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 £67,626 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 724 611
Rank change year-on-year +191 -113 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 42 39 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.054% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.057% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 36 36 110
10th Percentile £55,000 £39,375 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,626 £65,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% +9.58% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,375 £72,020
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £90,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £100,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +33.33% -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 36,142 67,932 52,599
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.86% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 18,697 47,996 30,020
10th Percentile £26,987 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,320 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.37% -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 19 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 19 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 +81 16 £60,000 +9.09% 12
West Midlands - 16 £60,000 - 7
North of England +49 12 £69,692 -0.44% 19
North West -3 8 £72,500 +3.57% 12
South West +100 3 £94,637 +35.20% 11
South East +84 3 £75,000 +9.89% 35
East of England +40 3 - - 6
North East - 3 £69,384 - 2
Scotland - 3 £70,000 - 11
Yorkshire +62 1 £70,000 - 5
Wales +37 1 £67,626 +4.04%
Northern Ireland - 1 £85,000 - 2
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 19 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 42 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 35 (83.33%) AWS
3 32 (76.19%) Terraform
4 30 (71.43%) DevOps
5 27 (64.29%) Azure
6 22 (52.38%) Kubernetes
6 22 (52.38%) Prometheus
7 21 (50.00%) Grafana
8 19 (45.24%) Python
9 18 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (38.10%) Loki
10 16 (38.10%) GCP
10 16 (38.10%) Degree
11 15 (35.71%) Observability
12 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (30.95%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
13 13 (30.95%) Computer Science
13 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
14 12 (28.57%) C#
14 12 (28.57%) .NET
14 12 (28.57%) Manufacturing
14 12 (28.57%) Service-Level Objective
14 12 (28.57%) TypeScript
15 11 (26.19%) Docker
15 11 (26.19%) Google
16 10 (23.81%) Linux
17 9 (21.43%) Open Source
17 9 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
18 8 (19.05%) Amazon RDS

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 (2.38%) Apache Solr
1 1 (2.38%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 35 (83.33%) AWS
2 27 (64.29%) Azure
3 18 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
4 16 (38.10%) GCP
5 7 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 6 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 6 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (14.29%) dbt
6 6 (14.29%) Pulumi
6 6 (14.29%) Sentry
7 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) Datadog
7 2 (4.76%) Stackdriver
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.38%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.38%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (14.29%) Redis
4 1 (2.38%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.38%) DB2
4 1 (2.38%) MySQL
4 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 8 (19.05%) Finance
4 6 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (11.90%) Banking
6 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Games
8 1 (2.38%) Advertising
8 1 (2.38%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (38.10%) Loki
2 12 (28.57%) .NET
3 6 (14.29%) Django
4 3 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (7.14%) Node.js
5 2 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 7 (16.67%) Unix
3 3 (7.14%) Windows
4 1 (2.38%) CentOS
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 30 (71.43%) DevOps
3 15 (35.71%) Observability
4 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
5 13 (30.95%) Computer Science
6 12 (28.57%) Service-Level Objective
7 9 (21.43%) Open Source
8 7 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (14.29%) Application Performance Monitoring
9 6 (14.29%) Clean Code
9 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
9 6 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (14.29%) Prototyping
9 6 (14.29%) Task Automation
10 5 (11.90%) Incident Management
10 5 (11.90%) Incident Response
10 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Python
2 12 (28.57%) C#
2 12 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 7 (16.67%) Go
3 7 (16.67%) Java
4 6 (14.29%) Bash
5 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.38%) PHP
6 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Degree
2 13 (30.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
4 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (76.19%) Terraform
2 22 (52.38%) Kubernetes
2 22 (52.38%) Prometheus
3 21 (50.00%) Grafana
4 7 (16.67%) Ansible
5 6 (14.29%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (4.76%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Google
2 3 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 3 (7.14%) New Relic
3 1 (2.38%) Splunk
3 1 (2.38%) Sybase