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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 278 448
Rank change year-on-year -106 +170 -114
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 328 452 423
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 1.16% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.24% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 262 248 325
10th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £56,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,250 £91,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% +14.69% -3.40%
75th Percentile £92,500 £116,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £135,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -

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 59,806 36,392 71,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.87% 93.41% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 39,236 20,177 53,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -82 112 £90,000 -18.18% 70
North of England -119 79 £65,576 -5.49% 51
North West -87 50 £80,000 +19.34% 29
South West -24 43 £70,000 +21.74% 25
South East +1 36 £72,500 -3.33% 49
East of England +10 34 £85,000 +30.77% 9
Yorkshire -46 15 £65,000 -7.14% 14
North East -26 14 £47,500 -31.54% 8
Midlands -37 14 £47,500 -20.83% 7
West Midlands -36 10 £47,500 -25.49% 2
East Midlands -18 4 £130,000 +188.89% 5
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 4 (1.22%) Apache
1 4 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (1.22%) Confluence
2 3 (0.91%) Appian
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 142 (43.29%) AWS
2 135 (41.16%) Azure
3 63 (19.21%) GCP
4 50 (15.24%) GitHub
5 43 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (11.89%) Amazon EKS
8 30 (9.15%) Serverless
9 21 (6.40%) Datadog
10 19 (5.79%) SaaS
11 18 (5.49%) Azure AKS
12 17 (5.18%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (4.88%) OpenShift
14 14 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (4.27%) Power Platform
15 13 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (3.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (3.66%) Azure Functions
16 12 (3.66%) Azure Logic Apps
17 10 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.01%) DNS
2 19 (5.79%) Firewall
2 19 (5.79%) HTTP
3 18 (5.49%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.96%) BGP
5 12 (3.66%) Broadband
5 12 (3.66%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (3.35%) 4G
6 11 (3.35%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (3.35%) IOS XR
6 11 (3.35%) MPLS
7 7 (2.13%) MQTT
8 5 (1.52%) SSL
9 4 (1.22%) Network Security
10 1 (0.30%) DHCP
10 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.30%) VPN
10 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.57%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.27%) Power BI
3 13 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.83%) Flink
6 5 (1.52%) KDB
7 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.91%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.91%) Pinecone
8 3 (0.91%) Weaviate
9 2 (0.61%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.30%) MySQL
10 1 (0.30%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.30%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 42 (12.80%) GitLab
2 38 (11.59%) Jenkins
3 35 (10.67%) Git
4 7 (2.13%) JIRA
5 6 (1.83%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.61%) Gradle
6 2 (0.61%) Maven
6 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.30%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.30%) Gatling
7 1 (0.30%) JMeter
7 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.30%) MSI
7 1 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 67 (20.43%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.55%) Finance
3 27 (8.23%) Telecoms
4 20 (6.10%) Banking
5 18 (5.49%) Law
6 17 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (3.66%) Front Office
9 8 (2.44%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.52%) Advertising
12 4 (1.22%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.91%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.91%) Automotive
13 3 (0.91%) Electronics
14 2 (0.61%) Games
15 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.30%) Legal
15 1 (0.30%) Marketing
15 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (22.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 53 (16.16%) Site Engineer
3 51 (15.55%) Lead
4 50 (15.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 45 (13.72%) Software Engineer
6 38 (11.59%) Senior
7 29 (8.84%) Azure Engineer
8 27 (8.23%) Platform Engineer
9 24 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (7.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 22 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (4.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 14 (4.27%) Developer
13 14 (4.27%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 14 (4.27%) Java Engineer
13 14 (4.27%) Lead DevOps
14 13 (3.96%) Java Software Engineer
14 13 (3.96%) Team Leader
15 12 (3.66%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.23%) Kafka
2 22 (6.71%) .NET
2 22 (6.71%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (6.40%) React
4 17 (5.18%) Spring
5 16 (4.88%) Spring Boot
6 14 (4.27%) REST
7 13 (3.96%) ARM Templates
8 12 (3.66%) .NET Core
8 12 (3.66%) Loki
8 12 (3.66%) Node.js
9 11 (3.35%) Jinja
9 11 (3.35%) NETCONF
9 11 (3.35%) YANG
10 8 (2.44%) AngularJS
10 8 (2.44%) Vue
11 6 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (1.52%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.52%) YAML
13 4 (1.22%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 71 (21.65%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.35%) Social Media
5 9 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.74%) Legacy Applications
5 9 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.22%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.91%) Hackathon
8 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.61%) CMDB
9 2 (0.61%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 62 (18.90%) Linux
2 28 (8.54%) Windows
3 13 (3.96%) VMS
3 13 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.74%) Unix
6 8 (2.44%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.52%) CentOS
8 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.30%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (64.02%) DevOps
2 165 (50.30%) CI/CD
3 141 (42.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 136 (41.46%) Observability
5 120 (36.59%) Platform Engineering
6 98 (29.88%) Agile
7 77 (23.48%) AI
7 77 (23.48%) Containerisation
8 64 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (18.90%) Incident Response
9 62 (18.90%) Software Engineering
10 45 (13.72%) Mentoring
11 44 (13.41%) Microservices
12 42 (12.80%) Analytics
13 41 (12.50%) High Availability
13 41 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
14 40 (12.20%) Incident Management
15 37 (11.28%) Deployment Automation
16 35 (10.67%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 143 (43.60%) Python
2 60 (18.29%) Bash
3 50 (15.24%) Java
4 40 (12.20%) PowerShell
5 38 (11.59%) Go
6 29 (8.84%) SQL
7 23 (7.01%) C#
8 12 (3.66%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (3.35%) Bicep
10 10 (3.05%) Rust
11 9 (2.74%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.74%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.44%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.83%) C
13 6 (1.83%) C++
14 4 (1.22%) PHP
15 3 (0.91%) Groovy
16 2 (0.61%) VB
17 1 (0.30%) JCL
17 1 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 65 (19.82%) Security Cleared
2 33 (10.06%) DV Cleared
3 31 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 28 (8.54%) Degree
5 10 (3.05%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.66%) QA
2 11 (3.35%) SLA
3 5 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.91%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.61%) GRC
6 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 77 (23.48%) Docker
2 11 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 139 (42.38%) Terraform
2 124 (37.80%) Kubernetes
3 77 (23.48%) Grafana
4 68 (20.73%) Ansible
4 68 (20.73%) Prometheus
5 17 (5.18%) Argo
6 15 (4.57%) Istio
7 13 (3.96%) Puppet
8 9 (2.74%) Nagios
9 6 (1.83%) Podman
10 4 (1.22%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.30%) Cilium
13 1 (0.30%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.30%) Netcool
13 1 (0.30%) Packer
13 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 24 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.79%) Splunk
3 11 (3.35%) Cisco
4 10 (3.05%) Oracle
5 9 (2.74%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.44%) Confluent
6 8 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.83%) Databricks
8 5 (1.52%) Tenable
9 4 (1.22%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.91%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.91%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.91%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.61%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.61%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.61%) Foundry
11 2 (0.61%) Google
11 2 (0.61%) Informatica
11 2 (0.61%) New Relic
11 2 (0.61%) PagerDuty