Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in the UK excluding London is £67,563 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 725 640
Rank change year-on-year +195 -85 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 47 46 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.062% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.065% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 36 41 106
10th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,563 £67,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +0.09% +10.20% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,625 £77,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £69,384 £95,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -27.35% +27.33% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Midlands +95 16 £60,000 +9.09% 139
West Midlands - 16 £60,000 - 76
North of England +53 11 £69,384 -13.27% 175
Scotland - 9 £65,000 - 27
North West +10 7 £70,000 -9.68% 86
South East +77 4 £75,000 +7.14% 204
South West +99 3 £94,637 +37.65% 90
North East - 3 £69,384 - 18
East of England +46 2 - - 113
Yorkshire +57 1 £70,000 -12.50% 71
Wales +46 1 £67,626 +22.96% 22
Northern Ireland - 1 £85,000 - 9
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 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 UK excluding London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 36 (76.60%) AWS
3 35 (74.47%) Terraform
4 29 (61.70%) DevOps
4 29 (61.70%) Azure
5 27 (57.45%) Kubernetes
6 25 (53.19%) Grafana
7 24 (51.06%) Prometheus
8 20 (42.55%) Python
9 18 (38.30%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (36.17%) Observability
10 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
11 16 (34.04%) Loki
11 16 (34.04%) GCP
12 15 (31.91%) .NET
12 15 (31.91%) Degree
12 15 (31.91%) Service-Level Objective
13 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
13 13 (27.66%) Docker
13 13 (27.66%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (27.66%) Computer Science
13 13 (27.66%) Linux
13 13 (27.66%) Finance
14 12 (25.53%) Manufacturing
14 12 (25.53%) C#
14 12 (25.53%) TypeScript
15 11 (23.40%) Java
15 11 (23.40%) Google
16 10 (21.28%) Software Engineering

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Solr
1 1 (2.13%) Confluence
1 1 (2.13%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 36 (76.60%) AWS
2 29 (61.70%) Azure
3 18 (38.30%) Amazon ECS
4 16 (34.04%) GCP
5 7 (14.89%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 6 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (12.77%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (12.77%) dbt
6 6 (12.77%) Pulumi
6 6 (12.77%) Sentry
7 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.26%) Datadog
7 2 (4.26%) Stackdriver
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.13%) DNS
2 1 (2.13%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.13%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.28%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (17.02%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (12.77%) Redis
4 1 (2.13%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.13%) DB2
4 1 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) GitLab
3 2 (4.26%) Git
3 2 (4.26%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (27.66%) Finance
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Manufacturing
3 10 (21.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (14.89%) Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Law
6 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Advertising
7 1 (2.13%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.04%) Loki
2 15 (31.91%) .NET
3 6 (12.77%) Django
4 3 (6.38%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.26%) Node.js
5 2 (4.26%) REST
6 1 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.51%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.66%) Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Unix
3 5 (10.64%) Windows
4 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.26%) CentOS
5 2 (4.26%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.13%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 29 (61.70%) DevOps
3 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
3 17 (36.17%) Observability
4 15 (31.91%) Service-Level Objective
5 13 (27.66%) Computer Science
5 13 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (21.28%) Software Engineering
7 9 (19.15%) Continuous Delivery
8 8 (17.02%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (17.02%) Open Source
9 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (12.77%) Application Performance Monitoring
10 6 (12.77%) Clean Code
10 6 (12.77%) Incident Response
10 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (12.77%) Performance Monitoring
10 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (12.77%) Prototyping
11 5 (10.64%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (42.55%) Python
2 12 (25.53%) C#
2 12 (25.53%) TypeScript
3 11 (23.40%) Java
4 7 (14.89%) Bash
4 7 (14.89%) Go
5 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.38%) SQL
7 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (31.91%) Degree
2 13 (27.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
4 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 13 (27.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (74.47%) Terraform
2 27 (57.45%) Kubernetes
3 25 (53.19%) Grafana
4 24 (51.06%) Prometheus
5 7 (14.89%) Ansible
6 6 (12.77%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (4.26%) Argo
7 2 (4.26%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (2.13%) Proxmox
8 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Google
2 5 (10.64%) Dynatrace
2 5 (10.64%) Splunk
3 3 (6.38%) New Relic
4 2 (4.26%) Oracle
4 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.13%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (2.13%) Perforce
5 1 (2.13%) Sybase
5 1 (2.13%) VMware