Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 162 201
Rank change year-on-year +14 +39 -39
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 37 40 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.76% 0.74% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.82% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 44
10th Percentile £446 £512 £434
25th Percentile £510 £553 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £688 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.58% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £688
90th Percentile £598 - £700
England median daily rate £550 £625 £634
% change year-on-year -12.00% -1.42% +15.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
England median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Site Reliability Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire +10 20 £563 -19.64% 4
North West +9 17 £550 -21.43% 11
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (5.41%) nginx
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) AWS
2 14 (37.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (27.03%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (24.32%) Azure
5 8 (21.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (18.92%) Serverless
7 6 (16.22%) Amazon ELB
7 6 (16.22%) Snowflake
8 5 (13.51%) GitHub
9 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (10.81%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
10 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (5.41%) Anthos
11 2 (5.41%) Datadog
11 2 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
12 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
1 2 (5.41%) IPv4
1 2 (5.41%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.70%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) DynamoDB
2 7 (18.92%) MySQL
3 6 (16.22%) Data Lake
4 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
4 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) SonarQube
2 7 (18.92%) Git
3 5 (13.51%) GitLab
3 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.81%) AppScan
4 4 (10.81%) Burp Suite
5 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 10 (27.03%) Banking
2 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Retail
4 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 15 (40.54%) Site Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Architect
4 6 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Lead
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior
9 1 (2.70%) Automation Developer
9 1 (2.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.70%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (91.89%) DevOps
2 26 (70.27%) CI/CD
3 24 (64.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (32.43%) Microservices
4 12 (32.43%) Observability
4 12 (32.43%) Technology Strategy
5 11 (29.73%) Containerisation
6 10 (27.03%) Design Patterns
7 9 (24.32%) Cloud Security
7 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
8 7 (18.92%) Agile
8 7 (18.92%) Change Management
8 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (16.22%) Cloud Operations
9 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (16.22%) E-Commerce
10 4 (10.81%) Configuration Management
10 4 (10.81%) OWASP
10 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
10 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) Bash
2 12 (32.43%) Python
3 7 (18.92%) Go
4 6 (16.22%) SQL
5 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
1 1 (2.70%) Degree
1 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) ISO 22301
2 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (37.84%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (43.24%) Terraform
2 15 (40.54%) Kubernetes
3 11 (29.73%) Ansible
4 10 (27.03%) HP Fortify
5 7 (18.92%) Prometheus
6 5 (13.51%) Grafana
6 5 (13.51%) Progress Chef
7 4 (10.81%) Graylog
7 4 (10.81%) Nessus
7 4 (10.81%) Puppet
7 4 (10.81%) WebInspect
8 3 (8.11%) Istio
9 2 (5.41%) Kiali
10 1 (2.70%) Argo
10 1 (2.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Splunk
2 4 (10.81%) Checkmarx
2 4 (10.81%) Veracode
3 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.11%) VMware
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.70%) Google