Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in the UK excluding London is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 730 622 605
Rank change year-on-year -108 -17 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 50 106 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.19% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.22% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 44 99 240
10th Percentile £43,375 £42,299 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,874 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £79,063 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £98,000 -
UK median annual salary £88,750 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.33% -6.25% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
South East -37 15 £70,000 -17.65% 7
North of England -19 13 £80,000 +81.68% 6
South West -47 8 £67,500 +3.85% 10
North West -30 7 £80,000 +33.33% 4
Midlands -36 7 £55,000 -45.00% 5
East Midlands - 7 £55,000 - 3
Yorkshire +44 6 £85,000 +93.04% 2
Wales +14 3 £55,000 -13.25% 2
East of England -18 3 £77,500 +19.23% 1
Scotland -75 1 £75,000 +30.43% 2
Site Reliability Engineer
UK

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (92.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 23 (46.00%) DevOps
3 21 (42.00%) AWS
4 20 (40.00%) Terraform
5 16 (32.00%) Azure
6 15 (30.00%) Python
7 14 (28.00%) Observability
8 12 (24.00%) Kubernetes
9 11 (22.00%) GCP
9 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
10 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
10 10 (20.00%) SaaS
11 9 (18.00%) Linux
11 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (18.00%) Mentoring
12 8 (16.00%) Docker
12 8 (16.00%) Grafana
12 8 (16.00%) Prometheus
12 8 (16.00%) Containerisation
12 8 (16.00%) Degree
12 8 (16.00%) Jenkins
13 7 (14.00%) Agile
13 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 6 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (12.00%) Windows
14 6 (12.00%) Red Hat
14 6 (12.00%) GitHub
14 6 (12.00%) Splunk
14 6 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (12.00%) Git

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (42.00%) AWS
2 16 (32.00%) Azure
3 11 (22.00%) GCP
4 10 (20.00%) SaaS
5 6 (12.00%) GitHub
5 6 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (10.00%) IaaS
6 5 (10.00%) PaaS
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.00%) Serverless
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (2.00%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.00%) Git
3 5 (10.00%) GitLab
4 3 (6.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.00%) Spinnaker
5 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.00%) Law
2 3 (6.00%) Marketing
3 1 (2.00%) Finance
3 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.00%) Legal
3 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) JSON
1 5 (10.00%) XML
2 3 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (6.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (6.00%) Legacy Code
2 2 (4.00%) FMCG
2 2 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Linux
2 6 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (12.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (92.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 23 (46.00%) DevOps
3 14 (28.00%) Observability
4 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (18.00%) Mentoring
5 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.00%) Containerisation
7 7 (14.00%) Agile
7 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 3 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (6.00%) Configuration Management
9 3 (6.00%) Fintech
9 3 (6.00%) Microservices
9 3 (6.00%) Service-Level Objective
10 2 (4.00%) Analytics
10 2 (4.00%) Data Analytics
10 2 (4.00%) E-Commerce
10 2 (4.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) Python
2 5 (10.00%) Bash
2 5 (10.00%) Bicep
2 5 (10.00%) Search Processing Language
2 5 (10.00%) SQL
3 3 (6.00%) Go
4 2 (4.00%) Java
4 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.00%) C#
5 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (40.00%) Terraform
2 12 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.00%) Grafana
3 8 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.00%) Ansible
5 1 (2.00%) Pingdom
5 1 (2.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (12.00%) Splunk
2 2 (4.00%) Google
2 2 (4.00%) New Relic
2 2 (4.00%) VMware
3 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.00%) PagerDuty