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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 250 339
Rank change year-on-year -148 +89 -23
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 227 663 389
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 1.10% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.31% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 147 242 311
10th Percentile £55,000 £64,471 £50,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £87,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +6.06% +3.13%
75th Percentile £94,375 £105,000 £104,375
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £76,250 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.29% +6.25% -

All Process and 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 39,652 50,712 43,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.51% 84.01% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,627 26,332 33,394
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 -35 114 £85,000 -10.53% 134
North of England -118 63 £75,000 - 58
Yorkshire +12 32 £75,000 -11.76% 5
North West -103 27 £73,801 -1.60% 52
Midlands +57 8 £73,801 +6.48% 15
West Midlands +47 8 £73,801 +6.48% 11
East of England +27 8 £67,500 -12.90% 14
South West -32 8 £90,000 +20.00% 29
South East +8 6 £82,500 +10.00% 34
North East -4 4 £73,801 +6.48% 1
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 (2.64%) Mule
2 5 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.88%) Appian
3 2 (0.88%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.44%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.44%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 132 (58.15%) AWS
2 71 (31.28%) Azure
3 62 (27.31%) GCP
4 30 (13.22%) SaaS
5 29 (12.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (11.45%) Amazon ECS
6 26 (11.45%) GitHub
6 26 (11.45%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (9.69%) Datadog
8 21 (9.25%) Serverless
9 16 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.73%) Pulumi
11 12 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.29%) dbt
12 11 (4.85%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (4.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.96%) PaaS
15 8 (3.52%) OpenShift
15 8 (3.52%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.61%) TCP/IP
2 12 (5.29%) DNS
2 12 (5.29%) Firewall
3 5 (2.20%) HTTP
4 4 (1.76%) NAS
4 4 (1.76%) SAN
5 3 (1.32%) AMQP
5 3 (1.32%) BGP
5 3 (1.32%) Network Security
6 2 (0.88%) Broadband
6 2 (0.88%) Internet
6 2 (0.88%) SSL
6 2 (0.88%) WAN
7 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.44%) IPsec
7 1 (0.44%) SNMP
7 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.37%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (7.93%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (5.73%) Redis
5 12 (5.29%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.29%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.08%) Oracle Database
7 5 (2.20%) Pinecone
8 4 (1.76%) Flink
8 4 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.32%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.32%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.32%) MySQL
10 2 (0.88%) Weaviate
11 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.44%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.44%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 55 (24.23%) Jenkins
2 51 (22.47%) GitLab
3 12 (5.29%) Git
4 9 (3.96%) JIRA
5 6 (2.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.76%) Vite
7 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 65 (28.63%) Finance
3 31 (13.66%) Banking
4 22 (9.69%) Aviation
4 22 (9.69%) Fire and Rescue
4 22 (9.69%) Police
5 16 (7.05%) Law
6 14 (6.17%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (3.96%) Marketing
10 6 (2.64%) Electronics
10 6 (2.64%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.64%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.20%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.76%) Front Office
12 4 (1.76%) Games
13 3 (1.32%) Retail
14 2 (0.88%) Advertising
14 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (24.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 42 (18.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (14.10%) Lead
4 30 (13.22%) Platform Engineer
5 29 (12.78%) Site Engineer
6 28 (12.33%) Operations Manager
6 28 (12.33%) Senior
7 22 (9.69%) Service Manager
7 22 (9.69%) Service Operations Manager
8 15 (6.61%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.29%) Lead DevOps
9 12 (5.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (4.85%) Developer
11 10 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (4.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.96%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.52%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.52%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.81%) Node.js
2 16 (7.05%) Kafka
3 15 (6.61%) Spring
4 14 (6.17%) Django
4 14 (6.17%) FastAPI
5 12 (5.29%) .NET
6 11 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (4.85%) Spring Boot
7 8 (3.52%) React
8 6 (2.64%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.76%) Jest
9 4 (1.76%) Next.js
9 4 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.32%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.32%) LangChain
10 3 (1.32%) LDAP
10 3 (1.32%) Loki
10 3 (1.32%) REST
10 3 (1.32%) SOAP
11 2 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 55 (24.23%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.69%) Robotics
3 13 (5.73%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.08%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.64%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.76%) CMDB
10 4 (1.76%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.76%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.88%) Hackathon
11 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.62%) Linux
2 17 (7.49%) Unix
3 12 (5.29%) Windows
4 3 (1.32%) Android
5 2 (0.88%) Debian
5 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) CentOS
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (69.60%) DevOps
2 132 (58.15%) CI/CD
3 103 (45.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (44.49%) Observability
5 95 (41.85%) Agile
6 70 (30.84%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (25.55%) Incident Response
8 54 (23.79%) Containerisation
9 51 (22.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (21.59%) AI
10 49 (21.59%) Software Engineering
11 44 (19.38%) ITIL
12 42 (18.50%) Incident Management
12 42 (18.50%) Platform Engineering
12 42 (18.50%) Service Management
13 28 (12.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 28 (12.33%) Service Design
14 27 (11.89%) Collaborative Culture
14 27 (11.89%) DevSecOps
15 26 (11.45%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (45.37%) Python
2 51 (22.47%) Java
3 47 (20.70%) Bash
4 30 (13.22%) PowerShell
5 27 (11.89%) TypeScript
6 21 (9.25%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.93%) Go
8 17 (7.49%) SQL
9 7 (3.08%) C#
10 5 (2.20%) Ruby
10 5 (2.20%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.76%) Bicep
12 3 (1.32%) C++
12 3 (1.32%) Groovy
13 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.57%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.37%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.61%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.29%) Degree
6 7 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.78%) QA
2 7 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.64%) GDPR
3 6 (2.64%) SLA
4 3 (1.32%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.88%) NIST
5 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
6 1 (0.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 61 (26.87%) Docker
2 3 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.88%) Squid
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (41.85%) Kubernetes
2 92 (40.53%) Terraform
3 56 (24.67%) Ansible
4 53 (23.35%) Grafana
5 51 (22.47%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.52%) Argo
7 6 (2.64%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.64%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.76%) Kibana
9 3 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.32%) Puppet
10 2 (0.88%) Control-M
10 2 (0.88%) logstash
11 1 (0.44%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.44%) Icinga
11 1 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.44%) linkerd
11 1 (0.44%) Rancher
11 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (13.22%) Oracle
2 20 (8.81%) Splunk
3 17 (7.49%) Google
4 8 (3.52%) Atlassian
4 8 (3.52%) Dynatrace
4 8 (3.52%) SAP
5 6 (2.64%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.76%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.76%) New Relic
6 4 (1.76%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.76%) VMware
7 3 (1.32%) Cribl.io
7 3 (1.32%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.32%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.32%) Sonatype
8 2 (0.88%) F5
8 2 (0.88%) Hitachi
8 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.88%) TOWER Software