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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 302 446
Rank change year-on-year -101 +144 -104
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 247 393 366
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.99% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.06% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 194 306 259
10th Percentile £46,250 £61,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £67,688 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £92,500 £117,188 £112,500
90th Percentile £133,500 £138,750 £126,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% +15.63% -0.62%

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 49,769 37,111 64,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.05% 93.74% 87.40%
Number of salaries quoted 30,703 20,324 50,435
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -101 106 £85,000 -22.73% 36
North of England -3 67 £60,000 -13.52% 39
North West -9 33 £71,901 +3.23% 18
Yorkshire -27 20 £61,250 -7.55% 19
South East -39 19 £75,000 - 44
South West -26 18 £60,000 -12.73% 19
North East -8 14 £47,500 -31.54% 2
East of England +1 13 £62,500 -3.85% 8
Midlands -15 11 £58,750 -2.08% 10
West Midlands +2 9 £47,500 -20.83% 6
East Midlands -23 2 £130,000 +188.89% 4
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 5 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.62%) Appian
2 4 (1.62%) Mule
3 2 (0.81%) Apache
3 2 (0.81%) Confluence
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 137 (55.47%) AWS
2 100 (40.49%) Azure
3 70 (28.34%) GCP
4 47 (19.03%) GitHub
5 45 (18.22%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (11.34%) Serverless
7 27 (10.93%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (9.31%) Datadog
10 19 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (7.69%) SaaS
11 14 (5.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 13 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 12 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (4.86%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (4.86%) Power Platform
14 11 (4.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 30 (12.15%) TCP/IP
2 25 (10.12%) DNS
3 23 (9.31%) HTTP
4 21 (8.50%) Firewall
5 14 (5.67%) Broadband
6 11 (4.45%) 4G
6 11 (4.45%) BGP
6 11 (4.45%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (4.45%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (4.45%) IOS XR
6 11 (4.45%) MPLS
7 5 (2.02%) SSL
8 4 (1.62%) MQTT
9 2 (0.81%) Network Security
10 1 (0.40%) DHCP
10 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.86%) Power BI
5 11 (4.45%) Redis
6 10 (4.05%) Flink
7 9 (3.64%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.24%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.62%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.62%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.62%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.21%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.81%) SQLPlus
13 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.40%) MySQL
13 1 (0.40%) Sybase ASE
13 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (20.24%) Jenkins
2 40 (16.19%) GitLab
3 32 (12.96%) Git
4 9 (3.64%) JIRA
5 6 (2.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.81%) Gradle
6 2 (0.81%) Maven
6 2 (0.81%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 77 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.46%) Finance
3 36 (14.57%) Telecoms
4 30 (12.15%) Banking
5 20 (8.10%) Law
6 17 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.05%) Front Office
9 5 (2.02%) Advertising
9 5 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.02%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.62%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.21%) Aviation
11 3 (1.21%) Electronics
11 3 (1.21%) Fire and Rescue
11 3 (1.21%) Marketing
11 3 (1.21%) Police
12 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Games
13 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (23.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 52 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (15.79%) Site Engineer
4 31 (12.55%) Senior
5 29 (11.74%) Platform Engineer
6 28 (11.34%) Lead
7 18 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (6.88%) Lead DevOps
9 15 (6.07%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (6.07%) Software Engineer
10 14 (5.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (5.26%) Developer
12 12 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (4.45%) Network Engineer
14 9 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (3.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 9 (3.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.64%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.12%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (8.91%) Kafka
3 16 (6.48%) Spring
4 15 (6.07%) Django
4 15 (6.07%) React
4 15 (6.07%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.67%) Node.js
6 13 (5.26%) .NET
7 11 (4.45%) Jinja
7 11 (4.45%) NETCONF
7 11 (4.45%) YANG
8 10 (4.05%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.64%) FastAPI
9 9 (3.64%) REST
10 8 (3.24%) Loki
11 6 (2.43%) ARM Templates
11 6 (2.43%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (2.02%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.02%) Vue
13 4 (1.62%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.45%) Social Media
5 8 (3.24%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.43%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.62%) Hackathon
7 4 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.21%) CMDB
8 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.21%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.21%) Robotics
9 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.81%) Equities
9 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (22.67%) Linux
2 22 (8.91%) Windows
3 19 (7.69%) Unix
4 10 (4.05%) VMS
4 10 (4.05%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.43%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.21%) CentOS
6 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (65.18%) DevOps
2 143 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 117 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (42.11%) Observability
5 87 (35.22%) Agile
6 68 (27.53%) Containerisation
7 63 (25.51%) Platform Engineering
8 59 (23.89%) Incident Response
9 55 (22.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (18.22%) AI
12 39 (15.79%) Analytics
13 38 (15.38%) High Availability
14 36 (14.57%) DevSecOps
14 36 (14.57%) Incident Management
15 35 (14.17%) Root Cause Analysis
16 34 (13.77%) Service-Level Objective
17 30 (12.15%) Software Engineering
18 28 (11.34%) Microservices
19 27 (10.93%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 130 (52.63%) Python
2 50 (20.24%) Bash
2 50 (20.24%) Java
3 34 (13.77%) Go
4 27 (10.93%) PowerShell
5 26 (10.53%) SQL
6 17 (6.88%) C#
7 16 (6.48%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.26%) JavaScript
9 10 (4.05%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.02%) Bicep
10 5 (2.02%) Rust
11 2 (0.81%) Ruby
11 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.81%) VB
12 1 (0.40%) Groovy
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 25 (10.12%) Degree
3 20 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.48%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.02%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.67%) QA
2 12 (4.86%) SLA
3 2 (0.81%) GDPR
3 2 (0.81%) GRC
3 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.81%) MiFID
3 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (29.96%) Docker
2 4 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.40%) Squid
5 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 118 (47.77%) Terraform
2 90 (36.44%) Kubernetes
3 72 (29.15%) Grafana
4 68 (27.53%) Ansible
5 66 (26.72%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.48%) Argo
7 7 (2.83%) Nagios
8 6 (2.43%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.62%) Istio
10 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.81%) Puppet
11 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.40%) Icinga
11 1 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.40%) Kibana
11 1 (0.40%) Netcool
11 1 (0.40%) Podman
11 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (10.12%) Splunk
2 14 (5.67%) Google
3 12 (4.86%) Oracle
4 11 (4.45%) Cisco
5 9 (3.64%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.64%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.43%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.02%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.02%) New Relic
7 5 (2.02%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.62%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.21%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.21%) VMware
10 2 (0.81%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.81%) BigPanda
10 2 (0.81%) Confluent
10 2 (0.81%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.81%) SAP
11 1 (0.40%) Palantir
11 1 (0.40%) Tenable