Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 105 120 149
Rank change year-on-year +15 +29 +14
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 11 24 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.58% 0.85% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.01% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 3
10th Percentile - £400 -
25th Percentile £355 £513 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £550 £725
Median % change year-on-year -32.73% -24.14% +41.46%
75th Percentile £548 £600 £806
90th Percentile £625 - £848
England median daily rate £475 £574 £641
% change year-on-year -17.21% -10.53% +0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £73.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £79.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,710 2,369 2,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.72% 83.59% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,514 2,076
10th Percentile £220 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +3.37%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 298 249
10th Percentile £15.17 £15.58 £19.20
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £47.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% - +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £83.75
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the South West 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
Bristol +17 8 £370 - 7
Gloucestershire +9 3 £600 +9.09% 18
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 6 (54.55%) Electronics
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
1 6 (54.55%) Manufacturing
1 6 (54.55%) Marketing
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
1 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Applications Support
1 7 (63.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Applications Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Applications Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Applications Support Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) C# Application Developer
2 6 (54.55%) C# Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
1 6 (54.55%) CSS
1 6 (54.55%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (54.55%) Computer Science
2 6 (54.55%) Continuous Delivery
2 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (54.55%) Digital Marketing
2 6 (54.55%) Programme Management
2 6 (54.55%) Service Delivery
2 6 (54.55%) Service Management
2 6 (54.55%) Software Delivery
2 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) TDD
2 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) User Experience
2 6 (54.55%) Web Development
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Observability
5 1 (9.09%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
1 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Azure Certification
1 6 (54.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Grafana
2 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) HAProxy
3 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Google
1 6 (54.55%) SAP