Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in West Sussex

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
South East > West Sussex

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in West Sussex is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 49 64
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 2 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 0.51% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.25% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £73,750 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £69,250
% change year-on-year - +4.69% -13.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Sussex. 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 West Sussex with a recognized job title 332 405 506
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.26% 95.52% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 231 239 365
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £48,000 £53,050 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -3.55% -

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in West Sussex.

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in West Sussex

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Crawley - 1 £72,500 -
Site Reliability Engineer
South East

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, Site Reliability Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Sussex region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Perforce
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Debian
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Hardware Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Nimble Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Perforce
1 1 (50.00%) VMware