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 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 465 525 619
Rank change year-on-year +60 +94 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 137 171 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.33% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 124 177
10th Percentile £473 £500 £450
25th Percentile £510 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £641 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +2.60% +12.36%
75th Percentile £710 £700 £701
90th Percentile £850 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £65.08 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £65.19 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £67.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.36% - -
75th Percentile £130.00 £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 9 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 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
England +57 123 £575 -10.85% 58
London +37 65 £710 +10.72% 28
UK excluding London +58 61 £550 -15.38% 32
Work from Home +90 53 £710 +9.65% 33
South East +35 23 £493 -1.40% 9
North of England +8 18 £550 -21.43% 4
South West - 12 £550 - 8
North West +2 9 £550 -21.43% 2
Yorkshire -1 9 £558 -20.36% 2
Scotland +43 4 £550 - 2
Wales - 2 £666 - 1
Midlands +16 1 £500 - 5
West Midlands +9 1 £500 - 2
East of England - 1 £600 - 4

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

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 featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 137 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 99 (72.26%) Kubernetes
3 96 (70.07%) DevOps
4 84 (61.31%) Python
5 77 (56.20%) Terraform
6 72 (52.55%) Prometheus
7 70 (51.09%) AWS
8 56 (40.88%) Go
9 54 (39.42%) Java
10 53 (38.69%) Linux
11 51 (37.23%) CI/CD
12 50 (36.50%) Grafana
13 45 (32.85%) Docker
14 35 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (25.55%) Social Skills
15 34 (24.82%) Containerisation
16 33 (24.09%) Infrastructure as Code
16 33 (24.09%) Task Automation
16 33 (24.09%) Jenkins
17 30 (21.90%) Ansible
18 29 (21.17%) Microservices
18 29 (21.17%) Finance
19 28 (20.44%) Kafka
19 28 (20.44%) Splunk
19 28 (20.44%) OpenShift
20 27 (19.71%) Agile
20 27 (19.71%) Microsoft
20 27 (19.71%) SQL
20 27 (19.71%) Security Cleared
21 25 (18.25%) 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 (14.60%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.92%) Apache
2 4 (2.92%) nginx
3 2 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.73%) CMS
4 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 70 (51.09%) AWS
2 28 (20.44%) OpenShift
3 25 (18.25%) Snowflake
4 24 (17.52%) Azure
5 18 (13.14%) dbt
6 17 (12.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (10.95%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (8.76%) Amazon S3
8 12 (8.76%) GCP
9 11 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (8.03%) Serverless
10 9 (6.57%) GitHub
11 6 (4.38%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.92%) Azure AKS
12 4 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.19%) Anthos
13 3 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.57%) Network Security
2 6 (4.38%) AMQP
3 5 (3.65%) Firewall
4 3 (2.19%) NAS
4 3 (2.19%) SAN
5 2 (1.46%) IPv4
5 2 (1.46%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.73%) DHCP
6 1 (0.73%) DNS
6 1 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.52%) Data Lake
2 19 (13.87%) SQL Server
3 18 (13.14%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (13.14%) Apache Arrow
3 18 (13.14%) Big Data
3 18 (13.14%) Dremio
4 16 (11.68%) Relational Database
5 14 (10.22%) MongoDB
6 12 (8.76%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (8.76%) MySQL
6 12 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (5.11%) InfluxDB
8 7 (5.11%) NoSQL
9 6 (4.38%) DynamoDB
10 5 (3.65%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.73%) DB2
Development Applications
1 33 (24.09%) Jenkins
2 17 (12.41%) Git
3 14 (10.22%) GitLab
4 13 (9.49%) SonarQube
5 8 (5.84%) JIRA
5 8 (5.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (5.11%) Burp Suite
7 6 (4.38%) AppScan
8 5 (3.65%) Subversion
9 1 (0.73%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.73%) Robot Framework
General
1 35 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.17%) Finance
3 21 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.38%) Banking
4 6 (4.38%) Retail
5 2 (1.46%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.73%) Front Office
6 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.44%) Kafka
2 18 (13.14%) gRPC
2 18 (13.14%) Protocol Buffers
2 18 (13.14%) RabbitMQ
3 16 (11.68%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (8.76%) RESTful
5 3 (2.19%) .NET
6 2 (1.46%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.46%) Node.js
6 2 (1.46%) REST
7 1 (0.73%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.60%) Cloud Native
1 20 (14.60%) Distributed Systems
1 20 (14.60%) Hedge funds
2 19 (13.87%) Clustering
3 13 (9.49%) Algorithms
3 13 (9.49%) Data Structures
4 10 (7.30%) Public Cloud
5 7 (5.11%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.65%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.46%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.73%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.73%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (38.69%) Linux
2 18 (13.14%) Windows
3 15 (10.95%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 96 (70.07%) DevOps
3 51 (37.23%) CI/CD
4 35 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (24.82%) Containerisation
6 33 (24.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (24.09%) Task Automation
7 29 (21.17%) Microservices
8 27 (19.71%) Agile
9 21 (15.33%) Observability
10 19 (13.87%) Asset Management
10 19 (13.87%) Investment Management
11 17 (12.41%) Configuration Management
11 17 (12.41%) GitOps
12 16 (11.68%) ITSM
13 15 (10.95%) Incident Response
13 15 (10.95%) Software Engineering
14 13 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (8.76%) Analytical Thinking
15 12 (8.76%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (61.31%) Python
2 56 (40.88%) Go
3 54 (39.42%) Java
4 27 (19.71%) SQL
5 24 (17.52%) Shell Script
6 23 (16.79%) Bash
7 19 (13.87%) JavaScript
8 16 (11.68%) PowerShell
9 10 (7.30%) C#
9 10 (7.30%) C++
10 9 (6.57%) F#
11 6 (4.38%) C
12 4 (2.92%) Bicep
13 2 (1.46%) Perl
14 1 (0.73%) Groovy
14 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.73%) PHP
14 1 (0.73%) Ruby
14 1 (0.73%) Scala
14 1 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (19.71%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.30%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.84%) Degree
5 3 (2.19%) SANS
6 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.73%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.60%) QA
2 3 (2.19%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (32.85%) Docker
2 12 (8.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.73%) vCloud
4 1 (0.73%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (72.26%) Kubernetes
2 77 (56.20%) Terraform
3 72 (52.55%) Prometheus
4 50 (36.50%) Grafana
5 30 (21.90%) Ansible
6 18 (13.14%) Progress Chef
7 15 (10.95%) Istio
8 13 (9.49%) Puppet
9 12 (8.76%) Argo
9 12 (8.76%) Consul
9 12 (8.76%) HP Fortify
9 12 (8.76%) Kibana
10 9 (6.57%) Graylog
11 6 (4.38%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (4.38%) Nagios
11 6 (4.38%) Nessus
11 6 (4.38%) WebInspect
12 5 (3.65%) Opsgenie
13 2 (1.46%) Kiali
13 2 (1.46%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 28 (20.44%) Splunk
2 27 (19.71%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.76%) SaltStack
4 7 (5.11%) Checkmarx
4 7 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.38%) Dynatrace
5 6 (4.38%) New Relic
5 6 (4.38%) Veracode
6 5 (3.65%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.65%) VMware
7 4 (2.92%) Adobe
7 4 (2.92%) SAP
8 2 (1.46%) Google
8 2 (1.46%) Veritas
9 1 (0.73%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.73%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle
9 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.73%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.73%) Sybase
75 Site Reliability Engineer jobs Nationwide