Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in England

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > England

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 606 670 676
Rank change year-on-year +64 +6 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 77 173 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.21% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 64 161 210
10th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £97,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +21.88% -
75th Percentile £91,000 £118,750 £99,688
90th Percentile £103,125 £143,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £95,500 £75,781
% change year-on-year -26.70% +26.02% -5.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 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 +29 39 £85,000 -20.93% 125
Midlands +69 16 £60,000 +9.09% 128
West Midlands - 16 £60,000 - 70
North of England +44 12 £69,692 -12.89% 161
North West +3 8 £72,500 -6.45% 82
South East +79 4 £75,000 +7.14% 182
South West +112 3 £94,637 +37.65% 85
East of England +43 3 - - 105
North East - 3 £69,384 - 16
Yorkshire +60 1 £70,000 -12.50% 63
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 England region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 57 (74.03%) AWS
3 54 (70.13%) Terraform
4 49 (63.64%) DevOps
4 49 (63.64%) Kubernetes
5 47 (61.04%) Azure
6 42 (54.55%) Python
7 40 (51.95%) Grafana
7 40 (51.95%) Prometheus
8 36 (46.75%) CI/CD
9 34 (44.16%) Observability
10 31 (40.26%) Docker
11 30 (38.96%) Social Skills
12 27 (35.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (33.77%) GCP
14 23 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (29.87%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (28.57%) Service-Level Objective
16 21 (27.27%) Bash
17 20 (25.97%) Loki
18 19 (24.68%) .NET
19 18 (23.38%) Finance
20 17 (22.08%) AWS CloudFormation
21 16 (20.78%) Containerisation
21 16 (20.78%) Degree
22 15 (19.48%) Google
22 15 (19.48%) Linux
22 15 (19.48%) Go
23 14 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
23 14 (18.18%) C#

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.60%) nginx
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 57 (74.03%) AWS
2 47 (61.04%) Azure
3 26 (33.77%) GCP
4 23 (29.87%) Amazon ECS
5 17 (22.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (15.58%) Pulumi
7 10 (12.99%) Datadog
8 9 (11.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (11.69%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (10.39%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (10.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 8 (10.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (10.39%) AWS CodeBuild
9 8 (10.39%) dbt
9 8 (10.39%) Sentry
10 7 (9.09%) Serverless
11 6 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (7.79%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (3.90%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.39%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.60%) DNS
2 2 (2.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) NAS
2 2 (2.60%) Network Security
2 2 (2.60%) SAN
2 2 (2.60%) SNMP
2 2 (2.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (15.58%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.39%) Redis
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.30%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.49%) GitLab
3 2 (2.60%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.60%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.60%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.30%) Jaeger
General
1 30 (38.96%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.38%) Finance
3 14 (18.18%) Manufacturing
4 10 (12.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.79%) Banking
6 4 (5.19%) Games
6 4 (5.19%) Law
7 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Electronics
8 2 (2.60%) Front Office
8 2 (2.60%) Marketing
8 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.30%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.97%) Loki
2 19 (24.68%) .NET
3 8 (10.39%) Django
3 8 (10.39%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (3.90%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (3.90%) Node.js
5 2 (2.60%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (10.39%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Tandem
5 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.48%) Linux
2 11 (14.29%) Unix
3 6 (7.79%) Windows
4 4 (5.19%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.60%) CentOS
6 1 (1.30%) Debian
6 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 49 (63.64%) DevOps
3 36 (46.75%) CI/CD
4 34 (44.16%) Observability
5 27 (35.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (28.57%) Service-Level Objective
8 16 (20.78%) Containerisation
9 14 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (16.88%) Computer Science
10 13 (16.88%) Incident Management
10 13 (16.88%) Incident Response
10 13 (16.88%) Open Source
11 12 (15.58%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
12 11 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (12.99%) Task Automation
14 9 (11.69%) Performance Optimisation
15 8 (10.39%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 42 (54.55%) Python
2 21 (27.27%) Bash
3 15 (19.48%) Go
4 14 (18.18%) C#
5 13 (16.88%) Java
6 12 (15.58%) TypeScript
7 9 (11.69%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.90%) Bicep
10 2 (2.60%) Gremlin
10 2 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (20.78%) Degree
2 13 (16.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (15.58%) Security Cleared
4 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.60%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (2.60%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (40.26%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (70.13%) Terraform
2 49 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 40 (51.95%) Grafana
3 40 (51.95%) Prometheus
4 12 (15.58%) Ansible
5 8 (10.39%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (3.90%) Argo
7 2 (2.60%) HAProxy
7 2 (2.60%) Istio
7 2 (2.60%) linkerd
7 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.30%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (19.48%) Google
2 7 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 6 (7.79%) Splunk
4 4 (5.19%) Hitachi
5 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.90%) New Relic
5 3 (3.90%) VMware
6 2 (2.60%) F5
6 2 (2.60%) Oracle
6 2 (2.60%) SAP
7 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.30%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.30%) Perforce
7 1 (1.30%) Sybase