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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 316 298
Rank change year-on-year -42 -18 +62
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 470 397 656
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.91% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.02% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 383 148 299
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £64,319 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £103,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £81,250
% change year-on-year -3.23% -4.62% +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 69,923 39,061 58,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.56% 89.26% 81.17%
Number of salaries quoted 49,411 22,522 38,211
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 19 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 19 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 -10 144 £90,000 -2.70% 215
North of England -79 139 £75,000 +7.14% 43
North West -61 96 £75,000 +11.88% 25
South West +2 75 £75,000 -16.67% 30
South East +18 55 £75,000 -1.64% 48
East of England -4 30 £90,000 +30.91% 16
North East -33 24 £80,000 +15.30% 6
Midlands -32 22 £65,000 -3.70% 21
Yorkshire -32 19 £97,500 +25.81% 12
West Midlands -26 17 £71,991 +6.65% 10
East Midlands - 5 £62,500 - 11
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 (1.91%) Apache
2 7 (1.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 195 (41.49%) AWS
2 166 (35.32%) Azure
3 89 (18.94%) GCP
4 60 (12.77%) GitHub
5 44 (9.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 40 (8.51%) Datadog
7 39 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (7.66%) Serverless
9 29 (6.17%) SaaS
10 28 (5.96%) Azure AKS
10 28 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (5.11%) OpenShift
13 12 (2.55%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (1.91%) Entra ID
17 8 (1.70%) Amazon MSK
17 8 (1.70%) Amazon S3
18 7 (1.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.40%) TCP/IP
2 14 (2.98%) Firewall
3 13 (2.77%) DNS
4 10 (2.13%) VPN
5 4 (0.85%) ATM
5 4 (0.85%) BGP
5 4 (0.85%) HTTP
5 4 (0.85%) MQTT
5 4 (0.85%) Network Security
6 3 (0.64%) WAN
7 2 (0.43%) IPv4
7 2 (0.43%) IPv6
7 2 (0.43%) VLAN
7 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.43%) WireGuard
8 1 (0.21%) DHCP
8 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.21%) Internet
8 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.98%) MongoDB
2 13 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 10 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.28%) MySQL
6 5 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.06%) KDB
6 5 (1.06%) Power BI
7 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.64%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.43%) Big Data
9 2 (0.43%) Redis
10 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.21%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.21%) Scylla
10 1 (0.21%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 61 (12.98%) GitLab
2 49 (10.43%) Git
2 49 (10.43%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 10 (2.13%) JIRA
5 6 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.06%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.43%) MSI
7 2 (0.43%) Snyk
8 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.21%) JMeter
8 1 (0.21%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.21%) Postman
8 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 102 (21.70%) Social Skills
2 85 (18.09%) Finance
3 42 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (6.60%) Public Sector
5 29 (6.17%) Banking
6 17 (3.62%) Law
7 15 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.70%) Retail
10 7 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.49%) Front Office
10 7 (1.49%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.28%) Digital Economy
11 6 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.85%) Legal
14 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.64%) Automotive
14 3 (0.64%) Electronics
14 3 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 125 (26.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 113 (24.04%) Site Engineer
3 107 (22.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 93 (19.79%) Senior
5 70 (14.89%) Lead
6 44 (9.36%) Software Engineer
7 42 (8.94%) Azure Engineer
7 42 (8.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 41 (8.72%) Principal Engineer
9 38 (8.09%) Platform Engineer
10 35 (7.45%) Python Engineer
11 34 (7.23%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 26 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
13 25 (5.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (4.68%) Senior DevOps
15 21 (4.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 15 (3.19%) Cloud Native Engineer
17 15 (3.19%) Lead DevOps
17 15 (3.19%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (8.30%) Spring
1 39 (8.30%) Spring Boot
2 26 (5.53%) Kafka
3 18 (3.83%) .NET
4 16 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (2.34%) ARM Templates
6 10 (2.13%) Loki
7 9 (1.91%) React
8 8 (1.70%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (1.70%) Node.js
8 8 (1.70%) REST
9 6 (1.28%) YAML
10 5 (1.06%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.06%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (1.06%) gRPC
10 5 (1.06%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.85%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.85%) Backbone.js
11 4 (0.85%) Middleware
11 4 (0.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 129 (27.45%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (2.77%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.06%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.06%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.85%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.85%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.85%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.64%) Clustering
10 3 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.64%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 100 (21.28%) Linux
2 34 (7.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (6.17%) Windows
4 26 (5.53%) CentOS
5 20 (4.26%) Unix
6 14 (2.98%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.49%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.28%) VMS
9 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.21%) Android
11 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (62.98%) DevOps
2 244 (51.91%) CI/CD
3 236 (50.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 196 (41.70%) Observability
5 176 (37.45%) Platform Engineering
6 119 (25.32%) Software Engineering
7 114 (24.26%) Containerisation
8 96 (20.43%) Agile
9 95 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 84 (17.87%) AI
11 69 (14.68%) Incident Response
12 61 (12.98%) Mentoring
12 61 (12.98%) Microservices
13 59 (12.55%) Root Cause Analysis
14 53 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
15 52 (11.06%) Incident Management
15 52 (11.06%) Roadmaps
16 50 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 45 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 216 (45.96%) Python
2 69 (14.68%) Bash
2 69 (14.68%) Java
3 63 (13.40%) PowerShell
4 31 (6.60%) Go
5 30 (6.38%) SQL
6 17 (3.62%) C#
7 15 (3.19%) Bicep
8 10 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.91%) C
9 9 (1.91%) C++
10 8 (1.70%) Groovy
10 8 (1.70%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.70%) PHP
11 7 (1.49%) Rust
12 5 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.64%) COBOL
14 2 (0.43%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 171 (36.38%) Security Cleared
2 116 (24.68%) DV Cleared
3 102 (21.70%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.47%) Degree
5 12 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.64%) CISSP
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.21%) CISM
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.21%) PhD
12 1 (0.21%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.19%) SLA
2 10 (2.13%) QA
3 7 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.64%) ISO 8583
6 3 (0.64%) NCSC
7 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.43%) GDPR
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.43%) NIST
8 1 (0.21%) GxP
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 122 (25.96%) Docker
2 13 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.43%) iptables
4 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 238 (50.64%) Terraform
2 198 (42.13%) Kubernetes
3 149 (31.70%) Ansible
4 79 (16.81%) Grafana
5 56 (11.91%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.26%) Argo
7 18 (3.83%) Puppet
8 17 (3.62%) Istio
9 8 (1.70%) Kustomize
10 7 (1.49%) Nagios
10 7 (1.49%) Podman
11 4 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.85%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.64%) linkerd
13 2 (0.43%) Kibana
13 2 (0.43%) Packer
14 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.21%) Netcool
14 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 37 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.68%) Dynatrace
3 20 (4.26%) Google
4 17 (3.62%) Splunk
5 16 (3.40%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.98%) Oracle
7 8 (1.70%) Confluent
8 7 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.06%) Databricks
10 4 (0.85%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.85%) Tenable
10 4 (0.85%) VocaLink
11 3 (0.64%) HP
11 3 (0.64%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.64%) VMware
12 2 (0.43%) Informatica
12 2 (0.43%) Sage
13 1 (0.21%) IBM
13 1 (0.21%) SGI
13 1 (0.21%) Sybase