Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in the West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 102 121 168
Rank change year-on-year +19 +47 -
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 9 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.44% 0.36% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.41% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile £380 - £477
25th Percentile £500 £500 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £688 £694 £763
90th Percentile - £765 £775
England median daily rate £550 £625 £634
% change year-on-year -12.00% -1.42% +15.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +17 5 £300 -60.00% 4
Warwickshire -6 4 £675 +35.00%
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (33.33%) CMS
1 3 (33.33%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure Functions
2 5 (55.56%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
2 5 (55.56%) Serverless
3 4 (44.44%) GCP
4 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) Selenium
1 3 (33.33%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Specialist
1 1 (11.11%) Desktop Specialist
1 1 (11.11%) Monitoring Specialist
1 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 3 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) ITIL
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Analytics
3 5 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (55.56%) Incident Management
3 5 (55.56%) Problem Management
3 5 (55.56%) Runbook
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Virtual Environments
5 3 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Data Science
5 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Epics
5 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (33.33%) SDLC
5 3 (33.33%) Software Assurance
5 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) SysTrack
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Citrix
1 5 (55.56%) New Relic
1 5 (55.56%) OpenAI
2 3 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Google