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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 149 175
Rank change year-on-year +14 +26 +61
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 29 38 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.83% 0.76% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.92% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 28 27
10th Percentile £406 £338 £540
25th Percentile £413 £454 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £484 £725
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% -33.31% +31.82%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £760
90th Percentile £638 £527 £788
England median daily rate £475 £574 £641
% change year-on-year -17.21% -10.53% +0.67%

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 3,150 4,135 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.05% 82.93% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,507 3,413
10th Percentile £250 £260 £263
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 328 238
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.02 £21.23
Median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +108.33%
75th Percentile £50.50 £70.00 £63.56
90th Percentile £74.75 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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
Berkshire +7 22 £433 -10.55% 9
Thames Valley +2 22 £433 -10.82% 13
Hampshire - 3 £625 - 8
Surrey +17 2 £413 -10.33% 6
East Sussex -1 2 £475 +4.40%
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:

Cloud Services
1 25 (86.21%) Azure
2 16 (55.17%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (48.28%) AWS
4 13 (44.83%) Azure AKS
5 10 (34.48%) Azure Storage
6 8 (27.59%) GCP
7 7 (24.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (24.14%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (24.14%) IaaS
7 7 (24.14%) PaaS
8 4 (13.79%) GitHub
9 3 (10.34%) Azure Table
9 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (10.34%) Power Automate
9 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
10 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (3.45%) Azure App Service
10 1 (3.45%) Datadog
10 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (10.34%) Power BI
3 2 (6.90%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 14 (48.28%) Site Engineer
3 12 (41.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (37.93%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (34.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 5 (17.24%) Senior
7 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (10.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
10 1 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 1 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
10 1 (3.45%) Consultant
10 1 (3.45%) Junior
10 1 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
10 1 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
10 1 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 1 (3.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) ADO
2 5 (17.24%) .NET
3 4 (13.79%) .NET Core
3 4 (13.79%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) gRPC
4 1 (3.45%) Next.js
4 1 (3.45%) NgRx
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) React
4 1 (3.45%) Redux
4 1 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) Web Services
4 1 (3.45%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Ubuntu
2 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) CI/CD
2 20 (68.97%) DevOps
3 11 (37.93%) High Availability
3 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (24.14%) Release Management
6 6 (20.69%) Business Continuity
6 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
6 6 (20.69%) Incident Management
6 6 (20.69%) Observability
6 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (20.69%) Task Automation
7 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
8 4 (13.79%) Identity Management
9 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
10 2 (6.90%) Continuous Delivery
10 2 (6.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Python
2 12 (41.38%) SQL
3 11 (37.93%) PowerShell
4 8 (27.59%) Bicep
5 7 (24.14%) Go
5 7 (24.14%) Java
6 4 (13.79%) Bash
6 4 (13.79%) C#
7 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (82.76%) Kubernetes
2 12 (41.38%) Terraform
3 6 (20.69%) Prometheus
4 5 (17.24%) Grafana
5 4 (13.79%) Ansible
6 1 (3.45%) Puppet
6 1 (3.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) VMware