Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in Central London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 131 165
Rank change year-on-year +20 +34 -13
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 25 40 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.05% 1.07% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.18% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 33 29
10th Percentile £613 £540 £517
25th Percentile £628 £625 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -3.57% +24.44%
75th Percentile £710 £725 £800
90th Percentile £938 £754 £875
London median daily rate £700 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,167 3,404 4,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.75% 91.26% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,534 2,302 3,161
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.11%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 28 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £16.33 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.19 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +1.78%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Central London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Central London

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Central London

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
City of London +26 24 £685 +1.48% 6
City of Westminster - 1 £725 -
Site Reliability Engineering
London

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (4.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.00%) Sentry
5 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) MySQL
3 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) GitLab
3 2 (8.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Subversion
4 1 (4.00%) AppScan
4 1 (4.00%) Burp Suite
4 1 (4.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 15 (60.00%) Site Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Python Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Java Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Development Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Head of Engineering
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Blockchain Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Specialist
8 1 (4.00%) Cloud Specialist
8 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Lead
8 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) Kafka
1 12 (48.00%) RabbitMQ
2 10 (40.00%) RESTful
3 4 (16.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (48.00%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 10 (40.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Blockchain
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.00%) Hedge funds
4 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) DevOps
2 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (40.00%) Microservices
4 10 (40.00%) Task Automation
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (12.00%) Migration
7 2 (8.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 2 (8.00%) Change Control
7 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (8.00%) Information Security
7 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.00%) Observability
7 2 (8.00%) Project Management
7 2 (8.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) Python
2 13 (52.00%) Java
3 12 (48.00%) Shell Script
4 8 (32.00%) Go
5 7 (28.00%) C++
6 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (16.00%) Bash
8 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
8 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) SANS
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NCSC
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 6 (24.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (76.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (60.00%) Grafana
2 15 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 11 (44.00%) Consul
4 6 (24.00%) Ansible
4 6 (24.00%) Terraform
5 3 (12.00%) Nagios
5 3 (12.00%) Progress Chef
5 3 (12.00%) Puppet
6 2 (8.00%) Graylog
7 1 (4.00%) HP Fortify
7 1 (4.00%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (4.00%) Kibana
7 1 (4.00%) logstash
7 1 (4.00%) Nessus
7 1 (4.00%) Opsgenie
7 1 (4.00%) Packer
7 1 (4.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (44.00%) SaltStack
3 4 (16.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) Adobe
4 1 (4.00%) Checkmarx
4 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) New Relic
4 1 (4.00%) PagerDuty
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Veracode
4 1 (4.00%) VMware