Site Reliability Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > Work from Home

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary for remote or hybrid work is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 525 461
Rank change year-on-year +163 -64 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 35 67 217
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.20% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.21% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 35 66 192
10th Percentile £63,630 £55,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £64,509 £66,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £87,500 £69,257
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +26.34% -13.43%
75th Percentile £86,250 £118,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £143,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £105,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +35.48% -3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Site Reliability Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Site Reliability Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Site Reliability Engineer.

Site Reliability Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Site Reliability Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Site Reliability Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 27 (77.14%) Terraform
3 25 (71.43%) AWS
3 25 (71.43%) Python
4 23 (65.71%) Azure
5 22 (62.86%) Observability
6 20 (57.14%) DevOps
7 19 (54.29%) GCP
8 18 (51.43%) Docker
9 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
9 15 (42.86%) Service-Level Objective
9 15 (42.86%) Kubernetes
9 15 (42.86%) Prometheus
9 15 (42.86%) Google
10 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
11 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (37.14%) Linux
12 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
12 12 (34.29%) Bash
12 12 (34.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (34.29%) Grafana
12 12 (34.29%) Continuous Delivery
13 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (28.57%) TCP/IP
15 9 (25.71%) Unix
15 9 (25.71%) Continuous Integration

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.86%) Apache Solr
1 1 (2.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 25 (71.43%) AWS
2 23 (65.71%) Azure
3 19 (54.29%) GCP
4 10 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (25.71%) Amazon ECR
5 9 (25.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 9 (25.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 9 (25.71%) AWS CodeBuild
5 9 (25.71%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (25.71%) dbt
5 9 (25.71%) Pulumi
5 9 (25.71%) Sentry
6 7 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (20.00%) Serverless
7 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
7 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.57%) Azure Functions
7 3 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (8.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.86%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (25.71%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (25.71%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (25.71%) Redis
3 1 (2.86%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (22.86%) Finance
4 5 (14.29%) Games
5 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.43%) Banking
6 3 (8.57%) Law
7 1 (2.86%) Electronics
7 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
7 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) Django
2 5 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (8.57%) ARM Templates
3 3 (8.57%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (5.71%) Loki
5 1 (2.86%) .NET
5 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Linux
2 9 (25.71%) Unix
3 4 (11.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 22 (62.86%) Observability
3 20 (57.14%) DevOps
4 15 (42.86%) Service-Level Objective
5 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (34.29%) Continuous Delivery
8 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (25.71%) Application Performance Monitoring
9 9 (25.71%) Clean Code
9 9 (25.71%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (25.71%) Open Source
9 9 (25.71%) Performance Monitoring
9 9 (25.71%) Prototyping
10 8 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (22.86%) Task Automation
11 7 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (17.14%) Microservices
13 5 (14.29%) E-Commerce
13 5 (14.29%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) Bash
3 7 (20.00%) Go
3 7 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.57%) Bicep
6 1 (2.86%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 18 (51.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (77.14%) Terraform
2 15 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 15 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 12 (34.29%) Grafana
4 9 (25.71%) AWS Copilot
5 8 (22.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Google
2 5 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) New Relic
4 1 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) Splunk
172 Site Reliability Engineer jobs with Hybrid/WFH options