Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in England

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > England

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in England is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 680 647 617
Rank change year-on-year -33 -30 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 159 277 648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.31% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.34% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 147 232 490
10th Percentile £55,750 £42,874 £57,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,188 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £119,375 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £140,750 £105,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £98,750 £75,781 £80,000
% change year-on-year +30.31% -5.27% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 81,157 82,189 127,880
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.48% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60,579 52,238 74,819
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024. 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 +97 121 £106,250 +25.00% 36
South East -4 14 £68,250 -19.71% 9
North of England -8 8 £62,500 +41.94% 9
South West -37 8 £70,000 +17.60% 11
North West -3 6 £61,250 +2.90% 5
Midlands -7 5 £55,000 -45.00% 3
East Midlands - 5 £55,000 - 3
East of England +13 3 £65,000 - 1
Yorkshire +43 2 £70,000 +58.97% 4
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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.

1 157 (98.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 124 (77.99%) DevOps
3 118 (74.21%) AWS
4 115 (72.33%) Kubernetes
5 112 (70.44%) Terraform
6 103 (64.78%) Python
7 100 (62.89%) Finance
8 86 (54.09%) Java
9 85 (53.46%) Go
10 77 (48.43%) Asset Management
11 70 (44.03%) CI/CD
12 55 (34.59%) Docker
13 52 (32.70%) Jenkins
14 50 (31.45%) Prometheus
15 46 (28.93%) Hedge funds
15 46 (28.93%) JavaScript
16 45 (28.30%) Investment Management
17 44 (27.67%) Clustering
17 44 (27.67%) Deployment Automation
18 43 (27.04%) Serverless
18 43 (27.04%) Azure
18 43 (27.04%) Dremio
19 42 (26.42%) dbt
19 42 (26.42%) Snowflake
19 42 (26.42%) Apache Arrow
19 42 (26.42%) Amazon Athena
19 42 (26.42%) Data Lake
19 42 (26.42%) gRPC
19 42 (26.42%) Apache Airflow
19 42 (26.42%) Protocol Buffers

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 42 (26.42%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.89%) nginx
3 2 (1.26%) Apache
3 2 (1.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) IIS
Business Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 118 (74.21%) AWS
2 43 (27.04%) Azure
2 43 (27.04%) Serverless
3 42 (26.42%) dbt
3 42 (26.42%) Snowflake
4 38 (23.90%) Amazon EC2
5 37 (23.27%) AWS Lambda
6 36 (22.64%) Amazon S3
6 36 (22.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 35 (22.01%) Amazon SQS
8 33 (20.75%) Amazon ECS
9 32 (20.13%) OpenShift
10 19 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (10.69%) GCP
12 14 (8.81%) IaaS
12 14 (8.81%) PaaS
13 13 (8.18%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (7.55%) Azure AKS
14 12 (7.55%) Azure Storage
15 9 (5.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.14%) Firewall
2 3 (1.89%) DNS
3 2 (1.26%) DKIM
3 2 (1.26%) DMARC
3 2 (1.26%) HTTP
3 2 (1.26%) Network Security
3 2 (1.26%) SMTP
4 1 (0.63%) BGP
4 1 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (27.04%) Dremio
2 42 (26.42%) Amazon Athena
2 42 (26.42%) Apache Arrow
2 42 (26.42%) Big Data
2 42 (26.42%) Data Lake
3 33 (20.75%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (20.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (6.29%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.52%) MySQL
9 3 (1.89%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.89%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.26%) Redis
11 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.63%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 52 (32.70%) Jenkins
2 32 (20.13%) Artifactory
3 16 (10.06%) Git
4 6 (3.77%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.14%) GitLab
6 2 (1.26%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.26%) git-flow
6 2 (1.26%) JIRA
6 2 (1.26%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 100 (62.89%) Finance
2 32 (20.13%) Front Office
3 19 (11.95%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.03%) Law
5 7 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.40%) Banking
6 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.63%) Legal
6 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (26.42%) gRPC
1 42 (26.42%) Protocol Buffers
2 32 (20.13%) J2EE
3 11 (6.92%) ARM Templates
4 6 (3.77%) JSON
5 5 (3.14%) REST
5 5 (3.14%) XML
6 4 (2.52%) .NET
6 4 (2.52%) Azure Blueprints
7 3 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.89%) Node.js
8 2 (1.26%) Kafka
8 2 (1.26%) LAMP
8 2 (1.26%) LEMP Stack
9 1 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (28.93%) Hedge funds
2 44 (27.67%) Clustering
3 32 (20.13%) Tandem
4 9 (5.66%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.52%) Replication
7 3 (1.89%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.89%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.26%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.63%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.63%) FMCG
9 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.98%) Linux
2 13 (8.18%) Windows
3 8 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.89%) Unix
5 2 (1.26%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.26%) Solaris
6 1 (0.63%) CentOS
6 1 (0.63%) VMS
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (98.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 124 (77.99%) DevOps
3 77 (48.43%) Asset Management
4 70 (44.03%) CI/CD
5 45 (28.30%) Investment Management
6 44 (27.67%) Deployment Automation
7 40 (25.16%) Agile
8 38 (23.90%) Software Engineering
9 37 (23.27%) Open Source
10 33 (20.75%) Decision-Making
11 32 (20.13%) Financial Modelling
12 29 (18.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (11.32%) Containerisation
14 16 (10.06%) Incident Management
15 15 (9.43%) Analytics
16 13 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
17 12 (7.55%) Log Analytics
18 11 (6.92%) Mentoring
18 11 (6.92%) Root Cause Analysis
19 9 (5.66%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 103 (64.78%) Python
2 86 (54.09%) Java
3 85 (53.46%) Go
4 46 (28.93%) JavaScript
5 17 (10.69%) Bash
6 16 (10.06%) PowerShell
7 14 (8.81%) SQL
8 9 (5.66%) Bicep
9 7 (4.40%) C#
10 3 (1.89%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.63%) C++
12 1 (0.63%) Groovy
12 1 (0.63%) Perl
12 1 (0.63%) Scala
12 1 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 13 (8.18%) Azure Certification
2 11 (6.92%) Degree
3 8 (5.03%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.40%) SLA
2 3 (1.89%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.26%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (34.59%) Docker
2 7 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.63%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 115 (72.33%) Kubernetes
2 112 (70.44%) Terraform
3 50 (31.45%) Prometheus
4 15 (9.43%) Ansible
5 10 (6.29%) Istio
6 7 (4.40%) Grafana
7 3 (1.89%) Salt
8 2 (1.26%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.26%) Puppet
8 2 (1.26%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.63%) Kiali
9 1 (0.63%) Kibana
9 1 (0.63%) Packer
9 1 (0.63%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 18 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.77%) BMC
2 6 (3.77%) Google
2 6 (3.77%) Red Hat
2 6 (3.77%) Remedy
2 6 (3.77%) ServiceNow
3 3 (1.89%) Splunk
3 3 (1.89%) VMware
4 2 (1.26%) New Relic
4 2 (1.26%) Oracle
4 2 (1.26%) Serena
4 2 (1.26%) Veracode
5 1 (0.63%) Arista
5 1 (0.63%) Cisco
5 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.63%) F5
5 1 (0.63%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.63%) IBM
5 1 (0.63%) Juniper
5 1 (0.63%) TOWER Software