Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 346 391
Rank change year-on-year +83 +45 -20
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 123 92 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.40% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.45% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 53 95
10th Percentile £416 £489 £428
25th Percentile £484 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +12.82%
75th Percentile £611 £700 £650
90th Percentile £634 £759 £700
UK median daily rate £574 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -8.20% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £75.50 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year +41.03% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,522 20,276 27,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.98% 89.11% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 13,889 19,180
10th Percentile £250 £260 £244
25th Percentile £375 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £582
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,171 1,255 1,348
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.43 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.25 £61.83
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +10.45%

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 7 June 2024.

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 7 June 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 +17 38 £550 -20.00% 12
South East +16 31 £491 -27.31% 12
South West +30 22 £550 -35.29% 11
Scotland +52 20 £575 +15.00% 4
Yorkshire +11 20 £563 -19.64% 4
North West +14 18 £550 -21.43% 8
Midlands +21 9 £675 +35.00% 12
West Midlands +17 9 £675 +35.00% 8
Wales +19 2 £666 +40.26% 3
East of England +9 1 £600 - 5
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 5 (4.07%) CMS
2 3 (2.44%) Drupal
3 2 (1.63%) nginx
4 1 (0.81%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (38.21%) AWS
2 42 (34.15%) OpenShift
3 37 (30.08%) Azure
4 23 (18.70%) Serverless
5 20 (16.26%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (13.82%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (11.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (10.57%) Amazon S3
9 11 (8.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (8.13%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (5.69%) GCP
11 7 (5.69%) Snowflake
12 6 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (4.88%) Amazon ELB
12 6 (4.88%) GitHub
13 5 (4.07%) Azure Functions
13 5 (4.07%) Power Platform
14 4 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.50%) AMQP
1 8 (6.50%) Firewall
2 7 (5.69%) Network Security
3 4 (3.25%) DNS
3 4 (3.25%) NAS
3 4 (3.25%) SAN
4 3 (2.44%) SSL
5 2 (1.63%) IPv4
5 2 (1.63%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.81%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.81%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (10.57%) Relational Database
2 12 (9.76%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (8.94%) SQL Server
4 10 (8.13%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (8.13%) DynamoDB
5 9 (7.32%) InfluxDB
5 9 (7.32%) MySQL
6 6 (4.88%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.07%) Power BI
8 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.63%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.81%) Big Data
10 1 (0.81%) DB2
10 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 27 (21.95%) Jenkins
2 20 (16.26%) Git
3 13 (10.57%) SonarQube
4 8 (6.50%) Artifactory
5 7 (5.69%) GitLab
6 6 (4.88%) Burp Suite
6 6 (4.88%) JIRA
7 5 (4.07%) AppScan
7 5 (4.07%) Gradle
7 5 (4.07%) Maven
8 4 (3.25%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (3.25%) Subversion
9 3 (2.44%) Selenium
General
1 18 (14.63%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.20%) Banking
3 12 (9.76%) Finance
4 10 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.88%) Retail
6 5 (4.07%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Advertising
8 1 (0.81%) Electronics
8 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.81%) Marketing
8 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (49.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 51 (41.46%) Site Engineer
3 17 (13.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (8.94%) Senior
5 9 (7.32%) Architect
5 9 (7.32%) Security Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.88%) Site Manager
7 6 (4.88%) Site Reliability Manager
7 6 (4.88%) Windows Engineer
8 5 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.07%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.07%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 5 (4.07%) Lead
8 5 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.07%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.57%) Kafka
2 9 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (6.50%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (4.07%) YAML
5 3 (2.44%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.44%) REST
6 1 (0.81%) .NET
6 1 (0.81%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.81%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.14%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.69%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (5.69%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.25%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.25%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.58%) Linux
2 28 (22.76%) Windows
3 16 (13.01%) Unix
4 7 (5.69%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.07%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (69.11%) DevOps
2 53 (43.09%) CI/CD
3 35 (28.46%) Agile
4 34 (27.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (21.95%) Containerisation
5 27 (21.95%) Observability
6 25 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (19.51%) Microservices
8 21 (17.07%) Task Automation
9 20 (16.26%) GitOps
10 17 (13.82%) Software Engineering
11 16 (13.01%) Change Management
11 16 (13.01%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (13.01%) ITSM
12 15 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (11.38%) ITIL
14 13 (10.57%) Configuration Management
14 13 (10.57%) Incident Response
14 13 (10.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 46 (37.40%) Python
2 25 (20.33%) PowerShell
3 22 (17.89%) Bash
4 21 (17.07%) SQL
5 15 (12.20%) Go
6 13 (10.57%) Shell Script
7 10 (8.13%) Java
8 6 (4.88%) Bicep
9 5 (4.07%) C
9 5 (4.07%) C#
9 5 (4.07%) Groovy
9 5 (4.07%) Ruby
10 4 (3.25%) F#
11 2 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.63%) Perl
12 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.81%) PHP
12 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.57%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.50%) Degree
5 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.63%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.63%) SANS
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.82%) QA
2 3 (2.44%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.63%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (30.08%) Docker
2 5 (4.07%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.44%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (47.97%) Kubernetes
2 48 (39.02%) Terraform
3 41 (33.33%) Grafana
4 40 (32.52%) Prometheus
5 36 (29.27%) Ansible
6 18 (14.63%) Istio
7 16 (13.01%) Progress Chef
8 12 (9.76%) Argo
8 12 (9.76%) Kibana
9 11 (8.94%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (8.94%) HP Fortify
10 7 (5.69%) SCCM
11 6 (4.88%) Graylog
11 6 (4.88%) Puppet
12 5 (4.07%) Nessus
12 5 (4.07%) SysTrack
12 5 (4.07%) WebInspect
13 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (1.63%) Nagios
14 2 (1.63%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 22 (17.89%) Splunk
2 18 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.32%) Salesforce
4 8 (6.50%) VMware
5 6 (4.88%) Checkmarx
6 5 (4.07%) Citrix
6 5 (4.07%) New Relic
6 5 (4.07%) OpenAI
6 5 (4.07%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.07%) Veracode
7 4 (3.25%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.63%) Google
8 2 (1.63%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.63%) Veritas
9 1 (0.81%) BMC
9 1 (0.81%) Databricks
9 1 (0.81%) Remedy
9 1 (0.81%) SAP
9 1 (0.81%) Sybase