Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 415 430
Rank change year-on-year +101 +15 -75
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 294 398 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.75% 0.54% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.65% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 89 180 259
10th Percentile £47,800 £51,250 £42,874
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.52% -8.97%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £86,500 £88,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,163 61,036 55,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.74% 82.48% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,188 42,006 28,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,336 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

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

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
North of England +147 208 £69,384 +10.51% 61
North West +120 193 £67,037 +6.78% 40
Midlands +39 20 £60,000 - 27
Scotland -9 20 £67,500 -15.63% 16
West Midlands +51 19 £63,750 -22.73% 16
South West +92 15 £57,443 -28.20% 23
South East +59 14 £77,500 +19.23% 77
East of England +43 13 £65,000 -0.94% 24
Yorkshire +42 11 £70,000 +11.50% 19
North East +42 4 £69,384 +10.51% 3
Wales +47 3 £37,733 -33.69% 4
Northern Ireland +43 1 £85,000 +27.06% 4
East Midlands +18 1 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
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 8 (2.72%) Apache Solr
2 6 (2.04%) nginx
3 2 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.34%) CICS
4 1 (0.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 249 (84.69%) AWS
2 224 (76.19%) Azure
3 201 (68.37%) GCP
4 21 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (3.06%) Serverless
7 7 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (2.38%) Pulumi
8 6 (2.04%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (2.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 6 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 6 (2.04%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.04%) AWS CodeBuild
8 6 (2.04%) dbt
8 6 (2.04%) Sentry
9 5 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.36%) SaaS
11 3 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.04%) DNS
2 6 (2.04%) HTTPS
2 6 (2.04%) IPsec
3 2 (0.68%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.06%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.72%) MySQL
6 7 (2.38%) Couchbase
6 7 (2.38%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.04%) Redis
8 4 (1.36%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.68%) DB2
Development Applications
1 22 (7.48%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.14%) GitLab
3 11 (3.74%) Git
4 7 (2.38%) JIRA
5 1 (0.34%) Jaeger
General
1 184 (62.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 46 (15.65%) Finance
3 24 (8.16%) Social Skills
4 16 (5.44%) Banking
5 14 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 11 (3.74%) Law
7 8 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.36%) Marketing
9 2 (0.68%) Electronics
9 2 (0.68%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.34%) Advertising
10 1 (0.34%) Aviation
10 1 (0.34%) Billing
10 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) Games
10 1 (0.34%) Military
10 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 192 (65.31%) Senior
2 190 (64.63%) Software Engineer
3 174 (59.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 47 (15.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 42 (14.29%) Site Engineer
6 31 (10.54%) Lead
7 18 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.40%) Technical Leader
9 8 (2.72%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (2.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (2.04%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (2.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.04%) Lead DevOps
12 5 (1.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (1.70%) Java Engineer
12 5 (1.70%) Junior
12 5 (1.70%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
13 4 (1.36%) Gen AI Engineer
13 4 (1.36%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (66.33%) .NET
2 184 (62.59%) Node.js
3 16 (5.44%) Loki
4 8 (2.72%) REST
4 8 (2.72%) Spring
4 8 (2.72%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.04%) Django
5 6 (2.04%) Kafka
5 6 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (2.04%) React
6 4 (1.36%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.36%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.02%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.02%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (1.02%) Java EE
7 3 (1.02%) JPA
8 2 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.68%) FIDO
8 2 (0.68%) JWT
8 2 (0.68%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 173 (58.84%) Self-Motivation
2 172 (58.50%) Cyberattack
2 172 (58.50%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.72%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.70%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.36%) Robotics
8 3 (1.02%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.68%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.34%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.34%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 188 (63.95%) Linux
2 7 (2.38%) Unix
3 6 (2.04%) Windows
4 4 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.68%) CentOS
5 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.68%) zOS
6 1 (0.34%) Debian
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (72.11%) Agile
2 208 (70.75%) Software Engineering
3 189 (64.29%) Mentoring
3 189 (64.29%) Microservices
4 184 (62.59%) Data Engineering
4 184 (62.59%) Machine Learning
5 178 (60.54%) Cloud Security
6 177 (60.20%) Scrum
7 175 (59.52%) User Experience
8 88 (29.93%) DevOps
9 57 (19.39%) CI/CD
10 28 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (7.82%) Observability
12 19 (6.46%) Roadmaps
13 17 (5.78%) Artificial Intelligence
13 17 (5.78%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (5.44%) Containerisation
14 16 (5.44%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (5.44%) Software Delivery
15 14 (4.76%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 215 (73.13%) Python
2 205 (69.73%) Java
3 181 (61.56%) Go
4 178 (60.54%) JavaScript
4 178 (60.54%) Rust
5 172 (58.50%) C++
6 20 (6.80%) C#
7 18 (6.12%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.44%) Bash
9 14 (4.76%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.04%) PHP
10 6 (2.04%) SQL
11 4 (1.36%) Clojure
11 4 (1.36%) Elixir
11 4 (1.36%) Scala
12 2 (0.68%) JCL
13 1 (0.34%) Bicep
13 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 187 (63.61%) Security Cleared
2 177 (60.20%) DV Cleared
3 176 (59.86%) AWS Certification
4 173 (58.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 172 (58.50%) AWS Certified Developer
6 17 (5.78%) Degree
7 13 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.40%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.06%) QA
2 5 (1.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.68%) GDPR
3 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (9.86%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) Squid
3 1 (0.34%) RACF
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (19.39%) Terraform
2 51 (17.35%) Kubernetes
3 29 (9.86%) Grafana
4 27 (9.18%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.46%) Ansible
6 6 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (1.36%) Argo
8 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.68%) Kibana
9 2 (0.68%) Puppet
9 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.68%) Tivoli NetView
10 1 (0.34%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 18 (6.12%) Google
2 7 (2.38%) VMware
3 6 (2.04%) Splunk
4 5 (1.70%) Dynatrace
4 5 (1.70%) New Relic
5 4 (1.36%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.36%) Oracle
6 3 (1.02%) IBM
6 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.68%) ForgeRock
7 2 (0.68%) PagerDuty
7 2 (0.68%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.68%) SAP
8 1 (0.34%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.34%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.34%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.34%) Perforce
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.34%) Sybase