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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 312 276
Rank change year-on-year -40 -36 +67
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 474 375 688
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.87% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.98% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 376 121 293
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £103,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +3.23%

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 74,604 38,365 56,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.40% 88.79% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 52,829 22,080 32,110
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,233 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -5 155 £87,500 -5.41% 512
North of England -93 138 £80,000 +6.67% 121
North West -61 96 £75,000 +25.52% 76
South West -20 76 £75,000 -18.92% 73
South East +8 55 £77,500 - 73
North East - 24 £80,000 - 15
East of England -14 23 £90,000 +30.91% 34
Midlands -32 23 £68,496 +1.47% 54
Yorkshire -54 18 £97,500 +27.87% 30
West Midlands -38 17 £71,991 +6.65% 39
East Midlands - 6 £62,500 - 15
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 7 (1.48%) Apache
2 6 (1.27%) Confluence
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 190 (40.08%) AWS
2 156 (32.91%) Azure
3 92 (19.41%) GCP
4 62 (13.08%) GitHub
5 49 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (9.92%) Datadog
7 39 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (7.38%) Serverless
9 31 (6.54%) Azure AKS
10 28 (5.91%) SaaS
11 27 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (3.80%) OpenShift
13 15 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (2.11%) Entra ID
15 9 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 7 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.53%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.11%) VPN
3 9 (1.90%) Firewall
4 7 (1.48%) DNS
4 7 (1.48%) Internet
5 4 (0.84%) ATM
5 4 (0.84%) BGP
5 4 (0.84%) Network Security
6 3 (0.63%) MQTT
6 3 (0.63%) WAN
7 2 (0.42%) IPv4
7 2 (0.42%) IPv6
7 2 (0.42%) VLAN
7 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.42%) WireGuard
8 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.53%) MongoDB
3 11 (2.32%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.27%) Redis
7 5 (1.05%) KDB
7 5 (1.05%) MySQL
8 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.63%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.42%) Big Data
10 2 (0.42%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.42%) Scylla
11 1 (0.21%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.21%) Power BI
11 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 59 (12.45%) GitLab
2 51 (10.76%) Git
3 46 (9.70%) Jenkins
4 29 (6.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (1.69%) JIRA
6 6 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.84%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.42%) MSI
8 2 (0.42%) Snyk
9 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 110 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 84 (17.72%) Finance
3 45 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.38%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.27%) Banking
6 16 (3.38%) Law
7 14 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.48%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.48%) Retail
10 6 (1.27%) Digital Economy
10 6 (1.27%) Front Office
10 6 (1.27%) Legal
11 5 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.63%) Marketing
13 2 (0.42%) Local Government
14 1 (0.21%) Advertising
14 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.21%) French Language
Job Titles
1 130 (27.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 117 (24.68%) Site Engineer
3 108 (22.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 97 (20.46%) Senior
5 67 (14.14%) Lead
6 46 (9.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 46 (9.70%) Platform Engineer
7 45 (9.49%) Principal Engineer
8 43 (9.07%) Software Engineer
9 41 (8.65%) Python Engineer
10 38 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
11 37 (7.81%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 26 (5.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
15 17 (3.59%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 17 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 17 (3.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 16 (3.38%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (50.84%) Terraform
2 40 (8.44%) Spring
2 40 (8.44%) Spring Boot
3 18 (3.80%) Kafka
4 12 (2.53%) .NET
4 12 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (2.32%) Loki
6 10 (2.11%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.90%) Node.js
8 8 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (1.48%) Apache NiFi
9 7 (1.48%) REST
10 6 (1.27%) React
11 5 (1.05%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (1.05%) gRPC
11 5 (1.05%) YAML
12 4 (0.84%) Middleware
12 4 (0.84%) OpenTofu
13 3 (0.63%) Keycloak
13 3 (0.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 130 (27.43%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.32%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.48%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.05%) Clustering
9 5 (1.05%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.84%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.63%) Blog
11 3 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.63%) EMV
11 3 (0.63%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 105 (22.15%) Linux
2 35 (7.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (5.70%) CentOS
4 24 (5.06%) Windows
5 22 (4.64%) Unix
6 10 (2.11%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.42%) VMS
9 1 (0.21%) Android
9 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (61.18%) DevOps
2 249 (52.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 248 (52.32%) CI/CD
4 198 (41.77%) Observability
5 188 (39.66%) Platform Engineering
6 135 (28.48%) Software Engineering
7 108 (22.78%) Containerisation
8 93 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 89 (18.78%) Agile
10 86 (18.14%) AI
11 65 (13.71%) Incident Response
12 64 (13.50%) Mentoring
13 57 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 57 (12.03%) Root Cause Analysis
14 56 (11.81%) Incident Management
15 55 (11.60%) Microservices
15 55 (11.60%) Technical Leadership
16 53 (11.18%) Roadmaps
17 50 (10.55%) ITIL
17 50 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 207 (43.67%) Python
2 71 (14.98%) Java
3 66 (13.92%) PowerShell
4 62 (13.08%) Bash
5 28 (5.91%) SQL
6 24 (5.06%) Go
7 16 (3.38%) Shell Script
8 13 (2.74%) Bicep
9 11 (2.32%) C#
10 10 (2.11%) C++
11 9 (1.90%) C
12 8 (1.69%) Groovy
12 8 (1.69%) JavaScript
13 7 (1.48%) PHP
14 6 (1.27%) Rust
15 5 (1.05%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.63%) COBOL
17 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
18 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 178 (37.55%) Security Cleared
2 120 (25.32%) DV Cleared
3 112 (23.63%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.85%) Degree
5 12 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.05%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.84%) PhD
10 3 (0.63%) CISSP
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.21%) PMP
12 1 (0.21%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.38%) SLA
2 8 (1.69%) QA
3 6 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.05%) GDPR
4 5 (1.05%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.63%) ISO 8583
5 3 (0.63%) NCSC
5 3 (0.63%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.42%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.21%) GxP
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 120 (25.32%) Docker
2 6 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.42%) iptables
4 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.21%) KVM
Systems Management
1 192 (40.51%) Kubernetes
2 150 (31.65%) Ansible
3 78 (16.46%) Grafana
4 54 (11.39%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.22%) Argo
5 20 (4.22%) Puppet
6 10 (2.11%) Istio
7 9 (1.90%) Kustomize
8 7 (1.48%) Podman
9 5 (1.05%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.84%) Nagios
11 3 (0.63%) linkerd
12 2 (0.42%) Kibana
12 2 (0.42%) Packer
13 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.21%) logstash
13 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.54%) Google
3 22 (4.64%) Dynatrace
4 17 (3.59%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.95%) Oracle
6 13 (2.74%) Splunk
7 8 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.27%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.05%) Databricks
10 4 (0.84%) Tenable
10 4 (0.84%) VMware
10 4 (0.84%) VocaLink
11 3 (0.63%) HP
11 3 (0.63%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.42%) Informatica
12 2 (0.42%) Sage
12 2 (0.42%) SGI
13 1 (0.21%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.21%) Cisco
13 1 (0.21%) IBM