Site Reliability Engineer Contracts in the South East

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > South East

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the South East is £493 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 216 251
Rank change year-on-year +35 +35 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 23 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.40% 0.053% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.056% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 8
10th Percentile £458 - £413
25th Percentile £477 - £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £638
90th Percentile £523 £560 £709
England median daily rate £575 £645 £625
% change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,244 5,347 7,384
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 94.55% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,083 3,701 5,046
10th Percentile £234 £213 £210
25th Percentile £400 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £592
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 237 310
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.46 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - +143.90% -15.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.84
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.58
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the South East

Site Reliability Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the South East

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Thames Valley +24 19 £492 -1.63% 2
Berkshire +17 19 £492 -1.63% 1
Surrey +16 2 £493 -10.45% 2
West Sussex - 1 £575 - 1
Home Counties - 1 - -
Site Reliability Engineer
England

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 across the South East region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 17 (73.91%) OpenShift
2 17 (73.91%) DevOps
2 17 (73.91%) SC Cleared
2 17 (73.91%) Security Cleared
3 16 (69.57%) ITSM
3 16 (69.57%) GitOps
4 15 (65.22%) Cloud Native
4 15 (65.22%) Task Automation
5 14 (60.87%) Kubernetes
6 13 (56.52%) Microservices
6 13 (56.52%) Containerisation
7 12 (52.17%) Istio
7 12 (52.17%) Grafana
7 12 (52.17%) Kibana
7 12 (52.17%) Kafka
7 12 (52.17%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (52.17%) Prometheus
7 12 (52.17%) Argo
7 12 (52.17%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (52.17%) Agile
8 10 (43.48%) Change Management
8 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
8 10 (43.48%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (43.48%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (43.48%) Incident Response
9 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
10 4 (17.39%) Systems Engineering
10 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (4.35%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) OpenShift
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) Elasticsearch
1 12 (52.17%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (65.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 17 (73.91%) DevOps
3 16 (69.57%) GitOps
3 16 (69.57%) ITSM
4 15 (65.22%) Task Automation
5 13 (56.52%) Containerisation
5 13 (56.52%) Microservices
6 12 (52.17%) Agile
7 10 (43.48%) Change Management
7 10 (43.48%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (43.48%) Incident Response
7 10 (43.48%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
8 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
9 4 (17.39%) OO
9 4 (17.39%) OOP
9 4 (17.39%) Scrum
9 4 (17.39%) Systems Engineering
10 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) C#
1 4 (17.39%) F#
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) Bicep
2 1 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (73.91%) SC Cleared
1 17 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Kubernetes
2 12 (52.17%) Argo
2 12 (52.17%) Grafana
2 12 (52.17%) Istio
2 12 (52.17%) Kibana
2 12 (52.17%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds