Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in South Yorkshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £413 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 774 240 411
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.66% 87.59% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 157 244
10th Percentile £342 £157 £309
25th Percentile £413 £310 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £588
90th Percentile £675 £643 £685
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.70% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 17
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £16.68 £12.62 £12.63
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.85 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +31.36% +12.21% -25.34%
75th Percentile £22.33 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile £24.02 £16.97 £26.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £14.41
% change year-on-year +13.73% +67.86% -33.77%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 February 2026. 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
Sheffield - 1 £500 -
Site Reliability Engineer
Yorkshire

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 7 February 2026, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) YAML

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk