Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > South West

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the South West is £456, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 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
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 136 152
Rank change year-on-year +21 +16 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 2 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.10% 0.26% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.29% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £373 £513 £583
25th Percentile £400 £516 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £545 £725
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -24.83% +41.46%
75th Percentile £510 £575 £738
90th Percentile £535 £600 -
England median daily rate £475 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -20.83% -7.69% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,746 2,454 3,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.22% 92.53% 95.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,483 2,134
10th Percentile £224 £225 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £624 £638
90th Percentile £714 £700 £713
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 257 282
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £18.29
25th Percentile £18.19 £40.00 £40.89
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £71.04
90th Percentile £68.53 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the South West

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the South West

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Bristol +9 2 £456 -15.51% 4
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 West region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) SAP