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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 313 278
Rank change year-on-year -49 -35 +68
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 465 380 673
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.88% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.99% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 373 126 288
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,625 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £67,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £96,250 £101,563 £102,813
90th Percentile £101,250 £123,125 £118,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 73,230 38,473 56,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.20% 88.68% 81.32%
Number of salaries quoted 52,112 22,159 32,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,229 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -2 150 £88,750 -6.58% 407
North of England -87 133 £80,000 +6.67% 83
North West -65 93 £75,000 +20.24% 47
South West -15 75 £75,000 -18.92% 46
South East +16 56 £80,000 +3.23% 49
East of England -10 25 £90,000 +30.91% 17
Midlands -28 22 £68,496 +1.47% 34
North East - 21 £80,000 - 15
Yorkshire -56 19 £97,500 +27.87% 21
West Midlands -35 17 £71,991 +6.65% 22
East Midlands - 5 £62,500 - 12
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 (1.72%) Apache
2 6 (1.29%) Confluence
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 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 187 (40.22%) AWS
2 153 (32.90%) Azure
3 91 (19.57%) GCP
4 55 (11.83%) GitHub
5 46 (9.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 45 (9.68%) Datadog
7 36 (7.74%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 31 (6.67%) Serverless
9 27 (5.81%) SaaS
10 24 (5.16%) OpenShift
11 23 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (2.15%) Entra ID
13 10 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.51%) dbt
15 7 (1.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.58%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.15%) Firewall
2 10 (2.15%) VPN
3 8 (1.72%) DNS
4 4 (0.86%) ATM
4 4 (0.86%) BGP
4 4 (0.86%) Network Security
5 3 (0.65%) MQTT
5 3 (0.65%) WAN
6 2 (0.43%) IPv4
6 2 (0.43%) IPv6
6 2 (0.43%) VLAN
6 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.43%) WireGuard
7 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.22%) Internet
7 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.80%) MongoDB
1 13 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.58%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.72%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.08%) KDB
6 5 (1.08%) MySQL
7 4 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.86%) Redis
8 3 (0.65%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.43%) Big Data
9 2 (0.43%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.43%) Scylla
10 1 (0.22%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.22%) Power BI
10 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 56 (12.04%) GitLab
2 43 (9.25%) Git
3 42 (9.03%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (1.72%) JIRA
6 6 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.86%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.43%) MSI
8 2 (0.43%) Snyk
9 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 105 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 87 (18.71%) Finance
3 40 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.45%) Banking
6 14 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.01%) Law
7 10 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.51%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.51%) Front Office
8 7 (1.51%) Retail
9 6 (1.29%) Digital Economy
9 6 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.08%) Legal
11 3 (0.65%) Marketing
12 2 (0.43%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.43%) Automotive
12 2 (0.43%) Electronics
12 2 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 129 (27.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 117 (25.16%) Site Engineer
3 98 (21.08%) Senior
4 97 (20.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 67 (14.41%) Lead
6 44 (9.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 43 (9.25%) Platform Engineer
7 43 (9.25%) Software Engineer
8 42 (9.03%) Principal Engineer
9 41 (8.82%) Python Engineer
10 38 (8.17%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (7.31%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 27 (5.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 25 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (4.30%) Senior DevOps
15 19 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (4.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 17 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 16 (3.44%) Technical Leader
18 15 (3.23%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (50.54%) Terraform
2 37 (7.96%) Spring
2 37 (7.96%) Spring Boot
3 25 (5.38%) Kafka
4 13 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.58%) .NET
6 11 (2.37%) Loki
7 10 (2.15%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (1.72%) Node.js
9 7 (1.51%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (1.51%) REST
10 6 (1.29%) React
11 5 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (1.08%) gRPC
11 5 (1.08%) YAML
12 4 (0.86%) Middleware
12 4 (0.86%) OpenTofu
13 3 (0.65%) AngularJS
13 3 (0.65%) Backbone.js
Miscellaneous
1 126 (27.10%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (2.37%) Onboarding
5 9 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.51%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.29%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.08%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.86%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.86%) Clustering
10 4 (0.86%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.65%) Blog
11 3 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.65%) EMV
11 3 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.65%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 96 (20.65%) Linux
2 33 (7.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (5.38%) CentOS
3 25 (5.38%) Windows
4 21 (4.52%) Unix
5 10 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.86%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.43%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Android
8 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (60.65%) DevOps
2 231 (49.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 230 (49.46%) CI/CD
4 194 (41.72%) Observability
5 176 (37.85%) Platform Engineering
6 130 (27.96%) Software Engineering
7 103 (22.15%) Containerisation
8 89 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 87 (18.71%) Agile
10 83 (17.85%) AI
11 61 (13.12%) Incident Response
12 56 (12.04%) Mentoring
12 56 (12.04%) Roadmaps
12 56 (12.04%) Root Cause Analysis
13 52 (11.18%) Microservices
14 51 (10.97%) Technical Leadership
15 49 (10.54%) Incident Management
15 49 (10.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 49 (10.54%) ITIL
16 48 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 209 (44.95%) Python
2 67 (14.41%) Java
3 64 (13.76%) PowerShell
4 62 (13.33%) Bash
5 29 (6.24%) SQL
6 27 (5.81%) Go
7 13 (2.80%) Bicep
8 10 (2.15%) C#
8 10 (2.15%) C++
8 10 (2.15%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.94%) C
10 8 (1.72%) Groovy
10 8 (1.72%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.51%) PHP
12 6 (1.29%) Rust
13 4 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.65%) COBOL
15 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.22%) VBA
16 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 170 (36.56%) Security Cleared
2 114 (24.52%) DV Cleared
3 106 (22.80%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.52%) Degree
5 12 (2.58%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.08%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.65%) CISSP
11 3 (0.65%) PhD
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%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PMP
13 1 (0.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.66%) SLA
2 8 (1.72%) QA
3 7 (1.51%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.86%) GDPR
5 4 (0.86%) ISO 20022
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%) 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
1 115 (24.73%) Docker
2 12 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.29%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.43%) iptables
5 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.22%) KVM
Systems Management
1 191 (41.08%) Kubernetes
2 143 (30.75%) Ansible
3 77 (16.56%) Grafana
4 53 (11.40%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.30%) Argo
6 19 (4.09%) Puppet
7 16 (3.44%) Istio
8 9 (1.94%) Kustomize
9 7 (1.51%) Podman
10 4 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.86%) Nagios
10 4 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.65%) linkerd
12 2 (0.43%) Kibana
12 2 (0.43%) Packer
13 1 (0.22%) Cilium
13 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.95%) Dynatrace
2 23 (4.95%) Google
3 17 (3.66%) Red Hat
4 14 (3.01%) Oracle
5 12 (2.58%) Splunk
6 7 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.29%) Confluent
8 5 (1.08%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.08%) Databricks
9 4 (0.86%) Tenable
9 4 (0.86%) VMware
9 4 (0.86%) VocaLink
10 3 (0.65%) HP
10 3 (0.65%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.43%) Informatica
11 2 (0.43%) Sage
12 1 (0.22%) Cisco
12 1 (0.22%) IBM
12 1 (0.22%) SGI