Site Reliability Engineer Contracts

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the UK is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 450 517
Rank change year-on-year +26 +67 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 96 132 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.33% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 103 154
10th Percentile £308 £473 £479
25th Percentile £355 £511 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £560 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% -13.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £675 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £850 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -22.73% -21.43% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.03
25th Percentile £39.25 - £65.06
Median hourly rate £44.50 - £65.25
75th Percentile £49.75 - £65.56
90th Percentile - - £65.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.50

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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
England +32 88 £500 -11.11% 122
London +30 52 £513 -25.18% 77
UK excluding London +35 34 £425 -22.73% 56
Work from Home +25 28 £475 -29.63% 65
South West +47 13 £500 -9.09% 9
South East +40 11 £438 -11.88% 15
Midlands +24 5 £375 -25.00% 7
West Midlands +16 5 £375 -25.00% 5
North of England +3 2 £315 -42.73% 15
North West +8 1 - - 10
Scotland +4 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +1 1 £315 -42.73% 4
Wales 0 1 £586 -12.05% 1
East of England - 1 £438 - 10

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 96 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 61 (63.54%) Kubernetes
3 57 (59.38%) DevOps
4 50 (52.08%) CI/CD
5 45 (46.88%) Terraform
6 44 (45.83%) Azure
7 41 (42.71%) Python
8 40 (41.67%) AWS
9 30 (31.25%) Docker
9 30 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (29.17%) Social Skills
11 27 (28.13%) Prometheus
11 27 (28.13%) Ansible
12 25 (26.04%) Grafana
13 24 (25.00%) Jenkins
13 24 (25.00%) Agile
14 22 (22.92%) Software Engineering
15 21 (21.88%) Observability
16 20 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (20.83%) C#
16 20 (20.83%) Linux
16 20 (20.83%) Finance
17 18 (18.75%) PowerShell
17 18 (18.75%) Containerisation
18 16 (16.67%) .NET
18 16 (16.67%) GCP
19 15 (15.63%) SQL
19 15 (15.63%) Microsoft
19 15 (15.63%) Migration
20 14 (14.58%) Google

Site 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 6 (6.25%) Apache
2 5 (5.21%) nginx
2 5 (5.21%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 44 (45.83%) Azure
2 40 (41.67%) AWS
3 20 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (16.67%) GCP
5 12 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 11 (11.46%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 8 (8.33%) Datadog
8 8 (8.33%) OpenShift
9 7 (7.29%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (7.29%) GitHub
9 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (5.21%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.21%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (5.21%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.21%) Google Workspace
10 5 (5.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.33%) DNS
1 8 (8.33%) HTTP
2 5 (5.21%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.17%) DHCP
3 4 (4.17%) Kerberos
3 4 (4.17%) SSL
4 2 (2.08%) FTP
4 2 (2.08%) SMTP
4 2 (2.08%) VPN
5 1 (1.04%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.04%) NAS
5 1 (1.04%) Network Security
5 1 (1.04%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.04%) SAN
5 1 (1.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.17%) Power BI
5 2 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.04%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.04%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.04%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 24 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.38%) GitLab
3 6 (6.25%) Git
4 5 (5.21%) Artifactory
4 5 (5.21%) TeamCity
5 4 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.04%) GoCD
7 1 (1.04%) JIRA
7 1 (1.04%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.83%) Finance
3 9 (9.38%) Banking
4 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.29%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.25%) Electronics
6 6 (6.25%) Front Office
6 6 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.25%) Marketing
7 5 (5.21%) Legal
8 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.08%) International Banking
9 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Dutch Language
10 1 (1.04%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.67%) .NET
2 14 (14.58%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (7.29%) ADO
3 7 (7.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (6.25%) CSS
4 6 (6.25%) HTML
4 6 (6.25%) YAML
5 5 (5.21%) J2EE
5 5 (5.21%) JSON
5 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (4.17%) Kafka
6 4 (4.17%) LDAP
7 3 (3.13%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.13%) Spring
8 2 (2.08%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.08%) boto
8 2 (2.08%) Flask
9 1 (1.04%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.04%) OpenID
9 1 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.29%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (7.29%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.21%) Tandem
5 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Social Media
7 1 (1.04%) Clustering
7 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.04%) FMCG
7 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.83%) Linux
2 9 (9.38%) Unix
3 6 (6.25%) Windows
4 5 (5.21%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.13%) Android
6 2 (2.08%) Debian
6 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 57 (59.38%) DevOps
3 50 (52.08%) CI/CD
4 30 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (25.00%) Agile
6 22 (22.92%) Software Engineering
7 21 (21.88%) Observability
8 18 (18.75%) Containerisation
9 15 (15.63%) Migration
10 14 (14.58%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (14.58%) High Availability
11 13 (13.54%) Service-Level Objective
12 11 (11.46%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (11.46%) Incident Response
12 11 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (10.42%) Continuous Delivery
13 10 (10.42%) Incident Management
13 10 (10.42%) Service Management
14 9 (9.38%) Change Management
14 9 (9.38%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 41 (42.71%) Python
2 20 (20.83%) C#
3 18 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 15 (15.63%) SQL
5 14 (14.58%) Bash
6 12 (12.50%) Go
6 12 (12.50%) Java
7 11 (11.46%) JavaScript
8 7 (7.29%) Bicep
8 7 (7.29%) Shell Script
9 5 (5.21%) Groovy
9 5 (5.21%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (5.21%) Ruby
10 1 (1.04%) F#
Qualifications
1 12 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.38%) Azure Certification
2 9 (9.38%) Degree
3 8 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.04%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) QA
2 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.04%) GDPR
2 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (31.25%) Docker
2 10 (10.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (63.54%) Kubernetes
2 45 (46.88%) Terraform
3 27 (28.13%) Ansible
3 27 (28.13%) Prometheus
4 25 (26.04%) Grafana
5 5 (5.21%) Progress Chef
5 5 (5.21%) Puppet
6 1 (1.04%) Argo
6 1 (1.04%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.04%) Nagios
6 1 (1.04%) Netcool
6 1 (1.04%) Podman
6 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.04%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.58%) Google
2 14 (14.58%) Splunk
3 10 (10.42%) Dynatrace
4 7 (7.29%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.25%) SAP
6 4 (4.17%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.13%) VMware
8 2 (2.08%) Oracle
9 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.04%) BT
9 1 (1.04%) Cisco
9 1 (1.04%) EMC
9 1 (1.04%) IBM
9 1 (1.04%) Qualys
9 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.04%) Serena
9 1 (1.04%) Sybase
9 1 (1.04%) TOWER Software
9 1 (1.04%) Veritas
143 Site Reliability Engineer jobs Nationwide