Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 349 401
Rank change year-on-year +8 +52 -91
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 416 675 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.79% 0.75% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.91% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 179 349 443
10th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,509 £62,500 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.03% +6.45%
75th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £127,500 £125,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.96%

All Process and 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 47,315 74,118 71,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 90.14% 82.56% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,083 51,935 47,067
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,500 £40,000 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £81,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in England over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 2025. 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
North of England -4 213 £69,384 +10.51% 25
North West -22 192 £67,037 +6.78% 11
London +48 137 £107,500 +7.50% 182
West Midlands +75 21 £67,500 -18.18% 5
Midlands +63 21 £67,500 +12.50% 11
Yorkshire +17 18 £77,500 +23.44% 9
South West +40 11 £75,000 - 23
South East +37 8 £73,750 +7.27% 53
East of England +35 8 £65,000 -0.94% 9
North East +25 3 £69,384 +10.51% 5
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
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 31 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (7.21%) Apache
2 30 (7.21%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.20%) Apache Solr
3 5 (1.20%) nginx
4 3 (0.72%) CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.24%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 332 (79.81%) AWS
2 273 (65.63%) Azure
3 239 (57.45%) GCP
4 61 (14.66%) Amazon ECS
5 46 (11.06%) Serverless
6 43 (10.34%) OpenShift
7 39 (9.38%) dbt
8 36 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (5.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (5.29%) Pulumi
11 21 (5.05%) Datadog
12 15 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (3.61%) GitHub
13 14 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (2.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 10 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (2.16%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.64%) TCP/IP
2 8 (1.92%) DNS
2 8 (1.92%) NAS
2 8 (1.92%) SAN
3 6 (1.44%) Firewall
4 4 (0.96%) Network Security
5 3 (0.72%) SNMP
5 3 (0.72%) WAN
5 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.48%) DHCP
6 2 (0.48%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.48%) IPsec
6 2 (0.48%) SSH
7 1 (0.24%) BGP
7 1 (0.24%) Internet
7 1 (0.24%) Multicast
7 1 (0.24%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.24%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.24%) VLAN
7 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.21%) Amazon Athena
1 30 (7.21%) Apache Arrow
1 30 (7.21%) Apache Iceberg
1 30 (7.21%) Apache Ignite
1 30 (7.21%) Dremio
2 20 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.09%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.40%) Redis
7 9 (2.16%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.68%) MySQL
9 3 (0.72%) Couchbase
9 3 (0.72%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.48%) DB2
10 2 (0.48%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 36 (8.65%) GitLab
1 36 (8.65%) Jenkins
2 31 (7.45%) Artifactory
3 8 (1.92%) JIRA
4 7 (1.68%) Git
5 5 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.96%) Vite
7 3 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.24%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.24%) Subversion
9 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 199 (47.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 101 (24.28%) Finance
3 61 (14.66%) Social Skills
4 32 (7.69%) Front Office
5 24 (5.77%) Banking
6 21 (5.05%) Law
7 18 (4.33%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.40%) Marketing
9 6 (1.44%) Electronics
9 6 (1.44%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.20%) Games
11 4 (0.96%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.48%) Advertising
12 2 (0.48%) Retail
13 1 (0.24%) Billing
13 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Military
Job Titles
1 220 (52.88%) Senior
2 198 (47.60%) Software Engineer
3 179 (43.03%) Senior Software Engineer
4 83 (19.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 61 (14.66%) DevOps Engineer
5 61 (14.66%) Site Engineer
6 46 (11.06%) Lead
7 42 (10.10%) AWS Engineer
8 40 (9.62%) AWS DevOps
9 39 (9.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 34 (8.17%) Python Engineer
11 30 (7.21%) Data Engineer
12 15 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.40%) Java Engineer
15 9 (2.16%) Azure Engineer
15 9 (2.16%) Kubernetes Engineer
16 8 (1.92%) Java Software Engineer
