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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 351 340
Rank change year-on-year +43 -11 +29
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 239 315 569
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.66% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.73% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 200 416
10th Percentile £425 £475 £481
25th Percentile £500 £537 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £625 £634
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% -1.42% +15.27%
75th Percentile £710 £707 £738
90th Percentile £850 £750 £806
UK median daily rate £574 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -8.20% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year +41.03% - -

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 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 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 2 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
London +21 133 £700 +12.00% 95
North of England +28 38 £550 -21.43% 17
South East +15 30 £488 -21.95% 18
South West +27 23 £550 -35.29% 9
Yorkshire +16 19 £563 -19.64% 4
North West +13 19 £550 -21.43% 13
Midlands +26 10 £588 +17.50% 10
West Midlands +17 10 £588 +17.50% 6
East of England +8 1 £600 - 6
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 21 (8.79%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.44%) Confluence
3 6 (2.51%) Apache
4 4 (1.67%) CMS
4 4 (1.67%) nginx
4 4 (1.67%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.26%) Drupal
6 2 (0.84%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) R3 Corda
1 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 109 (45.61%) AWS
2 57 (23.85%) Azure
3 41 (17.15%) OpenShift
4 27 (11.30%) GCP
5 26 (10.88%) Snowflake
6 23 (9.62%) Serverless
7 21 (8.79%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (7.53%) dbt
9 17 (7.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (6.69%) GitHub
11 15 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (5.86%) Amazon S3
13 12 (5.02%) PaaS
14 11 (4.60%) SaaS
15 9 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (2.93%) IaaS
18 6 (2.51%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.21%) Firewall
2 20 (8.37%) DNS
3 10 (4.18%) DHCP
3 10 (4.18%) Network Security
4 9 (3.77%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.35%) AMQP
6 6 (2.51%) NAS
6 6 (2.51%) SAN
7 5 (2.09%) Kerberos
7 5 (2.09%) VLAN
8 4 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.26%) IPv4
9 3 (1.26%) SSL
9 3 (1.26%) VPN
10 2 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.42%) Internet
11 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.04%) Data Lake
2 20 (8.37%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (7.95%) Big Data
4 18 (7.53%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (7.53%) Apache Arrow
4 18 (7.53%) Dremio
5 16 (6.69%) SQL Server
6 15 (6.28%) MongoDB
7 14 (5.86%) Relational Database
8 13 (5.44%) NoSQL
8 13 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (4.60%) MySQL
10 10 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (4.18%) DynamoDB
11 9 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (3.77%) InfluxDB
12 5 (2.09%) Power BI
13 4 (1.67%) DataStax
14 3 (1.26%) Amazon QuickSight
14 3 (1.26%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 54 (22.59%) Jenkins
2 28 (11.72%) Git
3 25 (10.46%) JIRA
4 16 (6.69%) GitLab
5 12 (5.02%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.77%) Artifactory
7 8 (3.35%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 7 (2.93%) Subversion
9 5 (2.09%) AppScan
9 5 (2.09%) Burp Suite
9 5 (2.09%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.67%) Selenium
11 3 (1.26%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.26%) Snyk
12 2 (0.84%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
General
1 71 (29.71%) Finance
2 40 (16.74%) Social Skills
3 38 (15.90%) Banking
4 20 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.93%) Retail
5 7 (2.93%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.09%) Retail Banking
7 4 (1.67%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.42%) Advertising
9 1 (0.42%) Electronics
9 1 (0.42%) Front Office
9 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.42%) Marketing
9 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (53.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 113 (47.28%) Site Engineer
3 34 (14.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (12.55%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (8.37%) Architect
6 19 (7.95%) Senior
7 18 (7.53%) Big Data Engineer
8 16 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (4.60%) Analyst
