Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 146 186
Rank change year-on-year -27 +40 +35
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 9 47 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.18% 1.10% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 1.30% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6 29 30
10th Percentile £62,500 £60,750 £44,623
25th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £64,598
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £102,500 £85,000 £96,154
90th Percentile £105,000 £93,750 £98,608
England median annual salary £77,500 £90,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -14.36% +9.70% +3.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,627 3,623 4,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.19% 84.47% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,466 1,852 3,086
10th Percentile £27,875 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +3.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the South West

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Gloucestershire +10 6 £70,000 - 21
Bristol -4 3 £95,000 +22.58% 4
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) OpenShift
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) AMQP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (44.44%) InfluxDB
2 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Support
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Debian
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
4 3 (33.33%) AI
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Data Science
5 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) Business Development
6 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
6 1 (11.11%) Secure Coding
6 1 (11.11%) Service Management
6 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Go
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) Grafana
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Progress Chef
2 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
3 3 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat