Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in South Wales

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Wales > South Wales

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in South Wales is £69,401 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.26% - 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £63,131 - £62,660
25th Percentile £64,078 - £66,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,401 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £75,967 - £77,500
90th Percentile £77,661 - -
Wales median annual salary £69,401 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.77% -13.33% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 691 615 590
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.39% 97.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 495 328 458
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £35,000 £39,280
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.75%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £78,130 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £48,500 £49,000 £46,131
% change year-on-year -1.02% +6.22% -2.88%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in South Wales

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in South Wales.

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies 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 12 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
Cardiff - 2 £69,401 -
Site Reliability Engineer
Wales

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, Site Reliability Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google