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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 318 420
Rank change year-on-year -78 +102 -101
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 244 417 372
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.94% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.02% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 186 294 274
10th Percentile £46,250 £63,750 £51,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £92,500 £116,250 £111,746
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £93,569 £75,000
% change year-on-year -19.84% +24.76% -6.25%

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 47,536 40,950 58,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.41% 92.48% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 29,120 20,127 46,241
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,300 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -97 109 £85,000 -22.73% 55
North of England +7 68 £63,750 -11.76% 34
North West +13 35 £70,000 -6.67% 19
Yorkshire -12 23 £65,000 +4.00% 12
South West -5 18 £60,000 -20.00% 14
South East -16 15 £75,000 - 47
East of England +13 11 £67,500 +3.85% 3
Midlands +9 11 £58,750 -2.08% 5
North East 0 10 £48,750 -29.70% 3
West Midlands +12 9 £47,500 -20.83% 3
East Midlands -14 2 £130,000 +188.89% 2
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 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.46%) Mule
2 4 (1.64%) Appian
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 129 (52.87%) AWS
2 93 (38.11%) Azure
3 65 (26.64%) GCP
4 45 (18.44%) GitHub
5 43 (17.62%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (11.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (10.25%) Serverless
8 24 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (9.43%) SaaS
10 22 (9.02%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (8.61%) Datadog
12 13 (5.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 13 (5.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (4.51%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (4.51%) dbt
14 11 (4.51%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.66%) TCP/IP
2 22 (9.02%) DNS
3 20 (8.20%) Firewall
4 19 (7.79%) HTTP
5 13 (5.33%) Broadband
6 11 (4.51%) 4G
6 11 (4.51%) BGP
6 11 (4.51%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (4.51%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (4.51%) IOS XR
6 11 (4.51%) MPLS
7 5 (2.05%) SSL
8 3 (1.23%) MQTT
9 2 (0.82%) Network Security
9 2 (0.82%) WAN
10 1 (0.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.66%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.51%) Redis
5 10 (4.10%) Flink
6 9 (3.69%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.69%) Power BI
6 9 (3.69%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.28%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.46%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.46%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.64%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.23%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.82%) SQLPlus
13 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.41%) MySQL
13 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (20.49%) Jenkins
2 42 (17.21%) GitLab
3 28 (11.48%) Git
4 7 (2.87%) JIRA
5 5 (2.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.82%) Gradle
6 2 (0.82%) Maven
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 51 (20.90%) Finance
3 32 (13.11%) Telecoms
4 29 (11.89%) Banking
5 16 (6.56%) Law
6 14 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.10%) Aviation
7 10 (4.10%) Fire and Rescue
7 10 (4.10%) Front Office
7 10 (4.10%) Police
8 6 (2.46%) Advertising
9 5 (2.05%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.23%) Marketing
12 2 (0.82%) Electronics
13 1 (0.41%) Games
13 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (22.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 48 (19.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (13.11%) Platform Engineer
3 32 (13.11%) Site Engineer
4 28 (11.48%) Senior
5 26 (10.66%) Lead
6 17 (6.97%) Lead DevOps
7 15 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (6.15%) Operations Manager
7 15 (6.15%) Software Engineer
8 14 (5.74%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 13 (5.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.51%) Developer
10 11 (4.51%) Network Engineer
11 10 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.10%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.10%) Service Manager
11 10 (4.10%) Service Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.61%) Elastic Stack
1 21 (8.61%) Kafka
2 16 (6.56%) Spring
3 15 (6.15%) Django
3 15 (6.15%) Node.js
3 15 (6.15%) Spring Boot
4 14 (5.74%) React
5 11 (4.51%) Jinja
5 11 (4.51%) NETCONF
5 11 (4.51%) YANG
6 10 (4.10%) .NET
6 10 (4.10%) FastAPI
7 8 (3.28%) Loki
7 8 (3.28%) REST
8 7 (2.87%) .NET Core
9 6 (2.46%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (2.05%) ARM Templates
11 4 (1.64%) Next.js
11 4 (1.64%) PyTorch
11 4 (1.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.08%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.33%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.51%) Social Media
5 10 (4.10%) Robotics
6 7 (2.87%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.46%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.05%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.64%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.23%) CMDB
10 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.82%) Equities
11 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (21.31%) Linux
2 20 (8.20%) Windows
3 19 (7.79%) Unix
4 8 (3.28%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.87%) VMS
6 5 (2.05%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.82%) CentOS
7 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Debian
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (65.98%) DevOps
2 136 (55.74%) CI/CD
3 112 (45.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (42.62%) Observability
5 90 (36.89%) Agile
6 61 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 58 (23.77%) Containerisation
7 58 (23.77%) Incident Response
8 56 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (20.90%) AI
11 41 (16.80%) Incident Management
12 37 (15.16%) Software Engineering
13 35 (14.34%) Analytics
13 35 (14.34%) High Availability
14 34 (13.93%) ITIL
15 33 (13.52%) DevSecOps
16 31 (12.70%) Service-Level Objective
17 29 (11.89%) Root Cause Analysis
17 29 (11.89%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (50.82%) Python
2 56 (22.95%) Java
3 46 (18.85%) Bash
4 28 (11.48%) Go
5 24 (9.84%) PowerShell
6 22 (9.02%) SQL
7 20 (8.20%) TypeScript
8 15 (6.15%) JavaScript
9 12 (4.92%) C#
10 7 (2.87%) Bicep
10 7 (2.87%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.64%) Rust
12 2 (0.82%) Ruby
12 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.82%) VB
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.02%) Degree
3 21 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.38%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.20%) QA
2 12 (4.92%) SLA
3 4 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.23%) GDPR
5 2 (0.82%) GRC
5 2 (0.82%) MiFID
5 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (26.23%) Docker
2 4 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Squid
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (45.90%) Terraform
2 85 (34.84%) Kubernetes
3 68 (27.87%) Grafana
4 64 (26.23%) Ansible
5 63 (25.82%) Prometheus
6 15 (6.15%) Argo
7 6 (2.46%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (2.05%) Nagios
9 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.23%) Puppet
10 2 (0.82%) Istio
10 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.41%) Icinga
11 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.41%) Kibana
11 1 (0.41%) Podman
11 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (9.43%) Splunk
2 16 (6.56%) Google
3 14 (5.74%) Oracle
4 11 (4.51%) Cisco
5 8 (3.28%) Microsoft
6 7 (2.87%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.46%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.46%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.05%) New Relic
8 5 (2.05%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.64%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.23%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.82%) BigPanda
11 2 (0.82%) Moogsoft
11 2 (0.82%) SAP
11 2 (0.82%) VMware
12 1 (0.41%) Foundry
12 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.41%) Tenable