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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 352 340
Rank change year-on-year +45 -12 +102
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 283 380 694
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.67% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.75% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 234 501
10th Percentile £425 £466 £463
25th Percentile £500 £532 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £738
90th Percentile £850 £755 £795
UK excluding London median daily rate £544 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -13.00% +13.64% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 0
10th Percentile - £65.23 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £70.13 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £79.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.24% - -
75th Percentile £130.00 £88.75 -
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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 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 23 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 +21 234 £550 -12.00% 116
London +4 131 £675 +8.00% 65
UK excluding London +93 127 £544 -13.00% 63
Work from Home +76 113 £680 +13.33% 71
North of England +24 36 £550 -21.43% 22
South East +23 29 £485 -22.40% 10
Scotland +60 26 £575 +15.00% 7
South West +30 22 £550 -35.29% 8
North West +19 19 £550 -21.43% 12
Yorkshire +10 17 £563 -19.64% 9
Midlands +36 11 £500 - 5
West Midlands +20 11 £500 - 2
Wales +22 2 £666 +40.26% 6
East of England +12 1 £600 - 4

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 21 (7.42%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.59%) Confluence
3 11 (3.89%) Apache
4 9 (3.18%) OpenStack
5 8 (2.83%) nginx
6 4 (1.41%) CMS
7 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.06%) Drupal
8 2 (0.71%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.71%) IIS
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
1 131 (46.29%) AWS
2 65 (22.97%) Azure
3 51 (18.02%) OpenShift
4 31 (10.95%) GCP
5 26 (9.19%) Snowflake
6 24 (8.48%) Serverless
7 20 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (7.07%) PaaS
8 18 (6.36%) dbt
8 18 (6.36%) GitHub
9 17 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (4.59%) Amazon S3
12 13 (4.59%) SaaS
13 8 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (2.83%) IaaS
14 7 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.54%) Firewall
2 21 (7.42%) DNS
3 14 (4.95%) NAS
3 14 (4.95%) SAN
4 12 (4.24%) DHCP
5 9 (3.18%) Network Security
5 9 (3.18%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.47%) AMQP
7 6 (2.12%) Kerberos
7 6 (2.12%) VLAN
8 4 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.06%) IPv4
9 3 (1.06%) SSL
9 3 (1.06%) VPN
10 2 (0.71%) Internet
10 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.35%) Broadband
11 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.48%) Data Lake
2 20 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.07%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.71%) Big Data
3 19 (6.71%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (6.36%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (6.36%) Apache Arrow
4 18 (6.36%) Dremio
5 17 (6.01%) NoSQL
6 16 (5.65%) MongoDB
6 16 (5.65%) Relational Database
7 14 (4.95%) MySQL
8 10 (3.53%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (2.83%) InfluxDB
11 6 (2.12%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.77%) Couchbase
12 5 (1.77%) Power BI
13 3 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 64 (22.61%) Jenkins
2 45 (15.90%) Git
3 26 (9.19%) JIRA
4 17 (6.01%) GitLab
5 14 (4.95%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.53%) Artifactory
7 8 (2.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (2.83%) Subversion
8 7 (2.47%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.47%) Burp Suite
9 6 (2.12%) AppScan
9 6 (2.12%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.77%) Gradle
10 5 (1.77%) Maven
11 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.41%) Selenium
12 3 (1.06%) Snyk
13 2 (0.71%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 78 (27.56%) Finance
2 50 (17.67%) Social Skills
3 45 (15.90%) Banking
4 26 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.89%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.47%) Retail
7 5 (1.77%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.41%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.41%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Advertising
10 1 (0.35%) Electronics
10 1 (0.35%) Front Office
10 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 146 (51.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 123 (43.46%) Site Engineer
3 37 (13.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (12.01%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (8.48%) Senior
6 19 (6.71%) Architect
7 18 (6.36%) Big Data Engineer
8 17 (6.01%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (5.65%) Analyst
10 15 (5.30%) Business Analyst
