Site Reliability Engineer Contracts

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 517 595
Rank change year-on-year +82 +78 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 144 167 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.31% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 123 179
10th Percentile £473 £500 £450
25th Percentile £510 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +2.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £710 £700 £707
90th Percentile £850 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £663 £613
% change year-on-year -16.98% +8.16% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £65.05 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £65.13 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £65.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +67.94% - -
75th Percentile £130.00 £67.88 -
90th Percentile - £69.15 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.75 -

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £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 2 June 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 2 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
England +65 127 £575 -10.85% 66
UK excluding London +74 68 £550 -16.98% 33
London +56 66 £710 +11.37% 35
Work from Home +87 53 £710 +10.08% 32
South East +30 23 £493 -1.40% 10
North of England +14 19 £550 -21.43% 7
South West - 13 £550 - 4
North West +7 10 £550 -21.43% 4
Yorkshire +8 9 £558 -20.36% 3
Scotland +48 8 £550 - 4
Midlands +22 2 £500 - 4
West Midlands +13 2 £500 - 2
Wales - 2 £666 - 1
East of England - 1 £600 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 144 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 103 (71.53%) Kubernetes
3 96 (66.67%) DevOps
4 89 (61.81%) Python
5 81 (56.25%) Terraform
6 75 (52.08%) Prometheus
7 73 (50.69%) AWS
8 57 (39.58%) Go
9 55 (38.19%) Linux
9 55 (38.19%) Java
9 55 (38.19%) CI/CD
10 53 (36.81%) Grafana
11 46 (31.94%) Docker
12 36 (25.00%) Social Skills
13 35 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (23.61%) Jenkins
14 34 (23.61%) Containerisation
15 33 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (22.92%) Ansible
15 33 (22.92%) Task Automation
16 31 (21.53%) Finance
17 30 (20.83%) Microservices
17 30 (20.83%) OpenShift
18 29 (20.14%) Kafka
19 28 (19.44%) Splunk
19 28 (19.44%) Security Cleared
20 27 (18.75%) Agile
20 27 (18.75%) SQL
20 27 (18.75%) Microsoft
21 25 (17.36%) Snowflake

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 20 (13.89%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.47%) Apache
3 4 (2.78%) nginx
4 2 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.69%) CMS
5 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 73 (50.69%) AWS
2 30 (20.83%) OpenShift
3 25 (17.36%) Snowflake
4 24 (16.67%) Azure
5 18 (12.50%) dbt
6 17 (11.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (9.03%) GCP
9 12 (8.33%) Amazon S3
10 11 (7.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (7.64%) Serverless
11 9 (6.25%) GitHub
12 6 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
13 4 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.78%) Azure AKS
13 4 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (2.08%) Anthos
14 3 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.25%) Network Security
2 6 (4.17%) AMQP
3 5 (3.47%) Firewall
3 5 (3.47%) NAS
3 5 (3.47%) SAN
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%) Internet
5 1 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 19 (13.19%) SQL Server
3 18 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (12.50%) Apache Arrow
3 18 (12.50%) Big Data
3 18 (12.50%) Dremio
4 16 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 14 (9.72%) MongoDB
6 13 (9.03%) MySQL
7 12 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (4.86%) InfluxDB
9 7 (4.86%) NoSQL
10 6 (4.17%) DynamoDB
11 5 (3.47%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.69%) DB2
13 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (23.61%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.19%) 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 36 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.53%) Finance
3 21 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.56%) Banking
5 7 (4.86%) Retail
6 2 (1.39%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.69%) Front Office
7 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.14%) Kafka
2 18 (12.50%) gRPC
2 18 (12.50%) Protocol Buffers
2 18 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 16 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (8.33%) RESTful
5 4 (2.78%) REST
6 3 (2.08%) .NET
7 2 (1.39%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.39%) LDAP
7 2 (1.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 20 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (13.89%) Hedge funds
3 19 (13.19%) Clustering
4 13 (9.03%) Algorithms
4 13 (9.03%) Data Structures
5 9 (6.25%) Public Cloud
6 7 (4.86%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (3.47%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.39%) Data Centre
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
11 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (38.19%) Linux
2 19 (13.19%) Windows
3 16 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 96 (66.67%) DevOps
3 55 (38.19%) CI/CD
4 35 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (23.61%) Containerisation
6 33 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (22.92%) Task Automation
7 30 (20.83%) Microservices
8 27 (18.75%) Agile
9 24 (16.67%) Observability
10 19 (13.19%) Asset Management
10 19 (13.19%) Investment Management
11 18 (12.50%) Configuration Management
12 17 (11.81%) GitOps
13 16 (11.11%) ITSM
14 15 (10.42%) Incident Response
14 15 (10.42%) Software Engineering
15 13 (9.03%) Systems Engineering
16 12 (8.33%) Data Protection
16 12 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 89 (61.81%) Python
2 57 (39.58%) Go
3 55 (38.19%) Java
4 27 (18.75%) SQL
5 23 (15.97%) Bash
5 23 (15.97%) Shell Script
6 19 (13.19%) JavaScript
7 15 (10.42%) PowerShell
8 10 (6.94%) C#
8 10 (6.94%) C++
9 9 (6.25%) F#
10 7 (4.86%) C
11 5 (3.47%) Perl
12 4 (2.78%) Bicep
13 2 (1.39%) Ruby
14 1 (0.69%) Groovy
14 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.69%) PHP
14 1 (0.69%) Scala
14 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.64%) 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 46 (31.94%) Docker
2 12 (8.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.69%) vCloud
4 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 103 (71.53%) Kubernetes
2 81 (56.25%) Terraform
3 75 (52.08%) Prometheus
4 53 (36.81%) Grafana
5 33 (22.92%) Ansible
6 18 (12.50%) Progress Chef
7 15 (10.42%) Istio
8 14 (9.72%) Puppet
9 12 (8.33%) Argo
9 12 (8.33%) Consul
9 12 (8.33%) HP Fortify
9 12 (8.33%) Kibana
10 9 (6.25%) Graylog
11 6 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (4.17%) Nagios
11 6 (4.17%) Nessus
11 6 (4.17%) WebInspect
12 5 (3.47%) Opsgenie
13 4 (2.78%) NetBackup
14 2 (1.39%) Kiali
Vendors
1 28 (19.44%) Splunk
2 27 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.33%) SaltStack
4 8 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.86%) Checkmarx
6 6 (4.17%) Dynatrace
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%) VMware
8 4 (2.78%) Veritas
9 3 (2.08%) Google
10 1 (0.69%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.69%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.69%) Databricks
10 1 (0.69%) Oracle
10 1 (0.69%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.69%) Sybase
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