Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in Yorkshire

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 85 85 97
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +31
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 7 15 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.69% 0.89% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.03% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 17
10th Percentile £392 £510 -
25th Percentile £518 £512 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £555 £700
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -20.71% +2.56%
75th Percentile £700 £586 -
90th Percentile - £597 £775
England median daily rate £613 £550 £638
% change year-on-year +11.36% -13.73% -1.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Yorkshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Yorkshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Yorkshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Yorkshire +5 6 £700 +34.62% 2
West Yorkshire +10 1 £315 -44.25% 7
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) React Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Data Analysis
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) Observability
3 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (57.14%) Chaos Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
4 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace