Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in Central London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
London > Central London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Central London is £685 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 148 189
Rank change year-on-year +29 +41 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 18 26 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.75% 0.70% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.74% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 5
10th Percentile £601 £531 £555
25th Percentile £628 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £663 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% +10.42% +10.34%
75th Percentile £710 £725 £650
90th Percentile £711 £748 £680
London median daily rate £710 £638 £625
% change year-on-year +11.37% +2.00% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,286 3,527 4,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 95.09% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,606 2,407 3,210
10th Percentile £340 £325 £354
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £724 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 49
10th Percentile £20.07 £15.50 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.41 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.70% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £28.98 £61.25 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.88 £87.64 £64.35
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Central London

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Central London

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in Central London

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
City of London +37 17 £680 +0.74% 1
City of Westminster - 1 £725 -
Site Reliability Engineer
London

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 job ads across the Central London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 16 (88.89%) Kubernetes
2 16 (88.89%) Linux
2 16 (88.89%) DevOps
3 15 (83.33%) Python
4 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
4 14 (77.78%) Grafana
4 14 (77.78%) Prometheus
5 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
5 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 12 (66.67%) Shell Script
5 12 (66.67%) Kafka
6 11 (61.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 11 (61.11%) MongoDB
6 11 (61.11%) RabbitMQ
6 11 (61.11%) SaltStack
6 11 (61.11%) Java
6 11 (61.11%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (61.11%) Consul
7 10 (55.56%) Task Automation
7 10 (55.56%) Analytical Thinking
7 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (55.56%) Microservices
7 10 (55.56%) Data Structures
7 10 (55.56%) Algorithms
7 10 (55.56%) RESTful
8 7 (38.89%) Go
8 7 (38.89%) C++

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Sentry
3 1 (5.56%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) MongoDB
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
3 1 (5.56%) AppScan
3 1 (5.56%) Burp Suite
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (66.67%) Kafka
2 11 (61.11%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (55.56%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (55.56%) Algorithms
2 10 (55.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.56%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (88.89%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 16 (88.89%) DevOps
3 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 10 (55.56%) Analytical Thinking
4 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (55.56%) Microservices
4 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (55.56%) Task Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 2 (11.11%) Change Control
6 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.11%) Project Management
7 1 (5.56%) Application Security
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team Management
7 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 12 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 11 (61.11%) Java
4 7 (38.89%) C++
4 7 (38.89%) Go
5 3 (16.67%) Bash
5 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (88.89%) Kubernetes
2 14 (77.78%) Grafana
2 14 (77.78%) Prometheus
3 11 (61.11%) Consul
4 3 (16.67%) Nagios
4 3 (16.67%) Terraform
5 2 (11.11%) Ansible
5 2 (11.11%) Graylog
5 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 2 (11.11%) Puppet
6 1 (5.56%) HP Fortify
6 1 (5.56%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (5.56%) Nessus
6 1 (5.56%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (61.11%) SaltStack
3 3 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Checkmarx
4 1 (5.56%) Veracode