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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.31% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £577 - -
25th Percentile £599 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 - -
75th Percentile £694 - -
90th Percentile £716 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £690 £625 -
% change year-on-year +10.40% - -

All Process & 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 126 113 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 82.35% 83.70% 73.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 68 77
10th Percentile £166 £175 £208
25th Percentile £375 £389 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +4.62% -9.30%
75th Percentile £588 £607 £634
90th Percentile £688 £695 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £538 £580
% change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 9
10th Percentile - £70.95 £13.00
25th Percentile £37.24 £71.63 £72.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £73.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% -8.75% +196.30%
75th Percentile £62.23 £74.13 -
90th Percentile £79.20 £74.65 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.25 £37.44 £57.35
% change year-on-year +28.86% -34.71% +9.24%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Southampton over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Southampton

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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) MQTT
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) gRPC
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Keycloak
1 1 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Edge Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Rust
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
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 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (50.00%) Tenable