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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 308 295
Rank change year-on-year -50 -13 +57
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 470 402 660
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.92% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.03% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 383 155 303
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £64,509 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,625 £104,375
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £81,250
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% +1.56%

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 69,735 39,168 58,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.70% 89.33% 81.21%
Number of salaries quoted 49,222 22,629 38,358
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,259 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 16 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 16 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 -21 146 £90,000 -2.70% 345
North of England -90 135 £75,000 +7.14% 65
North West -61 93 £75,000 +11.88% 34
South West -14 74 £75,000 -16.67% 37
South East +7 57 £75,000 -1.64% 38
East of England -8 30 £90,000 +30.91% 17
North East -41 24 £80,000 +15.30% 9
Midlands -19 23 £68,496 +1.47% 27
Yorkshire -40 18 £86,250 +11.29% 22
West Midlands -27 17 £71,991 +6.65% 19
East Midlands - 6 £65,000 - 8
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 (1.91%) Apache
2 7 (1.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 197 (41.91%) AWS
2 171 (36.38%) Azure
3 91 (19.36%) GCP
4 59 (12.55%) GitHub
5 44 (9.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 39 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (8.30%) Datadog
7 36 (7.66%) Serverless
8 29 (6.17%) Azure AKS
8 29 (6.17%) SaaS
9 28 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (5.11%) OpenShift
12 12 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (1.91%) Entra ID
16 8 (1.70%) Amazon MSK
17 7 (1.49%) dbt
17 7 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.40%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.98%) Firewall
3 13 (2.77%) DNS
4 10 (2.13%) VPN
5 5 (1.06%) MQTT
6 4 (0.85%) ATM
6 4 (0.85%) BGP
6 4 (0.85%) HTTP
6 4 (0.85%) Network Security
7 3 (0.64%) WAN
8 2 (0.43%) IPv4
8 2 (0.43%) IPv6
8 2 (0.43%) VLAN
8 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.43%) WireGuard
9 1 (0.21%) DHCP
9 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.21%) Internet
9 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.98%) MongoDB
2 13 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 10 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.06%) KDB
5 5 (1.06%) MySQL
5 5 (1.06%) Power BI
6 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.64%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.43%) Big Data
8 2 (0.43%) Redis
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.21%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.21%) Scylla
9 1 (0.21%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 61 (12.98%) GitLab
2 50 (10.64%) Git
3 48 (10.21%) Jenkins
4 26 (5.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.34%) JIRA
6 6 (1.28%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.06%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.43%) MSI
8 2 (0.43%) Snyk
9 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.21%) Gatling
9 1 (0.21%) JMeter
9 1 (0.21%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.21%) Postman
9 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.21%) Selenium
9 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 103 (21.91%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.72%) Finance
3 42 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 29 (6.17%) Banking
6 17 (3.62%) Law
7 15 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.70%) Retail
10 7 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.49%) Front Office
10 7 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.28%) Digital Economy
12 5 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.85%) Legal
14 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.64%) Automotive
14 3 (0.64%) Electronics
14 3 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 126 (26.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 113 (24.04%) Site Engineer
3 103 (21.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 90 (19.15%) Senior
5 69 (14.68%) Lead
6 45 (9.57%) Software Engineer
7 44 (9.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 42 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
9 39 (8.30%) Platform Engineer
10 38 (8.09%) Principal Engineer
11 34 (7.23%) Python Engineer
12 32 (6.81%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 26 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
13 26 (5.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
15 19 (4.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 15 (3.19%) Cloud Native Engineer
18 14 (2.98%) Architect
18 14 (2.98%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.45%) Spring
1 35 (7.45%) Spring Boot
2 27 (5.74%) Kafka
3 18 (3.83%) .NET
4 16 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (2.55%) ARM Templates
6 10 (2.13%) Loki
7 9 (1.91%) React
8 8 (1.70%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (1.70%) Node.js
8 8 (1.70%) REST
9 6 (1.28%) YAML
10 5 (1.06%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.06%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (1.06%) gRPC
10 5 (1.06%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.85%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.85%) Backbone.js
11 4 (0.85%) Middleware
11 4 (0.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 128 (27.23%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.98%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.06%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.06%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.85%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.85%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.64%) Clustering
10 3 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.64%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 101 (21.49%) Linux
2 34 (7.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 31 (6.60%) Windows
4 26 (5.53%) CentOS
5 20 (4.26%) Unix
6 15 (3.19%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.70%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.28%) VMS
9 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.21%) Android
11 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (62.77%) DevOps
2 241 (51.28%) CI/CD
3 234 (49.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 200 (42.55%) Observability
5 177 (37.66%) Platform Engineering
6 117 (24.89%) Software Engineering
7 113 (24.04%) Containerisation
8 99 (21.06%) Agile
9 95 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 87 (18.51%) AI
11 69 (14.68%) Incident Response
12 61 (12.98%) Mentoring
12 61 (12.98%) Microservices
13 59 (12.55%) Root Cause Analysis
14 52 (11.06%) Incident Management
14 52 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
15 51 (10.85%) Roadmaps
16 45 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 45 (9.57%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 213 (45.32%) Python
2 70 (14.89%) Bash
3 66 (14.04%) Java
4 65 (13.83%) PowerShell
5 31 (6.60%) Go
6 30 (6.38%) SQL
7 17 (3.62%) C#
8 15 (3.19%) Bicep
9 10 (2.13%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.91%) C
10 9 (1.91%) C++
11 8 (1.70%) Groovy
11 8 (1.70%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.70%) Rust
12 7 (1.49%) PHP
13 5 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.64%) COBOL
15 2 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 169 (35.96%) Security Cleared
2 112 (23.83%) DV Cleared
3 102 (21.70%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.68%) Degree
5 12 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.64%) CISSP
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.21%) CISM
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.21%) PhD
12 1 (0.21%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.19%) SLA
2 11 (2.34%) QA
3 7 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.64%) ISO 8583
6 3 (0.64%) NCSC
7 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.43%) GDPR
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.43%) NIST
8 1 (0.21%) GxP
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 119 (25.32%) Docker
2 14 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.43%) iptables
4 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 237 (50.43%) Terraform
2 195 (41.49%) Kubernetes
3 145 (30.85%) Ansible
4 80 (17.02%) Grafana
5 57 (12.13%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.04%) Argo
7 18 (3.83%) Puppet
8 17 (3.62%) Istio
9 8 (1.70%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.70%) Nagios
10 7 (1.49%) Podman
11 4 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.85%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.64%) linkerd
13 2 (0.43%) Packer
14 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.21%) Kibana
14 1 (0.21%) Netcool
14 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 38 (8.09%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.68%) Dynatrace
3 20 (4.26%) Google
4 18 (3.83%) Splunk
5 15 (3.19%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.98%) Oracle
7 8 (1.70%) Confluent
8 7 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.06%) Databricks
10 4 (0.85%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.85%) Tenable
10 4 (0.85%) VocaLink
11 3 (0.64%) HP
11 3 (0.64%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.64%) VMware
12 2 (0.43%) Informatica
12 2 (0.43%) Sage
13 1 (0.21%) IBM
13 1 (0.21%) SGI
13 1 (0.21%) Sybase