Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in London is £90,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 392 475
Rank change year-on-year +30 +83 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 37 125 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.53% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.56% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 32 116 114
10th Percentile £64,509 £67,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £81,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,500 £107,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% +26.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £106,563 £138,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,375 £143,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £100,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +29.03% -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 11,743 22,315 32,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.31% 94.23% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7,246 16,650 23,748
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,451
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in London

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in London

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in London over the 6 months to 20 May 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 20 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
Central London +36 12 £65,000 -3.70% 13
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 27 (72.97%) Kubernetes
3 25 (67.57%) Terraform
3 25 (67.57%) CI/CD
4 24 (64.86%) Python
5 23 (62.16%) AWS
6 22 (59.46%) Docker
6 22 (59.46%) DevOps
7 20 (54.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (51.35%) Observability
8 19 (51.35%) Azure
9 18 (48.65%) Grafana
9 18 (48.65%) Prometheus
10 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
11 13 (35.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (35.14%) Finance
12 12 (32.43%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (32.43%) Bash
12 12 (32.43%) Service-Level Objective
13 11 (29.73%) Containerisation
14 9 (24.32%) Serverless
14 9 (24.32%) GCP
15 8 (21.62%) Datadog
15 8 (21.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (21.62%) Go
15 8 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (21.62%) Java
15 8 (21.62%) Incident Management
15 8 (21.62%) Performance Optimisation
15 8 (21.62%) Decision-Making

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.41%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) AWS
2 19 (51.35%) Azure
3 13 (35.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (24.32%) GCP
4 9 (24.32%) Serverless
5 8 (21.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (21.62%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (21.62%) Datadog
6 6 (16.22%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (16.22%) Pulumi
7 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (10.81%) OpenShift
9 3 (8.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (8.11%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.41%) DNS
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) NAS
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
2 2 (5.41%) SAN
2 2 (5.41%) SNMP
2 2 (5.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.11%) Redis
4 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.81%) Artifactory
3 2 (5.41%) GitLab
3 2 (5.41%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Front Office
3 4 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Electronics
4 2 (5.41%) Games
4 2 (5.41%) Law
4 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
4 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) .NET
1 6 (16.22%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (10.81%) J2EE
3 3 (8.11%) ARM Templates
3 3 (8.11%) Django
3 3 (8.11%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.81%) Tandem
3 3 (8.11%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
1 5 (13.51%) Unix
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 25 (67.57%) CI/CD
3 22 (59.46%) DevOps
4 20 (54.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (51.35%) Observability
6 12 (32.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (32.43%) Service-Level Objective
7 11 (29.73%) Containerisation
8 8 (21.62%) Decision-Making
8 8 (21.62%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (21.62%) Incident Management
8 8 (21.62%) Incident Response
8 8 (21.62%) Performance Optimisation
8 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (18.92%) Open Source
10 6 (16.22%) Agile
10 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (16.22%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) Python
2 12 (32.43%) Bash
3 8 (21.62%) Go
3 8 (21.62%) Java
4 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.11%) Bicep
7 2 (5.41%) C#
7 2 (5.41%) Gremlin
7 2 (5.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (59.46%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (72.97%) Kubernetes
2 25 (67.57%) Terraform
3 18 (48.65%) Grafana
3 18 (48.65%) Prometheus
4 5 (13.51%) Ansible
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (5.41%) HAProxy
6 2 (5.41%) Istio
6 2 (5.41%) linkerd
6 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.70%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Google
1 5 (13.51%) Splunk
2 4 (10.81%) Dynatrace
3 3 (8.11%) Hitachi
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.41%) F5
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) SAP
4 2 (5.41%) VMware