Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 721 628 586
Rank change year-on-year -93 -42 -100
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 39 123 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.20% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.23% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 36 110 233
10th Percentile £43,125 - £52,672
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,874 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,526 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -14.96% +7.69%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,581 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,375 £97,750 -
UK median annual salary £100,000 £75,781 £80,000
% change year-on-year +31.96% -5.27% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +7 14 £68,250 -19.71% 11
North of England -5 8 £62,500 +41.94% 15
South West -33 8 £70,000 +17.60% 11
North West -1 6 £61,250 +2.90% 8
Midlands +3 5 £55,000 -45.00% 3
East Midlands - 5 £55,000 - 3
Yorkshire +41 2 £70,000 +58.97% 7
Wales +9 2 £65,000 +2.52% 4
East of England +4 2 £71,250 +9.62% 1
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 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 UK excluding London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (94.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 18 (46.15%) DevOps
3 17 (43.59%) AWS
4 16 (41.03%) Terraform
5 14 (35.90%) Azure
6 12 (30.77%) Kubernetes
7 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
7 11 (28.21%) Linux
8 10 (25.64%) SaaS
8 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
9 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
9 8 (20.51%) Docker
9 8 (20.51%) Degree
10 7 (17.95%) GCP
11 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
11 6 (15.38%) Windows
11 6 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (15.38%) Git
11 6 (15.38%) Red Hat
11 6 (15.38%) SQL
11 6 (15.38%) Python
12 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
12 5 (12.82%) XML
12 5 (12.82%) JSON
12 5 (12.82%) PaaS
12 5 (12.82%) GitHub
12 5 (12.82%) IaaS
12 5 (12.82%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (12.82%) Prometheus

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) AWS
2 14 (35.90%) Azure
3 10 (25.64%) SaaS
4 7 (17.95%) GCP
5 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) GitHub
5 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (12.82%) IaaS
5 5 (12.82%) PaaS
6 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.69%) Serverless
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.56%) Route 53
9 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) BGP
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.13%) MySQL
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
1 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.26%) GitLab
3 2 (5.13%) CircleCI
General
1 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (2.56%) Finance
3 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.56%) Legal
3 1 (2.56%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) JSON
1 5 (12.82%) XML
2 3 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (7.69%) Legacy Code
2 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.56%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.56%) FMCG
3 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
2 6 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (94.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 18 (46.15%) DevOps
3 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
4 8 (20.51%) Containerisation
5 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (12.82%) Observability
7 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (7.69%) Configuration Management
8 3 (7.69%) Microservices
8 3 (7.69%) Workflow
9 2 (5.13%) Capacity Planning
9 2 (5.13%) Computer Science
9 2 (5.13%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (5.13%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (5.13%) High Availability
9 2 (5.13%) Incident Management
9 2 (5.13%) Incident Response
9 2 (5.13%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) Python
1 6 (15.38%) SQL
2 5 (12.82%) Bicep
3 4 (10.26%) Bash
4 3 (7.69%) Go
5 2 (5.13%) Java
6 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.56%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (41.03%) Terraform
2 12 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.82%) Ansible
3 5 (12.82%) Grafana
3 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Pingdom
4 1 (2.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 3 (7.69%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) New Relic
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.56%) VMware
46 Site Reliability Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London