Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in Central London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
London > Central London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in Central London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 189 217
Rank change year-on-year +41 +28 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 12 7 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.48% 0.19% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.19% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 36
10th Percentile £47,500 £64,750 £61,875
25th Percentile - £66,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -22.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £80,625 £100,000
90th Percentile - £94,500 -
London median annual salary £90,000 £107,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -16.28% +26.47% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,287 3,604 4,925
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 95.34% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,619 2,795 4,101
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,625 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,210
Median % change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Central London

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Central London

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in Central London

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
City of London +49 12 £65,000 -3.70% 4
Southwark - 3 - -
Site Reliability Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 Central London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 12 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (66.67%) Observability
3 7 (58.33%) Python
3 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (50.00%) Prometheus
4 6 (50.00%) Grafana
4 6 (50.00%) Azure
4 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (50.00%) Docker
5 5 (41.67%) Service-Level Objective
5 5 (41.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (33.33%) Terraform
6 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
6 4 (33.33%) Datadog
6 4 (33.33%) DevOps
6 4 (33.33%) AWS
7 3 (25.00%) Validation
7 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
7 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (25.00%) Release Management
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
7 3 (25.00%) Hitachi

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Datadog
3 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (66.67%) Observability
3 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
5 5 (41.67%) Service-Level Objective
6 4 (33.33%) DevOps
6 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
7 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
7 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (25.00%) Release Management
7 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) Go
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (50.00%) Grafana
2 6 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 4 (33.33%) Terraform
4 1 (8.33%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Hitachi
2 2 (16.67%) Dynatrace