Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 January 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 381 368
Rank change year-on-year +24 -13 +90
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 20 50 91
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.14% 0.32% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.35% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17 48 84
10th Percentile £78,525 - £65,000
25th Percentile £91,250 £67,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £97,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -7.14% +23.53%
75th Percentile £150,000 £116,250 £138,750
90th Percentile £154,000 £138,750 £142,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +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 13,156 14,275 18,501
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.40% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,695 8,212 14,904
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -1.49%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% -8.80%

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 21 January 2026.

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 21 January 2026. 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
West London - 1 £85,000 - 1
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 January 2026, 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 (95.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 15 (75.00%) Java
3 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (70.00%) Python
4 13 (65.00%) AWS
4 13 (65.00%) DevOps
4 13 (65.00%) Kafka
4 13 (65.00%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (60.00%) Kubernetes
6 10 (50.00%) Agile
6 10 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 10 (50.00%) Argo
6 10 (50.00%) Flink
6 10 (50.00%) GitHub
6 10 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (50.00%) Investment Management
7 7 (35.00%) Terraform
8 6 (30.00%) Docker
8 6 (30.00%) Front End Development
9 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
10 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
10 4 (20.00%) Go
10 4 (20.00%) React
11 3 (15.00%) Azure
11 3 (15.00%) GCP
11 3 (15.00%) Google
11 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (15.00%) Mule
11 3 (15.00%) Observability

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 (15.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 10 (50.00%) GitHub
2 10 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.00%) dbt
4 2 (10.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.00%) Datadog
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) Flink
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Redis
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (65.00%) Banking
1 13 (65.00%) Finance
2 10 (50.00%) Front Office
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) Kafka
2 4 (20.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) Django
4 1 (5.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (65.00%) DevOps
3 13 (65.00%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (50.00%) Agile
4 10 (50.00%) Investment Management
5 6 (30.00%) Front End Development
6 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
7 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (15.00%) Observability
8 3 (15.00%) Service-Level Objective
8 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (10.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
9 2 (10.00%) Clean Code
9 2 (10.00%) Microservices
9 2 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
9 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 1 (5.00%) Analytics
10 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Java
2 14 (70.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) Go
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (50.00%) Argo
3 7 (35.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Google
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace