Site Reliability Engineer Jobs 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 14 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 376 465
Rank change year-on-year +12 +89 +99
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 46 123 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.53% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.56% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 32 111 95
10th Percentile £64,509 £77,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £81,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £107,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +26.47% -2.86%
75th Percentile £92,000 £120,000 £100,625
90th Percentile £110,625 £143,750 £118,000
England median annual salary £69,384 £87,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.70% +25.00% -12.50%

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 12,031 22,058 27,436
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 94.40% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,377 16,017 21,525
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,501 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 14 July 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 14 July 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 +33 14 £65,000 -3.70% 3
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 July 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 46 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 36 (78.26%) Kubernetes
3 33 (71.74%) AWS
4 31 (67.39%) Terraform
5 29 (63.04%) CI/CD
6 28 (60.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (60.87%) Azure
7 26 (56.52%) Observability
8 25 (54.35%) DevOps
8 25 (54.35%) Python
9 23 (50.00%) Docker
9 23 (50.00%) Grafana
10 21 (45.65%) Social Skills
11 20 (43.48%) Prometheus
12 19 (41.30%) Containerisation
12 19 (41.30%) GCP
12 19 (41.30%) Bash
13 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (30.43%) Finance
15 13 (28.26%) Performance Optimisation
16 12 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (26.09%) Service-Level Objective
17 11 (23.91%) Root Cause Analysis
17 11 (23.91%) Go
17 11 (23.91%) .NET
18 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
19 9 (19.57%) Pulumi
19 9 (19.57%) Incident Response
19 9 (19.57%) Datadog
19 9 (19.57%) Continuous Integration

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 (4.35%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 33 (71.74%) AWS
2 28 (60.87%) Azure
3 19 (41.30%) GCP
4 12 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (19.57%) Datadog
5 9 (19.57%) Pulumi
6 7 (15.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (13.04%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (8.70%) Serverless
9 3 (6.52%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (6.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (6.52%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (6.52%) Azure AKS
9 3 (6.52%) Azure Functions
9 3 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (6.52%) dbt
9 3 (6.52%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
2 2 (4.35%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) NAS
2 2 (4.35%) Network Security
2 2 (4.35%) SAN
2 2 (4.35%) SNMP
2 2 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.87%) Redis
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) GitLab
1 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (13.04%) Banking
4 6 (13.04%) Law
5 2 (4.35%) Electronics
5 2 (4.35%) Games
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.35%) Marketing
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) .NET
2 6 (13.04%) Loki
2 6 (13.04%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (6.52%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.52%) Django
4 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) Unix
3 2 (4.35%) Windows
3 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 29 (63.04%) CI/CD
3 28 (60.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (56.52%) Observability
5 25 (54.35%) DevOps
6 19 (41.30%) Containerisation
7 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (28.26%) Performance Optimisation
9 12 (26.09%) Service-Level Objective
10 11 (23.91%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (19.57%) Incident Response
12 8 (17.39%) Incident Management
12 8 (17.39%) Mentoring
13 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (13.04%) Capacity Planning
14 6 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
14 6 (13.04%) Creative Problem-Solving
14 6 (13.04%) Customer Requirements
14 6 (13.04%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 25 (54.35%) Python
2 19 (41.30%) Bash
3 11 (23.91%) Go
4 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
5 7 (15.22%) Java
6 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.52%) Bicep
7 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.35%) C#
8 2 (4.35%) Gremlin
8 2 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
1 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (78.26%) Kubernetes
2 31 (67.39%) Terraform
3 23 (50.00%) Grafana
4 20 (43.48%) Prometheus
5 5 (10.87%) Ansible
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (4.35%) HAProxy
7 2 (4.35%) Istio
7 2 (4.35%) Kibana
7 2 (4.35%) linkerd
7 2 (4.35%) logstash
7 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.17%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Splunk
2 6 (13.04%) Dynatrace
2 6 (13.04%) Hitachi
3 5 (10.87%) Google
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.35%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.35%) F5
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle
5 2 (4.35%) SAP
5 2 (4.35%) VMware