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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 357 351
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 +66
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 284 374 677
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.67% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.75% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 237 486
10th Percentile £425 £470 £456
25th Percentile £500 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £691 £713 £738
90th Percentile £850 £755 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 0
10th Percentile - £65.73 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% - -
75th Percentile £130.00 £86.25 -
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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 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 +33 238 £550 -12.00% 121
London +3 133 £700 +12.00% 67
UK excluding London +70 123 £550 -15.38% 60
Work from Home +73 115 £700 +16.67% 71
North of England +23 38 £550 -20.00% 12
South East +16 31 £491 -32.32% 11
South West +28 22 £550 -35.29% 15
Scotland +51 20 £575 +15.00% 4
Yorkshire +8 20 £563 -19.64% 4
North West +8 18 £550 -21.43% 8
Midlands +22 9 £675 +35.00% 11
West Midlands +15 9 £675 +35.00% 7
Wales +20 2 £666 +40.26% 3
East of England +2 1 £600 - 4

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 21 (7.39%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.93%) Confluence
3 6 (2.11%) CMS
4 5 (1.76%) Apache
5 4 (1.41%) nginx
5 4 (1.41%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.06%) Drupal
7 2 (0.70%) IIS
8 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
1 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 124 (43.66%) AWS
2 66 (23.24%) Azure
3 50 (17.61%) OpenShift
4 29 (10.21%) GCP
5 26 (9.15%) Snowflake
6 25 (8.80%) Serverless
7 21 (7.39%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (6.34%) dbt
10 17 (5.99%) GitHub
11 15 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (4.93%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.93%) Amazon S3
13 13 (4.58%) PaaS
14 11 (3.87%) SaaS
15 10 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (2.46%) IaaS
17 6 (2.11%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.51%) Firewall
2 19 (6.69%) DNS
3 10 (3.52%) NAS
3 10 (3.52%) Network Security
3 10 (3.52%) SAN
4 9 (3.17%) DHCP
4 9 (3.17%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.82%) AMQP
6 5 (1.76%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.76%) VLAN
7 4 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.06%) IPv4
8 3 (1.06%) SSL
8 3 (1.06%) VPN
9 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
10 1 (0.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.45%) Data Lake
2 20 (7.04%) Elasticsearch
2 20 (7.04%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.69%) Big Data
4 18 (6.34%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (6.34%) Apache Arrow
4 18 (6.34%) Dremio
5 17 (5.99%) Relational Database
6 16 (5.63%) MongoDB
7 15 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (4.58%) NoSQL
9 12 (4.23%) MySQL
10 10 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (3.52%) DynamoDB
11 9 (3.17%) InfluxDB
12 8 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (2.11%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.76%) Power BI
15 4 (1.41%) DataStax
16 3 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 64 (22.54%) Jenkins
2 37 (13.03%) Git
3 27 (9.51%) JIRA
4 19 (6.69%) GitLab
5 14 (4.93%) SonarQube
6 10 (3.52%) Artifactory
7 8 (2.82%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (2.82%) Subversion
8 7 (2.46%) Burp Suite
9 6 (2.11%) AppScan
10 5 (1.76%) Gradle
10 5 (1.76%) Maven
10 5 (1.76%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.41%) Selenium
12 3 (1.06%) Snyk
13 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.70%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (28.17%) Finance
2 54 (19.01%) Banking
3 52 (18.31%) Social Skills
4 29 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.46%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.11%) Retail
7 5 (1.76%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.76%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.70%) Marketing
11 1 (0.35%) Advertising
11 1 (0.35%) Electronics
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 137 (48.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 118 (41.55%) Site Engineer
3 36 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (11.62%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (8.45%) Architect
6 23 (8.10%) Senior
7 18 (6.34%) Big Data Engineer
8 17 (5.99%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (5.63%) Analyst
10 15 (5.28%) Business Analyst
11 13 (4.58%) Banking Analyst
11 13 (4.58%) Banking Business Analyst
12 12 (4.23%) Lead
