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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 331 456
Rank change year-on-year -67 +125 -123
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 298 329 395
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.89% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.96% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 240 296 281
10th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £94,637 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.75% +18.30% -5.88%
75th Percentile £92,500 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% +15.63% -3.03%

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 57,387 34,217 69,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.69% 93.06% 85.99%
Number of salaries quoted 36,072 20,488 53,249
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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 April 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 15 April 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 -100 111 £90,000 -18.18% 44
North of England -24 84 £65,576 -5.49% 38
North West -1 49 £73,151 +6.30% 23
South West -39 32 £70,000 +3.70% 25
East of England -8 27 £85,000 +30.77% 13
South East -40 22 £80,000 +6.67% 28
Yorkshire -48 20 £65,000 -7.14% 10
North East -18 15 £47,500 -31.54% 5
Midlands -44 11 £47,500 -20.83% 6
West Midlands -23 9 £47,500 -20.83% 3
East Midlands -46 2 £130,000 +188.89% 3
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 5 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.34%) Apache
2 4 (1.34%) Appian
3 2 (0.67%) Confluence
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 142 (47.65%) AWS
2 122 (40.94%) Azure
3 66 (22.15%) GCP
4 55 (18.46%) GitHub
5 50 (16.78%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (13.76%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (11.41%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (8.72%) Datadog
8 26 (8.72%) Serverless
9 23 (7.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (7.38%) SaaS
11 15 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (4.70%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (4.70%) Power Platform
12 14 (4.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.03%) Azure Functions
13 12 (4.03%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (4.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.06%) TCP/IP
2 26 (8.72%) DNS
3 23 (7.72%) HTTP
4 22 (7.38%) Firewall
5 14 (4.70%) Broadband
6 12 (4.03%) BGP
6 12 (4.03%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (3.69%) 4G
7 11 (3.69%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (3.69%) IOS XR
7 11 (3.69%) MPLS
8 6 (2.01%) SSL
9 4 (1.34%) MQTT
10 2 (0.67%) Network Security
11 1 (0.34%) DHCP
11 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.05%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (5.03%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.70%) Power BI
4 10 (3.36%) Flink
5 9 (3.02%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.01%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.01%) Redis
9 4 (1.34%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.34%) Weaviate
10 3 (1.01%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.67%) SQLPlus
12 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.34%) KDB
12 1 (0.34%) MySQL
12 1 (0.34%) Sybase ASE
12 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (14.77%) Jenkins
2 36 (12.08%) GitLab
3 31 (10.40%) Git
4 8 (2.68%) JIRA
5 6 (2.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.67%) Gradle
6 2 (0.67%) Maven
6 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.67%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.34%) Gatling
7 1 (0.34%) JMeter
7 1 (0.34%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.34%) Postman
7 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 76 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.11%) Finance
3 32 (10.74%) Telecoms
4 26 (8.72%) Banking
5 20 (6.71%) Law
6 15 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (4.03%) Front Office
9 7 (2.35%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.01%) Advertising
11 4 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.01%) Automotive
12 3 (1.01%) Electronics
13 2 (0.67%) Games
13 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.34%) Legal
14 1 (0.34%) Marketing
14 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (23.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 62 (20.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 51 (17.11%) Site Engineer
4 41 (13.76%) Lead
5 38 (12.75%) Senior
6 32 (10.74%) Software Engineer
7 28 (9.40%) AWS Engineer
8 22 (7.38%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (7.38%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (6.38%) Lead DevOps
10 17 (5.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 16 (5.37%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (5.37%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 15 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (4.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 12 (4.03%) Java Engineer
15 11 (3.69%) Java Software Engineer
15 11 (3.69%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.06%) Kafka
2 25 (8.39%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (6.38%) .NET
3 19 (6.38%) React
4 15 (5.03%) Spring
5 14 (4.70%) Spring Boot
6 12 (4.03%) .NET Core
7 11 (3.69%) Jinja
7 11 (3.69%) NETCONF
7 11 (3.69%) Node.js
7 11 (3.69%) REST
7 11 (3.69%) YANG
8 10 (3.36%) ARM Templates
8 10 (3.36%) Django
9 7 (2.35%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.35%) Loki
9 7 (2.35%) Vue
10 5 (1.68%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.34%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (1.34%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.47%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.69%) Social Media
5 10 (3.36%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.35%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.34%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.34%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.67%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.67%) Equities
10 2 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.67%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (18.79%) Linux
2 26 (8.72%) Windows
3 12 (4.03%) VMS
4 11 (3.69%) Unix
4 11 (3.69%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.35%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.01%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (67.79%) DevOps
2 157 (52.68%) CI/CD
3 128 (42.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (39.26%) Observability
5 93 (31.21%) Agile
6 91 (30.54%) Platform Engineering
7 74 (24.83%) Containerisation
8 66 (22.15%) Incident Response
9 65 (21.81%) AI
10 64 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (17.11%) Software Engineering
12 46 (15.44%) Analytics
13 44 (14.77%) High Availability
13 44 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (13.76%) Root Cause Analysis
15 37 (12.42%) Incident Management
16 36 (12.08%) Microservices
17 34 (11.41%) DevSecOps
18 31 (10.40%) Mentoring
19 30 (10.07%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 138 (46.31%) Python
2 55 (18.46%) Bash
3 51 (17.11%) Java
4 41 (13.76%) Go
5 34 (11.41%) PowerShell
6 30 (10.07%) SQL
7 21 (7.05%) C#
8 12 (4.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (3.36%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.02%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.68%) Bicep
12 5 (1.68%) Rust
13 3 (1.01%) C
13 3 (1.01%) C++
13 3 (1.01%) Groovy
13 3 (1.01%) Ruby
13 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.67%) PHP
14 2 (0.67%) VB
15 1 (0.34%) JCL
Qualifications
1 47 (15.77%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.05%) Degree
2 24 (8.05%) DV Cleared
3 22 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.01%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.70%) SLA
2 11 (3.69%) QA
3 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.01%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.67%) GRC
4 2 (0.67%) MiFID
5 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 81 (27.18%) Docker
2 10 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 133 (44.63%) Terraform
2 114 (38.26%) Kubernetes
3 72 (24.16%) Grafana
4 69 (23.15%) Ansible
5 66 (22.15%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.70%) Argo
7 11 (3.69%) Istio
8 8 (2.68%) Nagios
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.67%) Puppet
10 1 (0.34%) Cilium
10 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.34%) Icinga
10 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.34%) Netcool
10 1 (0.34%) Podman
10 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 22 (7.38%) Splunk
2 11 (3.69%) Cisco
2 11 (3.69%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.68%) Confluent
3 8 (2.68%) Dynatrace
4 7 (2.35%) Google
5 6 (2.01%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.68%) Oracle
6 5 (1.68%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.34%) Databricks
7 4 (1.34%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.01%) VMware
9 2 (0.67%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.67%) New Relic
10 1 (0.34%) Moogsoft
10 1 (0.34%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.34%) Palantir
10 1 (0.34%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.34%) Veracode