Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in London is £125,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 December 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 385 347
Rank change year-on-year +25 -38 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 19 53 92
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.14% 0.33% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.36% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 16 51 81
10th Percentile £76,906 £67,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £87,813 £68,750 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £100,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £150,000 £116,250 £131,250
90th Percentile £155,000 £138,750 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -6.06% +6.45%

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 12,433 14,742 16,770
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 93.00% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,215 8,650 13,551
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 31 December 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 19 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 15 (78.95%) AWS
2 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 15 (78.95%) DevOps
3 14 (73.68%) Java
4 13 (68.42%) Kafka
4 13 (68.42%) Kubernetes
4 13 (68.42%) Platform Engineering
4 13 (68.42%) Python
5 10 (52.63%) Agile
5 10 (52.63%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (52.63%) Amazon Kinesis
5 10 (52.63%) Argo
5 10 (52.63%) Flink
5 10 (52.63%) GitHub
5 10 (52.63%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (52.63%) Investment Management
6 9 (47.37%) Terraform
7 8 (42.11%) Docker
8 6 (31.58%) Front End Development
9 5 (26.32%) Incident Management
9 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
10 4 (21.05%) Go
10 4 (21.05%) React
11 3 (15.79%) Mule
11 3 (15.79%) Observability
11 3 (15.79%) Oracle
11 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database
11 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership

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 (15.79%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Amazon EKS
2 10 (52.63%) Amazon Kinesis
2 10 (52.63%) GitHub
2 10 (52.63%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) dbt
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Flink
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.53%) Redis
General
1 13 (68.42%) Banking
1 13 (68.42%) Finance
2 10 (52.63%) Front Office
3 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (68.42%) Kafka
2 4 (21.05%) React
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (10.53%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Fixed Income
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 15 (78.95%) DevOps
3 13 (68.42%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (52.63%) Agile
4 10 (52.63%) Investment Management
5 6 (31.58%) Front End Development
6 5 (26.32%) Incident Management
6 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
8 3 (15.79%) Observability
8 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (10.53%) Application Performance Monitoring
9 2 (10.53%) Clean Code
9 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
9 2 (10.53%) Performance Monitoring
9 2 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
9 2 (10.53%) Service-Level Objective
10 1 (5.26%) Incident Response
10 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Java
2 13 (68.42%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) Go
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Kubernetes
2 10 (52.63%) Argo
3 9 (47.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Google