Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in Wales

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 71 89
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 +17
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 4 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.39% 0.34% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.41% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £64,394 £62,894 -
25th Percentile £67,234 £63,485 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £75,250 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.39% +12.50% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 787 739 859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 75.89% 83.88% 89.85%
Number of salaries quoted 533 355 637
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,149 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Wales

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
South Wales +4 4 £73,801 +6.48% 11
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) dbt
2 3 (75.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Sentry
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Micro Frontends
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google