Site Reliability Engineer Contracts

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the UK is £565 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 512 594
Rank change year-on-year +85 +82 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 144 176 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.31% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.33% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 127 187
10th Percentile £473 £500 £450
25th Percentile £510 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £645 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +3.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £738 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £688 £634
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.44% +20.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £65.03 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £65.06 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £65.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.58% - -
75th Percentile £130.00 £65.56 -
90th Percentile - £65.68 -
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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
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 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
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 £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 18 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 18 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 +66 124 £565 -13.08% 71
UK excluding London +83 67 £550 -20.00% 44
London +46 65 £710 +11.37% 36
Work from Home +80 52 £690 +6.98% 37
South East +53 21 £493 -10.36% 10
North of England +15 19 £550 -21.43% 13
South West - 12 £550 - 11
North West +8 10 £550 -21.43% 6
Scotland +49 9 £550 -
Yorkshire 0 9 £558 -20.36% 7
Midlands +22 3 £500 - 3
West Midlands +22 3 £500 - 1
Wales - 2 £666 - 5
East of England - 1 £600 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 144 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 98 (68.06%) Kubernetes
3 92 (63.89%) DevOps
4 91 (63.19%) Python
5 81 (56.25%) Terraform
6 75 (52.08%) Prometheus
7 73 (50.69%) AWS
8 58 (40.28%) CI/CD
9 56 (38.89%) Linux
9 56 (38.89%) Go
10 55 (38.19%) Grafana
11 48 (33.33%) Java
12 43 (29.86%) Docker
13 38 (26.39%) Ansible
14 34 (23.61%) Jenkins
15 33 (22.92%) Containerisation
15 33 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (22.92%) Social Skills
16 32 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (20.83%) Task Automation
18 29 (20.14%) OpenShift
18 29 (20.14%) SQL
19 28 (19.44%) Kafka
19 28 (19.44%) Splunk
20 27 (18.75%) Microservices
20 27 (18.75%) Finance
21 26 (18.06%) Microsoft
21 26 (18.06%) Security Cleared
22 25 (17.36%) Bash
22 25 (17.36%) Observability

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 18 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.86%) Apache
3 6 (4.17%) nginx
4 4 (2.78%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.39%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 73 (50.69%) AWS
2 29 (20.14%) OpenShift
3 23 (15.97%) Azure
3 23 (15.97%) Snowflake
4 17 (11.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (11.11%) dbt
6 14 (9.72%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (9.03%) GCP
8 11 (7.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (7.64%) Amazon S3
9 10 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (6.94%) GitHub
9 10 (6.94%) Serverless
10 6 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
11 5 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.47%) PaaS
12 4 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.78%) Azure AKS
13 3 (2.08%) Anthos
13 3 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.56%) Network Security
2 6 (4.17%) NAS
2 6 (4.17%) SAN
3 5 (3.47%) AMQP
3 5 (3.47%) Firewall
4 2 (1.39%) DHCP
4 2 (1.39%) DNS
4 2 (1.39%) IPv4
4 2 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.69%) Broadband
5 1 (0.69%) Internet
5 1 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.28%) Data Lake
2 19 (13.19%) SQL Server
3 16 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (11.11%) Apache Arrow
3 16 (11.11%) Big Data
3 16 (11.11%) Dremio
4 15 (10.42%) Relational Database
5 14 (9.72%) MongoDB
5 14 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (9.03%) MySQL
7 11 (7.64%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (6.94%) NoSQL
9 7 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (4.17%) DynamoDB
10 6 (4.17%) InfluxDB
11 5 (3.47%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (2.08%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (23.61%) Jenkins
2 23 (15.97%) Git
3 14 (9.72%) GitLab
4 13 (9.03%) SonarQube
5 8 (5.56%) JIRA
5 8 (5.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (4.86%) Burp Suite
7 6 (4.17%) AppScan
8 5 (3.47%) Subversion
9 1 (0.69%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.69%) Robot Framework
General
1 33 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.75%) Finance
3 19 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.86%) Banking
4 7 (4.86%) Retail
5 3 (2.08%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.39%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.69%) Front Office
7 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (19.44%) Kafka
2 19 (13.19%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (11.81%) RabbitMQ
4 16 (11.11%) gRPC
4 16 (11.11%) Protocol Buffers
5 10 (6.94%) RESTful
6 5 (3.47%) REST
7 3 (2.08%) .NET
7 3 (2.08%) LAPP Stack
8 2 (1.39%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.39%) LDAP
8 2 (1.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.89%) Cloud Native
1 20 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (12.50%) Hedge funds
3 17 (11.81%) Clustering
4 13 (9.03%) Public Cloud
5 11 (7.64%) Algorithms
5 11 (7.64%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.86%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (3.47%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.39%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.69%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.69%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (38.89%) Linux
2 20 (13.89%) Windows
3 17 (11.81%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.25%) Unix
5 3 (2.08%) CentOS
5 3 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.08%) VMS
6 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 92 (63.89%) DevOps
3 58 (40.28%) CI/CD
4 33 (22.92%) Containerisation
4 33 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (20.83%) Task Automation
7 27 (18.75%) Microservices
8 25 (17.36%) Observability
9 24 (16.67%) Agile
10 21 (14.58%) Configuration Management
11 17 (11.81%) Asset Management
11 17 (11.81%) Investment Management
12 16 (11.11%) GitOps
13 15 (10.42%) ITSM
14 14 (9.72%) Data Protection
14 14 (9.72%) Incident Response
14 14 (9.72%) Software Engineering
15 13 (9.03%) Systems Engineering
16 12 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 91 (63.19%) Python
2 56 (38.89%) Go
3 48 (33.33%) Java
4 29 (20.14%) SQL
5 25 (17.36%) Bash
6 22 (15.28%) Shell Script
7 17 (11.81%) JavaScript
8 13 (9.03%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.94%) C#
10 9 (6.25%) F#
11 8 (5.56%) C++
12 7 (4.86%) C
13 6 (4.17%) Perl
14 3 (2.08%) Bicep
15 2 (1.39%) Ruby
16 1 (0.69%) Groovy
16 1 (0.69%) PHP
16 1 (0.69%) Scala
16 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.94%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.56%) Degree
5 3 (2.08%) SANS
6 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.89%) QA
2 3 (2.08%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (29.86%) Docker
2 12 (8.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.69%) vCloud
5 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (68.06%) Kubernetes
2 81 (56.25%) Terraform
3 75 (52.08%) Prometheus
4 55 (38.19%) Grafana
5 38 (26.39%) Ansible
6 17 (11.81%) Progress Chef
7 14 (9.72%) Istio
7 14 (9.72%) Puppet
8 13 (9.03%) Kibana
9 12 (8.33%) Consul
9 12 (8.33%) HP Fortify
10 11 (7.64%) Argo
11 9 (6.25%) Graylog
12 6 (4.17%) Nagios
12 6 (4.17%) Nessus
12 6 (4.17%) WebInspect
13 5 (3.47%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (3.47%) NetBackup
13 5 (3.47%) Opsgenie
14 3 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (19.44%) Splunk
2 26 (18.06%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.33%) SaltStack
4 8 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.86%) Checkmarx
6 6 (4.17%) New Relic
6 6 (4.17%) Veracode
7 5 (3.47%) Adobe
7 5 (3.47%) PagerDuty
7 5 (3.47%) SAP
7 5 (3.47%) Veritas
7 5 (3.47%) VMware
8 3 (2.08%) Google
9 1 (0.69%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.69%) Citrix
9 1 (0.69%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.69%) Databricks
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle
9 1 (0.69%) Sybase
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