Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Site Reliability Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 133 164
Rank change year-on-year +30 +31 -21
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 24 39 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.11% 1.12% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.23% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 32 30
10th Percentile £610 £551 £517
25th Percentile £627 £625 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -3.57% +24.44%
75th Percentile £710 £728 £792
90th Percentile £949 £755 £875
Central London median daily rate £690 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +2.22% -3.57% +24.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Site Reliability Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,954 3,173 3,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.63% 91.49% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,367 2,145 2,906
10th Percentile £350 £363 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 44
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.55 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.33 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.63 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% -14.63% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.46 £57.50 £55.38
90th Percentile £49.41 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.33%) MySQL
3 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 2 (8.33%) Subversion
4 1 (4.17%) AppScan
4 1 (4.17%) Burp Suite
4 1 (4.17%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 15 (62.50%) Site Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) Python Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Java Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Development Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Head of Engineering
7 1 (4.17%) Architect
7 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Specialist
7 1 (4.17%) Head of IT
7 1 (4.17%) IT Security Specialist
7 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 11 (45.83%) Kafka
3 10 (41.67%) RESTful
4 4 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (41.67%) Algorithms
2 10 (41.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Blockchain
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) DevOps
2 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (41.67%) Analytical Thinking
4 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (41.67%) Microservices
4 10 (41.67%) Task Automation
5 4 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 3 (12.50%) Migration
7 2 (8.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 2 (8.33%) Change Control
7 2 (8.33%) Computer Science
7 2 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (8.33%) Information Security
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.33%) Observability
7 2 (8.33%) Project Management
7 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) Python
2 13 (54.17%) Java
3 12 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 8 (33.33%) Go
5 7 (29.17%) C++
6 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
7 4 (16.67%) Bash
8 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
8 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) SANS
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 6 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (58.33%) Grafana
2 14 (58.33%) Prometheus
3 11 (45.83%) Consul
4 6 (25.00%) Ansible
4 6 (25.00%) Terraform
5 3 (12.50%) Progress Chef
5 3 (12.50%) Puppet
6 2 (8.33%) Graylog
6 2 (8.33%) Nagios
7 1 (4.17%) HP Fortify
7 1 (4.17%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (4.17%) Kibana
7 1 (4.17%) logstash
7 1 (4.17%) Nessus
7 1 (4.17%) Opsgenie
7 1 (4.17%) Packer
7 1 (4.17%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (45.83%) SaltStack
3 3 (12.50%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe
4 1 (4.17%) Checkmarx
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) New Relic
4 1 (4.17%) PagerDuty
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Veracode
4 1 (4.17%) VMware