Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in Birmingham is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 - 128
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 4 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.28% - 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% - 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £55,839 - -
25th Percentile £60,848 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £69,468 - £122,500
90th Percentile £70,760 - £130,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 - £100,000
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,341 2,603 1,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 94.28% 93.23%
Number of salaries quoted 785 2,118 1,390
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,250 £84,964 £81,525
West Midlands median annual salary £52,387 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.77% -4.76% +5.00%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Birmingham

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, 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 Birmingham region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Loki
3 2 (50.00%) Unix
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (25.00%) dbt
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (25.00%) Sentry
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (25.00%) Redis

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) dbt
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (25.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Loki
2 1 (25.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Sybase