Site Reliability Engineering Contract Job Trends in West End of London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 1.39% 2.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 2.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £602 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.16% - -
75th Percentile £625 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £476 £610 £710
% change year-on-year -21.93% -14.08% +5.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West End of London

Site Reliability Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66 36 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 91.67% 87.80% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 23 30
10th Percentile £228 £230 £156
25th Percentile £407 £430 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £622 £700 £548
90th Percentile £667 £795 £621
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £42.09 £43.55 £29.24
25th Percentile £51.50 £46.57 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £49.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.16% +41.43% +34.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.10 £41.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £51.74 £42.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.32% -18.57% +34.62%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in West End of London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Scala Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Co-Design
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 1 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana