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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 318 276
Rank change year-on-year -46 -42 +75
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 492 376 694
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.87% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.98% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 372 120 290
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,725 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £78,750 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.56% - +3.23%

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 75,707 38,228 55,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.45% 88.79% 81.96%
Number of salaries quoted 53,452 21,986 30,884
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,233 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,298
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.66% -6.72%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
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 24 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 24 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 -4 154 £88,750 -2.74% 500
North of England -88 147 £80,000 +6.67% 109
North West -72 99 £75,000 +25.52% 66
South West -10 78 £75,000 -18.92% 77
South East -5 56 £75,000 -3.23% 64
Midlands -30 31 £68,496 +1.47% 55
North East - 25 £80,000 - 13
Yorkshire -43 23 £97,500 +30.00% 31
East of England -19 22 £90,000 +30.91% 32
West Midlands -36 21 £71,991 +6.65% 40
East Midlands - 10 £62,500 - 15
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 (1.22%) Apache
1 6 (1.22%) Confluence
2 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 214 (43.50%) AWS
2 177 (35.98%) Azure
3 114 (23.17%) GCP
4 63 (12.80%) GitHub
5 50 (10.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 46 (9.35%) Datadog
7 40 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (6.91%) Serverless
9 31 (6.30%) Azure AKS
9 31 (6.30%) Cloud Computing
10 27 (5.49%) SaaS
11 26 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (3.66%) OpenShift
13 15 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (2.03%) Entra ID
15 9 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 7 (1.42%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.69%) Internet
2 11 (2.24%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.03%) Firewall
3 10 (2.03%) VPN
4 7 (1.42%) DNS
5 4 (0.81%) ATM
5 4 (0.81%) Network Security
6 3 (0.61%) BGP
6 3 (0.61%) MQTT
6 3 (0.61%) WAN
7 2 (0.41%) IPv4
7 2 (0.41%) IPv6
7 2 (0.41%) VLAN
7 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.41%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (2.24%) MongoDB
3 10 (2.03%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.42%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.22%) Redis
6 5 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.02%) KDB
6 5 (1.02%) MySQL
7 4 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.41%) Big Data
9 2 (0.41%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.41%) Scylla
10 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 74 (15.04%) Git
2 62 (12.60%) GitLab
3 48 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 31 (6.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (1.63%) JIRA
6 6 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.81%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.41%) MSI
8 2 (0.41%) Snyk
9 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 111 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 84 (17.07%) Finance
3 66 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.52%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.08%) Banking
6 16 (3.25%) Law
7 14 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.42%) Retail
10 6 (1.22%) Digital Economy
10 6 (1.22%) Front Office
10 6 (1.22%) Legal
11 5 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.61%) Marketing
13 2 (0.41%) Local Government
14 1 (0.20%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.20%) Automotive
14 1 (0.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 134 (27.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 130 (26.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 117 (23.78%) Site Engineer
4 97 (19.72%) Senior
5 67 (13.62%) Lead
6 48 (9.76%) Principal Engineer
7 47 (9.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 46 (9.35%) Platform Engineer
9 41 (8.33%) Python Engineer
10 40 (8.13%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 39 (7.93%) Software Engineer
12 37 (7.52%) Azure Engineer
13 27 (5.49%) Trainee
14 26 (5.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 19 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
16 18 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (3.66%) Cloud Native Engineer
16 18 (3.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 17 (3.46%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (50.00%) Terraform
2 43 (8.74%) Spring
2 43 (8.74%) Spring Boot
3 16 (3.25%) Kafka
4 13 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (2.24%) .NET
5 11 (2.24%) Loki
6 10 (2.03%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.83%) Node.js
8 8 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (1.42%) REST
10 6 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (1.22%) React
11 5 (1.02%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (1.02%) YAML
12 4 (0.81%) gRPC
12 4 (0.81%) Middleware
12 4 (0.81%) OpenTofu
13 3 (0.61%) Keycloak
13 3 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 133 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.89%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.02%) Clustering
10 5 (1.02%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.81%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.61%) Blog
12 3 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.61%) EMV
12 3 (0.61%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 125 (25.41%) Linux
2 36 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (5.89%) CentOS
4 23 (4.67%) Unix
5 21 (4.27%) Windows
6 10 (2.03%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Android
9 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (63.01%) DevOps
2 274 (55.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 273 (55.49%) CI/CD
4 207 (42.07%) Platform Engineering
5 197 (40.04%) Observability
6 132 (26.83%) Containerisation
7 130 (26.42%) Software Engineering
8 93 (18.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 86 (17.48%) Agile
9 86 (17.48%) Mentoring
10 82 (16.67%) AI
11 79 (16.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 75 (15.24%) Incident Management
13 64 (13.01%) Incident Response
14 57 (11.59%) Microservices
14 57 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
15 56 (11.38%) DevSecOps
16 55 (11.18%) Root Cause Analysis
17 53 (10.77%) Cloud Security
17 53 (10.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 205 (41.67%) Python
2 73 (14.84%) Java
3 64 (13.01%) PowerShell
4 62 (12.60%) Bash
5 38 (7.72%) Shell Script
6 26 (5.28%) SQL
7 23 (4.67%) Go
8 13 (2.64%) Bicep
9 10 (2.03%) C#
10 8 (1.63%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.42%) C++
11 7 (1.42%) Groovy
11 7 (1.42%) PHP
12 6 (1.22%) C
12 6 (1.22%) Rust
13 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.61%) COBOL
15 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.20%) VBA
16 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 179 (36.38%) Security Cleared
2 121 (24.59%) DV Cleared
3 111 (22.56%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.67%) Degree
5 11 (2.24%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.03%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.02%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.81%) PhD
10 3 (0.61%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.20%) CISM
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.25%) SLA
2 8 (1.63%) QA
3 5 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.02%) GDPR
3 5 (1.02%) ISO 20022
3 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.61%) ISO 8583
4 3 (0.61%) NCSC
4 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.41%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.41%) NIST
6 1 (0.20%) GxP
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 146 (29.67%) Docker
2 6 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.41%) iptables
4 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 198 (40.24%) Kubernetes
2 156 (31.71%) Ansible
3 78 (15.85%) Grafana
4 54 (10.98%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.27%) Puppet
6 20 (4.07%) Argo
7 9 (1.83%) Istio
7 9 (1.83%) Kustomize
8 7 (1.42%) Podman
9 5 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.81%) Nagios
11 3 (0.61%) linkerd
12 2 (0.41%) Kibana
12 2 (0.41%) Packer
13 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.20%) logstash
13 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.57%) Google
3 22 (4.47%) Dynatrace
4 16 (3.25%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.85%) Oracle
6 13 (2.64%) Splunk
7 8 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.22%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.02%) Databricks
10 4 (0.81%) Tenable
10 4 (0.81%) VMware
10 4 (0.81%) VocaLink
11 3 (0.61%) HP
11 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.41%) Informatica
12 2 (0.41%) Sage
12 2 (0.41%) SGI
13 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.20%) Cisco
13 1 (0.20%) IBM