Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in Cardiff

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff 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 32 47 42
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 +19
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 4 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 1.13% 0.57% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 0.70% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £64,394 - -
25th Percentile £67,234 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 286 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 71.83% 81.02% 90.43%
Number of salaries quoted 176 177 305
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,122 £67,375
90th Percentile £78,551 £79,600 £73,750
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £49,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% +0.22%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) dbt
2 3 (75.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Sentry
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Micro Frontends
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google