Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in East Sussex

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
South East > East Sussex

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in East Sussex is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in East Sussex 0.46% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
South East median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in East Sussex. 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 East Sussex with a recognized job title 620 382 714
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.24% 91.17% 92.85%
Number of salaries quoted 489 206 579
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,875 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in East Sussex

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in East Sussex.

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in East Sussex

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in East Sussex

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 East Sussex region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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
Hove - 3 £85,000 -
Site Reliability Engineer
South East

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 East Sussex region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Chaos Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Datadog
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) AIOps
2 2 (66.67%) Anomaly Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Datadog
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Chaos Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) AIOps
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace