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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 290 346
Rank change year-on-year -99 +56 +42
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 378 429 672
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.05% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.14% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 306 196 341
10th Percentile £49,375 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,509 £62,338
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +4.69% -3.40%
75th Percentile £93,750 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £102,875 £135,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

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 62,507 37,531 76,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.63% 91.72% 82.36%
Number of salaries quoted 44,078 20,827 55,158
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -51 116 £92,500 -15.91% 60
North of England -118 97 £65,576 -5.49% 28
North West -79 67 £70,000 +4.42% 21
South West -18 62 £75,000 +20.00% 17
South East +21 50 £75,000 -4.76% 28
East of England +12 32 £82,575 +27.04% 4
Yorkshire -34 16 £65,000 -10.34% 4
Midlands -38 16 £62,000 -8.15% 7
North East -35 14 £47,500 -31.54% 3
West Midlands -32 9 £62,000 -8.15% 3
East Midlands -12 7 £65,000 +44.44% 4
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 8 (2.12%) Confluence
2 5 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 153 (40.48%) Azure
2 150 (39.68%) AWS
3 70 (18.52%) GCP
4 50 (13.23%) GitHub
5 47 (12.43%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (7.94%) Serverless
8 29 (7.67%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (6.08%) Azure AKS
10 22 (5.82%) SaaS
11 20 (5.29%) OpenShift
12 17 (4.50%) Datadog
13 15 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (3.17%) Azure Functions
14 12 (3.17%) Power Platform
15 11 (2.91%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
17 8 (2.12%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.56%) DNS
1 21 (5.56%) Firewall
2 17 (4.50%) TCP/IP
3 16 (4.23%) HTTP
4 13 (3.44%) BGP
5 11 (2.91%) Broadband
5 11 (2.91%) Ethernet VPN
6 10 (2.65%) 4G
6 10 (2.65%) Cisco IOS
6 10 (2.65%) IOS XR
6 10 (2.65%) MPLS
7 7 (1.85%) MQTT
8 4 (1.06%) Network Security
8 4 (1.06%) VPN
9 3 (0.79%) SSL
10 2 (0.53%) VLAN
10 2 (0.53%) WAN
11 1 (0.26%) DHCP
11 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.97%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.17%) Power BI
3 9 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.32%) KDB
7 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.79%) MySQL
9 2 (0.53%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.53%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.26%) Big Data
10 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.26%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.26%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 46 (12.17%) Git
2 44 (11.64%) GitLab
3 43 (11.38%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 10 (2.65%) JIRA
5 6 (1.59%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.32%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.53%) Gradle
7 2 (0.53%) Maven
7 2 (0.53%) MSI
8 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.26%) Gatling
8 1 (0.26%) JMeter
8 1 (0.26%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.26%) Selenium
8 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (18.78%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.76%) Finance
3 25 (6.61%) Telecoms
4 22 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.50%) Law
6 16 (4.23%) Banking
7 14 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.85%) Retail
11 6 (1.59%) Front Office
12 3 (0.79%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.79%) Automotive
12 3 (0.79%) Electronics
13 2 (0.53%) Advertising
14 1 (0.26%) Games
14 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 84 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 71 (18.78%) Site Engineer
3 60 (15.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 58 (15.34%) Lead
5 52 (13.76%) Software Engineer
6 47 (12.43%) Senior
7 43 (11.38%) Azure Engineer
8 35 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (6.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 24 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (4.23%) Architect
13 14 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 14 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (3.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 14 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
14 13 (3.44%) Developer
14 13 (3.44%) Java Engineer
14 13 (3.44%) Java Software Engineer
14 13 (3.44%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.61%) Spring
2 24 (6.35%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (6.35%) Kafka
2 24 (6.35%) Spring Boot
3 22 (5.82%) .NET
4 13 (3.44%) ARM Templates
4 13 (3.44%) React
5 11 (2.91%) .NET Core
5 11 (2.91%) Loki
6 10 (2.65%) Jinja
6 10 (2.65%) NETCONF
6 10 (2.65%) REST
6 10 (2.65%) YANG
7 7 (1.85%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.85%) Vue
8 6 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (1.59%) Node.js
8 6 (1.59%) YAML
9 4 (1.06%) Backbone.js
9 4 (1.06%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 86 (22.75%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.65%) Social Media
6 9 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.38%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.59%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.32%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.06%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.79%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (18.52%) Linux
2 30 (7.94%) Windows
3 19 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (3.97%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.17%) CentOS
5 12 (3.17%) Unix
5 12 (3.17%) VMS
6 10 (2.65%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (62.17%) DevOps
2 189 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 173 (45.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (39.15%) Observability
5 145 (38.36%) Platform Engineering
6 99 (26.19%) Agile
7 86 (22.75%) Containerisation
8 81 (21.43%) AI
9 80 (21.16%) Software Engineering
10 71 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (14.02%) Incident Response
12 50 (13.23%) Mentoring
12 50 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (12.96%) Microservices
14 41 (10.85%) DevSecOps
14 41 (10.85%) Root Cause Analysis
15 38 (10.05%) High Availability
16 37 (9.79%) Migration
17 36 (9.52%) Analytics
18 35 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 162 (42.86%) Python
2 75 (19.84%) Bash
3 54 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 53 (14.02%) Java
5 32 (8.47%) Go
6 27 (7.14%) SQL
7 23 (6.08%) C#
8 14 (3.70%) Bicep
9 11 (2.91%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (2.91%) Rust
10 9 (2.38%) C
10 9 (2.38%) C++
10 9 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.59%) PHP
12 5 (1.32%) JavaScript
13 4 (1.06%) Groovy
14 2 (0.53%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.53%) VB
15 1 (0.26%) PromQL
15 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 107 (28.31%) Security Cleared
2 61 (16.14%) DV Cleared
3 59 (15.61%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.61%) Degree
5 10 (2.65%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.12%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.59%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.53%) CISSP
9 2 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.17%) QA
2 7 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.85%) SLA
3 6 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.32%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) GxP
6 1 (0.26%) MiFID
6 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (22.49%) Docker
2 11 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 167 (44.18%) Terraform
2 139 (36.77%) Kubernetes
3 93 (24.60%) Ansible
4 76 (20.11%) Grafana
5 67 (17.72%) Prometheus
6 19 (5.03%) Puppet
7 18 (4.76%) Istio
8 16 (4.23%) Argo
9 10 (2.65%) Nagios
10 8 (2.12%) Podman
11 7 (1.85%) Kustomize
12 5 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.53%) linkerd
13 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.26%) Cilium
14 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.26%) Packer
14 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (6.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.03%) Splunk
3 14 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 11 (2.91%) Oracle
5 10 (2.65%) Cisco
6 8 (2.12%) Confluent
6 8 (2.12%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.59%) Databricks
7 6 (1.59%) Google
8 5 (1.32%) Tenable
9 3 (0.79%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.79%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.79%) VMware
10 2 (0.53%) Foundry
10 2 (0.53%) Informatica
10 2 (0.53%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.53%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.26%) New Relic
11 1 (0.26%) Veracode