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 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 341 383
Rank change year-on-year -23 +42 +189
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 32 120 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.62% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.65% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17 106 91
10th Percentile £60,250 £67,500 £60,200
25th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £107,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +30.30% +3.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £118,750 £115,625
90th Percentile £101,250 £143,750 £143,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £87,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +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 10,896 18,397 20,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 95.40% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,112 11,621 17,265
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 10 £70,000 +3.70% 1
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 32 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 26 (81.25%) Kubernetes
3 25 (78.13%) AWS
4 20 (62.50%) Terraform
5 18 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (56.25%) CI/CD
6 16 (50.00%) Containerisation
6 16 (50.00%) Observability
6 16 (50.00%) DevOps
7 15 (46.88%) GCP
7 15 (46.88%) Azure
7 15 (46.88%) Python
8 14 (43.75%) Bash
9 13 (40.63%) Grafana
10 12 (37.50%) Docker
10 12 (37.50%) Finance
11 11 (34.38%) Go
11 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
12 10 (31.25%) Prometheus
12 10 (31.25%) PowerShell
13 8 (25.00%) Java
13 8 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
14 7 (21.88%) .NET
14 7 (21.88%) Banking
14 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
14 7 (21.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (21.88%) Performance Optimisation
15 6 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
15 6 (18.75%) Creative Problem-Solving

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 (6.25%) Mule
2 1 (3.13%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 25 (78.13%) AWS
2 15 (46.88%) Azure
2 15 (46.88%) GCP
3 7 (21.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (18.75%) Pulumi
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (9.38%) Datadog
6 2 (6.25%) Akamai
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Kong
6 2 (6.25%) Lucidchart
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) NAS
1 1 (3.13%) Network Security
1 1 (3.13%) SAN
1 1 (3.13%) SNMP
1 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Redis
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
1 2 (6.25%) GitLab
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
1 2 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Banking
4 6 (18.75%) Law
5 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.25%) Electronics
6 2 (6.25%) Games
6 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.25%) Marketing
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) .NET
2 6 (18.75%) Loki
3 5 (15.63%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 18 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 18 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 16 (50.00%) DevOps
3 16 (50.00%) Observability
4 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
6 7 (21.88%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (18.75%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 6 (18.75%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (18.75%) Incident Response
7 6 (18.75%) Presales
7 6 (18.75%) Service-Level Objective
7 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (18.75%) Validation
7 6 (18.75%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) Python
2 14 (43.75%) Bash
3 11 (34.38%) Go
4 10 (31.25%) PowerShell
5 8 (25.00%) Java
6 2 (6.25%) C#
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (81.25%) Kubernetes
2 20 (62.50%) Terraform
3 13 (40.63%) Grafana
4 10 (31.25%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.25%) Kibana
5 2 (6.25%) logstash
6 1 (3.13%) Ansible
6 1 (3.13%) Argo
6 1 (3.13%) HAProxy
6 1 (3.13%) Istio
6 1 (3.13%) linkerd
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Hitachi
2 4 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 4 (12.50%) Splunk
3 2 (6.25%) AppDynamics
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) F5
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) VMware