Site Reliability Engineer Jobs

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in the UK is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 730 675 632
Rank change year-on-year -55 -43 -95
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 166 308 743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.31% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.34% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 154 261 545
10th Percentile £55,375 £42,874 £57,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,219 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £118,750 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £105,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £59,763 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.76% -14.62% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK

Site Reliability Engineer
Top 13 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 14 May 2024. 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 -30 161 £100,000 +29.03% 73
London +102 125 £107,500 +26.47% 39
Work from Home -40 83 £87,500 +32.08% 38
UK excluding London -100 38 £65,000 +8.76% 37
South East -3 14 £68,250 -19.71% 10
South West -33 8 £70,000 +17.60% 9
North of England -14 7 £65,000 +47.62% 9
Midlands +4 5 £55,000 -45.00% 3
North West -5 5 £65,000 +9.20% 5
East Midlands - 5 £55,000 - 3
Yorkshire +50 2 £70,000 +58.97% 4
Wales +13 2 £65,000 +2.52% 4
East of England -4 2 £63,750 -1.92% 4

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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.

1 163 (98.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 131 (78.92%) DevOps
3 123 (74.10%) AWS
4 119 (71.69%) Kubernetes
5 117 (70.48%) Terraform
6 109 (65.66%) Python
7 104 (62.65%) Finance
8 91 (54.82%) Go
9 90 (54.22%) Java
10 81 (48.80%) Asset Management
11 70 (42.17%) CI/CD
12 58 (34.94%) Prometheus
13 53 (31.93%) Docker
14 52 (31.33%) Jenkins
14 52 (31.33%) Hedge funds
14 52 (31.33%) JavaScript
15 51 (30.72%) Investment Management
16 50 (30.12%) Clustering
17 49 (29.52%) Dremio
18 48 (28.92%) dbt
18 48 (28.92%) Snowflake
18 48 (28.92%) Apache Arrow
18 48 (28.92%) Protocol Buffers
18 48 (28.92%) Big Data
18 48 (28.92%) Data Lake
18 48 (28.92%) gRPC
18 48 (28.92%) Apache Airflow
18 48 (28.92%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (25.90%) Deployment Automation
19 43 (25.90%) Azure

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 48 (28.92%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.81%) nginx
3 2 (1.20%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
Business Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 123 (74.10%) AWS
2 48 (28.92%) dbt
2 48 (28.92%) Snowflake
3 43 (25.90%) Azure
4 42 (25.30%) Serverless
5 36 (21.69%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (21.08%) Amazon EC2
7 34 (20.48%) Amazon S3
7 34 (20.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (19.88%) Amazon SQS
9 30 (18.07%) Amazon ECS
9 30 (18.07%) OpenShift
10 20 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (10.24%) GCP
12 14 (8.43%) IaaS
12 14 (8.43%) PaaS
13 13 (7.83%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (7.23%) Azure AKS
14 12 (7.23%) Azure Storage
15 10 (6.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) DNS
1 4 (2.41%) Firewall
2 3 (1.81%) HTTP
3 2 (1.20%) DKIM
3 2 (1.20%) DMARC
3 2 (1.20%) Network Security
3 2 (1.20%) SMTP
4 1 (0.60%) Anycast
4 1 (0.60%) BGP
4 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (29.52%) Dremio
2 48 (28.92%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (28.92%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (28.92%) Big Data
2 48 (28.92%) Data Lake
3 31 (18.67%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (18.07%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (6.02%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.61%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.81%) MySQL
8 3 (1.81%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.20%) Redis
10 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.60%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 52 (31.33%) Jenkins
2 30 (18.07%) Artifactory
3 18 (10.84%) Git
4 7 (4.22%) GitLab
5 6 (3.61%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.81%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.81%) git-flow
7 2 (1.20%) JIRA
7 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 104 (62.65%) Finance
2 30 (18.07%) Front Office
3 19 (11.45%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.82%) Law
5 7 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.22%) Banking
6 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.60%) Legal
6 1 (0.60%) Marketing
6 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (28.92%) gRPC
1 48 (28.92%) Protocol Buffers
2 30 (18.07%) J2EE
3 11 (6.63%) ARM Templates
4 6 (3.61%) JSON
5 5 (3.01%) REST
5 5 (3.01%) XML
6 4 (2.41%) .NET
6 4 (2.41%) Azure Blueprints
6 4 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.81%) Node.js
8 2 (1.20%) Kafka
8 2 (1.20%) LAMP
8 2 (1.20%) LEMP Stack
9 1 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 52 (31.33%) Hedge funds
2 50 (30.12%) Clustering
3 30 (18.07%) Tandem
4 10 (6.02%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.41%) Replication
7 3 (1.81%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.81%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.81%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.60%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.60%) FMCG
9 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.87%) Linux
2 13 (7.83%) Windows
3 8 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.81%) Unix
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.20%) Solaris
6 1 (0.60%) CentOS
6 1 (0.60%) VMS
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (98.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 131 (78.92%) DevOps
3 81 (48.80%) Asset Management
4 70 (42.17%) CI/CD
5 51 (30.72%) Investment Management
6 43 (25.90%) Deployment Automation
7 39 (23.49%) Agile
8 38 (22.89%) Software Engineering
9 35 (21.08%) Open Source
10 31 (18.67%) Decision-Making
10 31 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (18.07%) Financial Modelling
12 19 (11.45%) Containerisation
13 17 (10.24%) Incident Management
14 15 (9.04%) Analytics
15 14 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (7.83%) Mentoring
17 12 (7.23%) Log Analytics
18 11 (6.63%) Root Cause Analysis
19 9 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 109 (65.66%) Python
2 91 (54.82%) Go
3 90 (54.22%) Java
4 52 (31.33%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.84%) Bash
6 16 (9.64%) PowerShell
7 13 (7.83%) SQL
8 9 (5.42%) Bicep
9 7 (4.22%) C#
10 3 (1.81%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.81%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.60%) C++
11 1 (0.60%) Groovy
11 1 (0.60%) Perl
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
11 1 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 13 (7.83%) Azure Certification
2 11 (6.63%) Degree
3 8 (4.82%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.20%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.22%) SLA
2 3 (1.81%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (31.93%) Docker
2 8 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.60%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 119 (71.69%) Kubernetes
2 117 (70.48%) Terraform
3 58 (34.94%) Prometheus
4 16 (9.64%) Ansible
5 10 (6.02%) Istio
6 9 (5.42%) Grafana
7 3 (1.81%) Salt
8 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.20%) Puppet
8 2 (1.20%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.60%) Kiali
9 1 (0.60%) Kibana
9 1 (0.60%) Packer
9 1 (0.60%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 18 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.22%) Google
3 6 (3.61%) BMC
3 6 (3.61%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.61%) Remedy
3 6 (3.61%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.81%) Splunk
4 3 (1.81%) VMware
5 2 (1.20%) New Relic
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle
5 2 (1.20%) Serena
5 2 (1.20%) Veracode
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco
6 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.60%) IBM
6 1 (0.60%) Juniper
6 1 (0.60%) McAfee
6 1 (0.60%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.60%) TOWER Software