Site Reliability Manager Contracts

Site Reliability Manager
UK

The median Site Reliability Manager daily rate in the UK is £623 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 681 859
Rank change year-on-year +108 +178 -189
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Manager 6 19 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.032% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.033% 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile - £525 -
25th Percentile £611 £581 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £693 £620
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +11.69% +32.62%
75th Percentile £634 £786 -
90th Percentile £636 £830 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £623 £525 -
% change year-on-year +18.57% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Site Reliability Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Manager in the UK

Site Reliability Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Manager in the UK

Site Reliability Manager
Top 2 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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
UK excluding London +62 6 £623 +18.57% 2
Scotland - 6 £623 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Site Reliability Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Service-Level Objective
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (83.33%) Application Security
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
2 5 (83.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (83.33%) Gradle
2 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) OpenShift
2 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Unix
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) Maven
2 5 (83.33%) Ruby
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (83.33%) Groovy
2 5 (83.33%) OWASP

Site Reliability Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (83.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) Gradle
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (83.33%) Maven
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Unix
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Application Security
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (83.33%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (83.33%) OWASP
2 5 (83.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (83.33%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Bash
1 5 (83.33%) Groovy
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) Ruby
1 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform