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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 276 357
Rank change year-on-year -102 +81 +19
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 363 439 683
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 1.12% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.21% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 291 205 340
10th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £55,400
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,509 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -4.66%
75th Percentile £94,375 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -3.03%

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 59,579 36,425 76,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.93% 92.76% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 41,667 19,839 55,940
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
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 10 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 10 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 -41 120 £92,500 -15.91% 42
North of England -117 90 £65,576 -5.49% 37
North West -78 60 £73,750 +10.01% 18
South West -12 54 £70,000 +21.86% 18
South East +17 45 £73,750 -4.84% 32
East of England +6 31 £85,000 +30.77% 12
Midlands -22 16 £53,750 -20.37% 15
Yorkshire -40 16 £65,000 -7.14% 13
North East -30 14 £47,500 -31.54% 6
West Midlands -30 10 £47,500 -29.63% 12
East Midlands -18 6 £95,000 +111.11% 3
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 (1.65%) Confluence
2 5 (1.38%) Apache
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 148 (40.77%) Azure
2 147 (40.50%) AWS
3 68 (18.73%) GCP
4 48 (13.22%) GitHub
5 43 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (7.99%) Serverless
9 24 (6.61%) Azure AKS
10 21 (5.79%) SaaS
11 19 (5.23%) OpenShift
12 16 (4.41%) Datadog
13 15 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (3.58%) Power Platform
16 12 (3.31%) Azure Functions
17 11 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
17 11 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 10 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
19 9 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.34%) DNS
2 20 (5.51%) Firewall
3 18 (4.96%) HTTP
3 18 (4.96%) TCP/IP
4 14 (3.86%) BGP
5 12 (3.31%) Broadband
5 12 (3.31%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (3.03%) 4G
6 11 (3.03%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (3.03%) IOS XR
6 11 (3.03%) MPLS
7 7 (1.93%) MQTT
8 4 (1.10%) Network Security
8 4 (1.10%) SSL
9 3 (0.83%) VPN
10 2 (0.55%) WAN
11 1 (0.28%) DHCP
11 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.58%) Power BI
3 11 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.48%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.93%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.38%) KDB
8 4 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.55%) Flink
9 2 (0.55%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.55%) MySQL
9 2 (0.55%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.28%) Big Data
10 1 (0.28%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.28%) Tableau
10 1 (0.28%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 45 (12.40%) GitLab
2 41 (11.29%) Git
2 41 (11.29%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.48%) JIRA
4 6 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (1.65%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.55%) Gradle
7 2 (0.55%) Maven
7 2 (0.55%) MSI
8 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.28%) Gatling
8 1 (0.28%) JMeter
8 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (18.73%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.77%) Finance
3 27 (7.44%) Telecoms
4 21 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.96%) Law
6 17 (4.68%) Banking
7 16 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.75%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.20%) Front Office
10 7 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.93%) Retail
11 6 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.10%) Advertising
13 3 (0.83%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.83%) Automotive
13 3 (0.83%) Electronics
14 1 (0.28%) Games
14 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 80 (22.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 64 (17.63%) Site Engineer
3 55 (15.15%) Lead
4 54 (14.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 51 (14.05%) Software Engineer
6 43 (11.85%) Senior
7 40 (11.02%) Azure Engineer
8 33 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (7.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 20 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (4.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 15 (4.13%) Developer
13 14 (3.86%) Architect
13 14 (3.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 14 (3.86%) Java Engineer
14 13 (3.58%) Java Software Engineer
14 13 (3.58%) Team Leader
15 11 (3.03%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.89%) Kafka
2 23 (6.34%) Elastic Stack
3 22 (6.06%) Spring
4 21 (5.79%) .NET
4 21 (5.79%) Spring Boot
5 16 (4.41%) React
6 14 (3.86%) ARM Templates
7 11 (3.03%) .NET Core
7 11 (3.03%) Jinja
7 11 (3.03%) Loki
7 11 (3.03%) NETCONF
7 11 (3.03%) REST
7 11 (3.03%) YANG
8 9 (2.48%) Node.js
9 8 (2.20%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.20%) Vue
10 6 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (1.65%) YAML
11 4 (1.10%) Backbone.js
11 4 (1.10%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 79 (21.76%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.03%) Social Media
5 10 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.65%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.38%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.83%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.55%) NHS
11 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.28%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 68 (18.73%) Linux
2 31 (8.54%) Windows
3 16 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (4.13%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.31%) VMS
6 10 (2.75%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.75%) Unix
7 9 (2.48%) CentOS
8 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.28%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (61.71%) DevOps
2 180 (49.59%) CI/CD
3 161 (44.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 146 (40.22%) Observability
5 138 (38.02%) Platform Engineering
6 103 (28.37%) Agile
7 83 (22.87%) AI
8 82 (22.59%) Containerisation
9 76 (20.94%) Software Engineering
10 66 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (15.98%) Incident Response
12 48 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (12.95%) Mentoring
14 44 (12.12%) Microservices
15 43 (11.85%) DevSecOps
16 39 (10.74%) High Availability
17 38 (10.47%) Analytics
17 38 (10.47%) Root Cause Analysis
18 37 (10.19%) Migration
19 34 (9.37%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 156 (42.98%) Python
2 72 (19.83%) Bash
3 51 (14.05%) Java
4 48 (13.22%) PowerShell
5 34 (9.37%) Go
6 27 (7.44%) SQL
7 23 (6.34%) C#
8 14 (3.86%) Bicep
9 11 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (3.03%) Rust
10 9 (2.48%) C
10 9 (2.48%) C++
11 8 (2.20%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.65%) PHP
13 5 (1.38%) JavaScript
13 5 (1.38%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.10%) Groovy
15 2 (0.55%) VB
16 1 (0.28%) JCL
16 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 88 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.50%) DV Cleared
3 44 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.16%) Degree
5 10 (2.75%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.28%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.31%) QA
2 6 (1.65%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.65%) SLA
3 5 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.10%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) GRC
5 1 (0.28%) MiFID
5 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 80 (22.04%) Docker
2 11 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 154 (42.42%) Terraform
2 129 (35.54%) Kubernetes
3 77 (21.21%) Ansible
4 75 (20.66%) Grafana
5 68 (18.73%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.68%) Istio
7 16 (4.41%) Argo
7 16 (4.41%) Puppet
8 10 (2.75%) Nagios
9 8 (2.20%) Podman
10 6 (1.65%) Kustomize
11 5 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.28%) linkerd
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.28%) Packer
12 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (7.16%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.06%) Splunk
3 14 (3.86%) Red Hat
4 11 (3.03%) Cisco
4 11 (3.03%) Oracle
5 8 (2.20%) Confluent
6 7 (1.93%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.65%) Databricks
8 5 (1.38%) Google
8 5 (1.38%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.38%) Tenable
9 3 (0.83%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.83%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.55%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.55%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.55%) Foundry
10 2 (0.55%) Informatica
10 2 (0.55%) New Relic
10 2 (0.55%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.55%) VMware