Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in Colchester

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Essex > Colchester

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in Colchester is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Colchester 0.44% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - -
75th Percentile £95,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median annual salary £90,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Colchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Colchester. 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 Colchester with a recognized job title 222 44 104
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.23% 95.65% 97.20%
Number of salaries quoted 114 35 61
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,875 £37,500 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -8.89% -20.64%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £61,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £100,000
Essex median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +3.72%

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Colchester

For the 6 months to 11 August 2026, Site Reliability Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Colchester region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SGI
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Colchester 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SGI