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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 306 293
Rank change year-on-year -57 -13 +59
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 463 402 659
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.92% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.03% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 376 158 304
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,315 £64,509 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +2.63%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,681 £105,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.56% -

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 69,329 39,151 59,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.66% 89.41% 81.35%
Number of salaries quoted 48,879 22,544 38,747
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -25 144 £90,000 -2.70% 518
North of England -91 132 £75,000 +7.14% 77
North West -58 92 £75,000 +11.88% 44
South West +3 72 £75,000 -18.76% 45
South East +32 56 £75,000 -1.64% 56
East of England +1 32 £89,375 +30.00% 24
Midlands -33 22 £65,000 -3.70% 37
North East -36 22 £80,000 +15.30% 13
Yorkshire -32 18 £86,250 +11.29% 20
West Midlands -28 16 £68,496 +1.47% 22
East Midlands - 6 £65,000 - 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 9 (1.94%) Apache
2 7 (1.51%) Confluence
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 196 (42.33%) AWS
2 173 (37.37%) Azure
3 93 (20.09%) GCP
4 58 (12.53%) GitHub
5 42 (9.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 40 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (8.42%) Datadog
8 34 (7.34%) Serverless
9 30 (6.48%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (6.48%) SaaS
10 28 (6.05%) Azure AKS
11 27 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (5.18%) OpenShift
13 13 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (1.94%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.73%) Amazon MSK
17 7 (1.51%) dbt
17 7 (1.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.10%) TCP/IP
2 17 (3.67%) Firewall
3 16 (3.46%) DNS
4 10 (2.16%) VPN
5 6 (1.30%) HTTP
6 5 (1.08%) MQTT
7 4 (0.86%) ATM
7 4 (0.86%) BGP
7 4 (0.86%) Network Security
8 3 (0.65%) WAN
9 2 (0.43%) IPv4
9 2 (0.43%) IPv6
9 2 (0.43%) VLAN
9 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.43%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.02%) MongoDB
2 13 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.16%) NoSQL
3 10 (2.16%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.30%) Power BI
5 5 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.08%) KDB
5 5 (1.08%) MySQL
6 4 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.65%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.43%) Big Data
8 2 (0.43%) Redis
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.22%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.22%) Scylla
9 1 (0.22%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 58 (12.53%) GitLab
2 47 (10.15%) Git
2 47 (10.15%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 11 (2.38%) JIRA
5 6 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.43%) MSI
7 2 (0.43%) Snyk
7 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.22%) JMeter
8 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.22%) Postman
8 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.22%) Selenium
8 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 99 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 88 (19.01%) Finance
3 42 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.26%) Banking
5 27 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.10%) Law
7 15 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.73%) Retail
10 7 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.51%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.51%) Front Office
10 7 (1.51%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.30%) Digital Economy
12 4 (0.86%) Legal
13 3 (0.65%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.65%) Automotive
13 3 (0.65%) Electronics
13 3 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 125 (27.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 111 (23.97%) Site Engineer
3 97 (20.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 85 (18.36%) Senior
5 69 (14.90%) Lead
6 45 (9.72%) Software Engineer
7 42 (9.07%) Azure Engineer
8 41 (8.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 38 (8.21%) Platform Engineer
10 34 (7.34%) Principal Engineer
11 30 (6.48%) Python Engineer
12 28 (6.05%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 26 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
14 25 (5.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 20 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
16 19 (4.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 16 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 14 (3.02%) Architect
19 13 (2.81%) Developer
19 13 (2.81%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.13%) Spring
1 33 (7.13%) Spring Boot
2 27 (5.83%) Kafka
3 19 (4.10%) .NET
4 18 (3.89%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.59%) ARM Templates
6 10 (2.16%) Loki
7 9 (1.94%) React
8 8 (1.73%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (1.73%) Node.js
8 8 (1.73%) REST
9 6 (1.30%) .NET Core
9 6 (1.30%) YAML
10 5 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (1.08%) gRPC
10 5 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.86%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.86%) Backbone.js
11 4 (0.86%) Middleware
11 4 (0.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 123 (26.57%) Cloud Native
2 36 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (3.46%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.08%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.08%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.86%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.86%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.65%) Clustering
10 3 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.65%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 99 (21.38%) Linux
2 31 (6.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 31 (6.70%) Windows
3 23 (4.97%) CentOS
4 20 (4.32%) Unix
5 15 (3.24%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.73%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.51%) VMS
8 4 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.22%) Android
10 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.22%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (62.85%) DevOps
2 239 (51.62%) CI/CD
3 233 (50.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 201 (43.41%) Observability
5 173 (37.37%) Platform Engineering
6 112 (24.19%) Containerisation
6 112 (24.19%) Software Engineering
7 98 (21.17%) Agile
8 97 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 89 (19.22%) AI
10 72 (15.55%) Incident Response
11 64 (13.82%) Mentoring
12 60 (12.96%) Microservices
12 60 (12.96%) Root Cause Analysis
13 53 (11.45%) Incident Management
14 52 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
15 51 (11.02%) Roadmaps
15 51 (11.02%) Technical Leadership
16 45 (9.72%) Deployment Automation
16 45 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 209 (45.14%) Python
2 72 (15.55%) Bash
3 65 (14.04%) PowerShell
4 64 (13.82%) Java
5 33 (7.13%) Go
6 30 (6.48%) SQL
7 18 (3.89%) C#
8 15 (3.24%) Bicep
9 10 (2.16%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.94%) C
10 9 (1.94%) C++
11 8 (1.73%) Groovy
11 8 (1.73%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.73%) Rust
12 7 (1.51%) PHP
13 6 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.65%) COBOL
15 2 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 162 (34.99%) Security Cleared
2 104 (22.46%) DV Cleared
3 96 (20.73%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.18%) Degree
5 12 (2.59%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.16%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.94%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.65%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.65%) CISSP
12 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.22%) CISM
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
13 1 (0.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.24%) SLA
2 11 (2.38%) QA
3 7 (1.51%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.86%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.65%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.65%) ISO 8583
6 3 (0.65%) NCSC
7 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.43%) GDPR
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.43%) NIST
8 1 (0.22%) GxP
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 113 (24.41%) Docker
2 14 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.30%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.43%) iptables
4 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 231 (49.89%) Terraform
2 187 (40.39%) Kubernetes
3 139 (30.02%) Ansible
4 82 (17.71%) Grafana
5 59 (12.74%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.10%) Argo
7 18 (3.89%) Puppet
8 17 (3.67%) Istio
9 8 (1.73%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.73%) Nagios
10 7 (1.51%) Podman
11 4 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.86%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.65%) linkerd
13 2 (0.43%) Packer
14 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.22%) Kibana
14 1 (0.22%) Netcool
14 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 37 (7.99%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.75%) Dynatrace
3 20 (4.32%) Google
4 18 (3.89%) Splunk
5 15 (3.24%) Red Hat
6 14 (3.02%) Oracle
7 8 (1.73%) Confluent
8 7 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.08%) Databricks
10 4 (0.86%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.86%) Tenable
10 4 (0.86%) VocaLink
11 3 (0.65%) HP
11 3 (0.65%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.65%) VMware
12 2 (0.43%) Informatica
12 2 (0.43%) Sage
13 1 (0.22%) IBM
13 1 (0.22%) SGI
13 1 (0.22%) Sybase