Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in the South West

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > South West

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in the South West is £94,637 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 285 248
Rank change year-on-year +101 -37 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 3 8 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.083% 0.086% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.090% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 15
10th Percentile £59,160 £60,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £71,025 £62,500 £49,546
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,637 £70,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +35.20% +17.60% -11.62%
75th Percentile £98,474 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - £74,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £100,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +29.03% -3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 3,373 8,932 6,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 96.22% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,020 6,537 3,764
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £29,075
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,250 £77,500 £79,450
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the South West

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the South West

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the South West

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bristol +63 2 £94,637 +35.20% 6
Gloucestershire +74 1 £57,500 -11.54% 1
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 West region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Stackdriver
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) Java

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Stackdriver
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) Google