Site Reliability Engineer Contracts

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
6 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 519 601
Rank change year-on-year +74 +82 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 133 198 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.35% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 151 194
10th Percentile £473 £475 £450
25th Percentile £510 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £623
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.42% +13.18%
75th Percentile £690 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £700 £617
% change year-on-year -21.43% +13.45% +17.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer within the UK 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
England +36 114 £565 -13.08% 73
UK excluding London +71 64 £550 -21.43% 46
London +46 59 £695 +11.20% 31
Work from Home +88 45 £680 +6.67% 37
South East +38 18 £493 -10.36% 11
North of England -2 18 £550 -21.43% 15
South West - 12 £550 - 11
North West +2 10 £550 -21.43% 8
Scotland - 10 £550 - 1
Yorkshire 0 8 £550 -21.43% 7
Midlands +30 3 £500 - 3
West Midlands +19 3 £500 -
Wales - 2 £666 - 4
East of England - 1 £600 - 1

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Site Reliability Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 133 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 89 (66.92%) Kubernetes
3 87 (65.41%) Python
4 83 (62.41%) DevOps
5 76 (57.14%) Terraform
6 69 (51.88%) Prometheus
6 69 (51.88%) AWS
7 56 (42.11%) CI/CD
8 53 (39.85%) Go
9 51 (38.35%) Grafana
9 51 (38.35%) Linux
10 44 (33.08%) Java
11 39 (29.32%) Docker
12 38 (28.57%) Ansible
13 33 (24.81%) Jenkins
14 32 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
15 31 (23.31%) Social Skills
15 31 (23.31%) Containerisation
16 28 (21.05%) SQL
17 27 (20.30%) Task Automation
18 26 (19.55%) OpenShift
18 26 (19.55%) Splunk
19 25 (18.80%) Kafka
20 24 (18.05%) Microsoft
20 24 (18.05%) Azure
20 24 (18.05%) Security Cleared
20 24 (18.05%) Git
20 24 (18.05%) Observability
21 23 (17.29%) Microservices

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (12.03%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.51%) Apache
3 5 (3.76%) nginx
4 4 (3.01%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 69 (51.88%) AWS
2 26 (19.55%) OpenShift
3 24 (18.05%) Azure
4 21 (15.79%) Snowflake
5 15 (11.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (10.53%) dbt
6 14 (10.53%) GCP
7 11 (8.27%) Amazon S3
8 10 (7.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (7.52%) GitHub
8 10 (7.52%) Serverless
9 6 (4.51%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.01%) PaaS
12 3 (2.26%) Anthos
12 3 (2.26%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.02%) Network Security
2 6 (4.51%) NAS
2 6 (4.51%) SAN
3 5 (3.76%) AMQP
4 4 (3.01%) Firewall
5 2 (1.50%) DHCP
5 2 (1.50%) DNS
5 2 (1.50%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.75%) Broadband
6 1 (0.75%) Internet
6 1 (0.75%) IPv4
6 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.04%) Data Lake
1 20 (15.04%) SQL Server
2 16 (12.03%) Relational Database
3 15 (11.28%) Big Data
4 14 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (10.53%) Apache Arrow
4 14 (10.53%) Dremio
5 13 (9.77%) MySQL
6 12 (9.02%) MongoDB
7 11 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (7.52%) NoSQL
9 8 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (4.51%) DynamoDB
11 6 (4.51%) InfluxDB
12 5 (3.76%) RDBMS
13 3 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (2.26%) Couchbase
14 2 (1.50%) DB2
14 2 (1.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 33 (24.81%) Jenkins
2 24 (18.05%) Git
3 13 (9.77%) SonarQube
4 12 (9.02%) GitLab
5 8 (6.02%) JIRA
5 8 (6.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (5.26%) Burp Suite
7 6 (4.51%) AppScan
8 5 (3.76%) Subversion
9 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.75%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.75%) Robot Framework
General
1 31 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.54%) Finance
3 19 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.26%) Banking
4 7 (5.26%) Retail
5 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.50%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.80%) Kafka
2 21 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (12.78%) RabbitMQ
4 14 (10.53%) gRPC
4 14 (10.53%) Protocol Buffers
5 9 (6.77%) RESTful
6 5 (3.76%) REST
7 3 (2.26%) .NET
7 3 (2.26%) LAPP Stack
8 2 (1.50%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.50%) LDAP
8 2 (1.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.04%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (12.78%) Cloud Native
3 15 (11.28%) Clustering
3 15 (11.28%) Hedge funds
4 13 (9.77%) Public Cloud
5 10 (7.52%) Algorithms
5 10 (7.52%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.51%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (4.51%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (3.76%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.26%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.75%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 51 (38.35%) Linux
2 20 (15.04%) Windows
3 17 (12.78%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.77%) Unix
5 3 (2.26%) CentOS
5 3 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.26%) VMS
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 83 (62.41%) DevOps
3 56 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 32 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (23.31%) Containerisation
6 27 (20.30%) Task Automation
7 24 (18.05%) Observability
8 23 (17.29%) Microservices
9 22 (16.54%) Agile
10 21 (15.79%) Configuration Management
11 15 (11.28%) Asset Management
11 15 (11.28%) Investment Management
12 13 (9.77%) Data Protection
12 13 (9.77%) GitOps
12 13 (9.77%) Software Engineering
12 13 (9.77%) Systems Engineering
13 12 (9.02%) Incident Response
13 12 (9.02%) ITSM
14 10 (7.52%) OO
Programming Languages
1 87 (65.41%) Python
2 53 (39.85%) Go
3 44 (33.08%) Java
4 28 (21.05%) SQL
5 23 (17.29%) Bash
6 21 (15.79%) Shell Script
7 15 (11.28%) JavaScript
8 14 (10.53%) PowerShell
9 10 (7.52%) C#
10 9 (6.77%) F#
11 8 (6.02%) C++
12 7 (5.26%) C
13 6 (4.51%) Perl
14 2 (1.50%) Bicep
14 2 (1.50%) Groovy
14 2 (1.50%) Ruby
15 1 (0.75%) PHP
15 1 (0.75%) Scala
15 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (18.05%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.26%) Degree
5 3 (2.26%) SANS
6 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.04%) QA
2 3 (2.26%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (29.32%) Docker
2 12 (9.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.75%) HDFS
5 1 (0.75%) vCloud
5 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 89 (66.92%) Kubernetes
2 76 (57.14%) Terraform
3 69 (51.88%) Prometheus
4 51 (38.35%) Grafana
5 38 (28.57%) Ansible
6 17 (12.78%) Progress Chef
7 13 (9.77%) Puppet
8 12 (9.02%) HP Fortify
9 11 (8.27%) Consul
9 11 (8.27%) Istio
10 10 (7.52%) Kibana
11 9 (6.77%) Graylog
12 8 (6.02%) Argo
13 6 (4.51%) Nessus
13 6 (4.51%) WebInspect
14 5 (3.76%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (3.76%) Nagios
14 5 (3.76%) NetBackup
14 5 (3.76%) Opsgenie
15 3 (2.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (19.55%) Splunk
2 24 (18.05%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.27%) SaltStack
4 8 (6.02%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.02%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.26%) Checkmarx
6 6 (4.51%) New Relic
6 6 (4.51%) Veracode
7 5 (3.76%) Adobe
7 5 (3.76%) PagerDuty
7 5 (3.76%) SAP
7 5 (3.76%) Veritas
7 5 (3.76%) VMware
8 4 (3.01%) Google
9 2 (1.50%) Oracle
10 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.75%) Citrix
10 1 (0.75%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.75%) Databricks
10 1 (0.75%) Sybase
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