Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the Thames Valley

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Site Reliability Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 138 140
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 -17
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 20 8 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.74% 0.27% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.30% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 25
10th Percentile £338 £559 £455
25th Percentile £411 £569 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £620 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% +12.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £500 £715 £575
90th Percentile £507 £751 £613
South East median daily rate £491 £623 £550
% change year-on-year -21.18% +13.18% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £85.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Site Reliability Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,340 2,676 3,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.09% 91.58% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,857 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 62 87
10th Percentile £15.30 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.48 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -18.18%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the Thames Valley

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the Thames Valley

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the Thames Valley

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
Berkshire +2 20 £492 -28.20% 5
Site Reliability Engineering
South East

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 4 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Advertising
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Site Engineer
1 14 (70.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) Kafka
2 5 (25.00%) YAML
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
1 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) GitOps
2 12 (60.00%) DevOps
3 11 (55.00%) ITSM
4 10 (50.00%) Agile
5 9 (45.00%) Task Automation
6 8 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (40.00%) Microservices
7 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (30.00%) Change Management
8 6 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (30.00%) Incident Response
8 6 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
9 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
9 3 (15.00%) OO
9 3 (15.00%) OOP
9 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (15.00%) Scrum
9 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineering
9 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C#
1 3 (15.00%) F#
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Grafana
1 10 (50.00%) Istio
1 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (35.00%) Prometheus
3 6 (30.00%) Argo
3 6 (30.00%) Kibana
4 2 (10.00%) Terraform
5 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (20.00%) VMware
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) BMC
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Remedy
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow