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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 356 341
Rank change year-on-year +48 -15 +86
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 289 371 693
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.66% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.74% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 233 498
10th Percentile £425 £465 £463
25th Percentile £500 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £689 £713 £738
90th Percentile £850 £755 £797
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +13.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 0
10th Percentile - £65.25 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £70.25 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% - -
75th Percentile £130.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 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 1 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 +32 239 £555 -11.20% 143
London +18 133 £700 +12.00% 88
UK excluding London +76 129 £550 -12.00% 63
Work from Home +72 114 £700 +16.67% 68
North of England +22 38 £550 -21.43% 17
South East +16 30 £488 -21.95% 13
Scotland +53 25 £575 +15.00% 7
South West +23 23 £550 -35.29% 10
North West +18 19 £550 -21.43% 13
Yorkshire +13 19 £563 -19.64% 4
Midlands +24 10 £588 +17.50% 10
West Midlands +16 10 £588 +17.50% 6
Wales +18 2 £666 +40.26% 3
East of England +5 1 £600 - 5

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 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.50%) Confluence
3 6 (2.08%) Apache
4 5 (1.73%) CMS
5 4 (1.38%) nginx
5 4 (1.38%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.04%) Drupal
7 2 (0.69%) IIS
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
1 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 127 (43.94%) AWS
2 65 (22.49%) Azure
3 52 (17.99%) OpenShift
4 30 (10.38%) GCP
5 26 (9.00%) Snowflake
6 25 (8.65%) Serverless
7 21 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (6.23%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (6.23%) dbt
10 17 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (5.88%) GitHub
11 15 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (4.84%) Amazon S3
13 13 (4.50%) PaaS
14 11 (3.81%) SaaS
15 9 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (2.42%) IaaS
17 6 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.34%) Firewall
2 20 (6.92%) DNS
3 12 (4.15%) NAS
3 12 (4.15%) SAN
4 10 (3.46%) DHCP
4 10 (3.46%) Network Security
5 9 (3.11%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.77%) AMQP
7 5 (1.73%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.73%) VLAN
8 4 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.04%) IPv4
9 3 (1.04%) SSL
9 3 (1.04%) VPN
10 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.35%) Internet
11 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.35%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.30%) Data Lake
2 20 (6.92%) Elasticsearch
2 20 (6.92%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.57%) Big Data
4 18 (6.23%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (6.23%) Apache Arrow
4 18 (6.23%) Dremio
5 17 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 16 (5.54%) MongoDB
6 16 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (4.50%) MySQL
7 13 (4.50%) NoSQL
8 10 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.46%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.11%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (3.11%) InfluxDB
10 6 (2.08%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.73%) Power BI
12 4 (1.38%) DataStax
13 3 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 65 (22.49%) Jenkins
2 39 (13.49%) Git
3 26 (9.00%) JIRA
4 19 (6.57%) GitLab
5 14 (4.84%) SonarQube
6 11 (3.81%) Artifactory
7 8 (2.77%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (2.77%) Subversion
8 7 (2.42%) Burp Suite
9 6 (2.08%) AppScan
10 5 (1.73%) Gradle
10 5 (1.73%) Maven
10 5 (1.73%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.38%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.38%) Selenium
12 3 (1.04%) Snyk
13 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.69%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 82 (28.37%) Finance
2 55 (19.03%) Banking
3 53 (18.34%) Social Skills
4 28 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.42%) Retail
5 7 (2.42%) Telecoms
6 5 (1.73%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.73%) Retail Banking
7 4 (1.38%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.69%) Marketing
9 1 (0.35%) Advertising
9 1 (0.35%) Electronics
9 1 (0.35%) Front Office
9 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 144 (49.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 123 (42.56%) Site Engineer
3 36 (12.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (11.42%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (8.30%) Architect
5 24 (8.30%) Senior
