Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 332 328
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +61
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 224 364 588
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.73% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.81% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 234 430
10th Percentile £414 £479 £481
25th Percentile £500 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £636
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -1.69% +21.10%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £850 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 0 126 £648 +3.60% 115
North of England +10 35 £550 -21.43% 26
South East +26 25 £488 -21.95% 23
South West +41 22 £550 -35.29% 18
North West +8 20 £550 -21.43% 17
Yorkshire +6 15 £555 -20.71% 9
Midlands +34 11 £500 - 5
West Midlands +23 11 £500 - 1
East of England +9 1 £600 - 2
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
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 (8.04%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (8.04%) Confluence
2 10 (4.46%) Apache
3 9 (4.02%) OpenStack
4 7 (3.13%) nginx
5 3 (1.34%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.34%) CMS
5 3 (1.34%) Drupal
6 2 (0.89%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.89%) IIS
7 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 114 (50.89%) AWS
2 62 (27.68%) Azure
3 33 (14.73%) OpenShift
4 31 (13.84%) GCP
5 23 (10.27%) Serverless
6 22 (9.82%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.93%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (8.93%) PaaS
8 17 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (7.59%) GitHub
9 16 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (6.70%) SaaS
11 14 (6.25%) Amazon S3
11 14 (6.25%) dbt
12 13 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (4.02%) IaaS
14 8 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (3.57%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.27%) DNS
1 23 (10.27%) Firewall
2 14 (6.25%) DHCP
3 11 (4.91%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.02%) NAS
4 9 (4.02%) Network Security
4 9 (4.02%) SAN
5 8 (3.57%) Kerberos
5 8 (3.57%) VLAN
6 7 (3.13%) AMQP
7 4 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.34%) SSL
8 3 (1.34%) VPN
9 2 (0.89%) Internet
9 2 (0.89%) IPv4
9 2 (0.89%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.45%) Broadband
10 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.93%) Data Lake
2 17 (7.59%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 15 (6.70%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (6.70%) Big Data
5 14 (6.25%) Apache Arrow
5 14 (6.25%) Dremio
5 14 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 13 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (5.80%) Relational Database
7 12 (5.36%) MySQL
8 10 (4.46%) DynamoDB
9 9 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (3.57%) InfluxDB
11 6 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (2.23%) Couchbase
12 5 (2.23%) Power BI
13 3 (1.34%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.34%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 50 (22.32%) Jenkins
2 35 (15.63%) Git
3 30 (13.39%) JIRA
4 12 (5.36%) SonarQube
5 11 (4.91%) GitLab
6 8 (3.57%) TeamCity
7 7 (3.13%) Artifactory
7 7 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 7 (3.13%) Subversion
8 5 (2.23%) AppScan
8 5 (2.23%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.23%) Burp Suite
9 4 (1.79%) Selenium
10 3 (1.34%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.34%) Snyk
11 2 (0.89%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 58 (25.89%) Finance
2 33 (14.73%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.05%) Banking
4 15 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.91%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.13%) Retail
7 5 (2.23%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.79%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Advertising
10 1 (0.45%) Electronics
10 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (50.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 101 (45.09%) Site Engineer
3 34 (15.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (11.61%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (10.27%) Senior
6 20 (8.93%) Architect
7 17 (7.59%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (6.25%) Big Data Engineer
9 11 (4.91%) Analyst
10 10 (4.46%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.46%) Python Engineer
11 8 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.57%) Banking Analyst
11 8 (3.57%) Banking Business Analyst
12 6 (2.68%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.68%) Business IT Analyst
12 6 (2.68%) IT Analyst
12 6 (2.68%) IT Business Analyst
12 6 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.52%) Kafka
2 27 (12.05%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (10.27%) RabbitMQ
4 14 (6.25%) gRPC
4 14 (6.25%) LDAP
4 14 (6.25%) Protocol Buffers
5 9 (4.02%) RESTful
6 6 (2.68%) YAML
7 5 (2.23%) LAPP Stack
7 5 (2.23%) Node.js
8 4 (1.79%) .NET
9 3 (1.34%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.34%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.45%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.61%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.16%) Clustering
3 22 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.70%) Hedge funds
4 15 (6.70%) Public Cloud
5 13 (5.80%) Algorithms
5 13 (5.80%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.46%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.57%) Replication
8 7 (3.13%) Data Centre
8 7 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.68%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.23%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.79%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.34%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 67 (29.91%) Linux
2 32 (14.29%) Windows
3 23 (10.27%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.57%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (3.57%) Solaris
6 6 (2.68%) Unix
7 5 (2.23%) CentOS
7 5 (2.23%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.23%) VMS
8 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (75.00%) DevOps
2 96 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 58 (25.89%) Agile
4 53 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (18.30%) Microservices
6 33 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 32 (14.29%) Observability
8 27 (12.05%) Software Engineering
8 27 (12.05%) Task Automation
9 26 (11.61%) Configuration Management
10 23 (10.27%) Change Management
11 22 (9.82%) ITIL
11 22 (9.82%) Test Automation
12 21 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
13 19 (8.48%) Scrum
14 18 (8.04%) GitOps
14 18 (8.04%) ITSM
14 18 (8.04%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (45.98%) Python
2 69 (30.80%) Go
3 52 (23.21%) Java
4 38 (16.96%) SQL
5 37 (16.52%) Bash
6 34 (15.18%) PowerShell
7 19 (8.48%) Shell Script
8 16 (7.14%) JavaScript
9 11 (4.91%) C#
10 10 (4.46%) C
11 9 (4.02%) F#
12 8 (3.57%) C++
13 5 (2.23%) Bicep
14 4 (1.79%) Groovy
15 3 (1.34%) PHP
15 3 (1.34%) Ruby
16 1 (0.45%) Perl
16 1 (0.45%) Scala
16 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.84%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.25%) Degree
3 14 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.45%) MCSE
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.16%) QA
2 8 (3.57%) GDPR
2 8 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.34%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.89%) NIST
5 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (27.23%) Docker
2 13 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.91%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 11 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 112 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 98 (43.75%) Terraform
3 79 (35.27%) Prometheus
4 63 (28.13%) Grafana
5 56 (25.00%) Ansible
6 20 (8.93%) Progress Chef
7 17 (7.59%) Puppet
8 15 (6.70%) Istio
9 11 (4.91%) Consul
9 11 (4.91%) HP Fortify
10 10 (4.46%) Docker Swarm
10 10 (4.46%) Kibana
11 8 (3.57%) Argo
11 8 (3.57%) EMC NetWorker
11 8 (3.57%) Netcool
11 8 (3.57%) Tivoli
11 8 (3.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 7 (3.13%) Graylog
13 6 (2.68%) Nessus
13 6 (2.68%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 37 (16.52%) Splunk
2 36 (16.07%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.04%) VMware
4 16 (7.14%) Salesforce
5 13 (5.80%) New Relic
6 12 (5.36%) ServiceNow
7 11 (4.91%) SaltStack
8 10 (4.46%) CyberArk
8 10 (4.46%) IBM
8 10 (4.46%) Oracle
9 8 (3.57%) Cisco
9 8 (3.57%) Dell
9 8 (3.57%) EMC
9 8 (3.57%) HP
9 8 (3.57%) Isilon
9 8 (3.57%) Qualys
9 8 (3.57%) SAP
9 8 (3.57%) Serena
10 7 (3.13%) Adobe
10 7 (3.13%) PagerDuty