11 14 (4.95%) Python Engineer
12 13 (4.59%) Banking Analyst
12 13 (4.59%) Banking Business Analyst
13 10 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
13 10 (3.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.18%) Lead
15 8 (2.83%) Security Engineer
16 7 (2.47%) Business IT Analyst
16 7 (2.47%) IT Business Analyst
16 7 (2.47%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.55%) Kafka
2 30 (10.60%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (8.13%) RabbitMQ
4 18 (6.36%) gRPC
4 18 (6.36%) Protocol Buffers
5 12 (4.24%) LDAP
6 11 (3.89%) RESTful
7 8 (2.83%) REST
8 7 (2.47%) YAML
9 6 (2.12%) .NET
9 6 (2.12%) Node.js
10 5 (1.77%) LAPP Stack
11 3 (1.06%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.06%) GraphQL
12 1 (0.35%) Jest
12 1 (0.35%) Keycloak
12 1 (0.35%) OAuth
12 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
12 1 (0.35%) React
12 1 (0.35%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.72%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.89%) Clustering
3 24 (8.48%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (7.07%) Hedge funds
5 17 (6.01%) Public Cloud
6 16 (5.65%) Algorithms
6 16 (5.65%) Data Structures
7 12 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (3.18%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.47%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.12%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.12%) Replication
11 5 (1.77%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.77%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.41%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.41%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 85 (30.04%) Linux
2 50 (17.67%) Windows
3 27 (9.54%) Windows Server
4 22 (7.77%) Unix
5 8 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.12%) Oracle Linux
6 6 (2.12%) Solaris
7 5 (1.77%) CentOS
7 5 (1.77%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.77%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.77%) VMS
8 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (72.08%) DevOps
2 120 (42.40%) CI/CD
3 66 (23.32%) Agile
4 62 (21.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (18.37%) Microservices
6 49 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (16.96%) Observability
8 39 (13.78%) Containerisation
9 36 (12.72%) Task Automation
10 35 (12.37%) Change Management
11 31 (10.95%) Software Engineering
12 30 (10.60%) ITIL
12 30 (10.60%) Test Automation
13 28 (9.89%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (9.54%) Configuration Management
15 26 (9.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 26 (9.19%) ITSM
16 25 (8.83%) Service Management
17 22 (7.77%) Scrum
18 21 (7.42%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 139 (49.12%) Python
2 79 (27.92%) Go
3 63 (22.26%) Java
4 46 (16.25%) Bash
5 42 (14.84%) PowerShell
5 42 (14.84%) SQL
6 27 (9.54%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.42%) JavaScript
8 14 (4.95%) C#
9 11 (3.89%) Groovy
10 10 (3.53%) C
10 10 (3.53%) F#
11 9 (3.18%) C++
12 8 (2.83%) Ruby
13 7 (2.47%) Perl
14 5 (1.77%) Bicep
15 4 (1.41%) PHP
16 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
17 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (14.84%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.25%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.36%) Degree
4 14 (4.95%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.06%) SANS
7 2 (0.71%) 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%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.54%) QA
2 6 (2.12%) GDPR
2 6 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.06%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.06%) SLA
5 2 (0.71%) NIST
5 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 77 (27.21%) Docker
2 13 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 11 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.35%) vCloud
7 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 148 (52.30%) Kubernetes
2 123 (43.46%) Terraform
3 98 (34.63%) Prometheus
4 78 (27.56%) Grafana
5 72 (25.44%) Ansible
6 21 (7.42%) Progress Chef
6 21 (7.42%) Puppet
7 19 (6.71%) Istio
8 14 (4.95%) Kibana
9 13 (4.59%) HP Fortify
10 12 (4.24%) Argo
10 12 (4.24%) Consul
11 10 (3.53%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (3.18%) Graylog
13 7 (2.47%) Nessus
13 7 (2.47%) SCCM
14 6 (2.12%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (2.12%) Opsgenie
14 6 (2.12%) Tivoli
14 6 (2.12%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 47 (16.61%) Splunk
2 46 (16.25%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.36%) VMware
4 16 (5.65%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.59%) New Relic
6 12 (4.24%) SaltStack
7 11 (3.89%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.83%) CyberArk
8 8 (2.83%) IBM
8 8 (2.83%) Oracle
8 8 (2.83%) SAP
9 7 (2.47%) Adobe
9 7 (2.47%) Checkmarx
9 7 (2.47%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.47%) Google
9 7 (2.47%) PagerDuty
10 6 (2.12%) Isilon
10 6 (2.12%) Qualys
10 6 (2.12%) Serena
10 6 (2.12%) Veracode