Site Reliability Engineer Contract Job Trends in West London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
London > West London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in West London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.34% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £710
London median daily rate £625 £713 £675
% change year-on-year -12.28% +5.56% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West London. 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 West London with a recognized job title 245 207 435
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.05% 94.95% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 155 334
10th Percentile £210 £216 £190
25th Percentile £357 £341 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £528 £503 £609
90th Percentile £625 £598 £684
London median daily rate £533 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 25
10th Percentile £19.54 £20.18 £17.45
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.46 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £24.90 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% -52.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £33.24 £30.32 £67.00
90th Percentile £41.88 £44.88 £81.00
London median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
% change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in West London

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in West London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in West London

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 7 December 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
Hillingdon - 1 £400 -
Site Reliability Engineer
London

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London

For the 6 months to 7 December 2025, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Scorecard
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scorecard
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk