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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 316 410
Rank change year-on-year -68 +94 -91
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 235 423 397
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.91% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.99% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 164 288 306
10th Percentile £46,250 £64,471 £51,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £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 £94,063 £116,250 £107,500
90th Percentile £136,750 £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 45,044 42,714 57,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.08% 91.74% 88.59%
Number of salaries quoted 27,255 20,631 45,615
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,561 £46,250 £41,242
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,350 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% +9.55% -10.40%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 2 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 2 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 -73 115 £87,500 -20.45% 58
North of England +13 66 £69,401 -7.16% 28
North West +23 33 £65,000 -13.33% 15
Yorkshire -4 25 £75,000 +20.00% 10
South West -11 18 £65,000 -13.33% 24
East of England +12 9 £85,000 +30.77% 4
North East +2 8 £55,000 -20.64% 3
South East -11 8 £77,500 +3.33% 33
Midlands +11 7 £71,901 +3.74% 8
West Midlands +21 6 £71,901 +3.74% 6
East Midlands -5 1 - - 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 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%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 120 (51.06%) AWS
2 79 (33.62%) Azure
3 58 (24.68%) GCP
4 40 (17.02%) GitHub
5 38 (16.17%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (13.62%) SaaS
7 28 (11.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (9.36%) Serverless
9 21 (8.94%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (8.94%) Datadog
10 20 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (8.09%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (5.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 13 (5.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 13 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.68%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (4.68%) dbt
14 11 (4.68%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.94%) TCP/IP
2 18 (7.66%) DNS
3 16 (6.81%) HTTP
4 15 (6.38%) Firewall
5 13 (5.53%) Broadband
6 11 (4.68%) 4G
6 11 (4.68%) BGP
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%) Network Security
8 2 (0.85%) WAN
9 1 (0.43%) AMQP
9 1 (0.43%) Internet
9 1 (0.43%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.64%) 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
8 6 (2.55%) Power BI
9 5 (2.13%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.70%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.28%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.85%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.43%) MySQL
13 1 (0.43%) SQLPlus
13 1 (0.43%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 50 (21.28%) Jenkins
2 39 (16.60%) GitLab
3 24 (10.21%) Git
4 5 (2.13%) JIRA
5 4 (1.70%) 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 90 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.00%) Finance
3 29 (12.34%) Banking
4 28 (11.91%) 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 12 (5.11%) Law
8 11 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (4.26%) Front Office
10 5 (2.13%) Advertising
10 5 (2.13%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.28%) Marketing
12 2 (0.85%) Electronics
12 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.43%) Games
13 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (20.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 42 (17.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (12.77%) Platform Engineer
4 28 (11.91%) Operations Manager
4 28 (11.91%) Site Engineer
5 24 (10.21%) Lead
6 22 (9.36%) Senior
6 22 (9.36%) Service Manager
6 22 (9.36%) Service Operations Manager
7 17 (7.23%) Lead DevOps
8 14 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (5.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.96%) Software Engineer
9 13 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.68%) Network Engineer
11 10 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.26%) Developer
12 8 (3.40%) Associate Engineer
13 7 (2.98%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.09%) Kafka
2 16 (6.81%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (6.81%) Node.js
3 15 (6.38%) Django
3 15 (6.38%) Spring
3 15 (6.38%) Spring Boot
4 13 (5.53%) React
5 11 (4.68%) FastAPI
5 11 (4.68%) Jinja
5 11 (4.68%) NETCONF
5 11 (4.68%) YANG
6 8 (3.40%) Loki
6 8 (3.40%) REST
7 7 (2.98%) .NET
7 7 (2.98%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.13%) Next.js
9 4 (1.70%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.70%) GraphQL
9 4 (1.70%) PyTorch
9 4 (1.70%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 46 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.36%) Robotics
3 14 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.68%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.68%) Social Media
5 8 (3.40%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.55%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.70%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.28%) CMDB
9 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.85%) Equities
10 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 51 (21.70%) Linux
2 19 (8.09%) Unix
3 18 (7.66%) Windows
4 4 (1.70%) VMS
4 4 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (67.66%) DevOps
2 126 (53.62%) CI/CD
3 103 (43.83%) Observability
4 102 (43.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 92 (39.15%) Agile
6 67 (28.51%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (26.81%) Incident Response
8 59 (25.11%) AI
9 58 (24.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (24.26%) Platform Engineering
11 51 (21.70%) Incident Management
12 49 (20.85%) Containerisation
12 49 (20.85%) Software Engineering
13 42 (17.87%) ITIL
14 37 (15.74%) Service Management
15 31 (13.19%) Collaborative Culture
15 31 (13.19%) High Availability
16 30 (12.77%) Change Management
17 29 (12.34%) Service-Level Objective
18 28 (11.91%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 115 (48.94%) Python
2 56 (23.83%) Java
3 43 (18.30%) Bash
4 25 (10.64%) Go
5 22 (9.36%) TypeScript
6 19 (8.09%) SQL
7 18 (7.66%) PowerShell
8 15 (6.38%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.83%) C#
10 7 (2.98%) Bicep
11 4 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.85%) Ruby
14 1 (0.43%) Groovy
14 1 (0.43%) Rust
14 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.66%) DV Cleared
3 17 (7.23%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.81%) 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
7 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.77%) QA
2 12 (5.11%) SLA
3 4 (1.70%) 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 58 (24.68%) 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 99 (42.13%) Terraform
2 77 (32.77%) Kubernetes
3 59 (25.11%) Grafana
4 58 (24.68%) Ansible
5 57 (24.26%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.53%) Argo
7 6 (2.55%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (1.70%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.28%) Nagios
10 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.85%) Puppet
11 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.43%) Icinga
11 1 (0.43%) Istio
11 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.43%) Kibana
11 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (9.36%) Splunk
2 17 (7.23%) Google
3 15 (6.38%) 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%) New Relic
7 4 (1.70%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.28%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.28%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.85%) BigPanda
9 2 (0.85%) Moogsoft
9 2 (0.85%) SAP
9 2 (0.85%) VMware
10 1 (0.43%) F5
10 1 (0.43%) Foundry
10 1 (0.43%) Red Hat