Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 396 470
Rank change year-on-year +63 +74 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 62 56 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.25% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 37 29
10th Percentile £481 £515 £443
25th Percentile £500 £625 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 - £700
90th Percentile £597 £775 £712
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,260 22,774 29,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.07% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 15,954 20,879
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,214 1,200 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.66 £18.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
North of England +8 18 £550 -21.43% 13
South East +29 17 £497 -9.73% 9
South West +28 11 £550 -31.25% 11
Scotland - 11 £550 - 2
North West -9 10 £550 -21.43% 8
Yorkshire +5 8 £550 -21.43% 5
Midlands +37 3 £500 - 4
West Midlands +31 3 £500 -
Wales - 2 £666 - 2
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 41 (66.13%) Kubernetes
3 35 (56.45%) DevOps
3 35 (56.45%) Terraform
4 34 (54.84%) Python
5 29 (46.77%) Prometheus
5 29 (46.77%) CI/CD
6 27 (43.55%) Grafana
7 26 (41.94%) Ansible
8 25 (40.32%) AWS
9 23 (37.10%) Docker
9 23 (37.10%) OpenShift
10 22 (35.48%) Security Cleared
11 21 (33.87%) Linux
12 19 (30.65%) Containerisation
13 18 (29.03%) Observability
13 18 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (29.03%) Jenkins
14 17 (27.42%) SQL
15 16 (25.81%) Task Automation
16 15 (24.19%) Splunk
17 14 (22.58%) Bash
17 14 (22.58%) Go
17 14 (22.58%) Agile
17 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
18 13 (20.97%) Relational Database
18 13 (20.97%) Git
18 13 (20.97%) Azure
19 12 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
19 12 (19.35%) Progress Chef

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.23%) nginx
2 1 (1.61%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.32%) AWS
2 23 (37.10%) OpenShift
3 13 (20.97%) Azure
4 12 (19.35%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (16.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (16.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (14.52%) Amazon S3
6 9 (14.52%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (14.52%) Serverless
7 7 (11.29%) GitHub
8 6 (9.68%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (9.68%) Snowflake
9 5 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.84%) GCP
11 2 (3.23%) Anthos
11 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (3.23%) Datadog
11 2 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) NAS
1 6 (9.68%) Network Security
1 6 (9.68%) SAN
2 5 (8.06%) AMQP
3 2 (3.23%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.61%) Firewall
4 1 (1.61%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.97%) Relational Database
2 12 (19.35%) SQL Server
3 9 (14.52%) MySQL
4 8 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (11.29%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (9.68%) Data Lake
6 6 (9.68%) DynamoDB
6 6 (9.68%) InfluxDB
7 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.23%) DB2
8 2 (3.23%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.61%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.61%) Big Data
9 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.61%) HBase
Development Applications
1 18 (29.03%) Jenkins
2 13 (20.97%) Git
3 12 (19.35%) SonarQube
4 6 (9.68%) Burp Suite
4 6 (9.68%) GitLab
5 5 (8.06%) AppScan
6 4 (6.45%) JIRA
6 4 (6.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.61%) Subversion
General
1 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.29%) Retail
3 5 (8.06%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Finance
5 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) Kafka
2 7 (11.29%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (9.68%) REST
4 5 (8.06%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.23%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (9.68%) Public Cloud
3 5 (8.06%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.61%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (33.87%) Linux
2 10 (16.13%) Windows
3 9 (14.52%) Windows Server
4 6 (9.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 35 (56.45%) DevOps
3 29 (46.77%) CI/CD
4 19 (30.65%) Containerisation
5 18 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (29.03%) Observability
6 16 (25.81%) Task Automation
7 14 (22.58%) Agile
8 12 (19.35%) Data Protection
9 11 (17.74%) Configuration Management
9 11 (17.74%) GitOps
9 11 (17.74%) ITSM
9 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (14.52%) Microservices
11 8 (12.90%) Incident Response
11 8 (12.90%) Software Engineering
12 7 (11.29%) Change Management
12 7 (11.29%) E-Commerce
12 7 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
13 6 (9.68%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (54.84%) Python
2 17 (27.42%) SQL
3 14 (22.58%) Bash
3 14 (22.58%) Go
4 9 (14.52%) Java
4 9 (14.52%) PowerShell
5 8 (12.90%) Shell Script
6 6 (9.68%) C
6 6 (9.68%) Perl
7 4 (6.45%) C#
7 4 (6.45%) F#
8 2 (3.23%) Bicep
9 1 (1.61%) Groovy
9 1 (1.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.13%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.45%) Degree
5 2 (3.23%) SANS
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) QA
2 3 (4.84%) ISO 22301
2 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (37.10%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 41 (66.13%) Kubernetes
2 35 (56.45%) Terraform
3 29 (46.77%) Prometheus
4 27 (43.55%) Grafana
5 26 (41.94%) Ansible
6 12 (19.35%) Progress Chef
7 11 (17.74%) HP Fortify
8 9 (14.52%) Istio
9 7 (11.29%) Argo
9 7 (11.29%) Kibana
10 6 (9.68%) Graylog
11 5 (8.06%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (8.06%) Nessus
11 5 (8.06%) NetBackup
11 5 (8.06%) Puppet
11 5 (8.06%) WebInspect
12 2 (3.23%) Kiali
12 2 (3.23%) Nagios
13 1 (1.61%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (1.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (24.19%) Splunk
2 6 (9.68%) Checkmarx
3 5 (8.06%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.06%) Veracode
3 5 (8.06%) Veritas
4 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.23%) Google
5 2 (3.23%) VMware
6 1 (1.61%) Citrix
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle
6 1 (1.61%) Sybase