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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 306 406
Rank change year-on-year -99 +100 -88
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 237 417 385
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.92% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.00% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 170 286 289
10th Percentile £46,250 £64,110 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £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 £95,000 £116,250 £111,250
90th Percentile £135,250 £138,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% +23.33% -6.25%

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 46,032 41,765 58,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.83% 92.04% 88.18%
Number of salaries quoted 27,930 20,347 46,131
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,333
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 9 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 9 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 -81 116 £87,500 -20.45% 44
North of England +19 65 £65,000 -10.03% 29
North West +23 33 £65,000 -13.33% 17
Yorkshire -14 23 £75,000 +20.00% 10
South West -15 16 £60,000 -20.00% 16
South East -28 11 £82,500 +10.00% 32
Midlands +9 9 £58,750 -12.96% 10
North East +4 9 £50,000 -27.86% 2
West Midlands +21 8 £58,750 -14.11% 8
East of England +14 8 £76,250 +17.31% 4
East Midlands -15 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 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.53%) Mule
3 4 (1.69%) Appian
4 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 122 (51.48%) AWS
2 84 (35.44%) Azure
3 63 (26.58%) GCP
4 42 (17.72%) GitHub
5 40 (16.88%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (13.08%) SaaS
7 27 (11.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (10.13%) Serverless
9 22 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (9.28%) Datadog
10 21 (8.86%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (8.44%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (5.49%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 13 (5.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 13 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.64%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (4.64%) dbt
14 11 (4.64%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.70%) TCP/IP
2 19 (8.02%) DNS
3 17 (7.17%) Firewall
3 17 (7.17%) HTTP
4 13 (5.49%) Broadband
5 11 (4.64%) 4G
5 11 (4.64%) BGP
5 11 (4.64%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (4.64%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (4.64%) IOS XR
5 11 (4.64%) MPLS
6 5 (2.11%) SSL
7 2 (0.84%) MQTT
7 2 (0.84%) Network Security
7 2 (0.84%) WAN
8 1 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.55%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.33%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.64%) Redis
5 10 (4.22%) Flink
6 9 (3.80%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.80%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.95%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.95%) Pinecone
7 7 (2.95%) Power BI
7 7 (2.95%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.53%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.69%) Weaviate
10 3 (1.27%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.84%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.84%) SQLPlus
12 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.42%) MySQL
12 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (20.68%) Jenkins
2 39 (16.46%) GitLab
3 25 (10.55%) Git
4 5 (2.11%) JIRA
5 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.84%) Gradle
6 2 (0.84%) Maven
7 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 88 (37.13%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.68%) Finance
3 30 (12.66%) Banking
3 30 (12.66%) Telecoms
4 20 (8.44%) Aviation
4 20 (8.44%) Fire and Rescue
4 20 (8.44%) Police
5 14 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (5.91%) Law
6 12 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.22%) Front Office
8 6 (2.53%) Advertising
9 5 (2.11%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.27%) Marketing
11 2 (0.84%) Electronics
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (19.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 44 (18.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (13.08%) Platform Engineer
4 26 (10.97%) Site Engineer
5 25 (10.55%) Operations Manager
5 25 (10.55%) Senior
6 24 (10.13%) Lead
7 20 (8.44%) Service Manager
7 20 (8.44%) Service Operations Manager
8 17 (7.17%) Lead DevOps
9 15 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (5.91%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.91%) Software Engineer
11 13 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (5.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.64%) Network Engineer
14 10 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
14 10 (4.22%) Developer
15 8 (3.38%) Associate Engineer
15 8 (3.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.44%) Kafka
2 18 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (6.75%) Node.js
4 15 (6.33%) Django
4 15 (6.33%) Spring
4 15 (6.33%) Spring Boot
5 13 (5.49%) React
6 11 (4.64%) FastAPI
6 11 (4.64%) Jinja
6 11 (4.64%) NETCONF
6 11 (4.64%) YANG
7 8 (3.38%) .NET
7 8 (3.38%) Loki
7 8 (3.38%) REST
8 7 (2.95%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.11%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.11%) Next.js
10 4 (1.69%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.69%) PyTorch
10 4 (1.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.25%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.44%) Robotics
3 14 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.49%) Public Cloud
5 11 (4.64%) Social Media
6 7 (2.95%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.53%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.69%) Hackathon
9 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.27%) CMDB
10 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.84%) Equities
11 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.42%) NHS
12 1 (0.42%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 49 (20.68%) Linux
2 19 (8.02%) Unix
3 16 (6.75%) Windows
4 5 (2.11%) VMS
4 5 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.42%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (67.09%) DevOps
2 128 (54.01%) CI/CD
3 105 (44.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (43.88%) Observability
5 92 (38.82%) Agile
6 65 (27.43%) Incident Response
7 63 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (25.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (24.47%) Platform Engineering
10 57 (24.05%) AI
11 52 (21.94%) Containerisation
12 49 (20.68%) Incident Management
13 47 (19.83%) Software Engineering
14 41 (17.30%) ITIL
15 35 (14.77%) Service Management
16 34 (14.35%) High Availability
17 32 (13.50%) DevSecOps
18 30 (12.66%) Analytics
18 30 (12.66%) Service-Level Objective
19 29 (12.24%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 118 (49.79%) Python
2 53 (22.36%) Java
3 42 (17.72%) Bash
4 27 (11.39%) Go
5 21 (8.86%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.44%) SQL
7 18 (7.59%) PowerShell
8 15 (6.33%) JavaScript
9 10 (4.22%) C#
10 7 (2.95%) Bicep
11 5 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.27%) Rust
13 2 (0.84%) Ruby
13 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.84%) VB
14 1 (0.42%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 37 (15.61%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.02%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.59%) Degree
4 17 (7.17%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.81%) QA
2 12 (5.06%) SLA
3 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.27%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) GRC
5 2 (0.84%) MiFID
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) PSD2
6 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (24.47%) Docker
2 4 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) Squid
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 104 (43.88%) Terraform
2 78 (32.91%) Kubernetes
3 63 (26.58%) Grafana
4 60 (25.32%) Prometheus
5 58 (24.47%) Ansible
6 14 (5.91%) Argo
7 6 (2.53%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.27%) Nagios
8 3 (1.27%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.27%) Puppet
9 2 (0.84%) Istio
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.42%) Icinga
10 1 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.42%) Kibana
10 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (8.86%) Splunk
2 17 (7.17%) Google
3 15 (6.33%) Oracle
4 11 (4.64%) Cisco
5 7 (2.95%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.95%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.53%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.53%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.69%) New Relic
7 4 (1.69%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.69%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.27%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.27%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.84%) BigPanda
9 2 (0.84%) Moogsoft
9 2 (0.84%) SAP
9 2 (0.84%) VMware
10 1 (0.42%) Foundry
10 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.42%) Tenable