Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in the West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 227 258
Rank change year-on-year +44 +31 -40
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 17 23 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.38% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.38% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 16 12 12
10th Percentile - £27,525 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £64,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £82,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -4.35% +23.21%
75th Percentile £71,250 £97,813 £100,000
90th Percentile - £98,750 £127,000
England median annual salary £92,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +15.63% -5.88% +13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,072 6,020 6,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.16% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,682 4,530 3,268
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the West Midlands

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire - 12 £60,000 - 2
Birmingham +24 4 £67,500 -25.00% 12
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Amazon ECS
1 13 (76.47%) AWS
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.88%) dbt
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
2 1 (5.88%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) DB2
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Redis
General
1 12 (70.59%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Advertising
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Site Engineer
1 16 (94.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
2 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
2 1 (5.88%) IT Operations Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Operations Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (82.35%) Loki
2 12 (70.59%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) DevOps
2 12 (70.59%) Computer Science
3 6 (35.29%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Observability
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
5 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (5.88%) Budgeting
6 1 (5.88%) Business Strategy
6 1 (5.88%) Capacity Management
6 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.88%) Clean Code
6 1 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.88%) Line Management
6 1 (5.88%) Open Source
6 1 (5.88%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (5.88%) Problem Management
6 1 (5.88%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) C#
1 12 (70.59%) TypeScript
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Degree
2 12 (70.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Grafana
1 14 (82.35%) Prometheus
2 13 (76.47%) Terraform
3 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Google
1 1 (5.88%) Sybase