Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Somerset > Taunton

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Taunton is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
16 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 11.76% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 11.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £438 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Taunton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Taunton. 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 Taunton with a recognized job title 34 3 31
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 27
10th Percentile £413 - £486
25th Percentile £431 - £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £600 - £625
90th Percentile £630 - £635
Somerset median daily rate £400 £469 £450
% change year-on-year -14.67% +4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.25 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £40.54 £12.45 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +225.62% -4.23% -22.10%
75th Percentile £43.84 - £15.00
90th Percentile - - £15.90
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £15.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year +264.96% -36.98% -37.50%

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton

For the 6 months to 16 March 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 Taunton region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Graceful Degradation
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
2 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) QA

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Code
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Graceful Degradation
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
2 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
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