Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in London is £96,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2026.

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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 345 373
Rank change year-on-year -40 +28 +119
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 27 40 130
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.13% 0.33% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.37% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 20 29 121
10th Percentile - £64,509 £66,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £85,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% -20.93% +26.47%
75th Percentile £105,625 £98,750 £138,750
90th Percentile £124,000 £111,250 £143,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £69,384 £97,500
% change year-on-year +15.30% -28.84% +30.00%

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 19,351 10,916 22,470
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 90.06% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,246 6,956 16,827
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,994 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%

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 May 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 31 May 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
Central London -10 10 £85,000 +30.77% 2
West London - 3 £85,000 -
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 24 (88.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 13 (48.15%) Python
3 12 (44.44%) Java
4 11 (40.74%) AWS
4 11 (40.74%) Observability
5 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
6 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
6 7 (25.93%) Linux
6 7 (25.93%) Service-Level Objective
7 6 (22.22%) Agile
7 6 (22.22%) DevOps
7 6 (22.22%) Docker
7 6 (22.22%) Oracle
7 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 6 (22.22%) Terraform
8 5 (18.52%) Azure
8 5 (18.52%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (18.52%) Incident Management
8 5 (18.52%) KDB
8 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (18.52%) Shell Script
9 4 (14.81%) .NET
9 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (14.81%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (14.81%) Argo
9 4 (14.81%) C#
9 4 (14.81%) Cloud Operations
9 4 (14.81%) Data Engineering
9 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery

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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (14.81%) GitHub
3 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (14.81%) SaaS
3 4 (14.81%) Snowflake
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Storage
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 3 (11.11%) Serverless
5 2 (7.41%) Datadog
6 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DHCP
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) KDB
2 4 (14.81%) Flink
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) MySQL
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (33.33%) Front Office
2 7 (25.93%) Banking
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (14.81%) .NET
2 4 (14.81%) Kafka
2 4 (14.81%) React
3 3 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.70%) LDAP
4 1 (3.70%) Loki
4 1 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Fixed Income
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) VMS
3 1 (3.70%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 11 (40.74%) Observability
3 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.93%) Service-Level Objective
4 6 (22.22%) Agile
4 6 (22.22%) DevOps
4 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Incident Management
5 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (14.81%) Cloud Operations
6 4 (14.81%) Data Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (14.81%) Investment Management
7 3 (11.11%) Analytics
7 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (11.11%) Log Analytics
7 3 (11.11%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Python
2 12 (44.44%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) Shell Script
4 4 (14.81%) C#
4 4 (14.81%) Go
4 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 3 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (11.11%) SQL
6 2 (7.41%) Bash
7 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.70%) PHP
7 1 (3.70%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (22.22%) Terraform
3 4 (14.81%) Argo
4 3 (11.11%) Grafana
4 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.70%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) Istio
5 1 (3.70%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (3.70%) Netcool
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Databricks
3 2 (7.41%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) Sybase
4 1 (3.70%) VMware