Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in South London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 86 -
Rank change year-on-year +41 - -
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 9 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 1.49% 0.61% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 0.62% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% +13.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 646 680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 81.49% 98.18% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 193 181 399
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,750 £27,965
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £56,650
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +1.50% +3.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £83,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in South London

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in South London

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

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 19 March 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
Kingston Upon Thames +5 7 £80,000 - 1
Croydon +30 2 - -
Site Reliability Engineering
London

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 7 (77.78%) Azure
1 7 (77.78%) Azure Functions
1 7 (77.78%) Azure Logic Apps
1 7 (77.78%) Azure Monitor
1 7 (77.78%) Power Platform
1 7 (77.78%) SaaS
1 7 (77.78%) Serverless
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Storage
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Broadband
2 1 (11.11%) 4G
2 1 (11.11%) BGP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (11.11%) IOS XR
2 1 (11.11%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Power BI
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (55.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Senior
2 7 (77.78%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Reliability Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Senior Reliability Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Senior Support Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Associate Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) .NET
1 7 (77.78%) .NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) Jinja
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) NETCONF
2 1 (11.11%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Social Media
1 1 (11.11%) Video on Demand
1 1 (11.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) VMS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (77.78%) Analytics
2 7 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) Cloud Operations
2 7 (77.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (77.78%) Incident Response
2 7 (77.78%) Log Analytics
2 7 (77.78%) MVC
2 7 (77.78%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (77.78%) Runbook
3 5 (55.56%) B2B
3 5 (55.56%) Build Automation
3 5 (55.56%) Incident Management
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Budget Management
5 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Service-Level Objective
6 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) Data Science
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) Kusto Query Language
2 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Icinga
1 1 (11.11%) Nagios
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) VMware