Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 August 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 357 345
Rank change year-on-year -39 -12 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 44 36 116
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.18% 0.30% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.33% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 28 22 102
10th Percentile - £68,750 £67,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £81,250 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -20.93% +19.44%
75th Percentile £88,125 £98,125 £119,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,625 £143,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,424 11,027 18,443
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 91.39% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,401 7,193 12,210
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in London

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in London over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in London

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 31 August 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
Central London -5 10 £85,000 -5.56% 10
East London - 8 £65,000 -
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (95.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 36 (81.82%) Python
3 33 (75.00%) Observability
4 27 (61.36%) AWS
5 26 (59.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (59.09%) Terraform
6 23 (52.27%) Datadog
6 23 (52.27%) GCP
7 22 (50.00%) Grafana
8 20 (45.45%) Ansible
8 20 (45.45%) PowerShell
9 19 (43.18%) Dynatrace
9 19 (43.18%) GitOps
10 18 (40.91%) ITIL
10 18 (40.91%) Root Cause Analysis
11 14 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (29.55%) Capacity Planning
13 12 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (27.27%) Software Engineering
14 11 (25.00%) Task Automation
15 10 (22.73%) Incident Management
15 10 (22.73%) Linux
16 8 (18.18%) Java
16 8 (18.18%) SLA
17 7 (15.91%) DevOps
17 7 (15.91%) Service-Level Objective
18 6 (13.64%) AWS Certification
18 6 (13.64%) Azure
18 6 (13.64%) Collaborative Engineering
18 6 (13.64%) Incident Response

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 27 (61.36%) AWS
2 23 (52.27%) Datadog
2 23 (52.27%) GCP
3 6 (13.64%) Azure
4 4 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 3 (6.82%) SaaS
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.55%) dbt
6 2 (4.55%) GitHub
7 1 (2.27%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.27%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) KDB
2 2 (4.55%) Redis
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
General
1 21 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 20 (45.45%) Finance
3 15 (34.09%) Banking
4 11 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.36%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (59.09%) Terraform
2 5 (11.36%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (4.55%) Node.js
4 1 (2.27%) .NET
4 1 (2.27%) Loki
4 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Fixed Income
2 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.55%) Clustering
4 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.73%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (95.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 33 (75.00%) Observability
3 26 (59.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (43.18%) GitOps
5 18 (40.91%) ITIL
5 18 (40.91%) Root Cause Analysis
6 14 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (29.55%) Capacity Planning
8 12 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
8 12 (27.27%) Software Engineering
9 11 (25.00%) Task Automation
10 10 (22.73%) Incident Management
11 7 (15.91%) DevOps
11 7 (15.91%) Service-Level Objective
12 6 (13.64%) Collaborative Engineering
12 6 (13.64%) Incident Response
12 6 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
13 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
13 5 (11.36%) Collaborative Culture
13 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (81.82%) Python
2 20 (45.45%) PowerShell
3 8 (18.18%) Java
4 5 (11.36%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.82%) Go
6 2 (4.55%) Bash
6 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.55%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.27%) C
7 1 (2.27%) PHP
7 1 (2.27%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.82%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) SLA
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (50.00%) Grafana
2 20 (45.45%) Ansible
3 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 19 (43.18%) Dynatrace
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle
3 3 (6.82%) Databricks
3 3 (6.82%) Google
4 2 (4.55%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft