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 1 November 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 360 360
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +147
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 29 74 103
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.24% 0.43% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.45% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 16 66 84
10th Percentile £68,813 £66,250 £60,200
25th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £69,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £95,313 £118,125 £116,250
90th Percentile £130,625 £138,750 £143,750
England median annual salary £74,401 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.00% +6.67% -6.25%

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 11,028 16,507 18,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 95.09% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,179 10,162 15,355
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -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 1 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 1 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 +42 5 £90,000 +16.13% 11
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 29 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 25 (86.21%) AWS
3 22 (75.86%) Kubernetes
4 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
4 19 (65.52%) Terraform
5 17 (58.62%) DevOps
5 17 (58.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (51.72%) Python
7 14 (48.28%) Azure
7 14 (48.28%) GCP
8 13 (44.83%) Observability
9 12 (41.38%) Bash
9 12 (41.38%) Containerisation
9 12 (41.38%) Docker
10 9 (31.03%) Java
10 9 (31.03%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (31.03%) PowerShell
10 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (27.59%) Go
11 8 (27.59%) Grafana
12 7 (24.14%) .NET
12 7 (24.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (24.14%) Performance Optimisation
13 6 (20.69%) Agile
13 6 (20.69%) Pulumi
14 5 (17.24%) AWS Certification
14 5 (17.24%) Kafka
14 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
14 5 (17.24%) Prometheus
15 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS

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 (10.34%) Mule
2 1 (3.45%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 25 (86.21%) AWS
2 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 14 (48.28%) GCP
3 7 (24.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (20.69%) Pulumi
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (10.34%) Datadog
7 2 (6.90%) Akamai
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.90%) dbt
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.90%) Kong
7 2 (6.90%) Lucidchart
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) NAS
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) SAN
2 1 (3.45%) SNMP
2 1 (3.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (13.79%) Redis
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.90%) Flink
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
3 9 (31.03%) Banking
4 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (13.79%) Law
5 2 (6.90%) Front Office
6 1 (3.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.45%) Games
6 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) .NET
2 5 (17.24%) Kafka
3 4 (13.79%) Loki
4 2 (6.90%) Django
4 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
3 17 (58.62%) DevOps
3 17 (58.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (44.83%) Observability
5 12 (41.38%) Containerisation
6 9 (31.03%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (24.14%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (20.69%) Agile
9 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
10 4 (13.79%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (13.79%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 4 (13.79%) Customer Requirements
10 4 (13.79%) Presales
10 4 (13.79%) Runbook
10 4 (13.79%) Tech Ops
10 4 (13.79%) Value Proposition
10 4 (13.79%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 12 (41.38%) Bash
3 9 (31.03%) Java
3 9 (31.03%) PowerShell
4 8 (27.59%) Go
5 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (75.86%) Kubernetes
2 19 (65.52%) Terraform
3 8 (27.59%) Grafana
4 5 (17.24%) Prometheus
5 3 (10.34%) Argo
6 2 (6.90%) Kibana
6 2 (6.90%) logstash
7 1 (3.45%) Ansible
7 1 (3.45%) HAProxy
7 1 (3.45%) Istio
7 1 (3.45%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Hitachi
2 3 (10.34%) Google
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Splunk
3 2 (6.90%) AppDynamics
3 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) F5
4 1 (3.45%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) VMware