Site Reliability Engineering Contracts

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 346 335
Rank change year-on-year +30 -11 +99
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 284 412 697
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.71% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.79% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 260 509
10th Percentile £425 £474 £463
25th Percentile £500 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £674 £700 £725
90th Percentile £843 £755 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
10th Percentile - £65.20 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £70.50 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - -
75th Percentile £130.00 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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
England +1 231 £550 -12.00% 137
London -11 131 £648 +3.60% 73
UK excluding London +92 125 £550 -12.00% 70
Work from Home +55 109 £655 +9.17% 75
North of England +26 36 £550 -21.43% 23
Scotland +55 27 £575 +15.00% 3
South East +27 26 £488 -21.95% 16
South West +36 22 £550 -35.29% 15
North West +14 20 £550 -21.43% 17
Yorkshire +7 16 £560 -20.00% 6
Midlands +29 11 £500 - 5
West Midlands +21 11 £500 - 1
Wales +17 2 £666 +40.26% 6
East of England +15 1 £600 - 2

Site Reliability Engineering
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 20 (7.04%) Confluence
2 18 (6.34%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.52%) Apache
4 9 (3.17%) OpenStack
5 7 (2.46%) nginx
6 4 (1.41%) CMS
7 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.06%) Drupal
8 2 (0.70%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.70%) IIS
9 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
1 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 139 (48.94%) AWS
2 70 (24.65%) Azure
3 46 (16.20%) OpenShift
4 34 (11.97%) GCP
5 25 (8.80%) Serverless
6 22 (7.75%) Snowflake
7 21 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (7.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (7.39%) PaaS
8 20 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (6.34%) GitHub
10 17 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (5.28%) SaaS
12 14 (4.93%) Amazon S3
12 14 (4.93%) dbt
13 9 (3.17%) IaaS
14 8 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (2.82%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.21%) Firewall
2 23 (8.10%) DNS
3 16 (5.63%) NAS
3 16 (5.63%) SAN
4 14 (4.93%) DHCP
5 11 (3.87%) TCP/IP
6 9 (3.17%) Network Security
7 8 (2.82%) Kerberos
7 8 (2.82%) VLAN
8 7 (2.46%) AMQP
9 4 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.06%) IPv4
10 3 (1.06%) SSL
10 3 (1.06%) VPN
11 2 (0.70%) Internet
11 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.35%) Broadband
12 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.39%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.04%) Data Lake
3 17 (5.99%) NoSQL
3 17 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (5.99%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.63%) Big Data
4 16 (5.63%) MongoDB
5 15 (5.28%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (4.93%) Apache Arrow
6 14 (4.93%) Dremio
6 14 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (4.93%) MySQL
7 10 (3.52%) DynamoDB
8 9 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.82%) InfluxDB
10 6 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.11%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.76%) Couchbase
11 5 (1.76%) Power BI
12 4 (1.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 65 (22.89%) Jenkins
2 48 (16.90%) Git
3 33 (11.62%) JIRA
4 16 (5.63%) GitLab
5 14 (4.93%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.17%) Artifactory
7 8 (2.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (2.82%) Subversion
7 8 (2.82%) TeamCity
8 7 (2.46%) Burp Suite
9 6 (2.11%) AppScan
9 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.76%) Gradle
10 5 (1.76%) Maven
11 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.41%) Selenium
12 3 (1.06%) Snyk
13 2 (0.70%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 71 (25.00%) Finance
2 49 (17.25%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.44%) Banking
4 26 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.87%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.46%) Retail
7 6 (2.11%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.41%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.41%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.70%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Advertising
10 1 (0.35%) Electronics
10 1 (0.35%) Front Office
10 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 141 (49.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 120 (42.25%) Site Engineer
3 38 (13.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (10.92%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (9.86%) Senior
6 25 (8.80%) Architect
7 18 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (5.63%) Analyst
9 15 (5.28%) Big Data Engineer
