Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 272 353 395
Rank change year-on-year +81 +42 -22
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 121 98 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.46% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 62 91
10th Percentile £405 £497 £428
25th Percentile £491 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.35% +18.18% +12.82%
75th Percentile £599 £700 £650
90th Percentile £634 £760 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £75.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England +15 35 £550 -21.43% 26
Scotland +57 27 £575 +15.00% 7
South East +26 24 £491 -21.49% 23
South West +41 22 £550 -35.29% 18
North West +9 20 £550 -21.43% 17
Yorkshire +5 15 £555 -20.71% 9
Midlands +32 11 £500 - 5
West Midlands +26 11 £500 - 1
Wales +15 2 £666 +40.26% 6
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (2.48%) CMS
1 3 (2.48%) Drupal
2 2 (1.65%) nginx
3 1 (0.83%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (38.84%) AWS
2 39 (32.23%) OpenShift
3 36 (29.75%) Azure
4 21 (17.36%) Serverless
5 18 (14.88%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (12.40%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (11.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (9.09%) Amazon S3
9 10 (8.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (6.61%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (6.61%) GCP
11 7 (5.79%) GitHub
11 7 (5.79%) Snowflake
12 6 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (4.96%) Amazon ELB
13 5 (4.13%) Azure Functions
13 5 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (4.13%) Power Platform
14 4 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.79%) AMQP
1 7 (5.79%) Firewall
1 7 (5.79%) NAS
1 7 (5.79%) SAN
2 6 (4.96%) Network Security
3 4 (3.31%) DNS
4 3 (2.48%) SSL
5 2 (1.65%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.83%) IPv4
6 1 (0.83%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.74%) Relational Database
2 12 (9.92%) SQL Server
3 10 (8.26%) DynamoDB
4 9 (7.44%) MySQL
4 9 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (6.61%) InfluxDB
6 7 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (4.96%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.13%) Power BI
9 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.65%) Big Data
10 2 (1.65%) DB2
10 2 (1.65%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.65%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.83%) HBase
Development Applications
1 29 (23.97%) Jenkins
2 24 (19.83%) Git
3 13 (10.74%) SonarQube
4 9 (7.44%) Artifactory
5 7 (5.79%) GitLab
6 6 (4.96%) Burp Suite
7 5 (4.13%) AppScan
7 5 (4.13%) Bitbucket
7 5 (4.13%) Gradle
7 5 (4.13%) JIRA
7 5 (4.13%) Maven
8 4 (3.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (3.31%) Subversion
9 3 (2.48%) Selenium
General
1 19 (15.70%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.57%) Banking
2 14 (11.57%) Finance
3 10 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.79%) Retail
5 5 (4.13%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Electronics
8 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (51.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 49 (40.50%) Site Engineer
3 19 (15.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (10.74%) Senior
5 9 (7.44%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Architect
6 7 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Security Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Site Manager
7 6 (4.96%) Site Reliability Manager
7 6 (4.96%) Windows Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (4.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.26%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (7.44%) Kafka
3 7 (5.79%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (5.79%) REST
4 5 (4.13%) YAML
5 3 (2.48%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.83%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.36%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.79%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (4.96%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.31%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.31%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.65%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.65%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (25.62%) Linux
2 30 (24.79%) Windows
3 18 (14.88%) Unix
4 9 (7.44%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (63.64%) DevOps
2 53 (43.80%) CI/CD
3 31 (25.62%) Agile
4 29 (23.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (23.97%) Observability
5 24 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (17.36%) Containerisation
7 18 (14.88%) Microservices
8 17 (14.05%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (14.05%) Task Automation
9 16 (13.22%) GitOps
10 15 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (11.57%) Data Protection
12 13 (10.74%) Change Management
12 13 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (9.92%) Configuration Management
13 12 (9.92%) ITIL
13 12 (9.92%) Scrum
13 12 (9.92%) Software Engineering
14 11 (9.09%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 53 (43.80%) Python
2 25 (20.66%) PowerShell
3 22 (18.18%) Bash
4 21 (17.36%) SQL
5 14 (11.57%) Go
6 13 (10.74%) Shell Script
7 10 (8.26%) Java
8 6 (4.96%) C
8 6 (4.96%) Groovy
8 6 (4.96%) Perl
9 5 (4.13%) Bicep
9 5 (4.13%) Ruby
10 4 (3.31%) C#
10 4 (3.31%) F#
11 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 31 (25.62%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.74%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.61%) Degree
5 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.65%) SANS
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.83%) MCSE
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.05%) QA
2 3 (2.48%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.65%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (28.93%) Docker
2 5 (4.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 59 (48.76%) Kubernetes
2 49 (40.50%) Terraform
3 40 (33.06%) Ansible
3 40 (33.06%) Grafana
4 39 (32.23%) Prometheus
5 15 (12.40%) Progress Chef
6 13 (10.74%) Istio
7 11 (9.09%) HP Fortify
8 10 (8.26%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (5.79%) Argo
9 7 (5.79%) Kibana
9 7 (5.79%) SCCM
10 6 (4.96%) Graylog
10 6 (4.96%) Puppet
11 5 (4.13%) Nessus
11 5 (4.13%) NetBackup
11 5 (4.13%) SysTrack
11 5 (4.13%) WebInspect
12 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.65%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (19.83%) Splunk
2 15 (12.40%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.44%) Salesforce
4 8 (6.61%) VMware
5 6 (4.96%) Checkmarx
5 6 (4.96%) Citrix
6 5 (4.13%) New Relic
6 5 (4.13%) OpenAI
6 5 (4.13%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.13%) Veracode
6 5 (4.13%) Veritas
7 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.48%) Google
9 1 (0.83%) BMC
9 1 (0.83%) Databricks
9 1 (0.83%) Oracle
9 1 (0.83%) Remedy
9 1 (0.83%) SAP
9 1 (0.83%) Sybase