DevOps Salaries: UK & Ireland
Discover the latest compensation trends for DevOps roles across the UK and Ireland. Built with fresh insights and first-hand data from Trust in SODA’s specialist recruitment consultants, this guide covers London and the South East, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Newcastle, Scotland, Dublin, Belfast and remote roles.
Inside the UK and Ireland DevOps Markets
DevOps has stopped being a function that sits alongside engineering and become the thing that decides how fast engineering can move. Three specialisms are benchmarked here across the UK and Ireland: DevOps and platform engineering, DevSecOps, and site reliability engineering.
Platform engineering, DevSecOps and site reliability engineering are the hardest of the three to staff. Employers are hiring for engineers who have built an internal developer platform rather than consumed one, who can own reliability against a real error budget, and who treat security and compliance as part of the delivery pipeline rather than a gate at the end of it.
The strongest premiums sit with engineers who combine depth in one cloud with genuine platform ownership, and with the small group who are credibly dual-skilled in delivery and security. London and the South East leads the table throughout; Manchester, Birmingham and Scotland cluster at roughly 82–85% of the London band, Newcastle at 76% and Belfast at 72%, while remote roles are benchmarked at around 89%. That is the narrowest discount of any discipline in this guide, and a reflection of how readily this work distributes.
How we compiled these figures
These DevOps figures come from Trust in SODA's hiring mandates in the UK and Ireland, benchmarked against our database of over 500,000 professionals.
Last updated: November 2026 · See all salary guides
DevOps & Platform Engineering Salaries
DevOps and platform engineering are the two most-hired tracks in this section, and the pay gap between them has effectively closed. What separates candidates now is whether they have built a platform other engineers depend on, or only maintained one.
| Role | London & South East |
|---|---|
| DevOps Engineer | £55–85k |
| Senior DevOps Engineer | £85–110k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevOps Engineer | £110–130k |
| Platform Engineer | £65–85k |
| Senior Platform Engineer | £85–100k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Platform Engineer | £100–115k |
| Head of DevOps | £130–165k |
DevOps and Platform Engineering sit at the centre of almost every UK infrastructure hire in this guide, and the two ladders now price within a few thousand pounds of each other at every level. Platform Engineer opens above DevOps Engineer at entry, reflecting employers' expectation of internal-developer-platform and Kubernetes ownership from day one, but the two converge from Senior upward. The steepest step on the ladder is from Principal/Lead/Staff into Head of DevOps, where London bands jump from £110–130k to £130–165k, a gap that reflects how few engineers in this market have run a platform function as well as built on one. London & South East leads the table, with Manchester, Birmingham and Scotland clustering around 82–85% of the London band and Belfast & Northern Ireland the most cost-effective UK location at roughly 72%.
| Role | Manchester & North West |
|---|---|
| DevOps Engineer | £45–70k |
| Senior DevOps Engineer | £70–90k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevOps Engineer | £90–105k |
| Platform Engineer | £55–70k |
| Senior Platform Engineer | £70–80k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Platform Engineer | £80–95k |
| Head of DevOps | £105–135k |
DevOps and Platform Engineering sit at the centre of almost every UK infrastructure hire in this guide, and the two ladders now price within a few thousand pounds of each other at every level. Platform Engineer opens above DevOps Engineer at entry, reflecting employers' expectation of internal-developer-platform and Kubernetes ownership from day one, but the two converge from Senior upward. The steepest step on the ladder is from Principal/Lead/Staff into Head of DevOps, where London bands jump from £110–130k to £130–165k, a gap that reflects how few engineers in this market have run a platform function as well as built on one. London & South East leads the table, with Manchester, Birmingham and Scotland clustering around 82–85% of the London band and Belfast & Northern Ireland the most cost-effective UK location at roughly 72%.
| Role | Bristol & West |
|---|---|
| DevOps Engineer | £45–75k |
| Senior DevOps Engineer | £75–95k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevOps Engineer | £95–110k |
| Platform Engineer | £55–75k |
| Senior Platform Engineer | £75–85k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Platform Engineer | £85–100k |
| Head of DevOps | £110–140k |
DevOps and Platform Engineering sit at the centre of almost every UK infrastructure hire in this guide, and the two ladders now price within a few thousand pounds of each other at every level. Platform Engineer opens above DevOps Engineer at entry, reflecting employers' expectation of internal-developer-platform and Kubernetes ownership from day one, but the two converge from Senior upward. The steepest step on the ladder is from Principal/Lead/Staff into Head of DevOps, where London bands jump from £110–130k to £130–165k, a gap that reflects how few engineers in this market have run a platform function as well as built on one. London & South East leads the table, with Manchester, Birmingham and Scotland clustering around 82–85% of the London band and Belfast & Northern Ireland the most cost-effective UK location at roughly 72%.
| Role | Birmingham & Midlands |
|---|---|
| DevOps Engineer | £45–70k |
| Senior DevOps Engineer | £70–90k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevOps Engineer | £90–105k |
| Platform Engineer | £55–70k |
| Senior Platform Engineer | £70–80k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Platform Engineer | £80–95k |
| Head of DevOps | £105–135k |
DevOps and Platform Engineering sit at the centre of almost every UK infrastructure hire in this guide, and the two ladders now price within a few thousand pounds of each other at every level. Platform Engineer opens above DevOps Engineer at entry, reflecting employers' expectation of internal-developer-platform and Kubernetes ownership from day one, but the two converge from Senior upward. The steepest step on the ladder is from Principal/Lead/Staff into Head of DevOps, where London bands jump from £110–130k to £130–165k, a gap that reflects how few engineers in this market have run a platform function as well as built on one. London & South East leads the table, with Manchester, Birmingham and Scotland clustering around 82–85% of the London band and Belfast & Northern Ireland the most cost-effective UK location at roughly 72%.
| Role | Newcastle & North East |
|---|---|
| DevOps Engineer | £40–65k |
| Senior DevOps Engineer | £65–85k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevOps Engineer | £85–100k |
| Platform Engineer | £50–65k |
| Senior Platform Engineer | £65–75k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Platform Engineer | £75–85k |
| Head of DevOps | £100–125k |
DevOps and Platform Engineering sit at the centre of almost every UK infrastructure hire in this guide, and the two ladders now price within a few thousand pounds of each other at every level. Platform Engineer opens above DevOps Engineer at entry, reflecting employers' expectation of internal-developer-platform and Kubernetes ownership from day one, but the two converge from Senior upward. The steepest step on the ladder is from Principal/Lead/Staff into Head of DevOps, where London bands jump from £110–130k to £130–165k, a gap that reflects how few engineers in this market have run a platform function as well as built on one. London & South East leads the table, with Manchester, Birmingham and Scotland clustering around 82–85% of the London band and Belfast & Northern Ireland the most cost-effective UK location at roughly 72%.
| Role | Scotland |
|---|---|
| DevOps Engineer | £45–70k |
| Senior DevOps Engineer | £70–95k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevOps Engineer | £95–110k |
| Platform Engineer | £55–70k |
| Senior Platform Engineer | £70–85k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Platform Engineer | £85–100k |
| Head of DevOps | £110–140k |
DevOps and Platform Engineering sit at the centre of almost every UK infrastructure hire in this guide, and the two ladders now price within a few thousand pounds of each other at every level. Platform Engineer opens above DevOps Engineer at entry, reflecting employers' expectation of internal-developer-platform and Kubernetes ownership from day one, but the two converge from Senior upward. The steepest step on the ladder is from Principal/Lead/Staff into Head of DevOps, where London bands jump from £110–130k to £130–165k, a gap that reflects how few engineers in this market have run a platform function as well as built on one. London & South East leads the table, with Manchester, Birmingham and Scotland clustering around 82–85% of the London band and Belfast & Northern Ireland the most cost-effective UK location at roughly 72%.
| Role | Dublin |
|---|---|
| DevOps Engineer | €55–85k |
| Senior DevOps Engineer | €85–110k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevOps Engineer | €110–130k |
| Platform Engineer | €65–85k |
| Senior Platform Engineer | €85–100k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Platform Engineer | €100–115k |
| Head of DevOps | €130–165k |
DevOps and Platform Engineering sit at the centre of almost every UK infrastructure hire in this guide, and the two ladders now price within a few thousand pounds of each other at every level. Platform Engineer opens above DevOps Engineer at entry, reflecting employers' expectation of internal-developer-platform and Kubernetes ownership from day one, but the two converge from Senior upward. The steepest step on the ladder is from Principal/Lead/Staff into Head of DevOps, where London bands jump from £110–130k to £130–165k, a gap that reflects how few engineers in this market have run a platform function as well as built on one. London & South East leads the table, with Manchester, Birmingham and Scotland clustering around 82–85% of the London band and Belfast & Northern Ireland the most cost-effective UK location at roughly 72%.
| Role | Belfast & Northern Ireland |
|---|---|
| DevOps Engineer | £40–60k |
| Senior DevOps Engineer | £60–80k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevOps Engineer | £80–95k |
| Platform Engineer | £45–60k |
| Senior Platform Engineer | £60–70k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Platform Engineer | £70–85k |
| Head of DevOps | £95–120k |
DevOps and Platform Engineering sit at the centre of almost every UK infrastructure hire in this guide, and the two ladders now price within a few thousand pounds of each other at every level. Platform Engineer opens above DevOps Engineer at entry, reflecting employers' expectation of internal-developer-platform and Kubernetes ownership from day one, but the two converge from Senior upward. The steepest step on the ladder is from Principal/Lead/Staff into Head of DevOps, where London bands jump from £110–130k to £130–165k, a gap that reflects how few engineers in this market have run a platform function as well as built on one. London & South East leads the table, with Manchester, Birmingham and Scotland clustering around 82–85% of the London band and Belfast & Northern Ireland the most cost-effective UK location at roughly 72%.
| Role | Remote |
|---|---|
| DevOps Engineer | £50–75k |
| Senior DevOps Engineer | £75–100k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevOps Engineer | £100–115k |
| Platform Engineer | £60–75k |
| Senior Platform Engineer | £75–90k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Platform Engineer | £90–100k |
| Head of DevOps | £115–145k |
DevOps and Platform Engineering sit at the centre of almost every UK infrastructure hire in this guide, and the two ladders now price within a few thousand pounds of each other at every level. Platform Engineer opens above DevOps Engineer at entry, reflecting employers' expectation of internal-developer-platform and Kubernetes ownership from day one, but the two converge from Senior upward. The steepest step on the ladder is from Principal/Lead/Staff into Head of DevOps, where London bands jump from £110–130k to £130–165k, a gap that reflects how few engineers in this market have run a platform function as well as built on one. London & South East leads the table, with Manchester, Birmingham and Scotland clustering around 82–85% of the London band and Belfast & Northern Ireland the most cost-effective UK location at roughly 72%.
DevSecOps Salaries
DevSecOps carries a clear premium over equivalent DevOps roles at entry level, because genuinely dual-skilled engineers are scarce and regulated employers are all competing for the same small pool.
| Role | London & South East |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps Engineer | £65–85k |
| Senior DevSecOps Engineer | £85–100k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevSecOps Engineer | £100–115k |
| Head of DevSecOps | £115–150k |
DevSecOps carries a consistent premium over equivalent-level DevOps roles at entry, typically £10k at Engineer level in London, because the hiring pool is genuinely dual-skilled rather than security-aware, and employers under pressure from the Digital Operational Resilience Act, the EU's Network and Information Security Directive and Financial Conduct Authority operational-resilience rules are competing for the same small group. The premium narrows further up the ladder as general DevOps leadership catches up on scope. Head of DevSecOps reaches £115–150k in London; Dublin's regulated financial-services and medtech base keeps its DevSecOps bands close to London in euro terms throughout, while Newcastle & North East and Belfast & Northern Ireland remain the most cost-effective locations for building Engineer-level secure-delivery capacity.
| Role | Manchester & North West |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps Engineer | £55–70k |
| Senior DevSecOps Engineer | £70–80k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevSecOps Engineer | £80–95k |
| Head of DevSecOps | £95–125k |
DevSecOps carries a consistent premium over equivalent-level DevOps roles at entry, typically £10k at Engineer level in London, because the hiring pool is genuinely dual-skilled rather than security-aware, and employers under pressure from the Digital Operational Resilience Act, the EU's Network and Information Security Directive and Financial Conduct Authority operational-resilience rules are competing for the same small group. The premium narrows further up the ladder as general DevOps leadership catches up on scope. Head of DevSecOps reaches £115–150k in London; Dublin's regulated financial-services and medtech base keeps its DevSecOps bands close to London in euro terms throughout, while Newcastle & North East and Belfast & Northern Ireland remain the most cost-effective locations for building Engineer-level secure-delivery capacity.
| Role | Bristol & West |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps Engineer | £55–75k |
| Senior DevSecOps Engineer | £75–85k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevSecOps Engineer | £85–100k |
| Head of DevSecOps | £100–130k |
DevSecOps carries a consistent premium over equivalent-level DevOps roles at entry, typically £10k at Engineer level in London, because the hiring pool is genuinely dual-skilled rather than security-aware, and employers under pressure from the Digital Operational Resilience Act, the EU's Network and Information Security Directive and Financial Conduct Authority operational-resilience rules are competing for the same small group. The premium narrows further up the ladder as general DevOps leadership catches up on scope. Head of DevSecOps reaches £115–150k in London; Dublin's regulated financial-services and medtech base keeps its DevSecOps bands close to London in euro terms throughout, while Newcastle & North East and Belfast & Northern Ireland remain the most cost-effective locations for building Engineer-level secure-delivery capacity.
| Role | Birmingham & Midlands |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps Engineer | £55–70k |
| Senior DevSecOps Engineer | £70–80k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevSecOps Engineer | £80–95k |
| Head of DevSecOps | £95–125k |
DevSecOps carries a consistent premium over equivalent-level DevOps roles at entry, typically £10k at Engineer level in London, because the hiring pool is genuinely dual-skilled rather than security-aware, and employers under pressure from the Digital Operational Resilience Act, the EU's Network and Information Security Directive and Financial Conduct Authority operational-resilience rules are competing for the same small group. The premium narrows further up the ladder as general DevOps leadership catches up on scope. Head of DevSecOps reaches £115–150k in London; Dublin's regulated financial-services and medtech base keeps its DevSecOps bands close to London in euro terms throughout, while Newcastle & North East and Belfast & Northern Ireland remain the most cost-effective locations for building Engineer-level secure-delivery capacity.
| Role | Newcastle & North East |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps Engineer | £50–65k |
| Senior DevSecOps Engineer | £65–75k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevSecOps Engineer | £75–85k |
| Head of DevSecOps | £85–115k |
DevSecOps carries a consistent premium over equivalent-level DevOps roles at entry, typically £10k at Engineer level in London, because the hiring pool is genuinely dual-skilled rather than security-aware, and employers under pressure from the Digital Operational Resilience Act, the EU's Network and Information Security Directive and Financial Conduct Authority operational-resilience rules are competing for the same small group. The premium narrows further up the ladder as general DevOps leadership catches up on scope. Head of DevSecOps reaches £115–150k in London; Dublin's regulated financial-services and medtech base keeps its DevSecOps bands close to London in euro terms throughout, while Newcastle & North East and Belfast & Northern Ireland remain the most cost-effective locations for building Engineer-level secure-delivery capacity.
| Role | Scotland |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps Engineer | £55–70k |
| Senior DevSecOps Engineer | £70–85k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevSecOps Engineer | £85–100k |
| Head of DevSecOps | £100–130k |
DevSecOps carries a consistent premium over equivalent-level DevOps roles at entry, typically £10k at Engineer level in London, because the hiring pool is genuinely dual-skilled rather than security-aware, and employers under pressure from the Digital Operational Resilience Act, the EU's Network and Information Security Directive and Financial Conduct Authority operational-resilience rules are competing for the same small group. The premium narrows further up the ladder as general DevOps leadership catches up on scope. Head of DevSecOps reaches £115–150k in London; Dublin's regulated financial-services and medtech base keeps its DevSecOps bands close to London in euro terms throughout, while Newcastle & North East and Belfast & Northern Ireland remain the most cost-effective locations for building Engineer-level secure-delivery capacity.
| Role | Dublin |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps Engineer | €65–85k |
| Senior DevSecOps Engineer | €85–100k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevSecOps Engineer | €100–115k |
| Head of DevSecOps | €115–150k |
DevSecOps carries a consistent premium over equivalent-level DevOps roles at entry, typically £10k at Engineer level in London, because the hiring pool is genuinely dual-skilled rather than security-aware, and employers under pressure from the Digital Operational Resilience Act, the EU's Network and Information Security Directive and Financial Conduct Authority operational-resilience rules are competing for the same small group. The premium narrows further up the ladder as general DevOps leadership catches up on scope. Head of DevSecOps reaches £115–150k in London; Dublin's regulated financial-services and medtech base keeps its DevSecOps bands close to London in euro terms throughout, while Newcastle & North East and Belfast & Northern Ireland remain the most cost-effective locations for building Engineer-level secure-delivery capacity.
| Role | Belfast & Northern Ireland |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps Engineer | £45–60k |
| Senior DevSecOps Engineer | £60–70k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevSecOps Engineer | £70–85k |
| Head of DevSecOps | £85–110k |
DevSecOps carries a consistent premium over equivalent-level DevOps roles at entry, typically £10k at Engineer level in London, because the hiring pool is genuinely dual-skilled rather than security-aware, and employers under pressure from the Digital Operational Resilience Act, the EU's Network and Information Security Directive and Financial Conduct Authority operational-resilience rules are competing for the same small group. The premium narrows further up the ladder as general DevOps leadership catches up on scope. Head of DevSecOps reaches £115–150k in London; Dublin's regulated financial-services and medtech base keeps its DevSecOps bands close to London in euro terms throughout, while Newcastle & North East and Belfast & Northern Ireland remain the most cost-effective locations for building Engineer-level secure-delivery capacity.
| Role | Remote |
|---|---|
| DevSecOps Engineer | £60–75k |
| Senior DevSecOps Engineer | £75–90k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff DevSecOps Engineer | £90–100k |
| Head of DevSecOps | £100–135k |
DevSecOps carries a consistent premium over equivalent-level DevOps roles at entry, typically £10k at Engineer level in London, because the hiring pool is genuinely dual-skilled rather than security-aware, and employers under pressure from the Digital Operational Resilience Act, the EU's Network and Information Security Directive and Financial Conduct Authority operational-resilience rules are competing for the same small group. The premium narrows further up the ladder as general DevOps leadership catches up on scope. Head of DevSecOps reaches £115–150k in London; Dublin's regulated financial-services and medtech base keeps its DevSecOps bands close to London in euro terms throughout, while Newcastle & North East and Belfast & Northern Ireland remain the most cost-effective locations for building Engineer-level secure-delivery capacity.
Site Reliability Engineering Salaries
Site reliability engineering hiring concentrates in organisations running real scale, and bands hold up better outside London than in any other track here. Reliability experience travels, and so do the people who have it.
| Role | London & South East |
|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | £65–85k |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | £85–100k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Site Reliability Engineer | £100–115k |
| Head of Site Reliability Engineering | £120–155k |
Site reliability engineering prices in line with DevSecOps across the ladder, but the shape of demand differs. Hiring is concentrated in organisations running genuine scale (payments, marketplaces, streaming and large software-as-a-service platforms), so bands hold up better outside London than most infrastructure tracks. Head of Site Reliability Engineering is the highest-paid role in this section at £120–155k in London, ahead of Head of DevSecOps, reflecting direct accountability for availability and error budgets at board level. Remote site reliability roles are benchmarked at roughly 89% of the London band, the narrowest location discount in this guide, making distributed hiring an efficient route to senior reliability talent.
| Role | Manchester & North West |
|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | £55–70k |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | £70–80k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Site Reliability Engineer | £80–95k |
| Head of Site Reliability Engineering | £100–125k |
Site reliability engineering prices in line with DevSecOps across the ladder, but the shape of demand differs. Hiring is concentrated in organisations running genuine scale (payments, marketplaces, streaming and large software-as-a-service platforms), so bands hold up better outside London than most infrastructure tracks. Head of Site Reliability Engineering is the highest-paid role in this section at £120–155k in London, ahead of Head of DevSecOps, reflecting direct accountability for availability and error budgets at board level. Remote site reliability roles are benchmarked at roughly 89% of the London band, the narrowest location discount in this guide, making distributed hiring an efficient route to senior reliability talent.
| Role | Bristol & West |
|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | £55–75k |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | £75–85k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Site Reliability Engineer | £85–100k |
| Head of Site Reliability Engineering | £105–135k |
Site reliability engineering prices in line with DevSecOps across the ladder, but the shape of demand differs. Hiring is concentrated in organisations running genuine scale (payments, marketplaces, streaming and large software-as-a-service platforms), so bands hold up better outside London than most infrastructure tracks. Head of Site Reliability Engineering is the highest-paid role in this section at £120–155k in London, ahead of Head of DevSecOps, reflecting direct accountability for availability and error budgets at board level. Remote site reliability roles are benchmarked at roughly 89% of the London band, the narrowest location discount in this guide, making distributed hiring an efficient route to senior reliability talent.
