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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 314 264
Rank change year-on-year -52 -50 +100
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 476 377 685
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.87% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.98% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 352 118 264
10th Percentile £53,750 £63,375 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £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 £97,485 £94,688 £102,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

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 76,488 38,338 53,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.64% 88.97% 82.73%
Number of salaries quoted 53,556 21,844 28,773
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £43,750
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 £75,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
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 10 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 10 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 +3 153 £88,750 - 617
North of England -93 135 £80,000 +6.67% 116
North West -75 89 £75,000 +1.62% 68
South West -8 75 £75,000 -16.67% 61
South East +4 64 £75,000 -6.25% 91
Midlands -22 30 £65,000 -3.70% 68
North East -47 25 £80,000 +8.40% 14
Yorkshire -38 21 £97,500 +25.81% 34
West Midlands -37 20 £71,991 +6.65% 41
East of England -27 16 £85,000 +21.43% 35
East Midlands - 10 £62,500 - 27
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 (1.47%) Confluence
2 6 (1.26%) Apache
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 215 (45.17%) AWS
2 180 (37.82%) Azure
3 117 (24.58%) GCP
4 60 (12.61%) GitHub
5 46 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (9.66%) Datadog
6 40 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (7.77%) Serverless
8 34 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
9 29 (6.09%) Azure AKS
10 28 (5.88%) SaaS
11 25 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (3.99%) OpenShift
13 11 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (2.31%) Entra ID
14 10 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (1.47%) dbt
16 7 (1.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.51%) Internet
2 11 (2.31%) Firewall
2 11 (2.31%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.10%) VPN
4 8 (1.68%) DNS
5 4 (0.84%) ATM
5 4 (0.84%) Network Security
6 3 (0.63%) BGP
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (2.31%) MongoDB
3 10 (2.10%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.47%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.26%) Redis
6 5 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.05%) KDB
6 5 (1.05%) MySQL
7 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.63%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.42%) Big Data
9 2 (0.42%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.42%) Scylla
10 1 (0.21%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 76 (15.97%) Git
2 61 (12.82%) GitLab
3 47 (9.87%) Jenkins
4 31 (6.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (1.89%) JIRA
6 5 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.84%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.63%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.42%) MSI
9 2 (0.42%) Snyk
10 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 83 (17.44%) Finance
3 69 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.25%) Banking
6 17 (3.57%) Law
7 15 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.47%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.47%) Retail
10 6 (1.26%) Digital Economy
10 6 (1.26%) Front Office
11 5 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.05%) Legal
12 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.63%) Marketing
14 2 (0.42%) Local Government
15 1 (0.21%) French Language
15 1 (0.21%) Games
15 1 (0.21%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 141 (29.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 126 (26.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 109 (22.90%) Site Engineer
4 97 (20.38%) Senior
5 63 (13.24%) Lead
6 49 (10.29%) Principal Engineer
7 47 (9.87%) Platform Engineer
8 46 (9.66%) Cloud Engineer
9 41 (8.61%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 41 (8.61%) Python Engineer
10 34 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
11 30 (6.30%) Trainee
12 28 (5.88%) Software Engineer
13 24 (5.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
15 19 (3.99%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 19 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.99%) Technical Leader
16 18 (3.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 16 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (51.05%) Terraform
2 43 (9.03%) Spring
2 43 (9.03%) Spring Boot
3 16 (3.36%) Kafka
4 13 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (2.73%) Loki
5 10 (2.10%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (1.89%) .NET
7 8 (1.68%) ARM Templates
7 8 (1.68%) Node.js
8 6 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (1.26%) REST
9 5 (1.05%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (1.05%) YAML
10 4 (0.84%) gRPC
10 4 (0.84%) Middleware
10 4 (0.84%) OpenTofu
10 4 (0.84%) React
11 3 (0.63%) Keycloak
11 3 (0.63%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 129 (27.10%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (6.72%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.31%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.10%) AI Agents
5 9 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.68%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.26%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.05%) Clustering
8 5 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.05%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.05%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.84%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (0.84%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.63%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 131 (27.52%) Linux
2 37 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 30 (6.30%) CentOS
4 24 (5.04%) Unix
5 22 (4.62%) Windows
6 10 (2.10%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Android
9 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (63.24%) DevOps
2 271 (56.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 267 (56.09%) CI/CD
4 199 (41.81%) Platform Engineering
5 190 (39.92%) Observability
6 133 (27.94%) Containerisation
7 122 (25.63%) Software Engineering
8 90 (18.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 86 (18.07%) AI
10 84 (17.65%) Mentoring
11 82 (17.23%) Agile
12 80 (16.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 79 (16.60%) Incident Management
14 67 (14.08%) Incident Response
15 64 (13.45%) Technical Leadership
16 58 (12.18%) DevSecOps
16 58 (12.18%) Microservices
17 55 (11.55%) Cloud Security
17 55 (11.55%) Configuration Management
18 53 (11.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 203 (42.65%) Python
2 69 (14.50%) Java
3 60 (12.61%) Bash
3 60 (12.61%) PowerShell
4 42 (8.82%) Shell Script
5 25 (5.25%) SQL
6 24 (5.04%) Go
7 13 (2.73%) Bicep
8 9 (1.89%) C#
9 8 (1.68%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.47%) C++
10 7 (1.47%) Groovy
10 7 (1.47%) PHP
11 6 (1.26%) C
11 6 (1.26%) Rust
12 5 (1.05%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.63%) COBOL
14 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 187 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 121 (25.42%) DV Cleared
3 118 (24.79%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.25%) Degree
5 11 (2.31%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.89%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.47%) PhD
9 5 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.84%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.63%) CISSP
12 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.73%) SLA
2 8 (1.68%) QA
3 5 (1.05%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.05%) GDPR
3 5 (1.05%) ISO 20022
4 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.63%) ISO 8583
5 3 (0.63%) NCSC
6 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.42%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.42%) NIST
6 2 (0.42%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.21%) GxP
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 148 (31.09%) Docker
2 8 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.42%) iptables
5 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.21%) KVM
Systems Management
1 195 (40.97%) Kubernetes
2 156 (32.77%) Ansible
3 79 (16.60%) Grafana
4 55 (11.55%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.62%) Puppet
6 21 (4.41%) Argo
7 11 (2.31%) Istio
7 11 (2.31%) Kustomize
8 7 (1.47%) 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
12 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.21%) logstash
13 1 (0.21%) Opsview
Vendors
1 74 (15.55%) Microsoft
2 57 (11.97%) Google
3 23 (4.83%) Dynatrace
4 18 (3.78%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.94%) Oracle
6 12 (2.52%) Splunk
7 8 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.26%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.84%) Tenable
9 4 (0.84%) VMware
9 4 (0.84%) VocaLink
10 3 (0.63%) HP
10 3 (0.63%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.42%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.42%) Databricks
11 2 (0.42%) Informatica
11 2 (0.42%) Sage
11 2 (0.42%) SGI
12 1 (0.21%) Cisco
12 1 (0.21%) IBM