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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 286 359
Rank change year-on-year -95 +73 +24
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 366 428 671
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 1.07% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.15% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 295 196 337
10th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,509 £62,338
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -3.40%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £102,950 £136,875 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% -

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 62,086 37,058 77,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.52% 92.29% 82.22%
Number of salaries quoted 43,761 20,420 55,963
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £29,490
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £78,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 25 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 25 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 -68 116 £92,500 -15.91% 67
North of England -118 91 £65,000 -6.32% 33
North West -84 64 £70,000 +4.42% 22
South West -16 56 £75,000 +30.57% 19
South East +12 49 £75,000 -4.76% 27
East of England +11 33 £85,000 +30.77% 6
Midlands -28 16 £62,000 -8.15% 8
Yorkshire -30 14 £65,000 -7.14% 8
North East -36 13 £47,500 -31.54% 3
West Midlands -30 9 £62,000 -8.15% 3
East Midlands -25 7 £65,000 +44.44% 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 7 (1.91%) Confluence
2 5 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 150 (40.98%) Azure
2 143 (39.07%) AWS
3 67 (18.31%) GCP
4 46 (12.57%) GitHub
5 45 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (7.10%) Serverless
9 24 (6.56%) Azure AKS
10 22 (6.01%) SaaS
11 20 (5.46%) OpenShift
12 17 (4.64%) Datadog
13 15 (4.10%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (3.55%) Power Platform
15 12 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.28%) Azure Functions
15 12 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.01%) DNS
2 20 (5.46%) Firewall
3 17 (4.64%) HTTP
3 17 (4.64%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.55%) BGP
5 11 (3.01%) Broadband
5 11 (3.01%) Ethernet VPN
6 10 (2.73%) 4G
6 10 (2.73%) Cisco IOS
6 10 (2.73%) IOS XR
6 10 (2.73%) MPLS
7 7 (1.91%) MQTT
8 4 (1.09%) Network Security
8 4 (1.09%) SSL
8 4 (1.09%) VPN
9 2 (0.55%) VLAN
9 2 (0.55%) WAN
10 1 (0.27%) DHCP
10 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.83%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.55%) Power BI
3 12 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.46%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.91%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.37%) KDB
9 4 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.82%) MySQL
11 2 (0.55%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.55%) SQLPlus
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.27%) Big Data
12 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.27%) Tableau
12 1 (0.27%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 42 (11.48%) Git
2 40 (10.93%) GitLab
3 38 (10.38%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.46%) JIRA
5 7 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.55%) Gradle
8 2 (0.55%) Maven
8 2 (0.55%) MSI
9 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.27%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.27%) Gatling
9 1 (0.27%) JMeter
9 1 (0.27%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.27%) Selenium
9 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.66%) Finance
3 25 (6.83%) Telecoms
4 22 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.64%) Law
6 16 (4.37%) Banking
7 14 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.46%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.91%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.91%) Retail
11 6 (1.64%) Front Office
12 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.82%) Automotive
12 3 (0.82%) Electronics
13 2 (0.55%) Advertising
14 1 (0.27%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 85 (23.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 71 (19.40%) Site Engineer
3 55 (15.03%) Lead
4 52 (14.21%) Software Engineer
5 48 (13.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 44 (12.02%) Senior
7 43 (11.75%) Azure Engineer
8 35 (9.56%) Platform Engineer
9 27 (7.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 22 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 21 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (4.37%) Architect
13 14 (3.83%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 14 (3.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (3.83%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 14 (3.83%) Java Engineer
14 13 (3.55%) Developer
14 13 (3.55%) Java Software Engineer
14 13 (3.55%) Team Leader
15 12 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.56%) Kafka
2 23 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (5.74%) .NET
4 20 (5.46%) Spring
5 19 (5.19%) Spring Boot
6 14 (3.83%) ARM Templates
7 13 (3.55%) React
8 12 (3.28%) Loki
9 11 (3.01%) .NET Core
10 10 (2.73%) Jinja
10 10 (2.73%) NETCONF
10 10 (2.73%) REST
10 10 (2.73%) YANG
11 7 (1.91%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.91%) Vue
12 6 (1.64%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.64%) Node.js
12 6 (1.64%) YAML
13 4 (1.09%) Backbone.js
13 4 (1.09%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 78 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.73%) Social Media
6 9 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.46%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.64%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.37%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.82%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 68 (18.58%) Linux
2 31 (8.47%) Windows
3 16 (4.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (4.10%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.28%) VMS
6 11 (3.01%) Unix
7 10 (2.73%) Ubuntu
8 9 (2.46%) CentOS
9 5 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.27%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (60.66%) DevOps
2 179 (48.91%) CI/CD
3 163 (44.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (40.44%) Observability
5 141 (38.52%) Platform Engineering
6 96 (26.23%) Agile
7 82 (22.40%) AI
7 82 (22.40%) Containerisation
8 80 (21.86%) Software Engineering
9 69 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (14.75%) Incident Response
11 49 (13.39%) Mentoring
11 49 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (12.57%) Microservices
13 41 (11.20%) Root Cause Analysis
14 40 (10.93%) DevSecOps
15 39 (10.66%) High Availability
16 37 (10.11%) Analytics
16 37 (10.11%) Migration
17 35 (9.56%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 155 (42.35%) Python
2 74 (20.22%) Bash
3 52 (14.21%) PowerShell
4 49 (13.39%) Java
5 31 (8.47%) Go
6 27 (7.38%) SQL
7 23 (6.28%) C#
8 14 (3.83%) Bicep
9 11 (3.01%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (3.01%) Rust
10 9 (2.46%) C
10 9 (2.46%) C++
11 8 (2.19%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.64%) PHP
13 5 (1.37%) JavaScript
14 4 (1.09%) Groovy
15 2 (0.55%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.55%) VB
16 1 (0.27%) JCL
16 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (25.14%) Security Cleared
2 50 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 49 (13.39%) DV Cleared
4 26 (7.10%) Degree
5 10 (2.73%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.55%) CISSP
9 2 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.28%) QA
2 7 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.91%) SLA
3 6 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.37%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) GxP
6 1 (0.27%) MiFID
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 77 (21.04%) Docker
2 11 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 155 (42.35%) Terraform
2 129 (35.25%) Kubernetes
3 79 (21.58%) Ansible
4 77 (21.04%) Grafana
5 68 (18.58%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.92%) Istio
6 18 (4.92%) Puppet
7 16 (4.37%) Argo
8 10 (2.73%) Nagios
9 8 (2.19%) Podman
10 7 (1.91%) Kustomize
11 5 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.55%) linkerd
12 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.27%) Netcool
13 1 (0.27%) Packer
13 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (6.56%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.46%) Splunk
3 14 (3.83%) Red Hat
4 11 (3.01%) Oracle
5 10 (2.73%) Cisco
6 8 (2.19%) Confluent
6 8 (2.19%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.64%) Databricks
7 6 (1.64%) Google
8 5 (1.37%) Tenable
9 3 (0.82%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.82%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.82%) VMware
10 2 (0.55%) Foundry
10 2 (0.55%) Informatica
10 2 (0.55%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.27%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.27%) New Relic
11 1 (0.27%) Sybase