Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 261 248
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 +69
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 122 262 449
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.69% 0.98% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.08% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 170 325
10th Percentile £443 £463 £489
25th Percentile £513 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% -3.85% +10.92%
75th Percentile £775 £704 £750
90th Percentile £850 £750 £813
England median daily rate £550 £625 £644
% change year-on-year -12.00% -2.91% +17.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,690 24,329 35,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.98% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,247 17,488 26,241
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.34 £63.81 £50.94
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Central London +19 19 £675 +3.85% 8
West London +19 3 £290 -35.56%
South London - 3 £672 -
East London -6 1 - - 2
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 18 (14.75%) Confluence
2 16 (13.11%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (8.20%) Apache
4 9 (7.38%) OpenStack
5 5 (4.10%) nginx
6 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.64%) Apache Solr
7 2 (1.64%) IIS
8 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 70 (57.38%) AWS
2 29 (23.77%) Azure
3 22 (18.03%) GCP
4 19 (15.57%) PaaS
5 14 (11.48%) SaaS
6 13 (10.66%) Snowflake
7 12 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (9.84%) dbt
8 9 (7.38%) GitHub
8 9 (7.38%) IaaS
9 8 (6.56%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (6.56%) Nutanix
9 8 (6.56%) Rubrik
10 6 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.10%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.46%) Amazon ECR
12 3 (2.46%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.46%) Amazon MSK
12 3 (2.46%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.39%) Firewall
2 19 (15.57%) DNS
3 14 (11.48%) DHCP
4 11 (9.02%) TCP/IP
5 9 (7.38%) NAS
5 9 (7.38%) SAN
6 8 (6.56%) Kerberos
6 8 (6.56%) VLAN
7 4 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.46%) Network Security
8 3 (2.46%) VPN
9 2 (1.64%) Internet
10 1 (0.82%) Broadband
10 1 (0.82%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.48%) MongoDB
1 14 (11.48%) NoSQL
2 13 (10.66%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (9.84%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (9.84%) Big Data
3 12 (9.84%) Data Lake
3 12 (9.84%) Dremio
4 6 (4.92%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.10%) Couchbase
5 5 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.28%) MySQL
7 3 (2.46%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (2.46%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.64%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.64%) Redis
8 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 30 (24.59%) Jenkins
2 24 (19.67%) JIRA
3 22 (18.03%) Git
4 8 (6.56%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.28%) GitLab
6 3 (2.46%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.46%) Snyk
6 3 (2.46%) Subversion
7 2 (1.64%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.82%) AppScan
8 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.82%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.82%) Selenium
8 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (36.89%) Finance
2 22 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.57%) Banking
4 14 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.20%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.28%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 57 (46.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 51 (41.80%) Site Engineer
3 17 (13.93%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (10.66%) Architect
5 13 (10.66%) Senior
6 12 (9.84%) Big Data Engineer
7 11 (9.02%) Analyst
8 10 (8.20%) Business Analyst
8 10 (8.20%) Python Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Banking Analyst
9 8 (6.56%) Banking Business Analyst
10 6 (4.92%) Business IT Analyst
10 6 (4.92%) IT Analyst
10 6 (4.92%) IT Business Analyst
11 5 (4.10%) Service Analyst
12 4 (3.28%) ITSM Analyst
12 4 (3.28%) Java Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.13%) Kafka
2 19 (15.57%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (12.30%) RabbitMQ
4 14 (11.48%) LDAP
5 12 (9.84%) gRPC
5 12 (9.84%) Protocol Buffers
6 9 (7.38%) RESTful
7 5 (4.10%) LAPP Stack
8 4 (3.28%) Node.js
9 3 (2.46%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.82%) .NET
10 1 (0.82%) REST
10 1 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.85%) Clustering
2 22 (18.03%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.66%) Algorithms
3 13 (10.66%) Data Structures
3 13 (10.66%) Hedge funds
4 9 (7.38%) Cloud Native
4 9 (7.38%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (7.38%) Public Cloud
5 8 (6.56%) Replication
6 6 (4.92%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (4.10%) Data Centre
8 4 (3.28%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.82%) Derivative
10 1 (0.82%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 45 (36.89%) Linux
2 17 (13.93%) Windows
3 16 (13.11%) Windows Server
4 10 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (6.56%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (6.56%) Solaris
6 5 (4.10%) CentOS
6 5 (4.10%) Ubuntu
6 5 (4.10%) VMS
7 3 (2.46%) Unix
8 2 (1.64%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (79.51%) DevOps
2 51 (41.80%) CI/CD
3 36 (29.51%) Agile
4 24 (19.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (18.03%) Microservices
6 21 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (11.48%) Configuration Management
8 14 (11.48%) Test Automation
9 13 (10.66%) Asset Management
9 13 (10.66%) Investment Management
9 13 (10.66%) Software Engineering
10 12 (9.84%) High Availability
10 12 (9.84%) Observability
10 12 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (9.02%) Service Management
11 11 (9.02%) Task Automation
12 10 (8.20%) Change Management
12 10 (8.20%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 71 (58.20%) Python
2 51 (41.80%) Go
3 41 (33.61%) Java
4 19 (15.57%) Bash
5 17 (13.93%) PowerShell
6 16 (13.11%) SQL
7 13 (10.66%) JavaScript
8 12 (9.84%) Shell Script
9 8 (6.56%) C++
10 4 (3.28%) C
10 4 (3.28%) Groovy
11 3 (2.46%) C#
11 3 (2.46%) PHP
11 3 (2.46%) Ruby
12 2 (1.64%) F#
13 1 (0.82%) Perl
13 1 (0.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.28%) Degree
4 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) GDPR
1 8 (6.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (4.10%) QA
3 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.64%) NIST
3 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (23.77%) Docker
2 11 (9.02%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 9 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 64 (52.46%) Kubernetes
2 58 (47.54%) Terraform
3 46 (37.70%) Prometheus
4 31 (25.41%) Grafana
5 29 (23.77%) Ansible
6 11 (9.02%) Consul
6 11 (9.02%) Puppet
7 8 (6.56%) EMC NetWorker
7 8 (6.56%) Netcool
7 8 (6.56%) Tivoli
7 8 (6.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Opsgenie
9 5 (4.10%) Progress Chef
9 5 (4.10%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.64%) Graylog
10 2 (1.64%) Kibana
10 2 (1.64%) logstash
10 2 (1.64%) Nagios
10 2 (1.64%) Nessus
10 2 (1.64%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 24 (19.67%) Splunk
3 11 (9.02%) SaltStack
4 10 (8.20%) CyberArk
4 10 (8.20%) IBM
4 10 (8.20%) Oracle
4 10 (8.20%) VMware
5 8 (6.56%) Cisco
5 8 (6.56%) Dell
5 8 (6.56%) EMC
5 8 (6.56%) HP
5 8 (6.56%) Isilon
5 8 (6.56%) New Relic
5 8 (6.56%) Qualys
5 8 (6.56%) Serena
5 8 (6.56%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.74%) Adobe
6 7 (5.74%) PagerDuty
6 7 (5.74%) Salesforce
6 7 (5.74%) SAP