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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 318 286
Rank change year-on-year -46 -32 +61
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 473 386 664
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.89% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.01% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 378 133 287
10th Percentile £53,750 £57,550 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £83,230
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -3.88% +0.88%
75th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £119,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 72,264 38,362 56,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.27% 88.56% 81.03%
Number of salaries quoted 51,467 22,133 34,126
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -29 150 £90,000 -5.26% 396
North of England -93 137 £80,000 +6.67% 67
North West -60 97 £75,000 +20.24% 38
South West -7 76 £75,000 -18.92% 41
South East +10 55 £77,500 - 46
East of England -9 28 £90,000 +30.91% 18
Midlands -23 23 £68,496 +1.47% 34
North East - 21 £80,000 - 10
Yorkshire -53 19 £97,500 +25.81% 19
West Midlands -28 18 £71,991 +6.65% 23
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 8 (1.69%) Apache
2 6 (1.27%) Confluence
3 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 191 (40.38%) AWS
2 161 (34.04%) Azure
3 90 (19.03%) GCP
4 56 (11.84%) GitHub
5 45 (9.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (9.30%) Datadog
7 40 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (6.77%) Azure AKS
8 32 (6.77%) Serverless
9 27 (5.71%) SaaS
10 24 (5.07%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (5.07%) OpenShift
11 23 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (2.11%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.48%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.54%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.11%) Firewall
2 10 (2.11%) VPN
3 8 (1.69%) DNS
4 4 (0.85%) ATM
4 4 (0.85%) BGP
4 4 (0.85%) Network Security
5 3 (0.63%) MQTT
5 3 (0.63%) WAN
6 2 (0.42%) IPv4
6 2 (0.42%) IPv6
6 2 (0.42%) VLAN
6 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.42%) WireGuard
7 1 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.21%) Internet
7 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (2.75%) MongoDB
3 11 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.27%) MySQL
7 5 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.06%) KDB
8 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.63%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.63%) Redis
10 2 (0.42%) Big Data
10 2 (0.42%) Power BI
11 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.21%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.21%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.21%) Scylla
11 1 (0.21%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 58 (12.26%) GitLab
2 45 (9.51%) Git
2 45 (9.51%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 8 (1.69%) JIRA
5 6 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.06%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.42%) MSI
7 2 (0.42%) Snyk
8 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.21%) Gatling
8 1 (0.21%) JMeter
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%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.60%) Finance
3 40 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 29 (6.13%) Banking
6 14 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (2.96%) Law
7 10 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.48%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.48%) Front Office
8 7 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.48%) Retail
9 6 (1.27%) Digital Economy
10 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.06%) Legal
11 3 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.63%) Automotive
11 3 (0.63%) Electronics
11 3 (0.63%) Marketing
12 2 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 129 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 116 (24.52%) Site Engineer
3 101 (21.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 98 (20.72%) Senior
5 71 (15.01%) Lead
6 44 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 43 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 42 (8.88%) Platform Engineer
9 41 (8.67%) Azure Engineer
9 41 (8.67%) Principal Engineer
9 41 (8.67%) Python Engineer
10 34 (7.19%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 27 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 25 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
14 20 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 19 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 17 (3.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 15 (3.17%) Cloud Native Engineer
17 15 (3.17%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (50.53%) Terraform
2 38 (8.03%) Spring
2 38 (8.03%) Spring Boot
3 24 (5.07%) Kafka
4 15 (3.17%) .NET
5 13 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (2.33%) Loki
7 10 (2.11%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.90%) Node.js
9 8 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (1.69%) React
10 7 (1.48%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (1.48%) REST
11 5 (1.06%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (1.06%) gRPC
11 5 (1.06%) YAML
12 4 (0.85%) Backbone.js
12 4 (0.85%) Middleware
12 4 (0.85%) OpenTofu
13 3 (0.63%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 129 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 34 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.27%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.06%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (0.85%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.63%) Blog
10 3 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.63%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 98 (20.72%) Linux
2 33 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (5.50%) Windows
4 25 (5.29%) CentOS
5 21 (4.44%) Unix
6 11 (2.33%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.06%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.63%) VMS
10 2 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.21%) Android
11 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (61.10%) DevOps
2 239 (50.53%) CI/CD
3 238 (50.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 201 (42.49%) Observability
5 181 (38.27%) Platform Engineering
6 128 (27.06%) Software Engineering
7 106 (22.41%) Containerisation
8 93 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 88 (18.60%) Agile
10 84 (17.76%) AI
11 67 (14.16%) Incident Response
12 58 (12.26%) Root Cause Analysis
13 57 (12.05%) Mentoring
14 56 (11.84%) Roadmaps
15 55 (11.63%) Microservices
16 52 (10.99%) Incident Management
16 52 (10.99%) Technical Leadership
17 49 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 48 (10.15%) ITIL
18 48 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 213 (45.03%) Python
2 69 (14.59%) Java
3 66 (13.95%) PowerShell
4 64 (13.53%) Bash
5 30 (6.34%) SQL
6 27 (5.71%) Go
7 15 (3.17%) Bicep
8 12 (2.54%) C#
9 10 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.90%) C
10 9 (1.90%) C++
11 8 (1.69%) Groovy
11 8 (1.69%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.69%) PHP
12 6 (1.27%) Rust
13 3 (0.63%) COBOL
13 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.21%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 172 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 116 (24.52%) DV Cleared
3 106 (22.41%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.23%) Degree
5 12 (2.54%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.06%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.63%) CISSP
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.42%) PhD
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.21%) PMP
12 1 (0.21%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.59%) SLA
2 10 (2.11%) QA
3 7 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.85%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.63%) GDPR
6 3 (0.63%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.63%) ISO 8583
6 3 (0.63%) NCSC
7 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.42%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.42%) NIST
8 1 (0.21%) GxP
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 118 (24.95%) Docker
2 11 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.42%) iptables
5 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 196 (41.44%) Kubernetes
2 146 (30.87%) Ansible
3 78 (16.49%) Grafana
4 53 (11.21%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.23%) Argo
6 19 (4.02%) Puppet
7 16 (3.38%) Istio
8 9 (1.90%) Kustomize
9 7 (1.48%) Podman
10 5 (1.06%) Nagios
11 4 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.85%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.63%) linkerd
13 2 (0.42%) Kibana
13 2 (0.42%) Packer
14 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (8.67%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.86%) Dynatrace
3 21 (4.44%) Google
4 17 (3.59%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.96%) Oracle
5 14 (2.96%) Splunk
6 7 (1.48%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.27%) Confluent
8 5 (1.06%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.06%) Databricks
9 4 (0.85%) Tenable
9 4 (0.85%) VocaLink
10 3 (0.63%) HP
10 3 (0.63%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.63%) VMware
11 2 (0.42%) Informatica
11 2 (0.42%) Sage
12 1 (0.21%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.21%) IBM
12 1 (0.21%) SGI