470 -4.44% 2
Hampshire - 4 £500 - 1
East Sussex - 2 £475 - 1
Surrey +15 1 - - 4
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) Azure
2 14 (60.87%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (43.48%) Azure AKS
4 8 (34.78%) AWS
5 6 (26.09%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (26.09%) GitHub
6 5 (21.74%) Azure Storage
7 4 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (17.39%) PaaS
8 3 (13.04%) IaaS
8 3 (13.04%) Serverless
9 2 (8.70%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (8.70%) Azure Table
9 2 (8.70%) Datadog
9 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
9 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
10 1 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (4.35%) Azure API Management
10 1 (4.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (17.39%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Postman
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Site Engineer
3 8 (34.78%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (17.39%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (17.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Developer
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 2 (8.70%) Consultant
8 2 (8.70%) Developer
8 2 (8.70%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (8.70%) React Developer
9 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Consultant
9 1 (4.35%) Integration Consultant
9 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
9 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) .NET
1 5 (21.74%) ADO
2 3 (13.04%) .NET Core
2 3 (13.04%) ARM Templates
2 3 (13.04%) Node.js
3 2 (8.70%) React
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.35%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) RESTful
4 1 (4.35%) SOAP
4 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Ubuntu
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) DevOps
2 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (34.78%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (30.43%) Configuration Management
5 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
6 5 (21.74%) Customer-Centricity
6 5 (21.74%) Incident Management
6 5 (21.74%) Observability
6 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (17.39%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 4 (17.39%) High Availability
7 4 (17.39%) Open Source
7 4 (17.39%) Server Building
8 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (13.04%) Identity Management
8 3 (13.04%) Integration Testing
8 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (13.04%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) PowerShell
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) Bicep
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (73.91%) Kubernetes
2 14 (60.87%) Terraform
3 8 (34.78%) Ansible
4 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.70%) Grafana
5 2 (8.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) Spotify
4 1 (4.35%) PagerDuty