Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in Cardiff is £67,626 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 61 65
Rank change year-on-year +33 +4 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.54% 0.30% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.32% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £54,500 £58,850
25th Percentile £63,630 £57,500 £58,963
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,626 £65,000 £63,400
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% +2.52% -
75th Percentile £71,622 £72,500 £67,713
90th Percentile - £75,500 £67,750
South Wales median annual salary £67,626 £65,000 £63,400
% change year-on-year +4.04% +2.52% -18.19%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 181 620 527
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.31% 93.80% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 128 539 403
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,157 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,719 £36,750 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,766 £67,070
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,250
South Wales median annual salary £51,449 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +14.33% - -10.00%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Cardiff

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 Cardiff region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google