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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 247 353
Rank change year-on-year -145 +106 -36
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 234 665 394
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 1.09% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.31% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 147 244 315
10th Percentile £55,000 £63,966 £50,650
25th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £94,375 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £118,750 £122,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +6.25% -

All Process and 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 39,655 50,810 44,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.21% 83.46% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,334 26,537 33,959
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,905 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -34 116 £85,000 -10.53% 127
North of England -111 66 £75,000 - 52
Yorkshire +13 34 £76,250 -10.29% 5
North West -99 28 £73,801 -1.60% 46
Midlands +52 9 £73,801 +6.48% 19
West Midlands +41 9 £73,801 +6.48% 16
South West -33 9 £90,000 +20.00% 27
East of England +29 8 £68,750 -11.29% 15
South East -12 6 £82,500 +10.00% 39
North East -5 4 £73,801 +6.48% 1
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 (2.56%) Mule
2 4 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.85%) nginx
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.43%) Appian
4 1 (0.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.43%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 134 (57.26%) AWS
2 73 (31.20%) Azure
3 63 (26.92%) GCP
4 30 (12.82%) SaaS
5 29 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (10.26%) GitHub
7 24 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (8.97%) Serverless
9 20 (8.55%) Datadog
10 16 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (5.98%) Pulumi
12 12 (5.13%) dbt
13 11 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (4.70%) Amazon ECR
14 10 (4.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 10 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (3.85%) PaaS
16 8 (3.42%) OpenShift
16 8 (3.42%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.41%) TCP/IP
2 12 (5.13%) DNS
2 12 (5.13%) Firewall
3 5 (2.14%) HTTP
4 4 (1.71%) NAS
4 4 (1.71%) SAN
5 3 (1.28%) AMQP
5 3 (1.28%) BGP
5 3 (1.28%) Network Security
6 2 (0.85%) Broadband
6 2 (0.85%) Internet
6 2 (0.85%) SSL
6 2 (0.85%) WAN
7 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.43%) IPsec
7 1 (0.43%) SNMP
7 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.12%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (5.56%) Redis
5 12 (5.13%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.70%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.99%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.71%) Flink
8 4 (1.71%) Pinecone
8 4 (1.71%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.28%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.28%) InfluxDB
9 3 (1.28%) MySQL
10 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.43%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.43%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 54 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 51 (21.79%) GitLab
3 12 (5.13%) Git
4 9 (3.85%) JIRA
5 6 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.71%) Vite
7 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.43%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 77 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 72 (30.77%) Finance
3 31 (13.25%) Banking
4 22 (9.40%) Aviation
4 22 (9.40%) Fire and Rescue
4 22 (9.40%) Police
5 16 (6.84%) Law
6 14 (5.98%) Telecoms
7 13 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.27%) Marketing
9 9 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.99%) Electronics
10 7 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.99%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.14%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.71%) Front Office
12 4 (1.71%) Games
13 3 (1.28%) Retail
14 2 (0.85%) Advertising
14 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (23.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 44 (18.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (17.52%) Lead
4 29 (12.39%) Platform Engineer
4 29 (12.39%) Site Engineer
5 28 (11.97%) Operations Manager
5 28 (11.97%) Senior
6 22 (9.40%) Service Manager
6 22 (9.40%) Service Operations Manager
7 15 (6.41%) Software Engineer
8 13 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
9 12 (5.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.70%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (4.70%) Developer
10 11 (4.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.85%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.42%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.42%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.12%) Node.js
2 16 (6.84%) Kafka
3 15 (6.41%) Spring
4 13 (5.56%) Django
4 13 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 12 (5.13%) .NET
6 11 (4.70%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (2.99%) React
9 6 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (1.71%) Jest
10 4 (1.71%) Loki
10 4 (1.71%) Next.js
10 4 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.28%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.28%) LangChain
11 3 (1.28%) LDAP
11 3 (1.28%) SOAP
12 2 (0.85%) REST
12 2 (0.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 55 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.40%) Robotics
3 18 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.27%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.56%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.14%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.71%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.71%) CMDB
9 4 (1.71%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.71%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.67%) Linux
2 16 (6.84%) Unix
3 11 (4.70%) Windows
4 3 (1.28%) Android
5 2 (0.85%) Debian
5 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.43%) CentOS
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (70.09%) DevOps
2 133 (56.84%) CI/CD
3 104 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (43.59%) Agile
4 102 (43.59%) Observability
5 70 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (24.79%) Incident Response
7 53 (22.65%) Containerisation
8 50 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (20.94%) ITIL
9 49 (20.94%) Service Management
10 48 (20.51%) AI
10 48 (20.51%) Software Engineering
11 42 (17.95%) Platform Engineering
12 41 (17.52%) Incident Management
13 34 (14.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 34 (14.53%) Service Design
14 29 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (11.54%) Collaborative Culture
15 27 (11.54%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 102 (43.59%) Python
2 50 (21.37%) Java
3 47 (20.09%) Bash
4 30 (12.82%) PowerShell
5 26 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 20 (8.55%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.69%) Go
8 16 (6.84%) SQL
9 8 (3.42%) C#
10 5 (2.14%) Ruby
10 5 (2.14%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.71%) Bicep
12 3 (1.28%) C++
12 3 (1.28%) Groovy
13 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.12%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.41%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.70%) Degree
6 6 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.85%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.39%) QA
2 7 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.56%) GDPR
4 5 (2.14%) SLA
5 3 (1.28%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.85%) NIST
6 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) MiFID
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
7 1 (0.43%) PSD2
System Software
1 60 (25.64%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.85%) Squid
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (40.60%) Kubernetes
2 92 (39.32%) Terraform
3 55 (23.50%) Ansible
4 54 (23.08%) Grafana
5 51 (21.79%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.42%) Argo
7 6 (2.56%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.56%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.71%) Kibana
9 3 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.28%) Puppet
10 2 (0.85%) Control-M
10 2 (0.85%) logstash
11 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.43%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.43%) Icinga
11 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.43%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.43%) Rancher
11 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (12.82%) Oracle
2 19 (8.12%) Splunk
3 17 (7.26%) Google
4 9 (3.85%) SAP
5 8 (3.42%) Atlassian
5 8 (3.42%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.56%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.71%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.71%) New Relic
7 4 (1.71%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.71%) VMware
8 3 (1.28%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.28%) Hitachi
8 3 (1.28%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.28%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.28%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.85%) F5
9 2 (0.85%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.85%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.43%) Perforce