Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in South Wales

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Wales > South Wales

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in South Wales is £67,626 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 106 107
Rank change year-on-year +40 +1 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.11% 0.064% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.070% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £58,850
25th Percentile £63,630 £52,500 £58,963
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,626 £55,000 £63,400
Median % change year-on-year +22.96% -13.25% -18.19%
75th Percentile £71,622 £57,500 £67,713
90th Percentile - - £67,750
Wales median annual salary £67,626 £55,000 £63,400
% change year-on-year +22.96% -13.25% -18.19%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 773 1,432 1,042
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.50% 91.38% 89.37%
Number of salaries quoted 461 962 557
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,157 £28,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,569 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -4.07% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £64,250
90th Percentile £70,600 £70,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.59%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in South Wales

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in South Wales.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in South Wales

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 30 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
Cardiff +34 1 £67,626 +22.96% 8
Site Reliability Engineer
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 South Wales region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google