Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in South London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.57% - 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% - 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £514
25th Percentile £508 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - £545
75th Percentile £523 - £555
90th Percentile - - £572
London median daily rate £550 £725 £665
% change year-on-year -24.14% +9.02% +2.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 156 175 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 89.66% 87.94% 83.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 112 186
10th Percentile £253 £207 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £486 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -3.71% -8.18%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £716 £736 £669
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 17
10th Percentile - - £15.24
25th Percentile - £17.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £52.19
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -62.64% +18.32%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.79
90th Percentile - £75.79 £69.50
London median hourly rate £31.49 £38.29 £38.38
% change year-on-year -17.75% -0.23% -1.44%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in South London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Croydon - 1 £515 - 1
Site Reliability Engineering
London

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform