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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 245 346
Rank change year-on-year -53 +101 -21
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 378 677 414
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.89% 1.09% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.32% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 117 258 326
10th Percentile £61,500 £58,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £120,625
UK median annual salary £78,750 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.56% - -

All Process and 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 37,671 51,419 47,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 88.60% 82.66% 93.96%
Number of salaries quoted 21,923 27,487 36,063
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,750 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 2025. 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
North of England -32 222 £75,000 - 26
North West -24 192 £69,401 -7.47% 20
London -32 101 £87,500 -7.89% 69
Yorkshire +3 29 £77,500 -8.82% 4
West Midlands +54 11 £70,000 +1.00% 10
Midlands +31 11 £70,000 +19.05% 10
South West -16 9 £90,000 +16.13% 20
East of England +5 7 £70,000 -9.68% 3
South East -10 5 £80,000 +10.34% 46
North East -8 1 £73,801 +6.48% 2
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 6 (1.59%) Mule
2 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.79%) nginx
3 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.26%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 291 (76.98%) AWS
2 238 (62.96%) Azure
3 229 (60.58%) GCP
4 25 (6.61%) SaaS
5 22 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
7 19 (5.03%) Serverless
8 15 (3.97%) Datadog
9 14 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (2.91%) GitHub
11 11 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.91%) Pulumi
12 8 (2.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.85%) dbt
13 7 (1.85%) OCI
13 7 (1.85%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.85%) PaaS
14 6 (1.59%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.65%) Firewall
2 9 (2.38%) DNS
3 7 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.32%) NAS
4 5 (1.32%) SAN
5 3 (0.79%) AMQP
5 3 (0.79%) BGP
6 2 (0.53%) Internet
6 2 (0.53%) Network Security
6 2 (0.53%) SNMP
6 2 (0.53%) WAN
6 2 (0.53%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.26%) HTTP
7 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.26%) IPsec
7 1 (0.26%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.26%) SSL
7 1 (0.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (3.17%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.12%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.12%) Redis
6 7 (1.85%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.06%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.79%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.79%) MySQL
8 3 (0.79%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.26%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.26%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 45 (11.90%) GitLab
1 45 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 9 (2.38%) Git
3 6 (1.59%) JIRA
3 6 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.06%) Vite
5 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 190 (50.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 65 (17.20%) Finance
3 62 (16.40%) Social Skills
4 24 (6.35%) Banking
5 22 (5.82%) Aviation
5 22 (5.82%) Fire and Rescue
5 22 (5.82%) Police
6 14 (3.70%) Law
7 10 (2.65%) Marketing
8 9 (2.38%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.12%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (1.85%) Electronics
10 7 (1.85%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.32%) Games
12 4 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.06%) Retail
13 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.26%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 204 (53.97%) Senior
2 193 (51.06%) Software Engineer
3 178 (47.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 51 (13.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 36 (9.52%) Lead
6 32 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (7.67%) Operations Manager
8 26 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (6.88%) Site Engineer
9 22 (5.82%) Service Manager
9 22 (5.82%) Service Operations Manager
10 11 (2.91%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 10 (2.65%) Developer
12 9 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.12%) Java Engineer
13 8 (2.12%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (2.12%) Lead DevOps
14 7 (1.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
15 6 (1.59%) AWS Engineer
15 6 (1.59%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (51.59%) Node.js
2 192 (50.79%) .NET
3 15 (3.97%) Spring
4 12 (3.17%) FastAPI
5 11 (2.91%) Kafka
5 11 (2.91%) Spring Boot
6 7 (1.85%) Django
6 7 (1.85%) Loki
7 6 (1.59%) React
8 5 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.06%) Jest
9 4 (1.06%) Next.js
9 4 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.79%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.79%) LangChain
10 3 (0.79%) LDAP
10 3 (0.79%) SOAP
11 2 (0.53%) OAuth
11 2 (0.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 186 (49.21%) Linux Command Line
2 178 (47.09%) Cyberattack
2 178 (47.09%) Self-Motivation
3 48 (12.70%) Cloud Native
4 22 (5.82%) Robotics
5 20 (5.29%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.91%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.59%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.06%) CMDB
9 4 (1.06%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.53%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.53%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.26%) Derivative
12 1 (0.26%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 206 (54.50%) Linux
2 9 (2.38%) Unix
3 8 (2.12%) Windows
4 3 (0.79%) Android
5 2 (0.53%) Debian
5 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) CentOS
6 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (70.90%) Agile
2 222 (58.73%) Software Engineering
3 199 (52.65%) Mentoring
4 190 (50.26%) Data Engineering
4 190 (50.26%) Scrum
5 189 (50.00%) Cloud Security
6 186 (49.21%) Microservices
7 185 (48.94%) User Experience
8 183 (48.41%) Machine Learning
9 139 (36.77%) DevOps
10 106 (28.04%) CI/CD
11 86 (22.75%) Observability
12 84 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 66 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
14 50 (13.23%) Incident Response
15 49 (12.96%) Containerisation
16 43 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (11.38%) Service Management
17 42 (11.11%) ITIL
18 40 (10.58%) AI
Programming Languages
1 261 (69.05%) Python
2 223 (58.99%) Java
3 197 (52.12%) JavaScript
4 193 (51.06%) Go
5 181 (47.88%) C++
6 178 (47.09%) Rust
7 42 (11.11%) Bash
8 29 (7.67%) PowerShell
9 25 (6.61%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.44%) SQL
11 8 (2.12%) C#
12 5 (1.32%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.79%) Groovy
13 3 (0.79%) Ruby
14 2 (0.53%) Bicep
15 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 210 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 197 (52.12%) DV Cleared
3 194 (51.32%) AWS Certification
4 183 (48.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 178 (47.09%) AWS Certified Developer
6 19 (5.03%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.91%) Degree
8 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.53%) CISSP
11 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.67%) QA
2 7 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.59%) GDPR
4 3 (0.79%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.53%) NIST
5 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.53%) SLA
6 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.26%) PMO
6 1 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 47 (12.43%) Docker
2 3 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.53%) Squid
3 2 (0.53%) vSphere
4 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 86 (22.75%) Kubernetes
2 75 (19.84%) Terraform
3 47 (12.43%) Grafana
4 45 (11.90%) Ansible
5 43 (11.38%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.85%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.32%) Argo
8 4 (1.06%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (1.06%) Kibana
9 3 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.79%) Puppet
10 2 (0.53%) Control-M
10 2 (0.53%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.53%) Istio
10 2 (0.53%) linkerd
10 2 (0.53%) logstash
10 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.26%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 30 (7.94%) Oracle
2 15 (3.97%) Splunk
3 13 (3.44%) Google
4 9 (2.38%) SAP
5 8 (2.12%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.12%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.59%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.32%) Hitachi
7 5 (1.32%) VMware
8 4 (1.06%) New Relic
8 4 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.79%) Cribl.io
9 3 (0.79%) F5
9 3 (0.79%) Microsoft
9 3 (0.79%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.53%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.53%) Okta
10 2 (0.53%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.53%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.53%) TOWER Software