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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 261 347
Rank change year-on-year +21 +86 +43
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 95 126 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.62% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.74% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 99 53
10th Percentile £355 £405 £489
25th Percentile £413 £486 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -14.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £700
90th Percentile £700 £634 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £75.65 - £66.83
25th Percentile £78.88 - £69.19
Median hourly rate £87.00 - £75.50
75th Percentile £92.38 - £81.00
90th Percentile £93.95 - £86.40
UK median hourly rate £79.00 £110.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -28.18% +37.50% -

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 11,711 17,111 20,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.54% 84.30% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,219 14,183
10th Percentile £235 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,064 1,254
10th Percentile £14.02 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 19 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 19 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 +32 23 £450 -7.75% 94
Scotland +2 22 £450 -21.74% 32
South West +35 17 £550 - 26
North of England -3 16 £538 -2.27% 68
Midlands +20 13 £375 -25.00% 38
West Midlands +4 10 £375 -25.00% 22
North West +3 9 £475 -13.64% 37
Yorkshire +4 7 £650 +16.07% 23
East of England +24 3 £438 -27.08% 23
East Midlands - 3 £700 - 14
Wales +2 2 £556 -16.62% 3
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 (3.16%) Confluence
2 2 (2.11%) Apache
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.11%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.95%) Azure
2 26 (27.37%) AWS
3 19 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (13.68%) Azure AKS
5 11 (11.58%) GitHub
6 9 (9.47%) GCP
7 7 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (7.37%) Azure Storage
7 7 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (7.37%) OpenShift
8 5 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.26%) PaaS
9 4 (4.21%) Google Workspace
9 4 (4.21%) IaaS
10 3 (3.16%) Datadog
10 3 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.16%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.16%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) SNA
1 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.11%) Network Security
3 1 (1.05%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.47%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.42%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.37%) Big Data
4 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.16%) Power BI
5 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.11%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.05%) DB2
7 1 (1.05%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (12.63%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.58%) Git
3 7 (7.37%) JIRA
4 4 (4.21%) GitLab
4 4 (4.21%) Xcode
5 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.05%) Postman
General
1 35 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.32%) Finance
3 12 (12.63%) Banking
4 7 (7.37%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Electronics
5 6 (6.32%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.32%) Legal
5 6 (6.32%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.32%) Marketing
5 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.11%) Games
6 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.11%) Retail
7 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (36.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 26 (27.37%) Site Engineer
3 17 (17.89%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Applications Support
6 9 (9.47%) Architect
6 9 (9.47%) Developer
7 8 (8.42%) Azure Developer
7 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Applications Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Applications Support Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) C# Application Developer
8 6 (6.32%) C# Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Consultant
9 5 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Mobile Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) .NET
2 9 (9.47%) ADO
3 6 (6.32%) CSS
3 6 (6.32%) HTML
3 6 (6.32%) Loki
4 5 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (4.21%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (4.21%) Middleware
5 4 (4.21%) SwiftUI
5 4 (4.21%) UIKit
5 4 (4.21%) YAML
6 3 (3.16%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.16%) Node.js
7 2 (2.11%) Kafka
7 2 (2.11%) React
8 1 (1.05%) REST
8 1 (1.05%) RESTful
8 1 (1.05%) SOAP
8 1 (1.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.32%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.26%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.21%) Credit Risk
4 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.21%) iPad
4 4 (4.21%) iPhone
4 4 (4.21%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.16%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Clustering
7 1 (1.05%) FMCG
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.95%) Linux
2 6 (6.32%) Unix
3 5 (5.26%) Windows
4 4 (4.21%) Android
4 4 (4.21%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.21%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.21%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.16%) zOS
6 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (51.58%) DevOps
2 47 (49.47%) CI/CD
3 28 (29.47%) Agile
4 26 (27.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 18 (18.95%) Incident Management
6 18 (18.95%) Observability
6 18 (18.95%) Test Automation
7 17 (17.89%) Migration
8 16 (16.84%) Containerisation
9 15 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (14.74%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (13.68%) Configuration Management
12 12 (12.63%) Computer Science
13 11 (11.58%) Software Delivery
13 11 (11.58%) TDD
14 10 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (10.53%) Change Management
14 10 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
14 10 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.63%) Python
2 19 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 19 (20.00%) SQL
3 12 (12.63%) Bash
4 11 (11.58%) C#
5 8 (8.42%) Shell Script
6 7 (7.37%) Bicep
6 7 (7.37%) Java
6 7 (7.37%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.21%) Objective-C
7 4 (4.21%) Swift
8 3 (3.16%) JCL
9 1 (1.05%) C
9 1 (1.05%) Go
9 1 (1.05%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (12.63%) Degree
2 11 (11.58%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (9.47%) Azure Certification
5 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.32%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.11%) APMG
9 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.05%) CSSLP
9 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) COBIT
2 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 19 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (6.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 5 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 36 (37.89%) Terraform
3 28 (29.47%) Ansible
4 20 (21.05%) Grafana
4 20 (21.05%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.16%) Tivoli NetView
7 2 (2.11%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.05%) Argo
8 1 (1.05%) Nagios
8 1 (1.05%) Opsview
8 1 (1.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.58%) Google
3 10 (10.53%) Splunk
4 7 (7.37%) SAP
4 7 (7.37%) VMware
5 6 (6.32%) Dynatrace
5 6 (6.32%) Veritas
6 5 (5.26%) Oracle
7 4 (4.21%) Databricks
8 2 (2.11%) ForgeRock
8 2 (2.11%) IBM
8 2 (2.11%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.11%) Spotify
9 1 (1.05%) BMC
9 1 (1.05%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.05%) Remedy
9 1 (1.05%) SendGrid
9 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.05%) Sun
9 1 (1.05%) Sybase