6 18 (6.23%) Big Data Engineer
7 17 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (5.54%) Analyst
9 15 (5.19%) Business Analyst
10 13 (4.50%) Banking Analyst
10 13 (4.50%) Banking Business Analyst
10 13 (4.50%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.46%) Lead
12 9 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (3.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.11%) Security Engineer
13 7 (2.42%) Business IT Analyst
13 7 (2.42%) Developer
13 7 (2.42%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (15.92%) Kafka
2 27 (9.34%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (9.00%) RabbitMQ
4 18 (6.23%) gRPC
4 18 (6.23%) Protocol Buffers
5 12 (4.15%) RESTful
6 10 (3.46%) LDAP
7 7 (2.42%) REST
7 7 (2.42%) YAML
8 6 (2.08%) .NET
8 6 (2.08%) Node.js
9 3 (1.04%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.04%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.35%) Jest
10 1 (0.35%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.35%) OAuth
10 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.35%) React
10 1 (0.35%) Redux
10 1 (0.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.11%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.34%) Clustering
3 23 (7.96%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (6.92%) Hedge funds
5 17 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 17 (5.88%) Data Structures
6 12 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (3.46%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.77%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.73%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.73%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.73%) Replication
12 4 (1.38%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.38%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 82 (28.37%) Linux
2 48 (16.61%) Windows
3 25 (8.65%) Windows Server
4 21 (7.27%) Unix
5 7 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.73%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.73%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (1.73%) Solaris
7 2 (0.69%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (73.36%) DevOps
2 126 (43.60%) CI/CD
3 71 (24.57%) Agile
4 68 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (20.42%) Microservices
6 54 (18.69%) Observability
7 53 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (14.19%) Containerisation
9 38 (13.15%) Test Automation
10 37 (12.80%) Task Automation
11 35 (12.11%) Change Management
12 32 (11.07%) ITIL
12 32 (11.07%) Software Engineering
13 28 (9.69%) Continuous Integration
13 28 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 28 (9.69%) Service Management
14 26 (9.00%) ITSM
15 22 (7.61%) Artificial Intelligence
15 22 (7.61%) Configuration Management
15 22 (7.61%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 134 (46.37%) Python
2 76 (26.30%) Go
3 68 (23.53%) Java
4 44 (15.22%) Bash
4 44 (15.22%) PowerShell
5 38 (13.15%) SQL
6 28 (9.69%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.27%) JavaScript
8 14 (4.84%) C#
9 12 (4.15%) Groovy
10 10 (3.46%) C
10 10 (3.46%) C++
10 10 (3.46%) F#
11 7 (2.42%) Ruby
12 6 (2.08%) Bicep
12 6 (2.08%) Perl
13 4 (1.38%) PHP
14 3 (1.04%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.03%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.92%) Degree
4 15 (5.19%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.04%) SANS
7 2 (0.69%) 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 (9.34%) QA
2 5 (1.73%) GDPR
2 5 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.04%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.04%) SLA
4 2 (0.69%) NIST
4 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 83 (28.72%) Docker
2 12 (4.15%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 11 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.35%) vCloud
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 153 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 119 (41.18%) Terraform
3 94 (32.53%) Prometheus
4 73 (25.26%) Grafana
5 66 (22.84%) Ansible
6 22 (7.61%) Progress Chef
6 22 (7.61%) Puppet
7 19 (6.57%) Istio
8 14 (4.84%) Kibana
9 13 (4.50%) HP Fortify
10 12 (4.15%) Argo
10 12 (4.15%) Consul
11 11 (3.81%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (3.11%) Graylog
13 7 (2.42%) SCCM
14 6 (2.08%) Nagios
14 6 (2.08%) Nessus
14 6 (2.08%) Opsgenie
14 6 (2.08%) WebInspect
15 5 (1.73%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 46 (15.92%) Splunk
2 45 (15.57%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.88%) VMware
4 15 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.15%) New Relic
5 12 (4.15%) SaltStack
6 10 (3.46%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.42%) Checkmarx
7 7 (2.42%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.42%) Google
7 7 (2.42%) IBM
7 7 (2.42%) Oracle
7 7 (2.42%) SAP
8 6 (2.08%) Adobe
8 6 (2.08%) PagerDuty
8 6 (2.08%) Veracode
9 5 (1.73%) Cisco
9 5 (1.73%) HP
9 5 (1.73%) OpenAI