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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 301 257
Rank change year-on-year -57 -44 +105
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 490 378 678
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.89% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.00% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 366 119 258
10th Percentile £53,750 £62,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £104,375 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% -

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 77,501 37,821 52,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.92% 88.83% 82.64%
Number of salaries quoted 54,213 21,941 27,921
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £33,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 16 October 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 16 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -19 160 £90,000 +4.35% 45
North of England -101 138 £80,000 +6.67% 20
North West -86 91 £75,000 +1.62% 12
South West -2 75 £75,000 -16.67% 12
South East +9 69 £80,000 - 44
Midlands -24 32 £68,496 -0.37% 12
North East -46 26 £80,000 +8.40% 3
West Midlands -33 21 £71,991 +4.71% 9
Yorkshire -43 21 £97,500 +25.81% 5
East of England -40 14 £85,000 +21.43% 4
East Midlands - 11 £65,000 - 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 7 (1.43%) Confluence
2 6 (1.22%) Apache
3 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 222 (45.31%) AWS
2 181 (36.94%) Azure
3 115 (23.47%) GCP
4 66 (13.47%) GitHub
5 50 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 49 (10.00%) Datadog
7 38 (7.76%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (7.76%) Serverless
8 34 (6.94%) Cloud Computing
9 31 (6.33%) Azure AKS
9 31 (6.33%) SaaS
10 27 (5.51%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (3.67%) OpenShift
12 13 (2.65%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (2.24%) Entra ID
14 10 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.43%) dbt
15 7 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.33%) Internet
2 11 (2.24%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.04%) Firewall
3 10 (2.04%) VPN
4 8 (1.63%) DNS
5 4 (0.82%) ATM
6 3 (0.61%) BGP
6 3 (0.61%) MQTT
6 3 (0.61%) Network Security
6 3 (0.61%) WAN
7 2 (0.41%) IPv4
7 2 (0.41%) IPv6
7 2 (0.41%) VLAN
7 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.41%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (2.24%) MongoDB
3 10 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.43%) Redis
4 7 (1.43%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.02%) MySQL
7 4 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.82%) KDB
8 3 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.41%) Big Data
9 2 (0.41%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.41%) Scylla
10 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 78 (15.92%) Git
2 64 (13.06%) GitLab
3 50 (10.20%) Jenkins
4 34 (6.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (1.84%) JIRA
6 5 (1.02%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.61%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.41%) MSI
9 2 (0.41%) Snyk
10 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 114 (23.27%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.55%) Finance
3 69 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.31%) Banking
6 17 (3.47%) Law
7 15 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.43%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.43%) Retail
10 6 (1.22%) Digital Economy
11 5 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.02%) Front Office
11 5 (1.02%) Legal
12 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.61%) Marketing
14 2 (0.41%) Local Government
15 1 (0.20%) French Language
15 1 (0.20%) Games
15 1 (0.20%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 151 (30.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 125 (25.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 109 (22.24%) Site Engineer
4 103 (21.02%) Senior
5 72 (14.69%) Lead
6 52 (10.61%) Principal Engineer
7 47 (9.59%) Platform Engineer
8 46 (9.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 46 (9.39%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 41 (8.37%) Python Engineer
10 35 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
11 30 (6.12%) Trainee
12 25 (5.10%) Software Engineer
13 24 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 24 (4.90%) Technical Leader
14 21 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
15 20 (4.08%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 20 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 17 (3.47%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (52.24%) Terraform
2 47 (9.59%) Spring
2 47 (9.59%) Spring Boot
3 16 (3.27%) Kafka
4 12 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (2.45%) Loki
5 11 (2.24%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (1.84%) Node.js
7 8 (1.63%) .NET
8 6 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (1.22%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.22%) OpenTofu
9 5 (1.02%) REST
10 4 (0.82%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.82%) gRPC
10 4 (0.82%) Middleware
10 4 (0.82%) YAML
11 3 (0.61%) Keycloak
11 3 (0.61%) Protocol Buffers
11 3 (0.61%) React
Miscellaneous
1 130 (26.53%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.53%) Linux Command Line
3 31 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (2.45%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.04%) AI Agents
6 10 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.22%) Clustering
9 5 (1.02%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.02%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.82%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.82%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.82%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.61%) EMV
11 3 (0.61%) PKI
11 3 (0.61%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 134 (27.35%) Linux
2 40 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 33 (6.73%) CentOS
4 24 (4.90%) Unix
5 23 (4.69%) Windows
6 10 (2.04%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Android
9 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (63.06%) DevOps
2 281 (57.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 276 (56.33%) CI/CD
4 201 (41.02%) Platform Engineering
5 192 (39.18%) Observability
6 139 (28.37%) Containerisation
7 119 (24.29%) Software Engineering
8 91 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 84 (17.14%) Mentoring
10 83 (16.94%) AI
11 82 (16.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 81 (16.53%) Incident Management
13 78 (15.92%) Agile
14 67 (13.67%) Incident Response
14 67 (13.67%) Technical Leadership
15 59 (12.04%) DevSecOps
15 59 (12.04%) Microservices
16 57 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
17 56 (11.43%) Cloud Security
18 55 (11.22%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 203 (41.43%) Python
2 73 (14.90%) Java
3 58 (11.84%) PowerShell
4 55 (11.22%) Bash
5 39 (7.96%) Shell Script
6 25 (5.10%) Go
6 25 (5.10%) SQL
7 13 (2.65%) Bicep
8 8 (1.63%) C#
8 8 (1.63%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.43%) C++
9 7 (1.43%) Groovy
9 7 (1.43%) PHP
10 6 (1.22%) C
10 6 (1.22%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.22%) Rust
11 3 (0.61%) COBOL
12 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 193 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 128 (26.12%) DV Cleared
3 122 (24.90%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.10%) Degree
5 11 (2.24%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.84%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.43%) PhD
8 6 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.61%) CISSP
11 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.06%) SLA
2 8 (1.63%) QA
3 6 (1.22%) GDPR
3 6 (1.22%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.61%) ISO 8583
6 3 (0.61%) NCSC
7 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.41%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.41%) NIST
7 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.20%) GxP
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 157 (32.04%) Docker
2 9 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.43%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.41%) iptables
5 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 202 (41.22%) Kubernetes
2 165 (33.67%) Ansible
3 79 (16.12%) Grafana
4 55 (11.22%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.29%) Puppet
6 20 (4.08%) Argo
7 10 (2.04%) Istio
7 10 (2.04%) Kustomize
8 7 (1.43%) Podman
9 5 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.82%) Nagios
11 3 (0.61%) linkerd
12 2 (0.41%) Kibana
12 2 (0.41%) Packer
12 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.20%) logstash
13 1 (0.20%) Opsview
Vendors
1 75 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 57 (11.63%) Google
3 23 (4.69%) Dynatrace
4 17 (3.47%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.65%) Oracle
6 12 (2.45%) Splunk
7 9 (1.84%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.43%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.82%) Tenable
9 4 (0.82%) VMware
9 4 (0.82%) VocaLink
10 3 (0.61%) HP
10 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.41%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.41%) Databricks
11 2 (0.41%) Informatica
11 2 (0.41%) Sage
11 2 (0.41%) SGI
12 1 (0.20%) Cisco
12 1 (0.20%) IBM