Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in Staffordshire

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 1 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.082% - 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £26,800
25th Percentile £71,250 - £27,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £29,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £32,313
90th Percentile - - £32,425
West Midlands median annual salary £47,138 £60,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -21.44% -27.27% +15.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 935 385 734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 76.83% 67.66% 81.56%
Number of salaries quoted 473 275 548
10th Percentile £27,694 £28,822 £23,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £28,027
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £54,659 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £53,400 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% +6.80% -4.76%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Burton-upon-Trent - 1 £72,500 -
Site Reliability Engineering
West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform