Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in South Wales

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 40 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.83% 0.60% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.75% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £520 £644 -
25th Percentile £531 £652 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £666 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.62% - -
75th Percentile £574 £679 -
90th Percentile £581 £686 -
Wales median daily rate £556 £666 £475
% change year-on-year -16.62% +40.26% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 268 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.08% 80.00% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 189 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £284 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.25% +5.26% -3.85%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £415 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.00% +5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in South Wales

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in South Wales

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cardiff +6 2 £556 -16.62% 5
Site Reliability Engineering
Wales

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Nagios
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft