Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 55 71
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 +1
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 4 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.07% 0.44% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.50% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £631
25th Percentile £406 - £666
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.47%
75th Percentile £419 - £775
90th Percentile - - £788
South East median daily rate £450 £493 £725
% change year-on-year -8.72% -32.00% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 349 400 662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 93.07% 87.91% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 277 523
10th Percentile £204 £203 £195
25th Percentile £226 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% -
75th Percentile £551 £538 £600
90th Percentile £674 £600 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 19 37
10th Percentile £23.45 £18.89 £20.54
25th Percentile £26.91 £24.18 £44.60
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -51.32% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.95 £76.53
90th Percentile £70.64 £75.00 £77.84
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.98% +9.52% +24.56%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Surrey

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 9 November 2025. 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
Woking - 3 £413 - 3
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Site Reliability Engineering
South East

Site Reliability Engineering
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 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) gRPC
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) NgRx
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Redux
1 1 (25.00%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Release Management
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Progressive Web App
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Go
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes