Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in the South East

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > South East

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in the South East is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 384 398
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -71
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 12 24 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.072% 0.16% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.18% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 12 24 69
10th Percentile £38,750 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £50,938 £66,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +9.68% +19.23%
75th Percentile £72,813 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £77,125 £111,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £105,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +31.25% - +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 East with a recognized job title 15,671 13,511 19,163
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.53% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,327 8,466 12,622
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the South East

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the South East

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the South East

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +20 7 £60,000 -40.00% 3
Berkshire +23 6 £51,250 -48.75% 3
Hampshire -16 5 £70,000 -1.75% 5
Oxfordshire - 1 £75,000 -
Site Reliability Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 East region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (50.00%) Azure
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
4 5 (41.67%) Git
5 4 (33.33%) JSON
5 4 (33.33%) SQL
5 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 4 (33.33%) XML
5 4 (33.33%) Terraform
5 4 (33.33%) SaaS
5 4 (33.33%) PaaS
5 4 (33.33%) GitHub
5 4 (33.33%) IaaS
5 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 4 (33.33%) Bicep
5 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) AWS
7 1 (8.33%) Open Source
7 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
7 1 (8.33%) Splunk
7 1 (8.33%) Grafana

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (33.33%) IaaS
2 4 (33.33%) PaaS
2 4 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) JSON
1 4 (33.33%) XML
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (8.33%) DataOps
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Open Source
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) RAD
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bicep
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Pingdom
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) New Relic
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk