Site Reliability Engineering Contracts

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 333 347
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 +73
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 280 442 698
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.73% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.82% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 281 509
10th Percentile £425 £475 £475
25th Percentile £500 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -1.96% +15.91%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £755 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -17.31% +18.18% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
10th Percentile - £65.18 £46.20
25th Percentile - £69.19 £48.00
Median hourly rate - £79.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - +54.90% +3.03%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £71.25
90th Percentile - £86.50 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £73.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -14.12% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +7 229 £550 -13.73% 145
London -13 131 £625 - 67
UK excluding London +83 124 £538 -17.31% 89
Work from Home +47 105 £636 +2.62% 89
North of England +20 36 £550 -21.43% 26
Scotland +49 28 £575 +13.02% 10
South East +19 24 £491 -21.18% 18
South West +36 21 £550 -31.25% 18
North West -3 21 £550 -21.43% 19
Yorkshire +11 15 £555 -20.71% 7
Midlands +41 11 £500 - 10
West Midlands +35 11 £500 - 3
East of England +16 2 £475 - 3
Wales +15 2 £666 +40.26% 4

Site Reliability Engineering
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 20 (7.14%) Confluence
2 14 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.93%) Apache
4 9 (3.21%) OpenStack
5 7 (2.50%) nginx
6 3 (1.07%) Apache Solr
6 3 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.07%) CMS
6 3 (1.07%) Drupal
7 2 (0.71%) IIS
8 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 137 (48.93%) AWS
2 70 (25.00%) Azure
3 45 (16.07%) OpenShift
4 33 (11.79%) GCP
5 25 (8.93%) Serverless
6 21 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (7.50%) PaaS
7 20 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (6.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (6.43%) GitHub
9 18 (6.43%) Snowflake
10 17 (6.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (5.71%) SaaS
12 14 (5.00%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (3.57%) dbt
13 10 (3.57%) IaaS
14 8 (2.86%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.71%) DNS
2 27 (9.64%) Firewall
3 16 (5.71%) NAS
3 16 (5.71%) SAN
4 15 (5.36%) DHCP
5 11 (3.93%) TCP/IP
6 9 (3.21%) Internet
6 9 (3.21%) Network Security
7 8 (2.86%) Kerberos
7 8 (2.86%) VLAN
8 7 (2.50%) AMQP
9 4 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.07%) SSL
10 3 (1.07%) VPN
11 2 (0.71%) IPv4
11 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.36%) Broadband
12 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.36%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.93%) Relational Database
2 21 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 17 (6.07%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.71%) Data Lake
4 16 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.36%) MongoDB
5 15 (5.36%) MySQL
6 12 (4.29%) Big Data
6 12 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (3.57%) Apache Arrow
8 10 (3.57%) Dremio
8 10 (3.57%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.86%) InfluxDB
11 7 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (2.14%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.79%) Couchbase
13 5 (1.79%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 62 (22.14%) Jenkins
2 47 (16.79%) Git
3 33 (11.79%) JIRA
4 14 (5.00%) GitLab
4 14 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 11 (3.93%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (2.86%) Subversion
6 8 (2.86%) TeamCity
7 7 (2.50%) Burp Suite
8 6 (2.14%) AppScan
8 6 (2.14%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.79%) Gradle
9 5 (1.79%) Maven
10 4 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.43%) Selenium
11 3 (1.07%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.07%) Snyk
12 2 (0.71%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 69 (24.64%) Finance
2 52 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.64%) Banking
4 25 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.29%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.21%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.50%) Retail
8 5 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.43%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.43%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.71%) Electronics
10 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Marketing
10 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Advertising
