Reliability Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Reliability Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Reliability Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £415, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 - 454
Rank change year-on-year - - +163
Contract jobs requiring a Reliability Engineer 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% - 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £423 - £525
90th Percentile - - £540
UK median daily rate £545 £366 £500
% change year-on-year +48.81% -26.75% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,183 13,830 22,631
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 93.65% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,178 9,309 16,051
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £635 £631 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 569 533
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.13 £22.50 £24.75
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

Reliability Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Reliability Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Reliability Engineer.

Reliability Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Reliability Engineer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) OCP
2 1 (50.00%) OCA
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk

Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) OCA
1 1 (50.00%) OCP
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk