Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 307 288
Rank change year-on-year +70 -19 -23
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 162 223 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.29% 0.94% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.04% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 138 178 283
10th Percentile £66,750 £66,250 £60,303
25th Percentile £85,313 £81,250 £75,104
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £131,250 £123,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £143,750 £136,250
England median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Site Reliability Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,045 21,522 31,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.48% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,842 15,847 22,804
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in London

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +35 23 £75,000 -16.67% 15
West London - 1 £80,000 - 32
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
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 59 (36.42%) Apache
1 59 (36.42%) Apache Airflow
1 59 (36.42%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.23%) nginx
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.62%) CMS
3 1 (0.62%) Confluence
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 121 (74.69%) AWS
2 77 (47.53%) Serverless
3 73 (45.06%) Amazon ECS
4 70 (43.21%) AWS Lambda
5 68 (41.98%) OpenShift
6 62 (38.27%) dbt
7 47 (29.01%) Azure
8 36 (22.22%) GCP
9 26 (16.05%) Pulumi
10 23 (14.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (8.02%) Datadog
12 10 (6.17%) GitHub
13 9 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (4.94%) Amazon S3
14 8 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
15 7 (4.32%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.47%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.85%) DNS
2 3 (1.85%) Network Security
3 2 (1.23%) Firewall
3 2 (1.23%) NAS
3 2 (1.23%) SAN
3 2 (1.23%) SNMP
3 2 (1.23%) SSH
3 2 (1.23%) WAN
3 2 (1.23%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.62%) DHCP
4 1 (0.62%) Multicast
4 1 (0.62%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.62%) Unicast
4 1 (0.62%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.62%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (36.42%) Amazon Athena
1 59 (36.42%) Apache Arrow
1 59 (36.42%) Apache Iceberg
1 59 (36.42%) Apache Ignite
1 59 (36.42%) Dremio
2 12 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.85%) Redis
6 3 (1.85%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.23%) HDInsight
7 2 (1.23%) MySQL
8 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 61 (37.65%) Artifactory
2 8 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.70%) GitLab
4 4 (2.47%) JIRA
5 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.23%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.62%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.62%) Git
6 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.62%) Subversion
6 1 (0.62%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.62%) Vite
General
1 102 (62.96%) Finance
2 69 (42.59%) Front Office
3 38 (23.46%) Social Skills
4 18 (11.11%) Banking
5 8 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.32%) Law
7 6 (3.70%) Marketing
8 5 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Electronics
9 4 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.47%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.85%) Games
11 2 (1.23%) Advertising
12 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (53.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (46.30%) AWS Engineer
3 74 (45.68%) AWS DevOps
4 73 (45.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 67 (41.36%) Python Engineer
6 59 (36.42%) Data Engineer
7 39 (24.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 29 (17.90%) Senior
9 27 (16.67%) Site Engineer
10 20 (12.35%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (8.02%) Lead
12 9 (5.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 7 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (4.32%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.32%) Junior
13 7 (4.32%) Junior Linux Engineer
13 7 (4.32%) Linux Engineer
13 7 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
13 7 (4.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (40.74%) Kafka
2 61 (37.65%) J2EE
3 59 (36.42%) PySpark
4 9 (5.56%) .NET
5 8 (4.94%) Loki
5 8 (4.94%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.85%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.85%) Django
6 3 (1.85%) Node.js
6 3 (1.85%) Spring
7 2 (1.23%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.23%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.62%) Jest
8 1 (0.62%) OAuth
8 1 (0.62%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.62%) OpenID
8 1 (0.62%) React
8 1 (0.62%) SAML
8 1 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.26%) Public Cloud
2 12 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.23%) Tandem
6 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.62%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.62%) Cyber Warfare
6 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.62%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.05%) Linux
2 7 (4.32%) Unix
3 5 (3.09%) Windows
4 4 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.62%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (75.93%) CI/CD
2 116 (71.60%) DevOps
3 85 (52.47%) Agile
4 74 (45.68%) Software Engineering
5 71 (43.83%) Open Source
6 68 (41.98%) Asset Management
7 62 (38.27%) Data Engineering
8 53 (32.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (24.07%) Observability
10 34 (20.99%) Containerisation
11 25 (15.43%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (14.20%) Deployment Automation
13 21 (12.96%) Fintech
14 20 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (11.73%) Incident Management
16 17 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
17 15 (9.26%) Low Latency
17 15 (9.26%) Root Cause Analysis
17 15 (9.26%) Service-Level Objective
18 14 (8.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 129 (79.63%) Python
2 87 (53.70%) Go
3 75 (46.30%) Java
4 21 (12.96%) Bash
5 17 (10.49%) Bicep
6 14 (8.64%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 8 (4.94%) Ruby
9 5 (3.09%) C#
9 5 (3.09%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (3.09%) SQL
10 4 (2.47%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.85%) Gremlin
11 3 (1.85%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.62%) C++
12 1 (0.62%) Perl
12 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (4.94%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.47%) Degree
2 4 (2.47%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.85%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.62%) CCSP
5 1 (0.62%) CISA
5 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.62%) CISM
5 1 (0.62%) CISSP
5 1 (0.62%) CRISC
5 1 (0.62%) FFIEC
5 1 (0.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.47%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.85%) SLA
4 1 (0.62%) COBIT
4 1 (0.62%) NIST
4 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 116 (71.60%) Docker
2 6 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.62%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 128 (79.01%) Terraform
2 127 (78.40%) Kubernetes
3 31 (19.14%) Grafana
4 26 (16.05%) Ansible
4 26 (16.05%) Prometheus
5 21 (12.96%) Progress Chef
6 16 (9.88%) Puppet
7 14 (8.64%) Podman
8 8 (4.94%) Istio
9 3 (1.85%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (1.23%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.23%) linkerd
11 1 (0.62%) Argo
11 1 (0.62%) Consul
11 1 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.62%) Packer
11 1 (0.62%) Salt
11 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (5.56%) Google
2 8 (4.94%) Hitachi
2 8 (4.94%) Oracle
2 8 (4.94%) Splunk
3 6 (3.70%) Confluent
3 6 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 6 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.47%) SAP
5 3 (1.85%) VMware
6 2 (1.23%) Databricks
6 2 (1.23%) F5
6 2 (1.23%) Sybase
7 1 (0.62%) AppNeta
7 1 (0.62%) BigPanda
7 1 (0.62%) Cisco
7 1 (0.62%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.62%) IBM
7 1 (0.62%) Okta
7 1 (0.62%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.62%) Salesforce