Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in England

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > England

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in England is £105,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 693 647 614
Rank change year-on-year -46 -33 -102
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 140 289 642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.31% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.34% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 130 243 490
10th Percentile £59,875 £42,874 £57,500
25th Percentile £70,313 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £139,250 £105,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £105,000 £76,641 £80,000
% change year-on-year +37.00% -4.20% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,510 84,770 126,878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,250 53,679 75,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,833 £60,775 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% +1.29% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +77 111 £106,250 +18.06% 52
South East 0 12 £65,000 -23.53% 13
South West -25 8 £70,000 +17.60% 10
North of England -9 6 £58,750 +33.42% 14
North West 0 5 £57,500 -3.40% 9
Midlands +3 2 £53,750 -46.25% 5
East Midlands - 2 £53,750 - 4
Yorkshire +47 1 £60,000 +36.26% 5
East of England +3 1 £65,000 -
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Site Reliability Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 140 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 109 (77.86%) DevOps
3 106 (75.71%) Kubernetes
3 106 (75.71%) AWS
4 103 (73.57%) Terraform
5 96 (68.57%) Python
6 94 (67.14%) Finance
7 81 (57.86%) Java
7 81 (57.86%) Go
8 73 (52.14%) Asset Management
9 65 (46.43%) CI/CD
10 54 (38.57%) Docker
11 52 (37.14%) Jenkins
12 45 (32.14%) Serverless
13 42 (30.00%) Prometheus
13 42 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
14 40 (28.57%) Hedge funds
14 40 (28.57%) Agile
15 39 (27.86%) Software Engineering
15 39 (27.86%) JavaScript
15 39 (27.86%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (27.86%) Investment Management
15 39 (27.86%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (27.14%) AWS CloudFormation
16 38 (27.14%) Open Source
16 38 (27.14%) Clustering
17 37 (26.43%) Amazon SQS
17 37 (26.43%) Amazon S3
17 37 (26.43%) Dremio
18 36 (25.71%) dbt

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 36 (25.71%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.14%) nginx
3 2 (1.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 106 (75.71%) AWS
2 45 (32.14%) Serverless
3 39 (27.86%) Amazon EC2
3 39 (27.86%) AWS Lambda
4 38 (27.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 37 (26.43%) Amazon S3
5 37 (26.43%) Amazon SQS
6 36 (25.71%) dbt
6 36 (25.71%) Snowflake
7 35 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
7 35 (25.00%) Azure
8 34 (24.29%) OpenShift
9 15 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (10.00%) GCP
11 10 (7.14%) Azure AKS
11 10 (7.14%) IaaS
11 10 (7.14%) PaaS
12 9 (6.43%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (6.43%) Azure Storage
13 7 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.57%) Firewall
2 3 (2.14%) DNS
3 2 (1.43%) DKIM
3 2 (1.43%) DMARC
3 2 (1.43%) HTTP
3 2 (1.43%) Network Security
3 2 (1.43%) SMTP
4 1 (0.71%) BGP
4 1 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (26.43%) Dremio
2 36 (25.71%) Amazon Athena
2 36 (25.71%) Apache Arrow
2 36 (25.71%) Big Data
2 36 (25.71%) Data Lake
3 34 (24.29%) Amazon RDS
3 34 (24.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.86%) MySQL
7 3 (2.14%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.43%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.43%) Redis
9 1 (0.71%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.71%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 52 (37.14%) Jenkins
2 34 (24.29%) Artifactory
3 14 (10.00%) Git
4 5 (3.57%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.86%) GitLab
6 2 (1.43%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.43%) git-flow
6 2 (1.43%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.71%) JIRA
7 1 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 94 (67.14%) Finance
2 34 (24.29%) Front Office
3 16 (11.43%) Social Skills
4 7 (5.00%) Banking
5 5 (3.57%) Law
6 4 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.71%) Legal
7 1 (0.71%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.71%) gRPC
1 36 (25.71%) Protocol Buffers
2 34 (24.29%) J2EE
3 9 (6.43%) ARM Templates
4 5 (3.57%) REST
5 4 (2.86%) .NET
5 4 (2.86%) JSON
5 4 (2.86%) XML
6 3 (2.14%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (1.43%) LAMP
7 2 (1.43%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.71%) Kafka
8 1 (0.71%) Node.js
8 1 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (28.57%) Hedge funds
2 38 (27.14%) Clustering
3 34 (24.29%) Tandem
4 5 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.86%) Replication
6 3 (2.14%) Blockchain
6 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.43%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.43%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.71%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.86%) Linux
2 11 (7.86%) Windows
3 8 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.14%) Unix
5 2 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.43%) Solaris
6 1 (0.71%) CentOS
6 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 109 (77.86%) DevOps
3 73 (52.14%) Asset Management
4 65 (46.43%) CI/CD
5 42 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
6 40 (28.57%) Agile
7 39 (27.86%) Investment Management
7 39 (27.86%) Software Engineering
8 38 (27.14%) Open Source
9 35 (25.00%) Decision-Making
10 34 (24.29%) Financial Modelling
11 24 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (12.14%) Containerisation
13 13 (9.29%) Incident Management
14 11 (7.86%) Analytics
14 11 (7.86%) Root Cause Analysis
15 9 (6.43%) Log Analytics
15 9 (6.43%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (5.71%) Mentoring
17 7 (5.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 96 (68.57%) Python
2 81 (57.86%) Go
2 81 (57.86%) Java
3 39 (27.86%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.29%) Bash
4 13 (9.29%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.86%) SQL
6 7 (5.00%) Bicep
6 7 (5.00%) C#
7 3 (2.14%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) Groovy
9 1 (0.71%) Perl
9 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 10 (7.14%) Degree
2 5 (3.57%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.57%) SLA
2 3 (2.14%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.43%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 54 (38.57%) Docker
2 6 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.86%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.71%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 106 (75.71%) Kubernetes
2 103 (73.57%) Terraform
3 42 (30.00%) Prometheus
4 13 (9.29%) Ansible
5 8 (5.71%) Istio
6 5 (3.57%) Grafana
7 3 (2.14%) Salt
8 2 (1.43%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.43%) Puppet
8 2 (1.43%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.71%) Kiali
9 1 (0.71%) Kibana
9 1 (0.71%) Packer
9 1 (0.71%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 14 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.29%) Google
2 6 (4.29%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.14%) BMC
4 3 (2.14%) Remedy
5 2 (1.43%) Oracle
5 2 (1.43%) Serena
5 2 (1.43%) Splunk
5 2 (1.43%) Veracode
5 2 (1.43%) VMware
6 1 (0.71%) Arista
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco
6 1 (0.71%) F5
6 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.71%) IBM
6 1 (0.71%) Juniper
6 1 (0.71%) New Relic
6 1 (0.71%) TOWER Software