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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 320 297
Rank change year-on-year -37 -23 +65
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 451 403 669
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.93% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.03% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 374 166 316
10th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,509 £65,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £102,125 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 67,626 39,031 60,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.87% 89.63% 81.40%
Number of salaries quoted 47,761 22,628 41,205
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,478
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -13 137 £91,250 -3.95% 253
North of England -87 129 £75,000 +7.62% 67
North West -58 90 £75,000 +11.88% 35
South West -11 70 £75,000 -20.75% 43
South East +12 55 £77,500 +1.64% 38
East of England +7 31 £80,150 +18.74% 13
Midlands -27 24 £65,000 -3.70% 26
North East -35 20 £71,991 +3.76% 16
Yorkshire -35 19 £75,000 -3.23% 16
West Midlands -31 18 £63,750 -5.56% 16
East Midlands - 6 £65,000 - 10
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 9 (2.00%) Apache
2 8 (1.77%) Confluence
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 187 (41.46%) AWS
2 168 (37.25%) Azure
3 85 (18.85%) GCP
4 59 (13.08%) GitHub
5 41 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (8.20%) Serverless
7 34 (7.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (6.21%) Datadog
10 27 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (5.76%) Azure AKS
11 26 (5.76%) SaaS
12 21 (4.66%) OpenShift
13 14 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (2.00%) Azure Functions
17 8 (1.77%) Amazon MSK
17 8 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (1.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.99%) TCP/IP
2 17 (3.77%) Firewall
3 16 (3.55%) DNS
4 8 (1.77%) HTTP
5 7 (1.55%) VPN
6 6 (1.33%) MQTT
7 4 (0.89%) ATM
7 4 (0.89%) Network Security
8 3 (0.67%) BGP
9 2 (0.44%) VLAN
9 2 (0.44%) WAN
10 1 (0.22%) Broadband
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) IPv4
10 1 (0.22%) IPv6
10 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.22%) SSL
10 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.10%) MongoDB
2 13 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.66%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.77%) Power BI
6 7 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.11%) KDB
9 4 (0.89%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.89%) MySQL
10 3 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.44%) Big Data
11 2 (0.44%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.22%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.22%) Scylla
12 1 (0.22%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 61 (13.53%) GitLab
2 51 (11.31%) Jenkins
3 47 (10.42%) Git
4 23 (5.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (2.66%) JIRA
6 6 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.33%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.44%) MSI
7 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.22%) Gatling
8 1 (0.22%) JMeter
8 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.22%) Selenium
8 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (19.96%) Social Skills
2 79 (17.52%) Finance
3 38 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (5.54%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.32%) Banking
6 21 (4.66%) Law
7 15 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.77%) Retail
11 7 (1.55%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.55%) Front Office
11 7 (1.55%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.33%) Digital Economy
13 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.67%) Automotive
13 3 (0.67%) Electronics
13 3 (0.67%) Marketing
14 2 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 112 (24.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 98 (21.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 98 (21.73%) Site Engineer
3 73 (16.19%) Senior
4 70 (15.52%) Lead
5 45 (9.98%) Software Engineer
6 41 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
7 37 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
8 36 (7.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 34 (7.54%) Principal Engineer
10 28 (6.21%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 25 (5.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 22 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (4.21%) Python Engineer
13 19 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
14 18 (3.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.33%) Architect
16 14 (3.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 13 (2.88%) Developer
17 13 (2.88%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.76%) Spring
2 34 (7.54%) Spring Boot
3 28 (6.21%) Kafka
4 20 (4.43%) .NET
4 20 (4.43%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (2.88%) ARM Templates
6 10 (2.22%) React
7 9 (2.00%) Loki
8 8 (1.77%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.77%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (1.77%) REST
9 6 (1.33%) Node.js
9 6 (1.33%) YAML
10 5 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (1.11%) gRPC
11 4 (0.89%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.89%) Backbone.js
11 4 (0.89%) Middleware
11 4 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 121 (26.83%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.11%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.89%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.89%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.67%) Hackathon
11 3 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.67%) Replication
11 3 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 96 (21.29%) Linux
2 31 (6.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 31 (6.87%) Windows
3 24 (5.32%) CentOS
4 18 (3.99%) Unix
5 16 (3.55%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.00%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.00%) VMS
7 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.22%) Android
8 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (64.30%) DevOps
2 238 (52.77%) CI/CD
3 219 (48.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 189 (41.91%) Observability
5 168 (37.25%) Platform Engineering
6 110 (24.39%) Containerisation
7 101 (22.39%) Agile
8 96 (21.29%) Software Engineering
9 90 (19.96%) AI
9 90 (19.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (14.63%) Incident Response
11 63 (13.97%) Microservices
12 58 (12.86%) Mentoring
13 52 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (11.53%) Roadmaps
13 52 (11.53%) Root Cause Analysis
14 51 (11.31%) Technical Leadership
15 48 (10.64%) Incident Management
16 43 (9.53%) Stakeholder Management
17 40 (8.87%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 200 (44.35%) Python
2 73 (16.19%) Bash
3 65 (14.41%) Java
4 62 (13.75%) PowerShell
5 33 (7.32%) Go
5 33 (7.32%) SQL
6 20 (4.43%) C#
7 15 (3.33%) Bicep
8 10 (2.22%) Rust
8 10 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.00%) C
9 9 (2.00%) C++
10 8 (1.77%) Groovy
10 8 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (1.55%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.33%) PHP
13 3 (0.67%) COBOL
13 3 (0.67%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.22%) VB
14 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 157 (34.81%) Security Cleared
2 104 (23.06%) DV Cleared
3 92 (20.40%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.32%) Degree
5 10 (2.22%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.77%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.77%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.67%) CISSP
10 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.22%) CISM
11 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.22%) PhD
11 1 (0.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.88%) SLA
2 12 (2.66%) QA
3 7 (1.55%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.11%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.67%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.44%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.44%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.22%) GxP
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.22%) NCSC
7 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 116 (25.72%) Docker
2 12 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) iptables
5 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 222 (49.22%) Terraform
2 184 (40.80%) Kubernetes
3 135 (29.93%) Ansible
4 80 (17.74%) Grafana
5 61 (13.53%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.21%) Argo
6 19 (4.21%) Puppet
7 18 (3.99%) Istio
8 9 (2.00%) Nagios
9 8 (1.77%) Podman
10 7 (1.55%) Kustomize
11 5 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.89%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.67%) linkerd
14 1 (0.22%) Cilium
14 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (7.76%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.21%) Splunk
3 18 (3.99%) Dynatrace
4 17 (3.77%) Google
5 14 (3.10%) Oracle
5 14 (3.10%) Red Hat
6 8 (1.77%) Confluent
7 7 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.11%) Databricks
8 5 (1.11%) Tenable
9 4 (0.89%) VocaLink
10 3 (0.67%) HP
10 3 (0.67%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.67%) VMware
11 2 (0.44%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.44%) Informatica
11 2 (0.44%) PagerDuty
12 1 (0.22%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.22%) Percona
12 1 (0.22%) Veracode