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 133 (47.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 112 (40.00%) Site Engineer
3 37 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (9.29%) Senior
5 25 (8.93%) Architect
5 25 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
6 17 (6.07%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (6.07%) Python Engineer
7 16 (5.71%) Analyst
8 15 (5.36%) Business Analyst
9 13 (4.64%) Banking Analyst
9 13 (4.64%) Banking Business Analyst
10 11 (3.93%) Big Data Engineer
11 8 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.86%) Security Engineer
12 7 (2.50%) Business IT Analyst
12 7 (2.50%) IT Business Analyst
12 7 (2.50%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.29%) Kafka
2 29 (10.36%) Elastic Stack
3 25 (8.93%) RabbitMQ
4 17 (6.07%) RESTful
5 15 (5.36%) LDAP
6 10 (3.57%) gRPC
6 10 (3.57%) Protocol Buffers
7 9 (3.21%) REST
8 6 (2.14%) YAML
9 5 (1.79%) LAPP Stack
10 4 (1.43%) .NET
10 4 (1.43%) Node.js
11 3 (1.07%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.07%) GraphQL
12 1 (0.36%) J2EE
12 1 (0.36%) Jest
12 1 (0.36%) Keycloak
12 1 (0.36%) React
12 1 (0.36%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.86%) Clustering
4 17 (6.07%) Public Cloud
5 14 (5.00%) Algorithms
5 14 (5.00%) Data Structures
6 12 (4.29%) Private Cloud
7 11 (3.93%) Hedge funds
8 10 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.86%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.86%) Replication
10 6 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.79%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.43%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.07%) Distributed Applications
14 2 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 83 (29.64%) Linux
2 51 (18.21%) Windows
3 29 (10.36%) Windows Server
4 22 (7.86%) Unix
5 10 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.86%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (2.86%) Solaris
7 5 (1.79%) CentOS
7 5 (1.79%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.79%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.79%) VMS
8 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (70.00%) DevOps
2 125 (44.64%) CI/CD
3 79 (28.21%) Agile
4 63 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (16.07%) Microservices
7 44 (15.71%) Observability
8 40 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 35 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 31 (11.07%) Change Management
11 30 (10.71%) Task Automation
12 29 (10.36%) Continuous Integration
12 29 (10.36%) Software Engineering
13 28 (10.00%) Configuration Management
13 28 (10.00%) ITIL
14 24 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (8.57%) Service Management
15 23 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
15 23 (8.21%) Scrum
16 22 (7.86%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 141 (50.36%) Python
2 66 (23.57%) Go
3 59 (21.07%) Java
4 45 (16.07%) Bash
5 44 (15.71%) PowerShell
6 43 (15.36%) SQL
7 26 (9.29%) Shell Script
8 12 (4.29%) C#
9 11 (3.93%) JavaScript
10 10 (3.57%) C
10 10 (3.57%) F#
10 10 (3.57%) Groovy
11 9 (3.21%) Ruby
12 8 (2.86%) C++
13 7 (2.50%) Perl
14 5 (1.79%) Bicep
15 4 (1.43%) PHP
16 1 (0.36%) Scala
16 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.36%) Degree
4 14 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.07%) SANS
7 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.36%) MCSE
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.50%) QA
2 8 (2.86%) GDPR
2 8 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.07%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.07%) SLA
5 2 (0.71%) NIST
5 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 67 (23.93%) Docker
2 13 (4.64%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 13 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) HDFS
5 1 (0.36%) vCloud
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 131 (46.79%) Kubernetes
2 112 (40.00%) Terraform
3 86 (30.71%) Prometheus
4 77 (27.50%) Grafana
5 73 (26.07%) Ansible
6 23 (8.21%) Progress Chef
7 19 (6.79%) Puppet
8 14 (5.00%) Istio
9 13 (4.64%) HP Fortify
10 12 (4.29%) Consul
11 11 (3.93%) Kibana
12 10 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (3.21%) Graylog
14 8 (2.86%) EMC NetWorker
14 8 (2.86%) Netcool
14 8 (2.86%) Tivoli
14 8 (2.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 7 (2.50%) Argo
15 7 (2.50%) Nessus
15 7 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (17.14%) Splunk
2 45 (16.07%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.50%) VMware
4 16 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.64%) New Relic
6 12 (4.29%) SaltStack
6 12 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.93%) Oracle
8 10 (3.57%) CyberArk
8 10 (3.57%) IBM
9 9 (3.21%) SAP
10 8 (2.86%) Cisco
10 8 (2.86%) Dell
10 8 (2.86%) Dynatrace
10 8 (2.86%) EMC
10 8 (2.86%) Google
10 8 (2.86%) HP
10 8 (2.86%) Isilon
10 8 (2.86%) Qualys
10 8 (2.86%) Serena