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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 297 462
Rank change year-on-year -95 +165 -139
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 279 369 353
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 1.00% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.07% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 223 304 252
10th Percentile £46,250 £58,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £59,375 £67,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £94,819 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +18.52% -5.88%
75th Percentile £92,500 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £138,750 £125,000
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 52,835 34,435 66,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.52% 93.54% 86.73%
Number of salaries quoted 32,803 20,217 51,518
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,561 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,000 £74,852
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% -11.29%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -104 117 £85,000 -22.73% 48
North of England -22 72 £65,000 -6.32% 35
North West -18 39 £71,901 -0.48% 17
South West -37 23 £60,000 -11.11% 27
South East -42 22 £80,000 +6.67% 31
East of England -10 20 £70,000 +7.69% 12
Yorkshire -27 19 £65,000 -10.34% 11
North East -16 14 £47,500 -31.54% 7
Midlands -37 13 £58,750 -2.08% 6
West Midlands -5 11 £47,500 -20.83% 3
East Midlands -41 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 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.43%) Apache
2 4 (1.43%) Appian
3 2 (0.72%) Confluence
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 151 (54.12%) AWS
2 120 (43.01%) Azure
3 75 (26.88%) GCP
4 49 (17.56%) GitHub
5 47 (16.85%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (10.75%) Serverless
8 28 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (8.96%) Datadog
10 22 (7.89%) SaaS
11 20 (7.17%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (5.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 14 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (5.02%) Power Platform
14 13 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (4.66%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 12 (4.30%) Azure Functions
15 12 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.47%) TCP/IP
2 26 (9.32%) DNS
3 23 (8.24%) HTTP
4 22 (7.89%) Firewall
5 14 (5.02%) Broadband
6 12 (4.30%) BGP
6 12 (4.30%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (3.94%) 4G
7 11 (3.94%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (3.94%) IOS XR
7 11 (3.94%) MPLS
8 6 (2.15%) SSL
9 4 (1.43%) MQTT
10 2 (0.72%) Network Security
11 1 (0.36%) DHCP
11 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.32%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.38%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.02%) Power BI
5 13 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (3.94%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.94%) Redis
7 10 (3.58%) Flink
7 10 (3.58%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.43%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.43%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.08%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.72%) MySQL
12 2 (0.72%) SQLPlus
13 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.36%) Sybase ASE
13 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (19.00%) Jenkins
2 42 (15.05%) GitLab
3 32 (11.47%) Git
4 9 (3.23%) JIRA
5 6 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.72%) Gradle
6 2 (0.72%) Maven
6 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.36%) Gatling
7 1 (0.36%) JMeter
7 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.36%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 80 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.43%) Finance
3 36 (12.90%) Telecoms
4 31 (11.11%) Banking
5 20 (7.17%) Law
6 17 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.94%) Front Office
9 6 (2.15%) Advertising
10 5 (1.79%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.79%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.43%) Electronics
12 3 (1.08%) Aviation
12 3 (1.08%) Fire and Rescue
12 3 (1.08%) Marketing
12 3 (1.08%) Police
13 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.72%) Automotive
13 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (21.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 43 (15.41%) Site Engineer
4 38 (13.62%) Senior
5 35 (12.54%) Lead
6 26 (9.32%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (6.81%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (6.81%) Lead DevOps
8 19 (6.81%) Software Engineer
9 18 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (5.73%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (5.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.66%) Developer
14 12 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (3.94%) Network Engineer
15 11 (3.94%) Reliability Engineer
15 11 (3.94%) Support Engineer
16 10 (3.58%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.68%) Kafka
2 26 (9.32%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (6.09%) .NET
3 17 (6.09%) React
3 17 (6.09%) Spring
4 16 (5.73%) Spring Boot
5 15 (5.38%) Django
5 15 (5.38%) Node.js
6 12 (4.30%) .NET Core
7 11 (3.94%) Jinja
7 11 (3.94%) NETCONF
7 11 (3.94%) YANG
8 9 (3.23%) FastAPI
8 9 (3.23%) REST
9 7 (2.51%) Loki
10 6 (2.15%) ARM Templates
11 5 (1.79%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (1.79%) Vue
12 4 (1.43%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 57 (20.43%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.30%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.94%) Social Media
5 10 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.15%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.43%) Hackathon
7 4 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.08%) CMDB
8 3 (1.08%) Robotics
9 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.72%) Equities
9 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (23.66%) Linux
2 27 (9.68%) Windows
3 19 (6.81%) Unix
4 12 (4.30%) VMS
5 11 (3.94%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.51%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.08%) CentOS
9 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (67.74%) DevOps
2 154 (55.20%) CI/CD
3 126 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 115 (41.22%) Observability
5 92 (32.97%) Agile
6 78 (27.96%) Containerisation
7 74 (26.52%) Platform Engineering
8 68 (24.37%) Incident Response
9 60 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (20.07%) AI
11 53 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (16.49%) Analytics
13 42 (15.05%) Incident Management
14 41 (14.70%) High Availability
15 40 (14.34%) Root Cause Analysis
16 37 (13.26%) DevSecOps
16 37 (13.26%) Software Engineering
17 36 (12.90%) Service-Level Objective
18 32 (11.47%) Microservices
19 29 (10.39%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 148 (53.05%) Python
2 55 (19.71%) Bash
3 51 (18.28%) Java
4 42 (15.05%) Go
5 31 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 31 (11.11%) SQL
6 21 (7.53%) C#
7 15 (5.38%) TypeScript
8 13 (4.66%) JavaScript
9 12 (4.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (2.51%) Bicep
11 5 (1.79%) Rust
12 3 (1.08%) C
12 3 (1.08%) C++
12 3 (1.08%) Groovy
13 2 (0.72%) PHP
13 2 (0.72%) Ruby
13 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.72%) VB
14 1 (0.36%) JCL
Qualifications
1 52 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.96%) Degree
3 24 (8.60%) DV Cleared
3 24 (8.60%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.36%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.73%) QA
2 14 (5.02%) SLA
3 3 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.72%) GRC
4 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.72%) MiFID
4 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 86 (30.82%) Docker
2 10 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) Squid
5 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 132 (47.31%) Terraform
2 105 (37.63%) Kubernetes
3 73 (26.16%) Grafana
4 71 (25.45%) Ansible
5 66 (23.66%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.73%) Argo
7 11 (3.94%) Istio
8 8 (2.87%) Nagios
9 6 (2.15%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.72%) Puppet
11 1 (0.36%) Cilium
11 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.36%) Icinga
11 1 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.36%) Kibana
11 1 (0.36%) Netcool
11 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 27 (9.68%) Splunk
2 14 (5.02%) Google
3 11 (3.94%) Cisco
4 10 (3.58%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.58%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.87%) Confluent
5 8 (2.87%) Oracle
6 6 (2.15%) SolarWinds
7 5 (1.79%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.79%) New Relic
7 5 (1.79%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.43%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.08%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.08%) VMware
10 2 (0.72%) BigPanda
10 2 (0.72%) Databricks
10 2 (0.72%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.72%) SAP
11 1 (0.36%) Tenable