Site Reliability Engineering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 243 291
Rank change year-on-year +38 +48 +36
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 99 102 190
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.00% 0.66% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.76% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 62 117
10th Percentile £400 £477 £450
25th Percentile £506 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £653 £620
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.24% -0.80%
75th Percentile £838 £850 £700
90th Percentile - - £768
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £44.50 - £79.00
% change year-on-year - - +54.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Site Reliability Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Site Reliability Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Site Reliability Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
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 33 (33.33%) Apache
2 28 (28.28%) Apache Airflow
2 28 (28.28%) Apache Spark
3 8 (8.08%) Confluence
4 6 (6.06%) OpenStack
5 4 (4.04%) nginx
6 3 (3.03%) Oracle Coherence
6 3 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 63 (63.64%) AWS
2 40 (40.40%) Serverless
3 38 (38.38%) AWS Lambda
4 37 (37.37%) Amazon ECS
5 30 (30.30%) Azure
5 30 (30.30%) OpenShift
6 28 (28.28%) dbt
7 18 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (14.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (12.12%) GitHub
10 11 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (11.11%) Amazon S3
11 9 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (8.08%) Datadog
12 8 (8.08%) GCP
13 7 (7.07%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (5.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.11%) HTTP
2 9 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.07%) DNS
4 6 (6.06%) SSL
5 4 (4.04%) FTP
5 4 (4.04%) SMTP
6 3 (3.03%) Firewall
7 2 (2.02%) SNA
7 2 (2.02%) VPN
8 1 (1.01%) DHCP
8 1 (1.01%) InfiniBand
8 1 (1.01%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.01%) NAS
8 1 (1.01%) Network Security
8 1 (1.01%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (1.01%) SAN
8 1 (1.01%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.29%) Amazon Athena
1 29 (29.29%) Apache Iceberg
2 28 (28.28%) Apache Arrow
2 28 (28.28%) Apache Ignite
2 28 (28.28%) Dremio
3 11 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (5.05%) Big Data
6 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.02%) Power BI
9 1 (1.01%) MySQL
9 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.01%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 28 (28.28%) Artifactory
2 19 (19.19%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.10%) GitLab
4 9 (9.09%) Git
4 9 (9.09%) JIRA
5 3 (3.03%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.02%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.02%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.02%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.01%) GoCD
7 1 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.01%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.01%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.01%) Vagrant
General
1 47 (47.47%) Finance
2 37 (37.37%) Front Office
3 17 (17.17%) Social Skills
4 16 (16.16%) Banking
5 4 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Legal
7 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (49.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
3 41 (41.41%) AWS DevOps
3 41 (41.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 38 (38.38%) Python Engineer
5 28 (28.28%) Data Engineer
5 28 (28.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 23 (23.23%) Site Engineer
7 13 (13.13%) Senior
8 9 (9.09%) DevOps Manager
8 9 (9.09%) Finance Manager
8 9 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Architect
10 6 (6.06%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Azure Architect
11 5 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Senior Manager
12 4 (4.04%) DevOps Architect
12 4 (4.04%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (31.31%) Kafka
2 28 (28.28%) J2EE
2 28 (28.28%) PySpark
3 10 (10.10%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (8.08%) .NET
5 5 (5.05%) YAML
6 4 (4.04%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (3.03%) JSON
7 3 (3.03%) REST
8 2 (2.02%) boto
8 2 (2.02%) Flask
8 2 (2.02%) LDAP
8 2 (2.02%) Loki
8 2 (2.02%) Middleware
9 1 (1.01%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.01%) Keycloak
9 1 (1.01%) Node.js
9 1 (1.01%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.01%) OpenID
9 1 (1.01%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.05%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.02%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.01%) Clustering
5 1 (1.01%) FMCG
5 1 (1.01%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.01%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.19%) Linux
2 9 (9.09%) Unix
3 4 (4.04%) Windows
3 4 (4.04%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.02%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.02%) zOS
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.01%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (86.87%) DevOps
2 67 (67.68%) CI/CD
3 62 (62.63%) Agile
4 43 (43.43%) Software Engineering
5 38 (38.38%) Asset Management
6 31 (31.31%) Open Source
7 28 (28.28%) Data Engineering
8 22 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (17.17%) Containerisation
10 14 (14.14%) Observability
11 13 (13.13%) High Availability
12 12 (12.12%) Incident Management
13 10 (10.10%) Fintech
13 10 (10.10%) Incident Response
14 8 (8.08%) Microservices
14 8 (8.08%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (8.08%) Service-Level Objective
15 7 (7.07%) Migration
15 7 (7.07%) SDLC
15 7 (7.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 68 (68.69%) Python
2 34 (34.34%) Java
3 33 (33.33%) Go
4 13 (13.13%) Bash
4 13 (13.13%) PowerShell
5 11 (11.11%) C#
5 11 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.07%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.05%) SQL
8 4 (4.04%) Groovy
9 3 (3.03%) Bicep
9 3 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.02%) JCL
10 2 (2.02%) Ruby
11 1 (1.01%) C++
11 1 (1.01%) F#
11 1 (1.01%) PHP
11 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (6.06%) SC Cleared
1 6 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.03%) Degree
3 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.01%) CEH
4 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.01%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.02%) GDPR
1 2 (2.02%) QA
2 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.01%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (58.59%) Docker
2 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (2.02%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.01%) Ceph
3 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 70 (70.71%) Terraform
2 68 (68.69%) Kubernetes
3 24 (24.24%) Ansible
4 14 (14.14%) Grafana
5 13 (13.13%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.04%) Puppet
7 3 (3.03%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.02%) Consul
8 2 (2.02%) Tivoli NetView
9 1 (1.01%) Argo
9 1 (1.01%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.01%) Istio
9 1 (1.01%) linkerd
9 1 (1.01%) Netcool
9 1 (1.01%) Opsview
9 1 (1.01%) Packer
9 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.01%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 11 (11.11%) Splunk
2 7 (7.07%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.05%) AppDynamics
3 5 (5.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.04%) Oracle
4 4 (4.04%) VMware
5 3 (3.03%) IBM
5 3 (3.03%) New Relic
6 2 (2.02%) Databricks
6 2 (2.02%) Google
6 2 (2.02%) PagerDuty
6 2 (2.02%) Veritas
7 1 (1.01%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.01%) Cisco
7 1 (1.01%) EMC
7 1 (1.01%) Qualys
7 1 (1.01%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.01%) Serena
7 1 (1.01%) TOWER Software