12 12 (4.23%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.52%) Security Engineer
14 9 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
14 9 (3.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 7 (2.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 7 (2.46%) Service Analyst
15 7 (2.46%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.85%) Kafka
2 27 (9.51%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (9.15%) RabbitMQ
4 18 (6.34%) gRPC
4 18 (6.34%) Protocol Buffers
5 12 (4.23%) RESTful
6 9 (3.17%) LDAP
7 7 (2.46%) YAML
8 6 (2.11%) .NET
8 6 (2.11%) Node.js
9 4 (1.41%) REST
10 3 (1.06%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.06%) GraphQL
11 1 (0.35%) Jest
11 1 (0.35%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.35%) OAuth
11 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.35%) React
11 1 (0.35%) Redux
11 1 (0.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.97%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.51%) Clustering
3 23 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (7.04%) Hedge funds
5 17 (5.99%) Algorithms
5 17 (5.99%) Data Structures
6 12 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (3.87%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.82%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.76%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.76%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.76%) Replication
12 4 (1.41%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.41%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.70%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (0.70%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (27.82%) Linux
2 47 (16.55%) Windows
3 24 (8.45%) Windows Server
4 20 (7.04%) Unix
5 7 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.76%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.76%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (1.76%) Solaris
7 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (74.65%) DevOps
2 124 (43.66%) CI/CD
3 73 (25.70%) Agile
4 69 (24.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (20.42%) Microservices
6 54 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (17.61%) Observability
8 41 (14.44%) Containerisation
9 38 (13.38%) Test Automation
10 36 (12.68%) Task Automation
11 35 (12.32%) Change Management
12 33 (11.62%) ITIL
12 33 (11.62%) Software Engineering
13 29 (10.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (9.86%) Service Management
15 26 (9.15%) ITSM
16 22 (7.75%) Artificial Intelligence
16 22 (7.75%) Scrum
16 22 (7.75%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 128 (45.07%) Python
2 75 (26.41%) Go
3 67 (23.59%) Java
4 46 (16.20%) PowerShell
5 44 (15.49%) Bash
6 37 (13.03%) SQL
7 29 (10.21%) Shell Script
8 21 (7.39%) JavaScript
9 14 (4.93%) C#
10 12 (4.23%) Groovy
11 10 (3.52%) C++
11 10 (3.52%) F#
12 9 (3.17%) C
13 7 (2.46%) Bicep
14 6 (2.11%) Ruby
15 4 (1.41%) PHP
16 3 (1.06%) Perl
16 3 (1.06%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
18 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 44 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.21%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.04%) Degree
4 14 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.06%) 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%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.35%) OCP
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.51%) QA
2 5 (1.76%) GDPR
2 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.06%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.06%) SLA
4 2 (0.70%) NCSC
4 2 (0.70%) NIST
4 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 82 (28.87%) Docker
2 12 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 11 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.35%) vCloud
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 148 (52.11%) Kubernetes
2 116 (40.85%) Terraform
3 90 (31.69%) Prometheus
4 69 (24.30%) Grafana
5 63 (22.18%) Ansible
6 22 (7.75%) Progress Chef
7 21 (7.39%) Puppet
8 19 (6.69%) Istio
9 14 (4.93%) Kibana
10 13 (4.58%) HP Fortify
11 12 (4.23%) Argo
11 12 (4.23%) Consul
12 11 (3.87%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (3.17%) Graylog
14 7 (2.46%) SCCM
15 6 (2.11%) Nagios
15 6 (2.11%) Nessus
15 6 (2.11%) Opsgenie
15 6 (2.11%) WebInspect
16 5 (1.76%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 45 (15.85%) Microsoft
1 45 (15.85%) Splunk
2 17 (5.99%) VMware
3 14 (4.93%) Salesforce
4 12 (4.23%) New Relic
4 12 (4.23%) SaltStack
5 11 (3.87%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.46%) Checkmarx
6 7 (2.46%) CyberArk
6 7 (2.46%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.46%) IBM
6 7 (2.46%) Oracle
7 6 (2.11%) Google
7 6 (2.11%) PagerDuty
7 6 (2.11%) SAP
7 6 (2.11%) Veracode
8 5 (1.76%) Isilon
8 5 (1.76%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.76%) Qualys
8 5 (1.76%) Red Hat