17 7 (1.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 7 (1.68%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (50.48%) .NET
2 188 (45.19%) Node.js
3 46 (11.06%) Kafka
4 30 (7.21%) J2EE
4 30 (7.21%) PySpark
5 24 (5.77%) Loki
6 12 (2.88%) Spring
7 9 (2.16%) Django
8 8 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (1.92%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.44%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.20%) React
10 5 (1.20%) REST
11 4 (0.96%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.96%) Jest
12 3 (0.72%) .NET Framework
12 3 (0.72%) JPA
12 3 (0.72%) LDAP
12 3 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 181 (43.51%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (42.79%) Cyberattack
2 178 (42.79%) Linux Command Line
3 33 (7.93%) Cloud Native
4 18 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 17 (4.09%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.92%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.96%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.72%) CMDB
11 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.48%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.48%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.24%) Clustering
13 1 (0.24%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 209 (50.24%) Linux
2 13 (3.13%) Unix
3 11 (2.64%) Windows
4 9 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.72%) Android
6 2 (0.48%) CentOS
6 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Debian
7 1 (0.24%) SUSE
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (65.14%) Agile
2 243 (58.41%) Software Engineering
3 221 (53.13%) Data Engineering
4 209 (50.24%) Mentoring
5 197 (47.36%) Microservices
6 187 (44.95%) Machine Learning
7 186 (44.71%) Cloud Security
8 183 (43.99%) Scrum
8 183 (43.99%) User Experience
9 165 (39.66%) DevOps
10 131 (31.49%) CI/CD
11 68 (16.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 68 (16.35%) Observability
12 58 (13.94%) Containerisation
13 50 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
14 49 (11.78%) Open Source
15 32 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (7.45%) Asset Management
16 31 (7.45%) Platform Engineering
17 28 (6.73%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 304 (73.08%) Python
2 252 (60.58%) Java
3 237 (56.97%) Go
4 194 (46.63%) JavaScript
5 181 (43.51%) C++
5 181 (43.51%) Rust
6 46 (11.06%) Bash
7 32 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 26 (6.25%) TypeScript
9 22 (5.29%) C#
10 13 (3.13%) SQL
11 8 (1.92%) Bicep
12 6 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (1.20%) Ruby
13 5 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.72%) Gremlin
15 2 (0.48%) Elixir
15 2 (0.48%) Groovy
15 2 (0.48%) Perl
15 2 (0.48%) PHP
Qualifications
1 204 (49.04%) Security Cleared
2 192 (46.15%) AWS Certification
3 186 (44.71%) DV Cleared
4 182 (43.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 178 (42.79%) AWS Certified Developer
6 22 (5.29%) Degree
7 16 (3.85%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.72%) CISSP
11 1 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.24%) CCSP
11 1 (0.24%) CISA
11 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CISM
11 1 (0.24%) CRISC
11 1 (0.24%) FFIEC
11 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.92%) QA
2 7 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.44%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.96%) GDPR
4 4 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.72%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.72%) NIST
5 3 (0.72%) SLA
6 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) COBIT
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 103 (24.76%) Docker
2 6 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.48%) Squid
6 1 (0.24%) HDFS
6 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 149 (35.82%) Kubernetes
2 134 (32.21%) Terraform
3 63 (15.14%) Grafana
4 59 (14.18%) Prometheus
5 36 (8.65%) Ansible
6 13 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.16%) Istio
8 8 (1.92%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (1.92%) Puppet
9 4 (0.96%) Argo
9 4 (0.96%) Kibana
9 4 (0.96%) Podman
10 3 (0.72%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.72%) linkerd
11 2 (0.48%) logstash
11 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.24%) Packer
12 1 (0.24%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.24%) Salt
Vendors
1 21 (5.05%) Oracle
2 20 (4.81%) Google
3 14 (3.37%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.37%) Splunk
4 13 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.40%) SAP
6 9 (2.16%) VMware
7 8 (1.92%) Hitachi
8 6 (1.44%) Confluent
8 6 (1.44%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.96%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.96%) New Relic
10 3 (0.72%) F5
10 3 (0.72%) Sybase
11 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.48%) Databricks
11 2 (0.48%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.48%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.48%) Sonatype
11 2 (0.48%) Sun