Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 109 128
Rank change year-on-year +17 +19 +38
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 21 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.30% 0.77% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.90% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 14
10th Percentile £409 £458 £515
25th Percentile £413 £462 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £725
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -32.76% +26.09%
75th Percentile £524 £500 £747
90th Percentile £561 £526 £776
South East median daily rate £463 £482 £725
% change year-on-year -4.05% -33.52% +26.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,474 1,883 2,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.93% 85.28% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 1,051 1,687
10th Percentile £273 £300 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 86 92
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.25 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.12 £30.81 £24.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.53 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.45% +21.06% +163.16%
75th Percentile £42.67 £70.39 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £86.77 £74.98
South East median hourly rate £20.75 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.82% +9.24% +61.54%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Site Reliability Engineering

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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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
Berkshire +22 21 £425 -11.83% 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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) Azure Storage
3 12 (57.14%) Azure AKS
3 12 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (47.62%) PaaS
5 9 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (42.86%) IaaS
6 6 (28.57%) AWS
6 6 (28.57%) GCP
7 5 (23.81%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (14.29%) Azure Table
8 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
8 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
9 2 (9.52%) Azure API Management
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Functions
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (9.52%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (14.29%) Power BI
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Postman
1 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Site Engineer
1 16 (76.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (52.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Junior
4 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) ADO
2 5 (23.81%) .NET
2 5 (23.81%) .NET Core
3 4 (19.05%) ARM Templates
4 2 (9.52%) RESTful
4 2 (9.52%) SOAP
4 2 (9.52%) Swagger
4 2 (9.52%) WSDL
4 2 (9.52%) XSLT
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) High Availability
3 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (28.57%) Release Management
5 5 (23.81%) Business Continuity
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (23.81%) Task Automation
6 4 (19.05%) Incident Management
7 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (14.29%) Identity Management
7 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (9.52%) API Testing
8 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (4.76%) API Design
9 1 (4.76%) Integration Testing
9 1 (4.76%) Microservices
9 1 (4.76%) OOP
9 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) SQL
2 9 (42.86%) Python
3 6 (28.57%) Go
3 6 (28.57%) Java
4 5 (23.81%) C#
5 4 (19.05%) Bicep
6 3 (14.29%) Bash
6 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
7 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 18 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (23.81%) Terraform
3 4 (19.05%) Grafana
3 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft