Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in Cambridge

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 55 63
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 +34
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 5 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.98% 0.86% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.00% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £47,250 - -
25th Percentile £60,000 £42,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £45,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -41.94% +10.71%
75th Percentile £92,500 £47,500 £81,250
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £85,000 £62,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +36.00% -19.35% +10.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 413 402 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 80.66% 86.45% 89.63%
Number of salaries quoted 282 192 288
10th Percentile £29,775 £38,750 £28,642
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Cambridge over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Cambridge

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) CloudFront
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Loki
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 4 (80.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 4 (80.00%) Canary Deployment
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (80.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform