Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in England

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > England

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in England is £565 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 473 562
Rank change year-on-year +66 +89 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 124 167 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.35% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.37% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 120 153
10th Percentile £473 £500 £450
25th Percentile £508 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £710 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £565 £645 £625
% change year-on-year -12.40% +3.20% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.25 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £65.25 -
% change year-on-year +68.58% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +46 65 £710 +11.37% 36
South East +53 21 £493 -10.36% 10
North of England +15 19 £550 -21.43% 12
South West - 12 £550 - 11
North West +8 10 £550 -21.43% 6
Yorkshire 0 9 £558 -20.36% 6
Midlands +22 3 £500 - 3
West Midlands +22 3 £500 - 1
East of England - 1 £600 - 3
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 job ads across the England region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 124 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 87 (70.16%) DevOps
3 85 (68.55%) Kubernetes
4 78 (62.90%) Python
5 70 (56.45%) Terraform
6 68 (54.84%) Prometheus
6 68 (54.84%) AWS
7 54 (43.55%) Go
8 51 (41.13%) CI/CD
9 49 (39.52%) Linux
10 48 (38.71%) Java
10 48 (38.71%) Grafana
11 39 (31.45%) Docker
12 31 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (25.00%) Containerisation
13 29 (23.39%) Task Automation
13 29 (23.39%) Ansible
14 28 (22.58%) Kafka
14 28 (22.58%) Jenkins
14 28 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (21.77%) Social Skills
15 27 (21.77%) Microservices
15 27 (21.77%) SQL
16 26 (20.97%) Security Cleared
16 26 (20.97%) Splunk
17 24 (19.35%) Microsoft
17 24 (19.35%) Finance
18 23 (18.55%) Bash
18 23 (18.55%) OpenShift
18 23 (18.55%) Snowflake

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (14.52%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.65%) Apache
3 6 (4.84%) nginx
4 4 (3.23%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 68 (54.84%) AWS
2 23 (18.55%) OpenShift
2 23 (18.55%) Snowflake
3 20 (16.13%) Azure
4 16 (12.90%) dbt
5 15 (12.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (11.29%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (9.68%) GCP
8 11 (8.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (8.87%) Amazon S3
9 10 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (8.06%) Serverless
10 9 (7.26%) GitHub
11 6 (4.84%) Amazon ELB
12 5 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.23%) PaaS
14 3 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (2.42%) Anthos
14 3 (2.42%) Azure AKS
15 2 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.45%) Network Security
2 5 (4.03%) AMQP
2 5 (4.03%) Firewall
3 2 (1.61%) DHCP
3 2 (1.61%) DNS
3 2 (1.61%) IPv4
3 2 (1.61%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.61%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.81%) Broadband
4 1 (0.81%) Internet
4 1 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.74%) Data Lake
2 16 (12.90%) Amazon Athena
2 16 (12.90%) Apache Arrow
2 16 (12.90%) Big Data
2 16 (12.90%) Dremio
3 15 (12.10%) SQL Server
4 14 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (10.48%) MongoDB
5 13 (10.48%) Relational Database
6 11 (8.87%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (8.87%) MySQL
7 10 (8.06%) NoSQL
8 7 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (4.84%) DynamoDB
9 6 (4.84%) InfluxDB
10 3 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (2.42%) Couchbase
10 3 (2.42%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (22.58%) Jenkins
2 17 (13.71%) Git
3 12 (9.68%) GitLab
4 11 (8.87%) SonarQube
5 7 (5.65%) JIRA
5 7 (5.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (4.03%) AppScan
6 5 (4.03%) Burp Suite
7 4 (3.23%) Subversion
8 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
General
1 27 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.35%) Finance
3 16 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.65%) Retail
5 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.61%) Banking
6 2 (1.61%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.81%) Front Office
7 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.58%) Kafka
2 17 (13.71%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (13.71%) RabbitMQ
3 16 (12.90%) gRPC
3 16 (12.90%) Protocol Buffers
4 10 (8.06%) RESTful
5 3 (2.42%) .NET
5 3 (2.42%) LAPP Stack
6 2 (1.61%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.61%) LDAP
6 2 (1.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.13%) Cloud Native
1 20 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (14.52%) Hedge funds
3 16 (12.90%) Clustering
4 11 (8.87%) Algorithms
4 11 (8.87%) Data Structures
4 11 (8.87%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.03%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.42%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.81%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (39.52%) Linux
2 13 (10.48%) Windows
3 11 (8.87%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.23%) Unix
5 3 (2.42%) CentOS
5 3 (2.42%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 87 (70.16%) DevOps
3 51 (41.13%) CI/CD
4 31 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 31 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (23.39%) Task Automation
6 28 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (21.77%) Microservices
8 22 (17.74%) Agile
9 20 (16.13%) Configuration Management
10 19 (15.32%) Observability
11 17 (13.71%) Asset Management
11 17 (13.71%) Investment Management
12 16 (12.90%) GitOps
13 15 (12.10%) ITSM
14 14 (11.29%) Software Engineering
15 13 (10.48%) Incident Response
16 12 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
16 12 (9.68%) Systems Engineering
17 11 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (62.90%) Python
2 54 (43.55%) Go
3 48 (38.71%) Java
4 27 (21.77%) SQL
5 23 (18.55%) Bash
6 21 (16.94%) Shell Script
7 17 (13.71%) JavaScript
8 12 (9.68%) PowerShell
9 9 (7.26%) C#
10 8 (6.45%) C++
10 8 (6.45%) F#
11 7 (5.65%) C
12 2 (1.61%) Bicep
12 2 (1.61%) Ruby
13 1 (0.81%) Groovy
13 1 (0.81%) Scala
13 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.06%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.65%) Degree
5 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.52%) QA
2 3 (2.42%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (31.45%) Docker
2 12 (9.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 85 (68.55%) Kubernetes
2 70 (56.45%) Terraform
3 68 (54.84%) Prometheus
4 48 (38.71%) Grafana
5 29 (23.39%) Ansible
6 16 (12.90%) Progress Chef
7 14 (11.29%) Istio
8 12 (9.68%) Consul
8 12 (9.68%) Puppet
9 11 (8.87%) Argo
9 11 (8.87%) HP Fortify
9 11 (8.87%) Kibana
10 7 (5.65%) Graylog
11 5 (4.03%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (4.03%) Nessus
11 5 (4.03%) Opsgenie
11 5 (4.03%) WebInspect
12 4 (3.23%) Nagios
13 3 (2.42%) ZABBIX
14 2 (1.61%) Kiali
Vendors
1 26 (20.97%) Splunk
2 24 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.68%) SaltStack
4 8 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.84%) Dynatrace
5 6 (4.84%) New Relic
6 5 (4.03%) Adobe
6 5 (4.03%) Checkmarx
6 5 (4.03%) PagerDuty
6 5 (4.03%) SAP
6 5 (4.03%) Veracode
7 3 (2.42%) Google
7 3 (2.42%) VMware
8 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.81%) Citrix
8 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.81%) Databricks
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle