Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK
The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 27 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 349 | 303 | 253 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -46 | -50 | +102 |
| Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering | 625 | 435 | 710 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the UK | 0.52% | 0.88% | 1.04% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category | 0.70% | 1.00% | 1.26% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 412 | 153 | 275 |
| 10th Percentile | £53,750 | £57,500 | £61,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £65,000 | £68,750 | £67,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £80,000 | £77,500 | £82,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +3.23% | -6.06% | +3.13% |
| 75th Percentile | £97,813 | £89,000 | £102,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £105,000 | £111,000 | £118,750 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £80,000 | £73,801 | £75,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +8.40% | -1.60% | +12.36% |
All Process & Methodology Skills
UK
Site Reliability Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing process or methodology skills.
| 6 months to 27 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills | 89,161 | 43,476 | 56,183 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 73.55% | 88.06% | 82.51% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 60,237 | 25,076 | 29,761 |
| 10th Percentile | £31,250 | £28,250 | £33,750 |
| 25th Percentile | £41,250 | £35,500 | £45,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £60,000 | £53,725 | £60,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +11.68% | -10.46% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £77,500 | £75,000 | £78,750 |
| 90th Percentile | £100,000 | £95,000 | £97,500 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £55,000 | £45,500 | £54,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +20.88% | -15.74% | +2.86% |
Site Reliability Engineering Job Vacancy Trend
Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.
Site Reliability Engineering Salary Trend
Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Site Reliability Engineering.
Site Reliability Engineering Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 27 October 2026.
Site Reliability Engineering Top 17 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 27 October 2026. 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Salary Past 6 Months |
Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | -75 | 488 | £80,000 | - | 129 |
| UK excluding London | -33 | 438 | £80,000 | +8.40% | 104 |
| Work from Home | -101 | 189 | £75,411 | -2.70% | 73 |
| London | -22 | 160 | £90,000 | +5.88% | 46 |
| North of England | -107 | 137 | £80,000 | +6.67% | 34 |
| North West | -88 | 91 | £75,000 | +1.62% | 20 |
| South East | +5 | 74 | £95,000 | +18.75% | 33 |
| South West | -19 | 73 | £75,000 | -16.67% | 15 |
| Northern Ireland | -35 | 53 | £80,000 | +8.40% | 1 |
| Scotland | +24 | 47 | £80,000 | +8.40% | 7 |
| Midlands | -44 | 36 | £65,000 | -11.93% | 11 |
| North East | -40 | 26 | £80,000 | +8.40% | 3 |
| West Midlands | -35 | 23 | £71,991 | -2.45% | 7 |
| Yorkshire | -42 | 20 | £97,500 | +27.87% | 11 |
| East Midlands | - | 13 | £60,000 | - | 4 |
| Wales | -62 | 12 | £71,991 | +3.73% | 2 |
| East of England | -45 | 9 | £85,000 | +21.43% | 3 |
Site Reliability Engineering Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Processes & Methodologies
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DevOps | 62.2% | 389 |
| 2 | Infrastructure as Code | 50.9% | 318 |
| 3 | CI/CD | 49.9% | 312 |
| 4 | Observability | 36.6% | 229 |
| 5 | Platform Engineering | 33.3% | 208 |
| 6 | Containerisation | 25.1% | 157 |
| 7 | Software Engineering | 23.7% | 148 |
| 8 | Agile | 21.1% | 132 |
| 9 | Continuous Improvement | 18.7% | 117 |
| 10 | Mentoring | 17.6% | 110 |
| 11 | Infrastructure Engineering | 16.0% | 100 |
| 12 | Incident Management | 15.7% | 98 |
| 13 | ITIL | 15.4% | 96 |
| 14 | AI | 14.6% | 91 |
| 15 | Disaster Recovery | 13.9% | 87 |
| 16 | Incident Response | 13.3% | 83 |
| 17 | Technical Leadership | 12.8% | 80 |
| 18 | Runbook | 12.6% | 79 |
| 19 | Cloud Security | 11.8% | 74 |
| 20 | Test Automation | 11.4% | 71 |