Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 315 476
Rank change year-on-year -77 +161 -153
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 279 342 364
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.94% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.00% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 224 303 257
10th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £94,637 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.75% +18.30% -5.88%
75th Percentile £92,500 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £127,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% +15.63% -1.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,028 34,071 67,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.72% 93.22% 86.35%
Number of salaries quoted 33,923 20,346 52,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,844 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in England

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 1 April 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -103 114 £87,500 -20.45% 48
North of England -21 74 £65,000 -6.32% 35
North West -11 41 £71,901 +3.23% 17
South West -31 25 £60,000 -11.11% 27
East of England -14 22 £80,150 +23.31% 12
South East -37 22 £80,000 +6.67% 31
Yorkshire -38 19 £65,000 -10.34% 11
North East -17 14 £47,500 -31.54% 7
Midlands -30 12 £47,500 -20.83% 6
West Midlands -15 10 £47,500 -20.83% 3
East Midlands -41 2 £130,000 +188.89% 3
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.43%) Apache
2 4 (1.43%) Appian
3 2 (0.72%) Confluence
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 148 (53.05%) AWS
2 122 (43.73%) Azure
3 76 (27.24%) GCP
4 52 (18.64%) GitHub
5 48 (17.20%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (13.26%) Amazon EKS
7 28 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (10.04%) Serverless
8 25 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (8.96%) Datadog
9 21 (7.53%) SaaS
10 20 (7.17%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (5.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 14 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (5.02%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (5.02%) Power Platform
13 13 (4.66%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 13 (4.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (4.30%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.47%) TCP/IP
2 26 (9.32%) DNS
3 23 (8.24%) HTTP
4 22 (7.89%) Firewall
5 14 (5.02%) Broadband
6 12 (4.30%) BGP
6 12 (4.30%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (3.94%) 4G
7 11 (3.94%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (3.94%) IOS XR
7 11 (3.94%) MPLS
8 6 (2.15%) SSL
9 4 (1.43%) MQTT
10 2 (0.72%) Network Security
11 1 (0.36%) DHCP
11 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.32%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.38%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.02%) Power BI
5 12 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (3.94%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.94%) Redis
7 10 (3.58%) Flink
8 9 (3.23%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.43%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.43%) Weaviate
12 3 (1.08%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.72%) SQLPlus
14 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.36%) MySQL
14 1 (0.36%) Sybase ASE
14 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (17.56%) Jenkins
2 39 (13.98%) GitLab
3 31 (11.11%) Git
4 9 (3.23%) JIRA
5 6 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.72%) Gradle
6 2 (0.72%) Maven
6 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.36%) Gatling
7 1 (0.36%) JMeter
7 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.36%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 76 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.64%) Finance
3 36 (12.90%) Telecoms
4 28 (10.04%) Banking
5 20 (7.17%) Law
6 16 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.94%) Front Office
9 6 (2.15%) Advertising
9 6 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.79%) Electronics
10 5 (1.79%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.08%) Automotive
12 3 (1.08%) Marketing
13 2 (0.72%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (0.72%) Games
13 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 63 (22.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 60 (21.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 46 (16.49%) Site Engineer
4 37 (13.26%) Lead
4 37 (13.26%) Senior
5 27 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (9.32%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (7.53%) Software Engineer
8 19 (6.81%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (6.81%) Lead DevOps
9 17 (6.09%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (5.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 16 (5.73%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 14 (5.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.30%) Developer
13 11 (3.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.94%) Network Engineer
13 11 (3.94%) Reliability Engineer
13 11 (3.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.68%) Elastic Stack
1 27 (9.68%) Kafka
2 16 (5.73%) .NET
2 16 (5.73%) React
2 16 (5.73%) Spring
3 15 (5.38%) Django
3 15 (5.38%) Spring Boot
4 14 (5.02%) Node.js
5 12 (4.30%) .NET Core
6 11 (3.94%) Jinja
6 11 (3.94%) NETCONF
6 11 (3.94%) YANG
7 9 (3.23%) REST
8 8 (2.87%) FastAPI
9 7 (2.51%) Loki
10 6 (2.15%) ARM Templates
11 5 (1.79%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (1.79%) Vue
12 4 (1.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.94%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.94%) Social Media
5 6 (2.15%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.43%) Hackathon
6 4 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.72%) CMDB
8 2 (0.72%) Equities
8 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.72%) Robotics
8 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (22.94%) Linux
2 28 (10.04%) Windows
3 19 (6.81%) Unix
4 12 (4.30%) VMS
5 11 (3.94%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.51%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.08%) CentOS
9 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (67.74%) DevOps
2 151 (54.12%) CI/CD
3 124 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 112 (40.14%) Observability
5 89 (31.90%) Agile
6 77 (27.60%) Platform Engineering
7 74 (26.52%) Containerisation
8 66 (23.66%) Incident Response
9 59 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (19.71%) AI
11 49 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (16.49%) Analytics
13 40 (14.34%) High Availability
13 40 (14.34%) Incident Management
14 39 (13.98%) Root Cause Analysis
15 38 (13.62%) Software Engineering
16 37 (13.26%) DevSecOps
17 36 (12.90%) Service-Level Objective
18 32 (11.47%) Microservices
19 29 (10.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 144 (51.61%) Python
2 53 (19.00%) Bash
3 48 (17.20%) Java
4 42 (15.05%) Go
5 31 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 31 (11.11%) SQL
6 20 (7.17%) C#
7 13 (4.66%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.30%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (2.51%) Bicep
10 5 (1.79%) Rust
11 3 (1.08%) C
11 3 (1.08%) C++
11 3 (1.08%) Groovy
12 2 (0.72%) PHP
12 2 (0.72%) Ruby
12 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.72%) VB
13 1 (0.36%) JCL
Qualifications
1 52 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.96%) Degree
2 25 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.60%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.36%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.02%) SLA
2 13 (4.66%) QA
3 3 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.08%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.72%) GRC
4 2 (0.72%) MiFID
5 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 86 (30.82%) Docker
2 10 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 131 (46.95%) Terraform
2 105 (37.63%) Kubernetes
3 72 (25.81%) Grafana
4 68 (24.37%) Ansible
5 65 (23.30%) Prometheus
6 17 (6.09%) Argo
7 11 (3.94%) Istio
8 8 (2.87%) Nagios
9 6 (2.15%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.72%) Puppet
11 1 (0.36%) Cilium
11 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.36%) Icinga
11 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.36%) Netcool
11 1 (0.36%) Podman
11 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 26 (9.32%) Splunk
2 13 (4.66%) Google
3 11 (3.94%) Cisco
4 10 (3.58%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.58%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.87%) Confluent
6 6 (2.15%) Oracle
6 6 (2.15%) SolarWinds
7 5 (1.79%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.43%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.43%) New Relic
8 4 (1.43%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.08%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.08%) Databricks
9 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.08%) VMware
10 2 (0.72%) BigPanda
10 2 (0.72%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.72%) SAP
11 1 (0.36%) Tenable