Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 277 366
Rank change year-on-year +34 +89 +27
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 93 123 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.59% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.70% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 96 62
10th Percentile £355 £405 £497
25th Percentile £413 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -16.35% +18.18%
75th Percentile £616 £596 £700
90th Percentile £683 £634 £773
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £66.30
25th Percentile - - £67.88
Median hourly rate - - £73.00
75th Percentile - - £76.75
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £44.50 - £79.00
% change year-on-year - - +54.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

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

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

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +45 23 £475 -3.19% 142
Scotland +9 23 £475 -17.39% 33
South West +45 21 £550 - 74
North of England -4 13 £475 -13.64% 191
Midlands +22 11 £431 -13.80% 112
West Midlands +11 8 £375 -25.00% 65
Yorkshire 0 7 £650 +17.12% 54
North West +2 6 £475 -13.64% 118
East Midlands - 3 £700 - 40
Wales +1 2 £556 -16.62% 15
East of England +30 1 £438 -7.89% 93
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
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 3 (3.23%) Apache
1 3 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.23%) Confluence
1 3 (3.23%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.86%) Azure
2 26 (27.96%) AWS
3 18 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (11.83%) Azure AKS
4 11 (11.83%) GitHub
5 9 (9.68%) GCP
6 8 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (8.60%) OpenShift
7 7 (7.53%) Entra ID
8 6 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (6.45%) Google Workspace
9 5 (5.38%) Azure Storage
10 4 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (4.30%) PaaS
11 3 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.23%) IaaS
11 3 (3.23%) Serverless
12 2 (2.15%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
12 2 (2.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) SNA
1 3 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.15%) Network Security
3 1 (1.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.60%) Big Data
2 8 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.15%) Power BI
6 1 (1.08%) DB2
6 1 (1.08%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (13.98%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.83%) Git
3 7 (7.53%) JIRA
4 4 (4.30%) GitLab
5 3 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (3.23%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.23%) Xcode
6 1 (1.08%) Postman
General
1 35 (37.63%) Social Skills
2 26 (27.96%) Finance
3 12 (12.90%) Banking
4 8 (8.60%) Legal
5 7 (7.53%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.45%) Electronics
6 6 (6.45%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.45%) Marketing
6 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Games
8 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (36.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 24 (25.81%) Site Engineer
3 16 (17.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (10.75%) Applications Support
6 9 (9.68%) Architect
6 9 (9.68%) Developer
7 8 (8.60%) Azure Developer
8 6 (6.45%) Applications Developer
8 6 (6.45%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Applications Support Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) C# Application Developer
8 6 (6.45%) C# Developer
8 6 (6.45%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Consultant
9 5 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.83%) .NET
2 7 (7.53%) ADO
3 6 (6.45%) CSS
3 6 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.45%) HTML
3 6 (6.45%) Loki
3 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (5.38%) YAML
5 4 (4.30%) Middleware
6 3 (3.23%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.23%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.23%) Node.js
6 3 (3.23%) SwiftUI
6 3 (3.23%) UIKit
7 2 (2.15%) Kafka
7 2 (2.15%) React
8 1 (1.08%) REST
8 1 (1.08%) RESTful
8 1 (1.08%) SOAP
8 1 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.30%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.30%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.23%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.23%) iPad
4 3 (3.23%) iPhone
4 3 (3.23%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.08%) Clustering
6 1 (1.08%) FMCG
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.51%) Linux
2 6 (6.45%) Unix
3 5 (5.38%) Windows
4 4 (4.30%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.30%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.23%) Android
5 3 (3.23%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.23%) zOS
6 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (52.69%) DevOps
2 47 (50.54%) CI/CD
3 28 (30.11%) Agile
4 24 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (18.28%) Observability
6 16 (17.20%) Migration
6 16 (17.20%) Test Automation
7 15 (16.13%) Containerisation
7 15 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (16.13%) Software Engineering
8 13 (13.98%) Configuration Management
8 13 (13.98%) Incident Management
8 13 (13.98%) Software Delivery
9 12 (12.90%) Computer Science
10 10 (10.75%) Change Management
10 10 (10.75%) Continuous Delivery
10 10 (10.75%) Service Delivery
10 10 (10.75%) TDD
11 9 (9.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 31 (33.33%) Python
2 21 (22.58%) PowerShell
3 19 (20.43%) SQL
4 11 (11.83%) Bash
4 11 (11.83%) C#
5 8 (8.60%) Shell Script
6 7 (7.53%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.45%) Bicep
8 4 (4.30%) Java
9 3 (3.23%) JCL
9 3 (3.23%) Objective-C
9 3 (3.23%) Swift
10 1 (1.08%) C
10 1 (1.08%) Go
10 1 (1.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.90%) Degree
3 10 (10.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 9 (9.68%) DV Cleared
5 7 (7.53%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.08%) CSSLP
7 1 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (1.08%) COBIT
2 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 22 (23.66%) Docker
2 7 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 4 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (47.31%) Kubernetes
2 39 (41.94%) Terraform
3 31 (33.33%) Ansible
4 19 (20.43%) Grafana
4 19 (20.43%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.38%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.23%) HAProxy
6 3 (3.23%) Tivoli NetView
7 2 (2.15%) Puppet
8 1 (1.08%) Argo
8 1 (1.08%) Nagios
8 1 (1.08%) Opsview
Vendors
1 21 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.98%) Google
3 8 (8.60%) Splunk
4 7 (7.53%) SAP
4 7 (7.53%) VMware
5 6 (6.45%) Veritas
6 5 (5.38%) Oracle
7 4 (4.30%) Databricks
7 4 (4.30%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.15%) ForgeRock
8 2 (2.15%) IBM
8 2 (2.15%) PagerDuty
8 2 (2.15%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.15%) Spotify
9 1 (1.08%) BMC
9 1 (1.08%) BT
9 1 (1.08%) Remedy
9 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.08%) Sun
9 1 (1.08%) Sybase