Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in the South East

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 342 269
Rank change year-on-year +57 -73 +32
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 14 53 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.15% 0.32% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.37% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7 29 91
10th Percentile £66,000 £39,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £77,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £91,750 £80,000 £82,818
% change year-on-year +14.69% -3.40% +10.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,656 14,162 13,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.84% 84.47% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,247 9,859 7,922
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
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 the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the South East

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the South East.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the South East

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the South East

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Middlesex - 7 - -
Hampshire +55 6 £77,500 +10.71% 8
Thames Valley +42 1 £75,000 +25.00% 11
Berkshire +33 1 £75,000 +25.00% 5
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (28.57%) Apache Solr
1 4 (28.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
1 4 (28.57%) HTTPS
1 4 (28.57%) IPsec
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Couchbase
1 5 (35.71%) NoSQL
2 4 (28.57%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Law
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Gen AI Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Gen AI Software Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Software Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Senior
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (21.43%) Site Engineer
5 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Lead
7 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) REST
2 4 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.14%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (42.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 7 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) E-Commerce
4 6 (42.86%) LLM
4 6 (42.86%) MLOps
4 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) SDLC
4 6 (42.86%) Software Delivery
4 6 (42.86%) Use Case
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (7.14%) Microservices
5 1 (7.14%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Clojure
2 6 (42.86%) Elixir
2 6 (42.86%) Rust
2 6 (42.86%) Scala
3 4 (28.57%) PHP
4 2 (14.29%) Go
4 2 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (50.00%) Terraform
3 6 (42.86%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Argo
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Google