Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 197 274
Rank change year-on-year -66 +77 -23
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 111 263 174
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.79% 1.70% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.79% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 64 186 148
10th Percentile £67,969 £68,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £73,438 £85,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £107,500 £95,430
Median % change year-on-year -19.77% +12.65% +6.03%
75th Percentile £111,250 £118,750 £116,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £139,375 £138,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £95,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -18.42% +15.15% +1.85%

All Process & 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 12,365 14,682 16,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.68% 94.64% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,912 8,070 13,469
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,125 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in London

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 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
Central London +31 11 £85,000 -8.11% 19
West London +5 4 £80,000 - 2
South London +38 2 - - 3
East London - 1 - - 1
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
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 7 (6.31%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.60%) Appian
3 3 (2.70%) Mule
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 49 (44.14%) AWS
2 27 (24.32%) GitHub
2 27 (24.32%) SaaS
3 26 (23.42%) GitHub Actions
4 25 (22.52%) Azure
5 16 (14.41%) GCP
6 13 (11.71%) Datadog
7 12 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (9.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (9.91%) Serverless
9 10 (9.01%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 4 (3.60%) Amazon ECR
14 4 (3.60%) dbt
14 4 (3.60%) Prefect
14 4 (3.60%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.11%) Broadband
2 7 (6.31%) 4G
2 7 (6.31%) BGP
2 7 (6.31%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (6.31%) Ethernet VPN
2 7 (6.31%) IOS XR
2 7 (6.31%) MPLS
3 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.01%) Flink
1 10 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.31%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (6.31%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (6.31%) Pinecone
3 6 (5.41%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.60%) Redis
4 4 (3.60%) Weaviate
5 3 (2.70%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.70%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.80%) Power BI
7 1 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 17 (15.32%) GitLab
3 14 (12.61%) Git
4 5 (4.50%) JIRA
5 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 57 (51.35%) Social Skills
2 30 (27.03%) Finance
3 23 (20.72%) Banking
4 22 (19.82%) Aviation
4 22 (19.82%) Fire and Rescue
4 22 (19.82%) Police
5 12 (10.81%) Telecoms
6 10 (9.01%) Front Office
6 10 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Advertising
8 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.90%) Marketing
9 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (21.62%) Operations Manager
2 22 (19.82%) Service Manager
2 22 (19.82%) Service Operations Manager
3 18 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 15 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (9.01%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (9.01%) Developer
7 10 (9.01%) Senior
8 9 (8.11%) Lead
9 8 (7.21%) Lead DevOps
10 7 (6.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Infrastructure Support
10 7 (6.31%) Network Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Backend Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Kafka Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Problem Manager
11 6 (5.41%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.51%) Kafka
2 14 (12.61%) Node.js
3 10 (9.01%) FastAPI
4 8 (7.21%) Django
4 8 (7.21%) React
5 7 (6.31%) Jinja
5 7 (6.31%) NETCONF
5 7 (6.31%) YANG
6 6 (5.41%) Spring
6 6 (5.41%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.50%) .NET
7 5 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (4.50%) REST
8 4 (3.60%) GraphQL
8 4 (3.60%) Next.js
8 4 (3.60%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (3.60%) PyTorch
8 4 (3.60%) scikit-learn
8 4 (3.60%) TensorFlow
9 3 (2.70%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.82%) Robotics
2 19 (17.12%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.31%) Public Cloud
4 7 (6.31%) Social Media
5 6 (5.41%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.50%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.60%) Hackathon
7 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.80%) CMDB
8 2 (1.80%) Equities
8 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.90%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.90%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.41%) Linux
2 10 (9.01%) Unix
3 7 (6.31%) Windows
4 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (65.77%) DevOps
2 59 (53.15%) Observability
3 54 (48.65%) Agile
3 54 (48.65%) CI/CD
4 47 (42.34%) Incident Management
5 44 (39.64%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (36.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (35.14%) Incident Response
8 38 (34.23%) AI
9 37 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (30.63%) ITIL
11 33 (29.73%) Service Management
12 29 (26.13%) Software Engineering
13 28 (25.23%) Change Management
14 26 (23.42%) Collaborative Culture
14 26 (23.42%) Containerisation
15 25 (22.52%) Service Delivery
16 23 (20.72%) Business Continuity
16 23 (20.72%) Platform Engineering
17 22 (19.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 62 (55.86%) Python
2 29 (26.13%) Java
3 16 (14.41%) Bash
4 13 (11.71%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.91%) Go
6 10 (9.01%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.11%) SQL
8 5 (4.50%) C#
9 3 (2.70%) Bicep
10 1 (0.90%) C++
10 1 (0.90%) Groovy
10 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.21%) Degree
3 6 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.41%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (22.52%) QA
2 8 (7.21%) SLA
3 4 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.80%) GRC
4 2 (1.80%) MiFID
5 1 (0.90%) GDPR
5 1 (0.90%) PSD2
System Software
1 28 (25.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (40.54%) Terraform
2 38 (34.23%) Kubernetes
3 23 (20.72%) Ansible
4 18 (16.22%) Grafana
5 17 (15.32%) Prometheus
6 11 (9.91%) Argo
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.80%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.90%) Icinga
8 1 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.90%) Nagios
8 1 (0.90%) Puppet
8 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (10.81%) Splunk
2 9 (8.11%) Oracle
3 7 (6.31%) Cisco
3 7 (6.31%) Google
4 6 (5.41%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.60%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.60%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.70%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.70%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.70%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.80%) BigPanda
7 2 (1.80%) Moogsoft
7 2 (1.80%) New Relic
8 1 (0.90%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.90%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.90%) Okta
8 1 (0.90%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.90%) Skytap
8 1 (0.90%) Sonatype