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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 309 395
Rank change year-on-year -83 +86 -65
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 235 441 373
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.93% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.02% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 164 287 286
10th Percentile £46,250 £64,471 £51,875
25th Percentile £64,375 £72,500 £62,338
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £94,063 £116,250 £107,188
90th Percentile £135,250 £138,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -18.92% +19.35% -3.13%

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 44,707 43,296 53,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.31% 91.66% 88.61%
Number of salaries quoted 27,023 21,021 42,133
10th Percentile £28,928 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,110 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.28% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,354 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -81 114 £86,250 -21.59% 55
North of England +25 65 £73,801 -1.27% 43
North West +17 32 £65,000 -13.33% 18
Yorkshire +2 26 £75,000 +20.00% 19
South West -10 18 £72,500 -3.33% 36
East of England +18 10 £77,500 +19.23% 27
Midlands +5 7 £71,901 +3.74% 25
North East +1 7 £60,000 -13.43% 6
South East -23 7 £72,500 -3.33% 75
West Midlands +28 6 £71,901 +3.74% 10
East Midlands -12 1 - - 13
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 7 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.55%) Mule
3 4 (1.70%) Appian
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 122 (51.91%) AWS
2 78 (33.19%) Azure
3 57 (24.26%) GCP
4 39 (16.60%) GitHub
5 37 (15.74%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (13.19%) SaaS
7 28 (11.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (9.36%) Serverless
9 21 (8.94%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (8.51%) Datadog
11 19 (8.09%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (5.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 13 (5.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (4.68%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (4.68%) dbt
15 11 (4.68%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.09%) TCP/IP
2 17 (7.23%) DNS
3 14 (5.96%) Firewall
3 14 (5.96%) HTTP
4 13 (5.53%) Broadband
5 12 (5.11%) BGP
6 11 (4.68%) 4G
6 11 (4.68%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (4.68%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (4.68%) IOS XR
6 11 (4.68%) MPLS
7 6 (2.55%) SSL
8 2 (0.85%) AMQP
8 2 (0.85%) Network Security
8 2 (0.85%) WAN
9 1 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.06%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.68%) Redis
5 10 (4.26%) Flink
5 10 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.83%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.98%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.98%) Pinecone
8 6 (2.55%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.13%) Power BI
10 4 (1.70%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.28%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.28%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.43%) MySQL
12 1 (0.43%) Tableau
12 1 (0.43%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 49 (20.85%) Jenkins
2 40 (17.02%) GitLab
3 23 (9.79%) Git
4 6 (2.55%) JIRA
5 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.85%) Gradle
6 2 (0.85%) Maven
7 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 91 (38.72%) Social Skills
2 46 (19.57%) Finance
3 28 (11.91%) Banking
4 26 (11.06%) Telecoms
5 22 (9.36%) Aviation
5 22 (9.36%) Fire and Rescue
5 22 (9.36%) Police
6 14 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.26%) Front Office
8 10 (4.26%) Law
9 5 (2.13%) Advertising
9 5 (2.13%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.28%) Marketing
11 2 (0.85%) Electronics
11 2 (0.85%) Games
11 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (22.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 41 (17.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (13.19%) Site Engineer
4 30 (12.77%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (11.91%) Operations Manager
6 25 (10.64%) Lead
7 22 (9.36%) Service Manager
7 22 (9.36%) Service Operations Manager
8 21 (8.94%) Senior
9 19 (8.09%) Lead DevOps
10 16 (6.81%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 14 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (5.53%) Software Engineer
13 11 (4.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.68%) Developer
13 11 (4.68%) Network Engineer
14 10 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
15 8 (3.40%) Associate Engineer
16 7 (2.98%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.09%) Kafka
2 16 (6.81%) Node.js
3 15 (6.38%) Django
4 14 (5.96%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (5.96%) Spring
4 14 (5.96%) Spring Boot
5 13 (5.53%) React
6 11 (4.68%) FastAPI
6 11 (4.68%) Jinja
6 11 (4.68%) NETCONF
6 11 (4.68%) YANG
7 9 (3.83%) REST
8 8 (3.40%) Loki
9 7 (2.98%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (2.55%) .NET
11 5 (2.13%) Next.js
12 4 (1.70%) GraphQL
12 4 (1.70%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.70%) scikit-learn
12 4 (1.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 46 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.36%) Robotics
3 14 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.68%) Social Media
5 10 (4.26%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.83%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.55%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.70%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.70%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.28%) CMDB
10 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.28%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.85%) Equities
11 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.43%) NHS
12 1 (0.43%) PKI
12 1 (0.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 52 (22.13%) Linux
2 19 (8.09%) Unix
3 18 (7.66%) Windows
4 4 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.43%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (68.51%) DevOps
2 128 (54.47%) CI/CD
3 104 (44.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 104 (44.26%) Observability
4 94 (40.00%) Agile
5 66 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (27.23%) Incident Response
7 57 (24.26%) AI
7 57 (24.26%) Platform Engineering
8 55 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 52 (22.13%) Incident Management
10 48 (20.43%) Software Engineering
11 46 (19.57%) Containerisation
12 42 (17.87%) ITIL
13 37 (15.74%) Service Management
14 31 (13.19%) Collaborative Culture
15 30 (12.77%) Change Management
16 29 (12.34%) High Availability
17 28 (11.91%) Root Cause Analysis
18 27 (11.49%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 113 (48.09%) Python
2 55 (23.40%) Java
3 41 (17.45%) Bash
4 23 (9.79%) Go
5 22 (9.36%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.66%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.23%) SQL
8 16 (6.81%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.40%) C#
10 7 (2.98%) Bicep
11 4 (1.70%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.85%) Ruby
14 1 (0.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 36 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.09%) DV Cleared
3 17 (7.23%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.38%) Degree
5 6 (2.55%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.34%) QA
2 11 (4.68%) SLA
3 5 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.28%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) GRC
5 2 (0.85%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) PSD2
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (25.53%) Docker
2 4 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Squid
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (41.70%) Terraform
2 78 (33.19%) Kubernetes
3 59 (25.11%) Ansible
3 59 (25.11%) Grafana
4 57 (24.26%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.53%) Argo
6 6 (2.55%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.28%) Nagios
9 2 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.85%) Puppet
10 1 (0.43%) Control-M
10 1 (0.43%) Icinga
10 1 (0.43%) Istio
10 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.43%) Kibana
10 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (9.36%) Splunk
2 17 (7.23%) Google
3 16 (6.81%) Oracle
4 11 (4.68%) Cisco
5 7 (2.98%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.98%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.98%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.55%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.70%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.70%) New Relic
7 4 (1.70%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.28%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.85%) BigPanda
9 2 (0.85%) Moogsoft
9 2 (0.85%) SAP
9 2 (0.85%) VMware
10 1 (0.43%) Foundry
10 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.43%) TOWER Software