Site Reliability Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > Work from Home

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in Work from Home is £690 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 377 506
Rank change year-on-year +84 +129 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 52 82 116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.35% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 53 92
10th Percentile £487 £501 £450
25th Percentile £531 £550 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £645 £610
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +5.74% +10.91%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £712
90th Percentile - £738 £750
UK median daily rate £565 £645 £625
% change year-on-year -12.40% +3.20% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,777 23,614 42,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.28% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,296 16,695 30,580
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 541 589
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.35
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Site Reliability Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Site Reliability Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineer.

Site Reliability Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineer over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Site Reliability Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 19 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 41 (78.85%) Kubernetes
3 40 (76.92%) DevOps
4 39 (75.00%) Python
5 36 (69.23%) Prometheus
6 27 (51.92%) AWS
6 27 (51.92%) Go
7 26 (50.00%) Java
8 25 (48.08%) Terraform
9 23 (44.23%) Linux
10 21 (40.38%) Finance
11 19 (36.54%) Grafana
11 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
12 18 (34.62%) Hedge funds
13 17 (32.69%) Microsoft
13 17 (32.69%) Clustering
13 17 (32.69%) Asset Management
13 17 (32.69%) Investment Management
13 17 (32.69%) CI/CD
14 16 (30.77%) dbt
14 16 (30.77%) Snowflake
14 16 (30.77%) Apache Arrow
14 16 (30.77%) gRPC
14 16 (30.77%) Apache Airflow
14 16 (30.77%) Data Lake
14 16 (30.77%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (30.77%) Dremio
14 16 (30.77%) JavaScript
14 16 (30.77%) Protocol Buffers
14 16 (30.77%) Big Data

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (30.77%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.85%) nginx
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 27 (51.92%) AWS
2 16 (30.77%) dbt
2 16 (30.77%) Snowflake
3 2 (3.85%) Azure
3 2 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (1.92%) Anthos
4 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.92%) Datadog
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.92%) PaaS
4 1 (1.92%) Sentry
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (30.77%) Amazon Athena
1 16 (30.77%) Apache Arrow
1 16 (30.77%) Big Data
1 16 (30.77%) Data Lake
1 16 (30.77%) Dremio
2 12 (23.08%) MongoDB
3 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.85%) MySQL
5 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.92%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) JIRA
1 6 (11.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (5.77%) GitLab
2 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.85%) Burp Suite
3 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.92%) AppScan
4 1 (1.92%) Git
4 1 (1.92%) Robot Framework
General
1 21 (40.38%) Finance
2 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
3 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (30.77%) gRPC
1 16 (30.77%) Protocol Buffers
2 15 (28.85%) Kafka
3 12 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (17.31%) RESTful
5 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.85%) .NET
7 1 (1.92%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (34.62%) Hedge funds
2 17 (32.69%) Clustering
3 13 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (17.31%) Algorithms
4 9 (17.31%) Data Structures
5 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 23 (44.23%) Linux
2 9 (17.31%) Windows
3 7 (13.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.77%) Unix
5 1 (1.92%) CentOS
5 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 40 (76.92%) DevOps
3 17 (32.69%) Asset Management
3 17 (32.69%) CI/CD
3 17 (32.69%) Investment Management
4 14 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (23.08%) Microservices
5 12 (23.08%) Task Automation
6 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (17.31%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
8 6 (11.54%) OO
8 6 (11.54%) Scrum
8 6 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (9.62%) Containerisation
9 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (9.62%) OOP
9 5 (9.62%) Systems Engineering
10 4 (7.69%) Agile
10 4 (7.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 39 (75.00%) Python
2 27 (51.92%) Go
3 26 (50.00%) Java
4 16 (30.77%) JavaScript
5 15 (28.85%) Shell Script
6 9 (17.31%) SQL
7 7 (13.46%) C#
7 7 (13.46%) F#
8 6 (11.54%) C++
9 4 (7.69%) Bash
10 1 (1.92%) Perl
10 1 (1.92%) PHP
10 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) QA
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 8 (15.38%) Docker
3 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.92%) vCloud
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (78.85%) Kubernetes
2 36 (69.23%) Prometheus
3 25 (48.08%) Terraform
4 19 (36.54%) Grafana
5 12 (23.08%) Consul
6 5 (9.62%) Ansible
7 3 (5.77%) Istio
8 2 (3.85%) Argo
8 2 (3.85%) Graylog
8 2 (3.85%) Kibana
8 2 (3.85%) Nagios
8 2 (3.85%) Puppet
9 1 (1.92%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.92%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.92%) Kiali
9 1 (1.92%) Nessus
9 1 (1.92%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.92%) WebInspect
9 1 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (32.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (23.08%) SaltStack
3 4 (7.69%) Splunk
4 3 (5.77%) VMware
5 2 (3.85%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.92%) Veracode
6 1 (1.92%) Veritas