10 10 (4.18%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.18%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.77%) Lead
12 8 (3.35%) Banking Analyst
12 8 (3.35%) Banking Business Analyst
13 7 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (2.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
14 6 (2.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 6 (2.51%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (19.25%) Kafka
2 26 (10.88%) RabbitMQ
3 25 (10.46%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (7.53%) gRPC
4 18 (7.53%) Protocol Buffers
5 12 (5.02%) RESTful
6 10 (4.18%) LDAP
7 6 (2.51%) YAML
8 5 (2.09%) Node.js
9 4 (1.67%) .NET
10 3 (1.26%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.26%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.42%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.42%) REST
11 1 (0.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.13%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.88%) Clustering
3 22 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (8.37%) Hedge funds
5 16 (6.69%) Algorithms
5 16 (6.69%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.35%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.93%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.93%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.51%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (2.09%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.09%) Replication
11 4 (1.67%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.67%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.67%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.26%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 67 (28.03%) Linux
2 29 (12.13%) Windows
3 20 (8.37%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.51%) Unix
6 5 (2.09%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.09%) Solaris
7 2 (0.84%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (76.99%) DevOps
2 108 (45.19%) CI/CD
3 59 (24.69%) Agile
4 57 (23.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (23.01%) Microservices
6 41 (17.15%) Observability
7 40 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (15.90%) Containerisation
9 34 (14.23%) Task Automation
10 32 (13.39%) Test Automation
11 30 (12.55%) Software Engineering
12 26 (10.88%) Change Management
13 23 (9.62%) ITIL
14 22 (9.21%) ITSM
15 21 (8.79%) Artificial Intelligence
15 21 (8.79%) Configuration Management
15 21 (8.79%) Continuous Integration
15 21 (8.79%) GitOps
16 20 (8.37%) Service Management
17 19 (7.95%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (43.93%) Python
2 73 (30.54%) Go
3 68 (28.45%) Java
4 36 (15.06%) Bash
5 34 (14.23%) PowerShell
6 33 (13.81%) SQL
7 22 (9.21%) Shell Script
8 20 (8.37%) JavaScript
9 11 (4.60%) C#
10 10 (4.18%) C
10 10 (4.18%) C++
11 9 (3.77%) F#
12 7 (2.93%) Groovy
13 5 (2.09%) Bicep
14 3 (1.26%) PHP
15 2 (0.84%) Ruby
16 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.42%) Perl
16 1 (0.42%) Scala
16 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 29 (12.13%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.53%) Degree
4 15 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.42%) OCP
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.42%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.46%) QA
2 5 (2.09%) GDPR
2 5 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.26%) ISO 22301
4 2 (0.84%) NIST
4 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.84%) SLA
5 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 73 (30.54%) Docker
2 12 (5.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 11 (4.60%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 131 (54.81%) Kubernetes
2 101 (42.26%) Terraform
3 85 (35.56%) Prometheus
4 64 (26.78%) Grafana
5 52 (21.76%) Ansible
6 21 (8.79%) Progress Chef
7 20 (8.37%) Puppet
8 19 (7.95%) Istio
9 14 (5.86%) Kibana
10 12 (5.02%) Argo
10 12 (5.02%) Consul
11 11 (4.60%) Docker Swarm
11 11 (4.60%) HP Fortify
12 7 (2.93%) Graylog
13 6 (2.51%) Opsgenie
14 5 (2.09%) EMC NetWorker
14 5 (2.09%) Nessus
14 5 (2.09%) SysTrack
14 5 (2.09%) Tivoli
14 5 (2.09%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 36 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.64%) Splunk
3 15 (6.28%) Salesforce
3 15 (6.28%) VMware
4 12 (5.02%) New Relic
4 12 (5.02%) SaltStack
5 9 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.93%) CyberArk
6 7 (2.93%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.93%) IBM
6 7 (2.93%) Oracle
6 7 (2.93%) SAP
7 6 (2.51%) Adobe
7 6 (2.51%) PagerDuty
8 5 (2.09%) Cisco
8 5 (2.09%) Citrix
8 5 (2.09%) Dell
8 5 (2.09%) EMC
8 5 (2.09%) HP
8 5 (2.09%) Red Hat