9 15 (5.28%) Business Analyst
10 14 (4.93%) Python Engineer
11 13 (4.58%) Banking Analyst
11 13 (4.58%) Banking Business Analyst
12 10 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.82%) Security Engineer
14 7 (2.46%) Business IT Analyst
14 7 (2.46%) IT Business Analyst
14 7 (2.46%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (14.44%) Kafka
2 30 (10.56%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (8.45%) RabbitMQ
4 14 (4.93%) gRPC
4 14 (4.93%) LDAP
4 14 (4.93%) Protocol Buffers
5 10 (3.52%) RESTful
6 8 (2.82%) REST
7 7 (2.46%) YAML
8 6 (2.11%) .NET
8 6 (2.11%) Node.js
9 5 (1.76%) LAPP Stack
10 3 (1.06%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.06%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.35%) Jest
11 1 (0.35%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.35%) OAuth
11 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.35%) React
11 1 (0.35%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.62%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.15%) Clustering
3 25 (8.80%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.99%) Public Cloud
5 16 (5.63%) Hedge funds
6 15 (5.28%) Algorithms
6 15 (5.28%) Data Structures
7 11 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.82%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.82%) Replication
10 6 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.76%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.76%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.41%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.41%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
14 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 2 (0.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 87 (30.63%) Linux
2 52 (18.31%) Windows
3 29 (10.21%) Windows Server
4 22 (7.75%) Unix
5 10 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.82%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (2.82%) Solaris
7 5 (1.76%) CentOS
7 5 (1.76%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.76%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.76%) VMS
8 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (71.13%) DevOps
2 120 (42.25%) CI/CD
3 72 (25.35%) Agile
4 65 (22.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (16.90%) Microservices
5 48 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (16.20%) Observability
7 36 (12.68%) Containerisation
8 34 (11.97%) Change Management
9 32 (11.27%) Task Automation
10 30 (10.56%) Continuous Integration
10 30 (10.56%) Software Engineering
11 29 (10.21%) ITIL
12 28 (9.86%) Test Automation
13 27 (9.51%) Configuration Management
14 25 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 24 (8.45%) Service Management
16 23 (8.10%) ITSM
17 22 (7.75%) Disaster Recovery
17 22 (7.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 137 (48.24%) Python
2 72 (25.35%) Go
3 56 (19.72%) Java
4 46 (16.20%) Bash
5 45 (15.85%) PowerShell
6 43 (15.14%) SQL
7 27 (9.51%) Shell Script
8 17 (5.99%) JavaScript
9 14 (4.93%) C#
10 10 (3.52%) C
10 10 (3.52%) F#
10 10 (3.52%) Groovy
11 8 (2.82%) C++
11 8 (2.82%) Ruby
12 7 (2.46%) Perl
13 6 (2.11%) Bicep
14 4 (1.41%) PHP
15 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.27%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.34%) Degree
4 14 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.06%) SANS
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) MCSE
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.51%) QA
2 8 (2.82%) GDPR
2 8 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.06%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.06%) SLA
5 2 (0.70%) NIST
5 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (26.06%) Docker
2 14 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 13 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) HDFS
6 1 (0.35%) vCloud
6 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 141 (49.65%) Kubernetes
2 119 (41.90%) Terraform
3 93 (32.75%) Prometheus
4 77 (27.11%) Grafana
5 72 (25.35%) Ansible
6 21 (7.39%) Progress Chef
7 19 (6.69%) Puppet
8 16 (5.63%) Istio
9 13 (4.58%) HP Fortify
9 13 (4.58%) Kibana
10 12 (4.23%) Consul
11 10 (3.52%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (3.17%) Argo
12 9 (3.17%) Graylog
13 8 (2.82%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (2.82%) Netcool
13 8 (2.82%) Tivoli
13 8 (2.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 7 (2.46%) Nessus
14 7 (2.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 52 (18.31%) Splunk
2 46 (16.20%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.04%) VMware
4 16 (5.63%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.58%) New Relic
5 13 (4.58%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.23%) SaltStack
7 11 (3.87%) Oracle
8 10 (3.52%) CyberArk
8 10 (3.52%) IBM
9 9 (3.17%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.82%) Cisco
10 8 (2.82%) Dell
10 8 (2.82%) EMC
10 8 (2.82%) Google
10 8 (2.82%) HP
10 8 (2.82%) Isilon
10 8 (2.82%) Qualys
10 8 (2.82%) SAP
10 8 (2.82%) Serena