| Role | Birmingham & Midlands |
|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | £55–70k |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | £70–80k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Site Reliability Engineer | £80–95k |
| Head of Site Reliability Engineering | £100–125k |
Site reliability engineering prices in line with DevSecOps across the ladder, but the shape of demand differs. Hiring is concentrated in organisations running genuine scale (payments, marketplaces, streaming and large software-as-a-service platforms), so bands hold up better outside London than most infrastructure tracks. Head of Site Reliability Engineering is the highest-paid role in this section at £120–155k in London, ahead of Head of DevSecOps, reflecting direct accountability for availability and error budgets at board level. Remote site reliability roles are benchmarked at roughly 89% of the London band, the narrowest location discount in this guide, making distributed hiring an efficient route to senior reliability talent.
| Role | Newcastle & North East |
|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | £50–65k |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | £65–75k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Site Reliability Engineer | £75–85k |
| Head of Site Reliability Engineering | £90–120k |
Site reliability engineering prices in line with DevSecOps across the ladder, but the shape of demand differs. Hiring is concentrated in organisations running genuine scale (payments, marketplaces, streaming and large software-as-a-service platforms), so bands hold up better outside London than most infrastructure tracks. Head of Site Reliability Engineering is the highest-paid role in this section at £120–155k in London, ahead of Head of DevSecOps, reflecting direct accountability for availability and error budgets at board level. Remote site reliability roles are benchmarked at roughly 89% of the London band, the narrowest location discount in this guide, making distributed hiring an efficient route to senior reliability talent.
| Role | Scotland |
|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | £55–70k |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | £70–85k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Site Reliability Engineer | £85–100k |
| Head of Site Reliability Engineering | £100–130k |
Site reliability engineering prices in line with DevSecOps across the ladder, but the shape of demand differs. Hiring is concentrated in organisations running genuine scale (payments, marketplaces, streaming and large software-as-a-service platforms), so bands hold up better outside London than most infrastructure tracks. Head of Site Reliability Engineering is the highest-paid role in this section at £120–155k in London, ahead of Head of DevSecOps, reflecting direct accountability for availability and error budgets at board level. Remote site reliability roles are benchmarked at roughly 89% of the London band, the narrowest location discount in this guide, making distributed hiring an efficient route to senior reliability talent.
| Role | Dublin |
|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | €65–85k |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | €85–100k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Site Reliability Engineer | €100–115k |
| Head of Site Reliability Engineering | €120–155k |
Site reliability engineering prices in line with DevSecOps across the ladder, but the shape of demand differs. Hiring is concentrated in organisations running genuine scale (payments, marketplaces, streaming and large software-as-a-service platforms), so bands hold up better outside London than most infrastructure tracks. Head of Site Reliability Engineering is the highest-paid role in this section at £120–155k in London, ahead of Head of DevSecOps, reflecting direct accountability for availability and error budgets at board level. Remote site reliability roles are benchmarked at roughly 89% of the London band, the narrowest location discount in this guide, making distributed hiring an efficient route to senior reliability talent.
| Role | Belfast & Northern Ireland |
|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | £45–60k |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | £60–70k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Site Reliability Engineer | £70–85k |
| Head of Site Reliability Engineering | £85–110k |
Site reliability engineering prices in line with DevSecOps across the ladder, but the shape of demand differs. Hiring is concentrated in organisations running genuine scale (payments, marketplaces, streaming and large software-as-a-service platforms), so bands hold up better outside London than most infrastructure tracks. Head of Site Reliability Engineering is the highest-paid role in this section at £120–155k in London, ahead of Head of DevSecOps, reflecting direct accountability for availability and error budgets at board level. Remote site reliability roles are benchmarked at roughly 89% of the London band, the narrowest location discount in this guide, making distributed hiring an efficient route to senior reliability talent.
| Role | Remote |
|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | £60–75k |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | £75–90k |
| Principal / Lead / Staff Site Reliability Engineer | £90–100k |
| Head of Site Reliability Engineering | £105–140k |
Site reliability engineering prices in line with DevSecOps across the ladder, but the shape of demand differs. Hiring is concentrated in organisations running genuine scale (payments, marketplaces, streaming and large software-as-a-service platforms), so bands hold up better outside London than most infrastructure tracks. Head of Site Reliability Engineering is the highest-paid role in this section at £120–155k in London, ahead of Head of DevSecOps, reflecting direct accountability for availability and error budgets at board level. Remote site reliability roles are benchmarked at roughly 89% of the London band, the narrowest location discount in this guide, making distributed hiring an efficient route to senior reliability talent.
