Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 155 141
Rank change year-on-year +33 -14 +49
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 22 26 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.08% 0.78% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.85% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 15 22 85
10th Percentile £54,500 £66,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £92,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +2.78% -21.74%
75th Percentile £98,750 £125,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £119,000 - £105,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% +2.78% -21.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,951 3,069 4,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.06% 92.02% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,471 2,423 3,680
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £43,162
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the City of London

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering within the City of London region over the 6 months to 15 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
London Bridge - 5 - -
Site Reliability Engineering
Central London

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) AWS
3 7 (31.82%) GCP
4 6 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (27.27%) Datadog
4 6 (27.27%) Pulumi
5 3 (13.64%) SaaS
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.55%) IaaS
7 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.55%) PaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Site Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior
4 4 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Consultant
5 3 (13.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Network Manager
6 2 (9.09%) Network Operations Manager
6 2 (9.09%) Operations Manager
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) WebOps Developer
7 1 (4.55%) WebOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) .NET
1 5 (22.73%) Loki
1 5 (22.73%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
2 3 (13.64%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Observability
2 14 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 10 (45.45%) DevOps
5 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
6 8 (36.36%) Incident Response
6 8 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (31.82%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (31.82%) Release Management
7 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (27.27%) Decision-Making
8 6 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
8 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
9 5 (22.73%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 5 (22.73%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (22.73%) Service-Level Objective
9 5 (22.73%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Bash
2 6 (27.27%) Go
3 4 (18.18%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.09%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) SQL
6 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (81.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (40.91%) Terraform
3 8 (36.36%) Grafana
4 6 (27.27%) Prometheus
5 2 (9.09%) Ansible
6 1 (4.55%) Argo
6 1 (4.55%) Consul
6 1 (4.55%) Packer
6 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.55%) Puppet
6 1 (4.55%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Hitachi
2 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) VMware