Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Southampton is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 0.62% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £578 £550 -
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 135 146 174
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.33% 96.69% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 97 128
10th Percentile £140 £200 £263
25th Percentile £350 £237 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% +1.45%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £614
90th Percentile £678 £654 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 16
10th Percentile £23.00 - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £21.89 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.05% +13.71% +10.94%
75th Percentile £71.50 - £33.94
90th Percentile £74.60 - £39.38
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £65.85 £50.00
% change year-on-year -61.81% +31.70% +11.11%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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 Southampton.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Southampton

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton

For the 6 months to 13 November 2025, 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 Southampton region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Python

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty