Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in 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 citing Site Reliability Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 0.62% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% - -
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 £320 £550 -
% change year-on-year -41.82% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 138 104 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 85.19% 68.87% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 69 120
10th Percentile £170 £200 £262
25th Percentile £230 £350 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -21.43% +1.45%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £616
90th Percentile £686 £640 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £536
% change year-on-year -4.59% +2.61% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 6
10th Percentile £22.50 - £24.13
25th Percentile £26.25 - £27.00
Median hourly rate £44.25 - £29.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.39%
75th Percentile £72.63 - £34.31
90th Percentile £78.85 - £36.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £65.85 £52.50
% change year-on-year -68.55% +25.43% +16.67%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Southampton

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
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%) 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