Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
22 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 387 354
Rank change year-on-year +29 -33 +123
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 24 60 102
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 0.34% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.36% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 14 54 84
10th Percentile £72,169 £67,500 £60,200
25th Percentile - £68,125 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £150,000 £115,938 £116,250
90th Percentile - £138,750 £143,750
England median annual salary £73,801 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -4.77% - -3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,757 16,703 18,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 94.78% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,615 10,219 14,688
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 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
Central London +44 2 - - 18
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, 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 24 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 21 (87.50%) AWS
3 18 (75.00%) Kubernetes
4 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 15 (62.50%) DevOps
5 13 (54.17%) Python
5 13 (54.17%) Terraform
6 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (45.83%) Java
7 10 (41.67%) GCP
7 10 (41.67%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (37.50%) Azure
8 9 (37.50%) Docker
8 9 (37.50%) Observability
9 8 (33.33%) Agile
9 8 (33.33%) Kafka
10 7 (29.17%) Bash
10 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
11 5 (20.83%) .NET
11 5 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (20.83%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (20.83%) Argo
11 5 (20.83%) Flink
11 5 (20.83%) Front End Development
11 5 (20.83%) GitHub
11 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (20.83%) Go
11 5 (20.83%) Grafana
11 5 (20.83%) Investment Management
11 5 (20.83%) Performance Optimisation

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 21 (87.50%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) GCP
3 9 (37.50%) Azure
4 5 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (20.83%) Amazon Kinesis
4 5 (20.83%) GitHub
4 5 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (16.67%) Pulumi
6 2 (8.33%) Akamai
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (8.33%) Datadog
6 2 (8.33%) dbt
6 2 (8.33%) Kong
6 2 (8.33%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Flink
2 4 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.67%) Redis
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (45.83%) Banking
3 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Front Office
5 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (12.50%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Kafka
2 5 (20.83%) .NET
3 2 (8.33%) Django
3 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.33%) Loki
4 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Fixed Income
2 3 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 15 (62.50%) DevOps
3 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (41.67%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (37.50%) Observability
6 8 (33.33%) Agile
7 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
8 5 (20.83%) Front End Development
8 5 (20.83%) Investment Management
8 5 (20.83%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 3 (12.50%) Runbook
9 3 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
9 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 3 (12.50%) Tech Ops
9 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (12.50%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 11 (45.83%) Java
3 7 (29.17%) Bash
4 5 (20.83%) Go
4 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (54.17%) Terraform
3 5 (20.83%) Argo
3 5 (20.83%) Grafana
4 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.33%) Kibana
5 2 (8.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
2 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 2 (8.33%) Google
2 2 (8.33%) Hitachi
2 2 (8.33%) Splunk
42 Site Reliability Engineer jobs in London