Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in England

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > England

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in England is £97,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 662 664 621
Rank change year-on-year +2 -43 -106
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 174 246 662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.28% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.31% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 161 208 489
10th Percentile £57,500 £42,874 £57,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £78,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -1.56% +14.29%
75th Percentile £118,750 £99,063 £95,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £107,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £95,500 £75,391 £80,000
% change year-on-year +26.67% -5.76% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in England

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +141 130 £107,500 +26.47% 34
South East -7 15 £70,000 -17.65% 8
North of England +10 10 £80,000 +81.68% 11
South West -33 9 £68,750 +5.77% 6
Midlands -4 7 £55,000 -45.00% 3
East Midlands - 7 £55,000 - 1
North West -2 6 £77,500 +29.68% 4
Yorkshire +50 4 £80,000 +81.68% 7
East of England -12 3 £77,500 +19.23% 4
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 across the England region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 170 (97.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 134 (77.01%) DevOps
3 127 (72.99%) AWS
4 123 (70.69%) Kubernetes
5 121 (69.54%) Terraform
6 112 (64.37%) Python
7 108 (62.07%) Finance
8 93 (53.45%) Java
9 91 (52.30%) Go
10 83 (47.70%) Asset Management
11 67 (38.51%) CI/CD
12 64 (36.78%) Prometheus
13 59 (33.91%) JavaScript
14 58 (33.33%) Hedge funds
15 57 (32.76%) Investment Management
16 56 (32.18%) Clustering
17 55 (31.61%) Dremio
18 54 (31.03%) dbt
18 54 (31.03%) Snowflake
18 54 (31.03%) Apache Arrow
18 54 (31.03%) Amazon Athena
18 54 (31.03%) Data Lake
18 54 (31.03%) gRPC
18 54 (31.03%) Apache Airflow
18 54 (31.03%) Big Data
18 54 (31.03%) Protocol Buffers
19 49 (28.16%) Docker
20 48 (27.59%) Jenkins
21 45 (25.86%) Azure
22 39 (22.41%) Deployment Automation

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 54 (31.03%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.72%) nginx
3 2 (1.15%) Apache
3 2 (1.15%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) IIS
Business Applications
1 7 (4.02%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 127 (72.99%) AWS
2 54 (31.03%) dbt
2 54 (31.03%) Snowflake
3 45 (25.86%) Azure
4 38 (21.84%) Serverless
5 32 (18.39%) Amazon EC2
5 32 (18.39%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (17.82%) Amazon S3
7 30 (17.24%) Amazon SQS
7 30 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (14.94%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (14.94%) OpenShift
9 20 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (10.92%) GCP
11 15 (8.62%) IaaS
11 15 (8.62%) PaaS
12 14 (8.05%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (7.47%) Azure AKS
13 13 (7.47%) Azure Storage
14 9 (5.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.30%) Firewall
2 3 (1.72%) DNS
3 2 (1.15%) DKIM
3 2 (1.15%) DMARC
3 2 (1.15%) HTTP
3 2 (1.15%) Network Security
3 2 (1.15%) SMTP
4 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (31.61%) Dremio
2 54 (31.03%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (31.03%) Apache Arrow
2 54 (31.03%) Big Data
2 54 (31.03%) Data Lake
3 28 (16.09%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (14.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (6.32%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.02%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.72%) MySQL
8 3 (1.72%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.15%) Redis
10 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.57%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 48 (27.59%) Jenkins
2 26 (14.94%) Artifactory
3 16 (9.20%) Git
4 7 (4.02%) GitLab
4 7 (4.02%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.72%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.15%) git-flow
6 2 (1.15%) JIRA
6 2 (1.15%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 108 (62.07%) Finance
2 26 (14.94%) Front Office
3 20 (11.49%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.17%) Law
5 8 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.60%) Banking
6 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.57%) Legal
6 1 (0.57%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (31.03%) gRPC
1 54 (31.03%) Protocol Buffers
2 26 (14.94%) J2EE
3 12 (6.90%) ARM Templates
4 6 (3.45%) JSON
5 5 (2.87%) Azure Blueprints
5 5 (2.87%) REST
5 5 (2.87%) XML
6 4 (2.30%) .NET
6 4 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.72%) Node.js
8 2 (1.15%) Kafka
8 2 (1.15%) LAMP
8 2 (1.15%) LEMP Stack
9 1 (0.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 58 (33.33%) Hedge funds
2 56 (32.18%) Clustering
3 26 (14.94%) Tandem
4 10 (5.75%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.02%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.30%) Replication
7 3 (1.72%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.72%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.15%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.15%) FMCG
8 2 (1.15%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.57%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.52%) Linux
2 14 (8.05%) Windows
3 8 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.72%) Unix
5 2 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.15%) Solaris
6 1 (0.57%) CentOS
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (97.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 134 (77.01%) DevOps
3 83 (47.70%) Asset Management
4 67 (38.51%) CI/CD
5 57 (32.76%) Investment Management
6 39 (22.41%) Deployment Automation
7 37 (21.26%) Agile
8 35 (20.11%) Software Engineering
9 31 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (17.82%) Open Source
10 27 (15.52%) Decision-Making
11 26 (14.94%) Financial Modelling
12 18 (10.34%) Containerisation
13 17 (9.77%) Analytics
13 17 (9.77%) Incident Management
14 15 (8.62%) Mentoring
14 15 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (8.05%) Observability
16 13 (7.47%) Log Analytics
17 12 (6.90%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 112 (64.37%) Python
2 93 (53.45%) Java
3 91 (52.30%) Go
4 59 (33.91%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.92%) Bash
6 17 (9.77%) PowerShell
7 14 (8.05%) SQL
8 10 (5.75%) Bicep
9 7 (4.02%) C#
10 3 (1.72%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (1.72%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.15%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.57%) C++
12 1 (0.57%) Groovy
12 1 (0.57%) Perl
12 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (8.05%) Azure Certification
2 11 (6.32%) Degree
3 8 (4.60%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.17%) SLA
2 3 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.15%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 49 (28.16%) Docker
2 8 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.57%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 123 (70.69%) Kubernetes
2 121 (69.54%) Terraform
3 64 (36.78%) Prometheus
4 15 (8.62%) Ansible
5 11 (6.32%) Istio
6 9 (5.17%) Grafana
7 3 (1.72%) Salt
8 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.15%) Puppet
8 2 (1.15%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.57%) Kiali
9 1 (0.57%) Kibana
9 1 (0.57%) Packer
9 1 (0.57%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 20 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.02%) BMC
2 7 (4.02%) Remedy
2 7 (4.02%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.45%) Google
3 6 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.87%) Splunk
5 4 (2.30%) VMware
6 2 (1.15%) New Relic
6 2 (1.15%) Oracle
6 2 (1.15%) Serena
6 2 (1.15%) Veracode
7 1 (0.57%) Arista
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco
7 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.57%) F5
7 1 (0.57%) IBM
7 1 (0.57%) Juniper
7 1 (0.57%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.57%) TOWER Software