Site Reliability Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > Work from Home

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Work from Home is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 385 495
Rank change year-on-year +80 +110 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 44 89 128
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.35% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.36% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 61 98
10th Percentile £474 £475 £459
25th Percentile £511 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £700
90th Percentile - £750 £729
UK median daily rate £561 £650 £620
% change year-on-year -13.65% +4.84% +12.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,327 24,531 42,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.34% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,575 17,328 30,855
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 565 611
10th Percentile £14.35 £18.22 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Site Reliability Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Site Reliability Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineer.

Site Reliability Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Site Reliability Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Site 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 Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 33 (75.00%) DevOps
2 33 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 32 (72.73%) Python
4 29 (65.91%) Prometheus
5 22 (50.00%) Go
6 21 (47.73%) Java
6 21 (47.73%) AWS
7 20 (45.45%) Linux
7 20 (45.45%) Terraform
8 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
9 16 (36.36%) CI/CD
9 16 (36.36%) Grafana
9 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
10 15 (34.09%) Finance
11 13 (29.55%) Hedge funds
11 13 (29.55%) Kafka
11 13 (29.55%) Clustering
11 13 (29.55%) Shell Script
11 13 (29.55%) Asset Management
11 13 (29.55%) Investment Management
11 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (27.27%) Dremio
12 12 (27.27%) dbt
12 12 (27.27%) Snowflake
12 12 (27.27%) Apache Arrow
12 12 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (27.27%) JavaScript
12 12 (27.27%) RabbitMQ

Site 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 12 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.55%) nginx
3 1 (2.27%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 21 (47.73%) AWS
2 12 (27.27%) dbt
2 12 (27.27%) Snowflake
3 2 (4.55%) Azure
3 2 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (2.27%) Anthos
4 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.27%) Datadog
4 1 (2.27%) GitHub
4 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.27%) PaaS
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
1 12 (27.27%) Apache Arrow
1 12 (27.27%) Big Data
1 12 (27.27%) Data Lake
1 12 (27.27%) Dremio
2 11 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.55%) MySQL
4 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.27%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) JIRA
1 6 (13.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (4.55%) Burp Suite
2 2 (4.55%) GitLab
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.27%) AppScan
3 1 (2.27%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) Robot Framework
General
1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 15 (34.09%) Finance
3 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Banking
4 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) Kafka
2 12 (27.27%) gRPC
2 12 (27.27%) Protocol Buffers
2 12 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (18.18%) RESTful
4 3 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.55%) .NET
6 1 (2.27%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Clustering
1 13 (29.55%) Hedge funds
2 12 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 8 (18.18%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 20 (45.45%) Linux
2 9 (20.45%) Windows
3 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.82%) Unix
5 1 (2.27%) CentOS
5 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 33 (75.00%) DevOps
3 16 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 13 (29.55%) Asset Management
4 13 (29.55%) Investment Management
4 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 10 (22.73%) Microservices
7 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
9 6 (13.64%) Computer Science
9 6 (13.64%) OO
9 6 (13.64%) Scrum
9 6 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (11.36%) OOP
10 5 (11.36%) Systems Engineering
11 4 (9.09%) Analytics
11 4 (9.09%) Containerisation
11 4 (9.09%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 32 (72.73%) Python
2 22 (50.00%) Go
3 21 (47.73%) Java
4 13 (29.55%) Shell Script
5 12 (27.27%) JavaScript
6 9 (20.45%) SQL
7 7 (15.91%) C#
7 7 (15.91%) F#
8 6 (13.64%) C++
9 4 (9.09%) Bash
10 1 (2.27%) Perl
10 1 (2.27%) PHP
10 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.27%) SANS
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) QA
System Software
1 11 (25.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 6 (13.64%) Docker
3 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.27%) vCloud
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 29 (65.91%) Prometheus
3 20 (45.45%) Terraform
4 16 (36.36%) Grafana
5 11 (25.00%) Consul
6 5 (11.36%) Ansible
7 2 (4.55%) Graylog
7 2 (4.55%) Istio
8 1 (2.27%) Argo
8 1 (2.27%) HP Fortify
8 1 (2.27%) Kiali
8 1 (2.27%) Kibana
8 1 (2.27%) Nagios
8 1 (2.27%) Nessus
8 1 (2.27%) NetBackup
8 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.27%) Puppet
8 1 (2.27%) WebInspect
8 1 (2.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 11 (25.00%) SaltStack
3 3 (6.82%) Splunk
3 3 (6.82%) VMware
4 2 (4.55%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.27%) Veracode
5 1 (2.27%) Veritas