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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 298 323
Rank change year-on-year -63 +25 +54
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 421 403 658
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.93% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.04% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 353 168 324
10th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,509 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £111,875 £105,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £127,500 £123,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -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 65,989 38,936 64,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 89.93% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 46,599 22,465 44,364
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%
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% - -8.33%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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
North of England -88 121 £70,000 +0.89% 67
London -34 120 £92,500 -11.90% 229
North West -64 85 £75,000 +11.88% 43
South West -8 67 £75,000 -16.50% 33
South East +7 54 £82,500 +8.20% 29
East of England +16 33 £80,150 +27.22% 10
Midlands -37 21 £63,750 -5.56% 19
Yorkshire -41 19 £65,576 -15.39% 13
North East -35 17 £59,000 -14.97% 11
West Midlands -29 15 £62,500 -7.41% 11
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 8 (1.90%) Apache
1 8 (1.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 176 (41.81%) AWS
2 161 (38.24%) Azure
3 80 (19.00%) GCP
4 56 (13.30%) GitHub
5 41 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (8.31%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (8.31%) Serverless
7 28 (6.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (5.70%) Azure AKS
9 24 (5.70%) SaaS
10 22 (5.23%) Datadog
11 21 (4.99%) OpenShift
12 14 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (2.38%) Azure Functions
15 9 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.14%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (2.14%) Power Platform
16 8 (1.90%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.04%) Firewall
2 16 (3.80%) DNS
2 16 (3.80%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.38%) HTTP
4 7 (1.66%) MQTT
5 5 (1.19%) VPN
6 4 (0.95%) ATM
6 4 (0.95%) Network Security
7 3 (0.71%) BGP
8 2 (0.48%) VLAN
8 2 (0.48%) WAN
9 1 (0.24%) Broadband
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.24%) Internet
9 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.09%) MongoDB
1 13 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.14%) NoSQL
2 9 (2.14%) Power BI
3 6 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.19%) KDB
5 4 (0.95%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.95%) MySQL
6 3 (0.71%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (0.48%) Big Data
7 2 (0.48%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.48%) SQLPlus
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.24%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.24%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 55 (13.06%) GitLab
2 47 (11.16%) Jenkins
3 44 (10.45%) Git
4 20 (4.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.61%) JIRA
6 6 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.43%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.48%) MSI
9 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.24%) Gatling
9 1 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.24%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.24%) Selenium
9 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (17.81%) Social Skills
2 67 (15.91%) Finance
3 35 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.23%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.99%) Banking
6 18 (4.28%) Law
7 11 (2.61%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.90%) Retail
11 7 (1.66%) Front Office
11 7 (1.66%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.43%) Digital Economy
12 6 (1.43%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.71%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.71%) Automotive
13 3 (0.71%) Electronics
14 2 (0.48%) Advertising
14 2 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 99 (23.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 88 (20.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 85 (20.19%) Site Engineer
4 69 (16.39%) Lead
5 63 (14.96%) Senior
6 46 (10.93%) Software Engineer
7 41 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
8 38 (9.03%) Platform Engineer
9 33 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (6.89%) Principal Engineer
11 26 (6.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 23 (5.46%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (3.80%) Architect
14 16 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
15 15 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 13 (3.09%) Developer
17 13 (3.09%) Team Leader
18 11 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.13%) Spring
2 29 (6.89%) Spring Boot
3 28 (6.65%) Kafka
4 21 (4.99%) .NET
4 21 (4.99%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (3.09%) ARM Templates
6 10 (2.38%) Loki
6 10 (2.38%) React
7 9 (2.14%) .NET Core
8 8 (1.90%) REST
9 7 (1.66%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (1.43%) Node.js
10 6 (1.43%) YAML
11 5 (1.19%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (1.19%) gRPC
12 4 (0.95%) AngularJS
12 4 (0.95%) Backbone.js
12 4 (0.95%) Middleware
12 4 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.95%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 110 (26.13%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.19%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.19%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.71%) EMV
12 3 (0.71%) Hackathon
12 3 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.71%) Replication
12 3 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 2 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 88 (20.90%) Linux
2 29 (6.89%) Windows
3 28 (6.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (4.99%) CentOS
5 15 (3.56%) Unix
5 15 (3.56%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.38%) VMS
7 9 (2.14%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.24%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (64.85%) DevOps
2 222 (52.73%) CI/CD
3 200 (47.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 174 (41.33%) Observability
5 157 (37.29%) Platform Engineering
6 105 (24.94%) Containerisation
7 98 (23.28%) Agile
8 89 (21.14%) Software Engineering
9 86 (20.43%) AI
10 78 (18.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (14.73%) Incident Response
12 60 (14.25%) Microservices
13 53 (12.59%) Mentoring
14 50 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (11.40%) Root Cause Analysis
16 47 (11.16%) Technical Leadership
17 43 (10.21%) Roadmaps
18 41 (9.74%) Incident Management
19 40 (9.50%) Deployment Automation
19 40 (9.50%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 186 (44.18%) Python
2 76 (18.05%) Bash
3 60 (14.25%) Java
4 57 (13.54%) PowerShell
5 35 (8.31%) Go
6 34 (8.08%) SQL
7 21 (4.99%) C#
8 14 (3.33%) Bicep
9 11 (2.61%) Rust
10 10 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.14%) C
11 9 (2.14%) C++
11 9 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.66%) Groovy
12 7 (1.66%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.43%) PHP
14 3 (0.71%) COBOL
14 3 (0.71%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.48%) VB
16 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 143 (33.97%) Security Cleared
2 92 (21.85%) DV Cleared
3 85 (20.19%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.18%) Degree
5 10 (2.38%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.66%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.71%) CISSP
8 3 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.24%) CISM
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) PhD
10 1 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.33%) QA
2 7 (1.66%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.66%) SLA
3 5 (1.19%) SOC 2
4 3 (0.71%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.24%) GxP
6 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.24%) NCSC
6 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 106 (25.18%) Docker
2 11 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 202 (47.98%) Terraform
2 174 (41.33%) Kubernetes
3 122 (28.98%) Ansible
4 78 (18.53%) Grafana
5 65 (15.44%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.51%) Puppet
7 18 (4.28%) Argo
7 18 (4.28%) Istio
8 9 (2.14%) Nagios
9 8 (1.90%) Podman
10 7 (1.66%) Kustomize
11 5 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.71%) linkerd
14 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.24%) Netcool
14 1 (0.24%) Packer
14 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (6.89%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.28%) Splunk
3 14 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.09%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.09%) Google
4 13 (3.09%) Oracle
5 8 (1.90%) Confluent
6 6 (1.43%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.19%) Databricks
7 5 (1.19%) Tenable
8 4 (0.95%) VocaLink
9 3 (0.71%) HP
9 3 (0.71%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.71%) VMware
10 2 (0.48%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.48%) Informatica
10 2 (0.48%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.24%) Foundry
11 1 (0.24%) New Relic
11 1 (0.24%) Percona