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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 344 333
Rank change year-on-year +45 -11 +118
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 287 393 696
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.69% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.77% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 246 506
10th Percentile £425 £469 £463
25th Percentile £500 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £632
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -1.11% +14.91%
75th Percentile £677 £700 £738
90th Percentile £850 £755 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -14.00% +13.64% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
10th Percentile - £65.20 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £70.50 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - -
75th Percentile £130.00 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.50 -

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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 May 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 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 +33 235 £550 -12.00% 142
London +8 133 £655 +4.80% 85
UK excluding London +92 126 £538 -14.00% 84
Work from Home +56 114 £671 +8.15% 73
North of England +26 36 £550 -20.00% 23
South East +37 28 £488 -21.95% 26
Scotland +58 26 £575 +15.00% 6
South West +25 22 £550 -35.29% 16
North West +15 20 £550 -21.43% 12
Yorkshire +4 16 £560 -17.04% 10
Midlands +26 11 £500 - 4
West Midlands +26 11 £500 - 2
Wales +18 2 £666 +40.26% 7
East of England +4 1 £600 - 3

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 (6.97%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (6.62%) Confluence
3 11 (3.83%) Apache
4 9 (3.14%) OpenStack
5 8 (2.79%) nginx
6 4 (1.39%) CMS
7 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.05%) Drupal
8 2 (0.70%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.70%) IIS
9 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
1 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 138 (48.08%) AWS
2 66 (23.00%) Azure
3 49 (17.07%) OpenShift
4 31 (10.80%) GCP
5 25 (8.71%) Serverless
6 24 (8.36%) Snowflake
7 21 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (6.97%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (6.62%) PaaS
10 18 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (6.27%) GitHub
11 17 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (5.57%) dbt
13 14 (4.88%) Amazon S3
14 13 (4.53%) SaaS
15 8 (2.79%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
16 7 (2.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.41%) Firewall
2 21 (7.32%) DNS
3 14 (4.88%) NAS
3 14 (4.88%) SAN
4 12 (4.18%) DHCP
5 9 (3.14%) Network Security
5 9 (3.14%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.44%) AMQP
7 6 (2.09%) Kerberos
7 6 (2.09%) VLAN
8 4 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.05%) IPv4
9 3 (1.05%) SSL
9 3 (1.05%) VPN
10 2 (0.70%) Internet
10 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.35%) Broadband
11 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.67%) Data Lake
2 20 (6.97%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (5.92%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (5.92%) Big Data
4 17 (5.92%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (5.92%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.57%) Apache Arrow
5 16 (5.57%) Dremio
5 16 (5.57%) MongoDB
5 16 (5.57%) Relational Database
6 14 (4.88%) MySQL
7 10 (3.48%) DynamoDB
8 9 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.79%) InfluxDB
10 7 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (2.09%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.74%) Couchbase
12 5 (1.74%) Power BI
13 3 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 64 (22.30%) Jenkins
2 45 (15.68%) Git
3 32 (11.15%) JIRA
4 17 (5.92%) GitLab
5 14 (4.88%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.48%) Artifactory
7 8 (2.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (2.79%) Subversion
8 7 (2.44%) Burp Suite
9 6 (2.09%) AppScan
9 6 (2.09%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.09%) TeamCity
10 5 (1.74%) Gradle
10 5 (1.74%) Maven
11 4 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.39%) Selenium
12 3 (1.05%) Snyk
13 2 (0.70%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
14 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 74 (25.78%) Finance
2 49 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.63%) Banking
4 25 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.83%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.44%) Retail
7 6 (2.09%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.39%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.39%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.70%) Marketing
10 1 (0.35%) Advertising
10 1 (0.35%) Electronics
10 1 (0.35%) Front Office
10 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 144 (50.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 122 (42.51%) Site Engineer
3 39 (13.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (11.50%) AWS Engineer
5 28 (9.76%) Senior
6 25 (8.71%) Architect
7 18 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (5.57%) Analyst
8 16 (5.57%) Big Data Engineer
9 15 (5.23%) Business Analyst
10 14 (4.88%) Python Engineer
11 13 (4.53%) Banking Analyst
11 13 (4.53%) Banking Business Analyst
12 10 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.79%) Lead
13 8 (2.79%) Security Engineer
14 7 (2.44%) Business IT Analyst
14 7 (2.44%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.63%) Kafka
2 29 (10.10%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (8.01%) RabbitMQ
4 16 (5.57%) gRPC
4 16 (5.57%) Protocol Buffers
5 12 (4.18%) LDAP
6 10 (3.48%) RESTful
7 8 (2.79%) REST
8 7 (2.44%) YAML
9 6 (2.09%) .NET
9 6 (2.09%) Node.js
10 5 (1.74%) LAPP Stack
11 3 (1.05%) ARM Templates
11 3 (1.05%) GraphQL
12 1 (0.35%) Jest
12 1 (0.35%) Keycloak
12 1 (0.35%) OAuth
12 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
12 1 (0.35%) React
12 1 (0.35%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.06%) Clustering
3 24 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (6.27%) Hedge funds
5 17 (5.92%) Public Cloud
6 15 (5.23%) Algorithms
6 15 (5.23%) Data Structures
7 11 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.79%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.09%) Replication
11 5 (1.74%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.74%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.39%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.39%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
14 2 (0.70%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 85 (29.62%) Linux
2 50 (17.42%) Windows
3 27 (9.41%) Windows Server
4 22 (7.67%) Unix
5 8 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.09%) Oracle Linux
6 6 (2.09%) Solaris
7 5 (1.74%) CentOS
7 5 (1.74%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.74%) VMS
8 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (71.78%) DevOps
2 120 (41.81%) CI/CD
3 72 (25.09%) Agile
4 62 (21.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (17.07%) Microservices
6 48 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (16.38%) Observability
8 38 (13.24%) Containerisation
9 34 (11.85%) Change Management
10 33 (11.50%) Task Automation
11 30 (10.45%) Software Engineering
12 29 (10.10%) ITIL
13 28 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
13 28 (9.76%) Test Automation
14 27 (9.41%) Configuration Management
15 26 (9.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 25 (8.71%) ITSM
17 24 (8.36%) Service Management
18 22 (7.67%) Scrum
19 21 (7.32%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 137 (47.74%) Python
2 75 (26.13%) Go
3 59 (20.56%) Java
4 46 (16.03%) Bash
5 43 (14.98%) SQL
6 42 (14.63%) PowerShell
7 27 (9.41%) Shell Script
8 19 (6.62%) JavaScript
9 14 (4.88%) C#
10 10 (3.48%) C
10 10 (3.48%) F#
10 10 (3.48%) Groovy
11 8 (2.79%) C++
11 8 (2.79%) Ruby
12 7 (2.44%) Perl
13 6 (2.09%) Bicep
14 4 (1.39%) PHP
15 3 (1.05%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 33 (11.50%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.27%) Degree
4 14 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.05%) SANS
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) MCSE
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.41%) QA
2 6 (2.09%) GDPR
2 6 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.05%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.05%) SLA
5 2 (0.70%) NIST
5 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 76 (26.48%) Docker
2 12 (4.18%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 11 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) vCloud
6 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 144 (50.17%) Kubernetes
2 121 (42.16%) Terraform
3 95 (33.10%) Prometheus
4 77 (26.83%) Grafana
5 71 (24.74%) Ansible
6 21 (7.32%) Progress Chef
7 20 (6.97%) Puppet
8 18 (6.27%) Istio
9 15 (5.23%) Kibana
10 13 (4.53%) HP Fortify
11 12 (4.18%) Consul
12 11 (3.83%) Argo
13 10 (3.48%) Docker Swarm
14 9 (3.14%) Graylog
15 7 (2.44%) Nessus
15 7 (2.44%) SCCM
16 6 (2.09%) EMC NetWorker
16 6 (2.09%) Tivoli
16 6 (2.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 6 (2.09%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 49 (17.07%) Splunk
2 45 (15.68%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.27%) VMware
4 16 (5.57%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.53%) New Relic
6 12 (4.18%) SaltStack
7 11 (3.83%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.14%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.79%) CyberArk
9 8 (2.79%) IBM
9 8 (2.79%) Oracle
9 8 (2.79%) SAP
10 7 (2.44%) Adobe
10 7 (2.44%) Checkmarx
10 7 (2.44%) Google
10 7 (2.44%) PagerDuty
11 6 (2.09%) Isilon
11 6 (2.09%) Qualys
11 6 (2.09%) Serena
11 6 (2.09%) Veracode