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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 299 439
Rank change year-on-year -120 +140 -112
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 246 402 364
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.98% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.04% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 192 306 260
10th Percentile £46,250 £61,274 £54,750
25th Percentile £58,438 £70,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £92,500 £116,250 £112,500
90th Percentile £134,500 £138,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% +15.63% -

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 50,059 38,488 61,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.51% 93.43% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 30,809 20,039 48,115
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -98 107 £85,000 -22.73% 55
North of England -11 68 £61,250 -11.72% 41
North West -8 35 £70,000 +0.50% 20
Yorkshire -25 21 £62,500 -10.71% 18
South East -41 18 £73,750 -1.67% 41
South West -22 17 £60,000 -14.29% 16
East of England 0 12 £65,000 - 6
North East -4 12 £47,500 -31.54% 3
Midlands -14 11 £58,750 -2.08% 7
West Midlands -3 9 £47,500 -20.83% 5
East Midlands -28 2 £130,000 +188.89% 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 6 (2.44%) Mule
2 5 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.63%) Appian
4 2 (0.81%) Apache
4 2 (0.81%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 133 (54.07%) AWS
2 98 (39.84%) Azure
3 68 (27.64%) GCP
4 45 (18.29%) GitHub
5 43 (17.48%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (11.38%) Serverless
7 27 (10.98%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (10.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (8.94%) Datadog
11 20 (8.13%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (7.72%) SaaS
13 14 (5.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (5.28%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 12 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (4.88%) Power Platform
16 11 (4.47%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.38%) TCP/IP
2 24 (9.76%) DNS
3 21 (8.54%) HTTP
4 20 (8.13%) Firewall
5 14 (5.69%) Broadband
6 11 (4.47%) 4G
6 11 (4.47%) BGP
6 11 (4.47%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (4.47%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (4.47%) IOS XR
6 11 (4.47%) MPLS
7 5 (2.03%) SSL
8 4 (1.63%) MQTT
9 2 (0.81%) Network Security
10 1 (0.41%) DHCP
10 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.57%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.28%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.88%) Power BI
5 11 (4.47%) Redis
6 10 (4.07%) Flink
7 9 (3.66%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.25%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.85%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.44%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.63%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.63%) Weaviate
12 3 (1.22%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.81%) SQLPlus
14 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.41%) MySQL
14 1 (0.41%) Sybase ASE
14 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (19.51%) Jenkins
2 41 (16.67%) GitLab
3 31 (12.60%) Git
4 9 (3.66%) JIRA
5 6 (2.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.81%) Gradle
6 2 (0.81%) Maven
6 2 (0.81%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (30.89%) Social Skills
2 55 (22.36%) Finance
3 34 (13.82%) Telecoms
4 32 (13.01%) Banking
5 18 (7.32%) Law
6 16 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.07%) Front Office
9 5 (2.03%) Advertising
9 5 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.03%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.22%) Aviation
10 3 (1.22%) Fire and Rescue
10 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.22%) Marketing
10 3 (1.22%) Police
11 2 (0.81%) Electronics
11 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (24.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 51 (20.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (15.45%) Site Engineer
4 31 (12.60%) Platform Engineer
4 31 (12.60%) Senior
5 27 (10.98%) Lead
6 18 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (6.91%) Lead DevOps
8 15 (6.10%) Software Engineer
9 14 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (5.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 14 (5.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (4.88%) Developer
11 11 (4.47%) Network Engineer
12 9 (3.66%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.66%) Reliability Engineer
12 9 (3.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.66%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.76%) Kafka
2 23 (9.35%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (6.50%) Spring
4 15 (6.10%) Django
4 15 (6.10%) React
4 15 (6.10%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.69%) Node.js
6 13 (5.28%) .NET
7 11 (4.47%) Jinja
7 11 (4.47%) NETCONF
7 11 (4.47%) YANG
8 10 (4.07%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.66%) FastAPI
9 9 (3.66%) REST
10 8 (3.25%) Loki
11 6 (2.44%) ARM Templates
11 6 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (2.03%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.03%) Vue
13 4 (1.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.92%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.28%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.47%) Social Media
5 7 (2.85%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.44%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.63%) Hackathon
7 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.22%) CMDB
8 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.22%) Robotics
9 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.81%) Equities
9 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (21.95%) Linux
2 21 (8.54%) Windows
3 19 (7.72%) Unix
4 10 (4.07%) VMS
4 10 (4.07%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.22%) CentOS
6 3 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (64.63%) DevOps
2 140 (56.91%) CI/CD
3 115 (46.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (41.46%) Observability
5 87 (35.37%) Agile
6 65 (26.42%) Containerisation
7 64 (26.02%) Platform Engineering
8 57 (23.17%) Incident Response
9 53 (21.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (17.48%) AI
12 38 (15.45%) Analytics
13 36 (14.63%) High Availability
14 35 (14.23%) Incident Management
15 34 (13.82%) Root Cause Analysis
16 33 (13.41%) DevSecOps
16 33 (13.41%) Service-Level Objective
17 30 (12.20%) Software Engineering
18 27 (10.98%) ITIL
19 26 (10.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 128 (52.03%) Python
2 53 (21.54%) Java
3 49 (19.92%) Bash
4 32 (13.01%) Go
5 28 (11.38%) PowerShell
6 26 (10.57%) SQL
7 17 (6.91%) C#
7 17 (6.91%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.28%) JavaScript
9 10 (4.07%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (2.44%) Bicep
11 5 (2.03%) Rust
12 2 (0.81%) Ruby
12 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.81%) VB
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.76%) Degree
3 20 (8.13%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.50%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.63%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.69%) QA
2 12 (4.88%) SLA
3 2 (0.81%) GDPR
3 2 (0.81%) GRC
3 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.81%) MiFID
3 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (29.27%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Squid
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (47.15%) Terraform
2 89 (36.18%) Kubernetes
3 70 (28.46%) Grafana
4 65 (26.42%) Ansible
5 64 (26.02%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.50%) Argo
7 7 (2.85%) Nagios
8 6 (2.44%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.63%) Istio
10 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.81%) Puppet
11 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.41%) Icinga
11 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.41%) Kibana
11 1 (0.41%) Netcool
11 1 (0.41%) Podman
11 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (10.16%) Splunk
2 14 (5.69%) Google
2 14 (5.69%) Oracle
3 11 (4.47%) Cisco
4 9 (3.66%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.25%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.44%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.03%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.03%) New Relic
7 5 (2.03%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.63%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.22%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.22%) VMware
10 2 (0.81%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.81%) BigPanda
10 2 (0.81%) Confluent
10 2 (0.81%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.81%) SAP
11 1 (0.41%) Palantir
11 1 (0.41%) Tenable