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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 313 302
Rank change year-on-year -39 -11 +57
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 450 401 656
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.92% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.03% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 371 165 308
10th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £64,509 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +2.63%
75th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £121,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +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 67,804 39,039 59,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.79% 89.57% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 47,813 22,613 39,487
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £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 4 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 4 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 -18 137 £90,000 -2.70% 256
North of England -86 129 £75,000 +7.14% 73
North West -64 90 £75,000 +11.88% 40
South West +2 71 £75,000 -20.75% 45
South East +17 53 £77,500 +1.64% 42
East of England -2 31 £80,150 +16.58% 12
Midlands -35 24 £65,000 -3.70% 21
North East -35 20 £71,991 +3.76% 15
Yorkshire -39 19 £75,000 -3.23% 18
West Midlands -34 18 £63,750 -5.56% 14
East Midlands - 6 £65,000 - 7
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 (2.00%) Apache
2 8 (1.78%) Confluence
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 187 (41.56%) AWS
2 170 (37.78%) Azure
3 86 (19.11%) GCP
4 59 (13.11%) GitHub
5 42 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 34 (7.56%) Serverless
8 33 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (6.22%) Datadog
10 27 (6.00%) Azure AKS
11 26 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (5.78%) SaaS
12 22 (4.89%) OpenShift
13 13 (2.89%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (2.00%) Entra ID
17 8 (1.78%) Amazon MSK
17 8 (1.78%) Azure Functions
18 7 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.44%) TCP/IP
2 18 (4.00%) Firewall
3 17 (3.78%) DNS
4 8 (1.78%) HTTP
4 8 (1.78%) VPN
5 6 (1.33%) MQTT
6 4 (0.89%) ATM
6 4 (0.89%) Network Security
7 3 (0.67%) BGP
8 2 (0.44%) VLAN
8 2 (0.44%) WAN
9 1 (0.22%) Broadband
9 1 (0.22%) DHCP
9 1 (0.22%) Internet
9 1 (0.22%) IPv4
9 1 (0.22%) IPv6
9 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.22%) SSL
9 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.22%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.11%) MongoDB
2 13 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.22%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (1.56%) Power BI
6 5 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.11%) KDB
7 4 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.89%) MySQL
8 3 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.44%) Big Data
9 2 (0.44%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.22%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.22%) Scylla
10 1 (0.22%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 59 (13.11%) GitLab
2 50 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 47 (10.44%) Git
4 23 (5.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (2.67%) JIRA
6 6 (1.33%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.44%) MSI
8 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.22%) Gatling
9 1 (0.22%) JMeter
9 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.22%) Selenium
9 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 91 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 80 (17.78%) Finance
3 39 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (5.78%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.33%) Banking
6 21 (4.67%) Law
7 15 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.78%) Retail
11 7 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.56%) Front Office
12 6 (1.33%) Digital Economy
12 6 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.67%) Automotive
13 3 (0.67%) Electronics
13 3 (0.67%) Legal
13 3 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 113 (25.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 99 (22.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 99 (22.00%) Site Engineer
3 74 (16.44%) Senior
4 70 (15.56%) Lead
5 44 (9.78%) Software Engineer
6 41 (9.11%) Azure Engineer
7 37 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 36 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
9 34 (7.56%) Principal Engineer
10 28 (6.22%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 24 (5.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 21 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (4.44%) Python Engineer
13 20 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
14 19 (4.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.33%) Architect
16 14 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 13 (2.89%) Developer
17 13 (2.89%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.78%) Spring
2 34 (7.56%) Spring Boot
3 28 (6.22%) Kafka
4 20 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (4.22%) .NET
6 13 (2.89%) ARM Templates
7 10 (2.22%) React
8 9 (2.00%) Loki
9 8 (1.78%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (1.78%) REST
10 7 (1.56%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.33%) Node.js
11 6 (1.33%) YAML
12 5 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (1.11%) gRPC
13 4 (0.89%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.89%) Backbone.js
13 4 (0.89%) Middleware
13 4 (0.89%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (0.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 123 (27.33%) Cloud Native
2 36 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.11%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.89%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.89%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.67%) Hackathon
11 3 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.67%) Replication
11 3 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 95 (21.11%) Linux
2 32 (7.11%) Windows
3 31 (6.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (5.33%) CentOS
5 19 (4.22%) Unix
6 17 (3.78%) Windows Server
7 9 (2.00%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.78%) VMS
9 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.22%) Android
10 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.22%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (64.44%) DevOps
2 240 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 220 (48.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 190 (42.22%) Observability
5 168 (37.33%) Platform Engineering
6 112 (24.89%) Containerisation
7 103 (22.89%) Agile
8 99 (22.00%) Software Engineering
9 92 (20.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 89 (19.78%) AI
11 65 (14.44%) Incident Response
12 62 (13.78%) Microservices
13 59 (13.11%) Mentoring
14 52 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (11.56%) Roadmaps
14 52 (11.56%) Root Cause Analysis
15 51 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
16 48 (10.67%) Incident Management
17 43 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
18 41 (9.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 201 (44.67%) Python
2 74 (16.44%) Bash
3 64 (14.22%) Java
4 62 (13.78%) PowerShell
5 33 (7.33%) Go
5 33 (7.33%) SQL
6 19 (4.22%) C#
7 15 (3.33%) Bicep
8 10 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.00%) C
9 9 (2.00%) C++
9 9 (2.00%) Rust
10 8 (1.78%) Groovy
10 8 (1.78%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.33%) PHP
13 3 (0.67%) COBOL
14 2 (0.44%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.22%) VB
15 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 158 (35.11%) Security Cleared
2 103 (22.89%) DV Cleared
3 92 (20.44%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.33%) Degree
5 10 (2.22%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.00%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.78%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.67%) CISSP
11 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.22%) CISM
12 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) PhD
12 1 (0.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.89%) SLA
2 12 (2.67%) QA
3 7 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.11%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.67%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.44%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.44%) NCSC
6 2 (0.44%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) GxP
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 117 (26.00%) Docker
2 12 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) iptables
5 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 224 (49.78%) Terraform
2 185 (41.11%) Kubernetes
3 135 (30.00%) Ansible
4 79 (17.56%) Grafana
5 60 (13.33%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.00%) Argo
6 18 (4.00%) Puppet
7 17 (3.78%) Istio
8 9 (2.00%) Nagios
9 8 (1.78%) Podman
10 7 (1.56%) Kustomize
11 5 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.89%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.67%) linkerd
14 1 (0.22%) Cilium
14 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (8.22%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.22%) Splunk
3 18 (4.00%) Dynatrace
3 18 (4.00%) Google
4 14 (3.11%) Oracle
4 14 (3.11%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.78%) Confluent
6 7 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.11%) Databricks
8 4 (0.89%) Tenable
8 4 (0.89%) VocaLink
9 3 (0.67%) HP
9 3 (0.67%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.67%) VMware
10 2 (0.44%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.44%) Informatica
10 2 (0.44%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.22%) Foundry
11 1 (0.22%) Percona
11 1 (0.22%) Veracode