Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
South East > Surrey

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Surrey is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026.

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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.58% - 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% - 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £461
25th Percentile £463 - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £493
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.45%
75th Percentile £488 - £519
90th Percentile - - £530
South East median daily rate £397 £425 £493
% change year-on-year -6.71% -13.79% -10.36%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 476 285 545
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 95.64% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 193 400
10th Percentile £204 £189 £241
25th Percentile £381 £275 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £550 £543 £625
90th Percentile £678 £656 £694
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 27 54
10th Percentile £50.00 £20.00 £12.34
25th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £66.99 £28.00 £28.37
Median % change year-on-year +139.25% -1.29% -36.97%
75th Percentile £71.99 £38.57 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +69.23% -31.58% -

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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 Surrey.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Surrey

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Staines - 2 - -
Woking - 1 £475 -
Site Reliability Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 Surrey region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Loki
2 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 2 (66.67%) Loki
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Scala
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft