Site Reliability Engineer Jobs

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in the UK is £69,384 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 695 656
Rank change year-on-year +54 -39 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 96 190 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.20% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 68 171 206
10th Percentile £56,000 £58,750 £42,874
25th Percentile £63,630 £72,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £87,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.70% +25.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £118,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,556 £143,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £73,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.47% +18.00% -13.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 53,874 95,222 77,637
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.56% 94.83% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 29,775 66,170 53,203
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,439 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +3.67%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 17 July 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
England +30 82 £69,384 -20.70% 91
UK excluding London +125 49 £67,500 -8.47% 40
London +23 46 £85,000 -20.93% 61
Work from Home +30 37 £72,500 -17.14% 50
Midlands +79 16 £60,000 +9.09% 2
West Midlands - 16 £60,000 - 1
Scotland +105 12 £60,000 -20.00% 7
North of England +54 11 £69,384 -13.27% 6
North West +7 6 £67,626 -15.47% 2
South West +78 4 £84,819 +13.09% 10
South East +49 3 £73,750 +5.36% 10
North East - 3 £69,384 - 2
Yorkshire +36 2 £70,000 -17.65% 2
East of England +29 2 £51,250 -33.87% 6
Wales +29 1 £67,626 +22.96%

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 96 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 70 (72.92%) AWS
3 67 (69.79%) Kubernetes
4 66 (68.75%) Terraform
5 58 (60.42%) Azure
6 55 (57.29%) DevOps
7 53 (55.21%) Grafana
7 53 (55.21%) CI/CD
8 49 (51.04%) Python
9 48 (50.00%) Prometheus
10 46 (47.92%) Observability
11 38 (39.58%) Docker
12 36 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (35.42%) Social Skills
13 34 (35.42%) GCP
14 30 (31.25%) .NET
15 29 (30.21%) Finance
15 29 (30.21%) Bash
15 29 (30.21%) Service-Level Objective
16 27 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
17 24 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
17 24 (25.00%) Containerisation
18 22 (22.92%) Loki
18 22 (22.92%) Linux
19 21 (21.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 20 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
20 20 (20.83%) PowerShell
21 19 (19.79%) Java
22 18 (18.75%) Software Engineering
22 18 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (2.08%) nginx
2 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 70 (72.92%) AWS
2 58 (60.42%) Azure
3 34 (35.42%) GCP
4 24 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 18 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (15.63%) Pulumi
7 14 (14.58%) Datadog
8 13 (13.54%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (10.42%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (9.38%) Amazon ECR
10 9 (9.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 9 (9.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (9.38%) AWS CodeBuild
10 9 (9.38%) Azure AKS
10 9 (9.38%) dbt
10 9 (9.38%) Sentry
11 8 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.38%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.17%) Firewall
3 2 (2.08%) DNS
3 2 (2.08%) NAS
3 2 (2.08%) Network Security
3 2 (2.08%) SAN
3 2 (2.08%) SNMP
3 2 (2.08%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.71%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (13.54%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (11.46%) Redis
4 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.04%) DB2
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.29%) GitLab
2 7 (7.29%) JIRA
3 4 (4.17%) Git
3 4 (4.17%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.08%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.04%) Jaeger
General
1 34 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 29 (30.21%) Finance
3 21 (21.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (15.63%) Law
5 14 (14.58%) Manufacturing
6 13 (13.54%) Banking
7 6 (6.25%) Marketing
8 4 (4.17%) Games
9 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (2.08%) Electronics
10 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.04%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (31.25%) .NET
2 22 (22.92%) Loki
3 9 (9.38%) Django
3 9 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (5.21%) ARM Templates
5 4 (4.17%) REST
6 3 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.04%) LDAP
7 1 (1.04%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.92%) Linux
2 12 (12.50%) Unix
3 9 (9.38%) Windows
4 5 (5.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.17%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.08%) CentOS
6 2 (2.08%) VMS
7 1 (1.04%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 55 (57.29%) DevOps
3 53 (55.21%) CI/CD
4 46 (47.92%) Observability
5 36 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (30.21%) Service-Level Objective
7 27 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 20 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (18.75%) Software Engineering
11 17 (17.71%) Incident Response
12 16 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
13 15 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
14 14 (14.58%) Computer Science
15 13 (13.54%) Agile
15 13 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (13.54%) Performance Optimisation
15 13 (13.54%) SDLC
16 12 (12.50%) Incident Management
16 12 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (51.04%) Python
2 29 (30.21%) Bash
3 20 (20.83%) PowerShell
4 19 (19.79%) Java
5 15 (15.63%) C#
5 15 (15.63%) Go
6 12 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.33%) SQL
8 4 (4.17%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.13%) Bicep
9 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.08%) Gremlin
11 1 (1.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
1 14 (14.58%) Degree
2 13 (13.54%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.29%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (39.58%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (69.79%) Kubernetes
2 66 (68.75%) Terraform
3 53 (55.21%) Grafana
4 48 (50.00%) Prometheus
5 12 (12.50%) Ansible
6 9 (9.38%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (4.17%) Argo
7 4 (4.17%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (3.13%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.08%) HAProxy
9 2 (2.08%) Istio
9 2 (2.08%) Kibana
9 2 (2.08%) linkerd
9 2 (2.08%) logstash
9 2 (2.08%) Puppet
10 1 (1.04%) Control-M
10 1 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.04%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 16 (16.67%) Splunk
2 13 (13.54%) Dynatrace
2 13 (13.54%) Google
3 7 (7.29%) Oracle
4 6 (6.25%) Hitachi
5 5 (5.21%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.13%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.13%) VMware
8 2 (2.08%) F5
8 2 (2.08%) New Relic
8 2 (2.08%) SAP
9 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.04%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (1.04%) Perforce
9 1 (1.04%) Sybase