Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 154 164 200
Rank change year-on-year +10 +36 -31
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 35 52 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.74% 0.90% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.99% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 32 40
10th Percentile £435 £587 £428
25th Percentile £510 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £634
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +10.41% +26.80%
75th Percentile £575 - £699
90th Percentile £588 - £711
England median daily rate £550 £625 £636
% change year-on-year -12.00% -1.69% +21.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
England median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,038 5,267 6,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.77% 90.70% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 3,658 4,648
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 207 255
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £30.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.24
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +8 20 £550 -21.43% 21
Yorkshire +6 15 £555 -20.71% 9
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (5.71%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) AWS
2 14 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (25.71%) Azure
5 7 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (20.00%) Serverless
5 7 (20.00%) Snowflake
6 6 (17.14%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (14.29%) GitHub
8 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (11.43%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
9 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (5.71%) Anthos
10 2 (5.71%) Datadog
10 2 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (2.86%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 7 (20.00%) MySQL
3 6 (17.14%) Data Lake
4 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
4 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
5 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) SonarQube
2 7 (20.00%) Git
3 5 (14.29%) GitLab
3 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (11.43%) AppScan
4 4 (11.43%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 8 (22.86%) Banking
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
2 7 (20.00%) Retail
3 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 15 (42.86%) Site Engineer
3 8 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Architect
5 5 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (11.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Lead
7 3 (8.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) Senior
8 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (88.57%) DevOps
2 23 (65.71%) CI/CD
3 21 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 10 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
5 9 (25.71%) Microservices
5 9 (25.71%) Observability
6 8 (22.86%) Design Patterns
6 8 (22.86%) E-Commerce
7 7 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 6 (17.14%) Change Management
8 6 (17.14%) Cloud Operations
8 6 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (14.29%) Agile
10 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
10 4 (11.43%) ITIL
10 4 (11.43%) Project Management
10 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Bash
2 12 (34.29%) Python
3 7 (20.00%) Go
4 6 (17.14%) SQL
5 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) Bicep
7 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
1 1 (2.86%) MCSE
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) ISO 22301
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (45.71%) Terraform
2 15 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 11 (31.43%) Ansible
4 10 (28.57%) HP Fortify
5 6 (17.14%) Prometheus
6 5 (14.29%) Progress Chef
7 4 (11.43%) Grafana
7 4 (11.43%) Graylog
7 4 (11.43%) Nessus
7 4 (11.43%) Puppet
7 4 (11.43%) WebInspect
8 2 (5.71%) Istio
8 2 (5.71%) Kiali
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Splunk
2 4 (11.43%) Checkmarx
2 4 (11.43%) Veracode
3 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.57%) VMware
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.86%) Google