Site Reliability Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 305 331
Rank change year-on-year +70 +26 +56
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 114 156 323
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.78% 0.64% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.72% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 97 230
10th Percentile £482 £483 £450
25th Percentile £518 £506 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £850 £713 £738
90th Percentile - £763 £794
UK median daily rate £574 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -8.20% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year +41.03% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Site Reliability Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Site Reliability Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering.

Site Reliability Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Site Reliability Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
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 19 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.02%) Confluence
3 2 (1.75%) IIS
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (41.23%) AWS
2 20 (17.54%) Azure
3 18 (15.79%) dbt
3 18 (15.79%) Snowflake
4 10 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (7.89%) GitHub
6 8 (7.02%) GCP
7 6 (5.26%) OpenShift
7 6 (5.26%) PaaS
7 6 (5.26%) SaaS
8 5 (4.39%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (4.39%) IaaS
8 5 (4.39%) Nutanix
8 5 (4.39%) Rubrik
9 4 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.51%) Serverless
10 3 (2.63%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (2.63%) Amazon MSK
10 3 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.75%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.40%) Firewall
2 11 (9.65%) DNS
3 6 (5.26%) NAS
3 6 (5.26%) SAN
3 6 (5.26%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.39%) DHCP
4 5 (4.39%) Kerberos
4 5 (4.39%) VLAN
5 3 (2.63%) VPN
6 1 (0.88%) IPv4
6 1 (0.88%) Network Security
6 1 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.79%) Amazon Athena
1 18 (15.79%) Apache Arrow
1 18 (15.79%) Big Data
1 18 (15.79%) Data Lake
1 18 (15.79%) Dremio
2 12 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (7.02%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.51%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (2.63%) DataStax
5 3 (2.63%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.75%) MySQL
6 2 (1.75%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.04%) JIRA
3 9 (7.89%) Git
4 6 (5.26%) GitLab
4 6 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (4.39%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.51%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.63%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.63%) Snyk
8 2 (1.75%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.75%) Burp Suite
8 2 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.88%) AppScan
9 1 (0.88%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.88%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 59 (51.75%) Finance
2 28 (24.56%) Banking
2 28 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.39%) Retail Banking
5 2 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (0.88%) Electronics
6 1 (0.88%) Front Office
6 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (46.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 48 (42.11%) Site Engineer
3 23 (20.18%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (15.79%) Big Data Engineer
5 15 (13.16%) Analyst
5 15 (13.16%) Business Analyst
6 13 (11.40%) Banking Analyst
6 13 (11.40%) Banking Business Analyst
7 12 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.77%) Python Engineer
9 8 (7.02%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (6.14%) Architect
10 7 (6.14%) Business IT Analyst
10 7 (6.14%) IT Analyst
10 7 (6.14%) IT Business Analyst
10 7 (6.14%) ITSM Analyst
10 7 (6.14%) Service Analyst
11 6 (5.26%) Senior
12 5 (4.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.39%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.42%) Kafka
2 18 (15.79%) gRPC
2 18 (15.79%) Protocol Buffers
3 14 (12.28%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (9.65%) RESTful
5 6 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.39%) .NET
6 5 (4.39%) LDAP
7 3 (2.63%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.75%) YAML
9 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.88%) Jest
9 1 (0.88%) Node.js
9 1 (0.88%) OAuth
9 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.88%) React
9 1 (0.88%) Redux
9 1 (0.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.05%) Clustering
2 20 (17.54%) Hedge funds
3 14 (12.28%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (10.53%) Algorithms
4 12 (10.53%) Data Structures
5 10 (8.77%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.39%) Replication
7 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (26.32%) Linux
2 21 (18.42%) Windows
3 16 (14.04%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.39%) Oracle Linux
4 5 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.39%) Solaris
5 4 (3.51%) Unix
6 2 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (83.33%) DevOps
2 45 (39.47%) CI/CD
3 26 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (17.54%) Change Management
4 20 (17.54%) Microservices
4 20 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (16.67%) Agile
5 19 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 19 (16.67%) Investment Management
5 19 (16.67%) Service Management
6 18 (15.79%) ITIL
7 15 (13.16%) GAP Analysis
7 15 (13.16%) Test Automation
8 14 (12.28%) Task Automation
9 12 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (10.53%) ITSM
9 12 (10.53%) Observability
10 11 (9.65%) Analytical Thinking
10 11 (9.65%) Software Engineering
11 10 (8.77%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 57 (50.00%) Python
2 41 (35.96%) Go
3 37 (32.46%) Java
4 20 (17.54%) JavaScript
5 17 (14.91%) PowerShell
6 15 (13.16%) Shell Script
7 13 (11.40%) Bash
8 11 (9.65%) C#
9 10 (8.77%) SQL
10 8 (7.02%) C++
10 8 (7.02%) F#
11 4 (3.51%) PHP
12 3 (2.63%) Groovy
13 2 (1.75%) Bicep
13 2 (1.75%) Perl
13 2 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (4.39%) Degree
2 4 (3.51%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.77%) QA
2 5 (4.39%) GDPR
2 5 (4.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.75%) NIST
3 2 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (21.05%) Docker
2 12 (10.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 10 (8.77%) Active Directory
4 8 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.88%) vCloud
5 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (53.51%) Kubernetes
2 48 (42.11%) Terraform
3 42 (36.84%) Prometheus
4 23 (20.18%) Grafana
5 17 (14.91%) Ansible
6 12 (10.53%) Consul
7 8 (7.02%) Puppet
8 5 (4.39%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (4.39%) Netcool
8 5 (4.39%) Tivoli
8 5 (4.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (3.51%) Kibana
10 3 (2.63%) Istio
11 2 (1.75%) Argo
11 2 (1.75%) Graylog
11 2 (1.75%) HP Fortify
11 2 (1.75%) logstash
11 2 (1.75%) Nagios
11 2 (1.75%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.75%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.53%) SaltStack
3 10 (8.77%) Splunk
4 8 (7.02%) VMware
5 7 (6.14%) IBM
5 7 (6.14%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.39%) Cisco
6 5 (4.39%) CyberArk
6 5 (4.39%) Dell
6 5 (4.39%) EMC
6 5 (4.39%) HP
6 5 (4.39%) Isilon
6 5 (4.39%) Oracle
6 5 (4.39%) Qualys
6 5 (4.39%) Serena
7 3 (2.63%) Confluent
8 2 (1.75%) Checkmarx
8 2 (1.75%) Google
8 2 (1.75%) Veritas
9 1 (0.88%) BMC