Reliability Engineer Contracts

Reliability Engineer
UK

The median Reliability Engineer daily rate in the UK is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 594 679
Rank change year-on-year +55 +85 +175
Contract jobs requiring a Reliability Engineer 4 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.005% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.005% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £433 £258 -
25th Percentile £471 £298 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £366 £500
Median % change year-on-year +48.81% -26.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £621 £433 £525
90th Percentile £661 £473 £540
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £550
% change year-on-year - - +57.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 29,319 40,234 53,898
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 93.01% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,683 25,888 37,411
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,330 2,797 1,580
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.64% -12.79% +72.00%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £76.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +97.75%

Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Reliability Engineer in the UK

Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Reliability Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Reliability Engineer in the UK

Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reliability Engineer over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reliability Engineer in the UK

Reliability Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reliability Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Reliability Engineer in the UK

Reliability Engineer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reliability Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 July 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
England +54 3 £545 +48.81% 23
London +30 3 £545 +48.81% 10
Work from Home - 2 £415 - 15

Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 July 2025, 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 featuring Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) SAS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Confluence
4 1 (25.00%) Splunk
4 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
4 1 (25.00%) Go
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing

Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (50.00%) SAS
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) OCA
1 1 (25.00%) OCP
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk