Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in London is £91,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 388 460
Rank change year-on-year +29 +72 +75
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 37 120 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.51% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.54% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 33 111 124
10th Percentile £64,509 £68,750 £56,603
25th Percentile £65,000 £81,250 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,000 £107,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.35% +26.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £116,250 £138,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £128,000 £143,750 £111,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +25.00% -

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 11,514 22,211 32,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.11% 94.13% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,380 16,662 24,070
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +31 10 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 37 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 25 (67.57%) Kubernetes
2 25 (67.57%) Python
3 24 (64.86%) Terraform
4 23 (62.16%) Docker
5 22 (59.46%) AWS
5 22 (59.46%) CI/CD
6 20 (54.05%) DevOps
7 18 (48.65%) Observability
8 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
8 17 (45.95%) Prometheus
8 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (45.95%) Grafana
9 16 (43.24%) Azure
10 14 (37.84%) Finance
11 13 (35.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (32.43%) Root Cause Analysis
12 12 (32.43%) Serverless
12 12 (32.43%) Service-Level Objective
13 11 (29.73%) Java
14 10 (27.03%) Bash
14 10 (27.03%) Deployment Automation
14 10 (27.03%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (27.03%) Decision-Making
15 9 (24.32%) Datadog
15 9 (24.32%) Open Source
15 9 (24.32%) Amazon RDS
15 9 (24.32%) Go
16 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
16 8 (21.62%) Agile

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 1 (2.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) AWS
2 16 (43.24%) Azure
3 13 (35.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (32.43%) Serverless
5 10 (27.03%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (24.32%) Datadog
7 7 (18.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (18.92%) GCP
8 6 (16.22%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (16.22%) Amazon S3
8 6 (16.22%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (16.22%) OpenShift
9 5 (13.51%) Pulumi
10 4 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (8.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (8.11%) Azure AKS
11 3 (8.11%) dbt
11 3 (8.11%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) NAS
2 1 (2.70%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) SAN
2 1 (2.70%) SNMP
2 1 (2.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (16.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (10.81%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.11%) Redis
5 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 6 (16.22%) Artifactory
3 2 (5.41%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 14 (37.84%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Front Office
4 5 (13.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.11%) Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Law
7 1 (2.70%) Advertising
7 1 (2.70%) Electronics
7 1 (2.70%) Games
7 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.70%) Marketing
7 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) J2EE
1 6 (16.22%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (13.51%) .NET
3 3 (8.11%) ARM Templates
3 3 (8.11%) Django
4 2 (5.41%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Tandem
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.11%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Unix
2 5 (13.51%) Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Windows
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 22 (59.46%) CI/CD
3 20 (54.05%) DevOps
4 18 (48.65%) Observability
5 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (32.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (32.43%) Service-Level Objective
7 10 (27.03%) Decision-Making
7 10 (27.03%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (24.32%) Open Source
9 8 (21.62%) Agile
9 8 (21.62%) Containerisation
9 8 (21.62%) Incident Management
10 7 (18.92%) Incident Response
10 7 (18.92%) Performance Optimisation
11 6 (16.22%) Asset Management
11 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (16.22%) Problem Management
11 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (67.57%) Python
2 11 (29.73%) Java
3 10 (27.03%) Bash
4 9 (24.32%) Go
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.11%) Bicep
7 2 (5.41%) Gremlin
7 2 (5.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (62.16%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (67.57%) Kubernetes
2 24 (64.86%) Terraform
3 17 (45.95%) Grafana
3 17 (45.95%) Prometheus
4 4 (10.81%) Ansible
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.70%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.70%) Istio
7 1 (2.70%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Dynatrace
1 4 (10.81%) Google
1 4 (10.81%) Splunk
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Hitachi
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) F5
4 1 (2.70%) New Relic
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) VMware