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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 264 352
Rank change year-on-year -136 +88 -46
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 214 618 370
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.08% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.25% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 153 257 298
10th Percentile £55,000 £64,471 £49,625
25th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £61,539
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £96,250 £113,750 £106,250
90th Percentile £136,000 £138,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,500 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.11% +12.50% -

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 39,619 49,328 42,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.01% 86.14% 93.62%
Number of salaries quoted 24,754 25,663 32,651
10th Percentile £28,325 £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% - -4.00%
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 2 December 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 2 December 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 -46 105 £85,000 -15.00% 41
North of England -91 62 £75,000 - 38
Yorkshire +9 32 £76,250 -10.29% 9
North West -85 26 £73,801 -1.60% 28
South West -37 8 £92,500 +23.33% 29
South East -7 7 £77,500 +3.33% 35
East of England +29 6 £67,500 -32.50% 6
West Midlands +48 5 £73,801 +6.48% 9
Midlands +45 5 £73,801 +6.48% 9
North East +3 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 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.80%) Mule
2 3 (1.40%) Appian
3 1 (0.47%) nginx
3 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 126 (58.88%) AWS
2 70 (32.71%) Azure
3 57 (26.64%) GCP
4 30 (14.02%) GitHub
5 29 (13.55%) GitHub Actions
5 29 (13.55%) SaaS
6 28 (13.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (10.75%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (10.28%) Datadog
9 19 (8.88%) Serverless
10 13 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.61%) dbt
11 12 (5.61%) Pulumi
12 11 (5.14%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (4.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (4.21%) OpenShift
14 9 (4.21%) PaaS
15 8 (3.74%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.54%) TCP/IP
2 12 (5.61%) Firewall
3 11 (5.14%) DNS
4 5 (2.34%) HTTP
5 4 (1.87%) NAS
5 4 (1.87%) SAN
6 3 (1.40%) AMQP
6 3 (1.40%) BGP
6 3 (1.40%) Network Security
7 2 (0.93%) Broadband
7 2 (0.93%) Internet
7 2 (0.93%) SSL
7 2 (0.93%) WAN
8 1 (0.47%) SNMP
8 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.81%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.88%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (7.94%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (5.61%) Redis
5 9 (4.21%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.74%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.27%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.80%) Flink
8 6 (2.80%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.87%) InfluxDB
9 4 (1.87%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.40%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.40%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.93%) MySQL
12 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.47%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 51 (23.83%) Jenkins
2 46 (21.50%) GitLab
3 12 (5.61%) Git
4 8 (3.74%) JIRA
5 6 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.93%) Vite
7 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (37.85%) Social Skills
2 51 (23.83%) Finance
3 29 (13.55%) Banking
4 22 (10.28%) Aviation
4 22 (10.28%) Fire and Rescue
4 22 (10.28%) Police
5 12 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.67%) Law
6 10 (4.67%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.80%) Front Office
9 4 (1.87%) Games
10 3 (1.40%) Advertising
10 3 (1.40%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.40%) Marketing
10 3 (1.40%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Electronics
11 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (24.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 43 (20.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (13.55%) Platform Engineer
4 28 (13.08%) Site Engineer
5 27 (12.62%) Operations Manager
5 27 (12.62%) Senior
6 24 (11.21%) Lead
7 22 (10.28%) Service Manager
7 22 (10.28%) Service Operations Manager
8 13 (6.07%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (5.61%) Lead DevOps
10 11 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (5.14%) Developer
10 11 (5.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 11 (5.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.27%) Infrastructure Support
13 7 (3.27%) Python Engineer
13 7 (3.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.94%) Node.js
2 16 (7.48%) Kafka
3 15 (7.01%) Django
4 11 (5.14%) FastAPI
5 10 (4.67%) .NET
5 10 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (4.21%) Spring
7 7 (3.27%) React
7 7 (3.27%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.87%) Next.js
9 4 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.87%) REST
10 3 (1.40%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.40%) GraphQL
10 3 (1.40%) LangChain
10 3 (1.40%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.40%) scikit-learn
10 3 (1.40%) TensorFlow
11 2 (0.93%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 55 (25.70%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.28%) Robotics
3 13 (6.07%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.67%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.27%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.80%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.80%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.87%) CMDB
8 4 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.40%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (18.69%) Linux
2 17 (7.94%) Unix
3 11 (5.14%) Windows
4 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Debian
5 1 (0.47%) VMS
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (72.90%) DevOps
2 130 (60.75%) CI/CD
3 103 (48.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (46.26%) Observability
5 82 (38.32%) Agile
6 70 (32.71%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (28.04%) Incident Response
8 52 (24.30%) Containerisation
9 51 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (22.43%) AI
11 44 (20.56%) Incident Management
12 42 (19.63%) Platform Engineering
13 41 (19.16%) Software Engineering
14 39 (18.22%) ITIL
15 37 (17.29%) Service Management
16 28 (13.08%) Collaborative Culture
17 27 (12.62%) Change Management
18 26 (12.15%) Business Continuity
18 26 (12.15%) Root Cause Analysis
19 25 (11.68%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 98 (45.79%) Python
2 46 (21.50%) Java
3 43 (20.09%) Bash
4 28 (13.08%) PowerShell
5 23 (10.75%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.41%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.94%) Go
8 15 (7.01%) SQL
9 6 (2.80%) C#
10 5 (2.34%) Ruby
10 5 (2.34%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.87%) Bicep
12 3 (1.40%) C++
12 3 (1.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 34 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.01%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.07%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.14%) Degree
6 7 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.93%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.08%) QA
2 9 (4.21%) SLA
3 7 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.34%) GDPR
5 3 (1.40%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.93%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) MiFID
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 61 (28.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.47%) Squid
3 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (42.52%) Kubernetes
2 89 (41.59%) Terraform
3 58 (27.10%) Ansible
4 49 (22.90%) Grafana
5 48 (22.43%) Prometheus
6 11 (5.14%) Argo
7 7 (3.27%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.80%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.93%) Control-M
10 2 (0.93%) Kibana
10 2 (0.93%) Nagios
10 2 (0.93%) Puppet
11 1 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.47%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.47%) Icinga
11 1 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.47%) logstash
11 1 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (11.21%) Oracle
2 17 (7.94%) Google
2 17 (7.94%) Splunk
3 7 (3.27%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.80%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.34%) AppDynamics
5 5 (2.34%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.87%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.87%) SAP
7 3 (1.40%) Cribl.io
7 3 (1.40%) New Relic
7 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.40%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.40%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.40%) Sonatype
7 3 (1.40%) VMware
8 2 (0.93%) F5
8 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.93%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.47%) Hitachi