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 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 401 464
Rank change year-on-year +83 +63 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 67 43 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 22 33
10th Percentile £476 £500 £453
25th Percentile £500 £606 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £688 £634
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.44% +20.76%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £699
90th Percentile £614 - £700
UK median daily rate £565 £645 £625
% change year-on-year -12.40% +3.20% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £65.25 -
% change year-on-year +68.58% - -

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 18,772 21,693 29,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.28% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,127 20,437
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,104 1,447
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.07 £14.29
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 18 May 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 18 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
South East +53 21 £493 -10.36% 10
North of England +15 19 £550 -21.43% 13
South West - 12 £550 - 11
North West +8 10 £550 -21.43% 6
Scotland +49 9 £550 -
Yorkshire 0 9 £558 -20.36% 7
Midlands +22 3 £500 - 3
West Midlands +22 3 £500 - 1
Wales - 2 £666 - 5
East of England - 1 £600 - 3
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 18 May 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 67 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 45 (67.16%) Kubernetes
3 40 (59.70%) DevOps
4 37 (55.22%) Terraform
5 33 (49.25%) Prometheus
6 32 (47.76%) Python
7 31 (46.27%) Grafana
8 30 (44.78%) CI/CD
9 28 (41.79%) OpenShift
10 27 (40.30%) AWS
11 26 (38.81%) Security Cleared
11 26 (38.81%) Ansible
11 26 (38.81%) Docker
12 25 (37.31%) Containerisation
13 21 (31.34%) Linux
14 20 (29.85%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (28.36%) Observability
16 18 (26.87%) Task Automation
16 18 (26.87%) SC Cleared
17 17 (25.37%) Jenkins
18 16 (23.88%) SQL
19 15 (22.39%) ITSM
19 15 (22.39%) Agile
19 15 (22.39%) Bash
19 15 (22.39%) GitOps
20 14 (20.90%) Cloud Native
20 14 (20.90%) Azure
20 14 (20.90%) Splunk
20 14 (20.90%) Go
21 13 (19.40%) Amazon EC2

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 (2.99%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 28 (41.79%) OpenShift
2 27 (40.30%) AWS
3 14 (20.90%) Azure
4 13 (19.40%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (16.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (14.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (14.93%) Amazon S3
6 10 (14.93%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (14.93%) Serverless
7 7 (10.45%) GitHub
8 6 (8.96%) Amazon ELB
8 6 (8.96%) Snowflake
9 5 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.48%) GCP
11 2 (2.99%) Anthos
11 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.99%) Datadog
11 2 (2.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) NAS
1 6 (8.96%) Network Security
1 6 (8.96%) SAN
2 5 (7.46%) AMQP
3 2 (2.99%) Firewall
3 2 (2.99%) IPv4
3 2 (2.99%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) Relational Database
2 11 (16.42%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (16.42%) SQL Server
3 9 (13.43%) MySQL
4 7 (10.45%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (8.96%) Data Lake
5 6 (8.96%) DynamoDB
5 6 (8.96%) InfluxDB
6 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.49%) DB2
Development Applications
1 17 (25.37%) Jenkins
2 12 (17.91%) Git
2 12 (17.91%) SonarQube
3 6 (8.96%) Burp Suite
3 6 (8.96%) GitLab
4 5 (7.46%) AppScan
5 4 (5.97%) JIRA
5 4 (5.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.49%) Subversion
General
1 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Retail
3 5 (7.46%) Banking
4 4 (5.97%) Finance
5 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.42%) Kafka
2 7 (10.45%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (7.46%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (7.46%) REST
4 2 (2.99%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.49%) .NET
5 1 (1.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (8.96%) Public Cloud
3 5 (7.46%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.99%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.49%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (31.34%) Linux
2 11 (16.42%) Windows
3 9 (13.43%) Windows Server
4 6 (8.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 40 (59.70%) DevOps
3 30 (44.78%) CI/CD
4 25 (37.31%) Containerisation
5 20 (29.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (28.36%) Observability
7 18 (26.87%) Task Automation
8 15 (22.39%) Agile
8 15 (22.39%) GitOps
8 15 (22.39%) ITSM
9 12 (17.91%) Data Protection
9 12 (17.91%) Microservices
10 11 (16.42%) Configuration Management
10 11 (16.42%) Incident Response
10 11 (16.42%) Software Engineering
11 10 (14.93%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (13.43%) Change Management
12 9 (13.43%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (10.45%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 32 (47.76%) Python
2 16 (23.88%) SQL
3 15 (22.39%) Bash
4 14 (20.90%) Go
5 8 (11.94%) Java
5 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
6 7 (10.45%) Shell Script
7 6 (8.96%) C
7 6 (8.96%) Perl
8 5 (7.46%) C#
9 4 (5.97%) F#
10 2 (2.99%) Bicep
11 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.49%) PHP
11 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.93%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.97%) Degree
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) SANS
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) ISO 22301
2 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (38.81%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (67.16%) Kubernetes
2 37 (55.22%) Terraform
3 33 (49.25%) Prometheus
4 31 (46.27%) Grafana
5 26 (38.81%) Ansible
6 13 (19.40%) Istio
7 12 (17.91%) Progress Chef
8 11 (16.42%) Argo
8 11 (16.42%) HP Fortify
8 11 (16.42%) Kibana
9 6 (8.96%) Graylog
10 5 (7.46%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (7.46%) Nessus
10 5 (7.46%) NetBackup
10 5 (7.46%) Puppet
10 5 (7.46%) WebInspect
11 2 (2.99%) Kiali
11 2 (2.99%) Nagios
12 1 (1.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Splunk
2 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.96%) Checkmarx
4 5 (7.46%) Veracode
4 5 (7.46%) Veritas
5 3 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.99%) Google
6 2 (2.99%) VMware
7 1 (1.49%) Citrix
7 1 (1.49%) Sybase