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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 314 450
Rank change year-on-year -88 +136 -111
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 303 329 405
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.89% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.95% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 243 296 289
10th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £92,500 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £131,750
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 57,594 34,512 70,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.67% 93.12% 85.97%
Number of salaries quoted 36,194 20,484 53,623
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,867
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 £103,450 £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 16 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 16 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 -87 111 £90,000 -18.18% 48
North of England -11 84 £65,576 -5.49% 42
North West -5 49 £73,151 +6.30% 26
South West -44 33 £70,000 +3.70% 22
East of England -13 28 £85,000 +30.77% 11
South East -41 24 £75,000 - 32
Yorkshire -39 20 £65,000 -7.14% 10
North East -22 15 £47,500 -31.54% 6
Midlands -46 11 £47,500 -20.83% 8
West Midlands -19 9 £47,500 -20.83% 5
East Midlands -50 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 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.32%) Apache
2 4 (1.32%) Appian
3 2 (0.66%) Confluence
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 145 (47.85%) AWS
2 124 (40.92%) Azure
3 68 (22.44%) GCP
4 55 (18.15%) GitHub
5 50 (16.50%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (13.53%) Amazon EKS
7 35 (11.55%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (8.58%) Datadog
8 26 (8.58%) Serverless
9 23 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (7.26%) SaaS
11 15 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (4.62%) OpenShift
12 14 (4.62%) Power Platform
12 14 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (3.96%) Azure Functions
13 12 (3.96%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.91%) TCP/IP
2 26 (8.58%) DNS
3 23 (7.59%) Firewall
3 23 (7.59%) HTTP
4 14 (4.62%) Broadband
5 12 (3.96%) BGP
5 12 (3.96%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (3.63%) 4G
6 11 (3.63%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (3.63%) IOS XR
6 11 (3.63%) MPLS
7 6 (1.98%) SSL
8 4 (1.32%) MQTT
9 3 (0.99%) Network Security
10 1 (0.33%) DHCP
10 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.93%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (4.95%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.62%) Power BI
4 10 (3.30%) Flink
4 10 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.97%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.98%) Redis
8 4 (1.32%) Pinecone
8 4 (1.32%) Weaviate
9 3 (0.99%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.66%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.33%) KDB
11 1 (0.33%) MySQL
11 1 (0.33%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (14.85%) Jenkins
2 37 (12.21%) GitLab
3 32 (10.56%) Git
4 8 (2.64%) JIRA
5 6 (1.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.66%) Gradle
6 2 (0.66%) Maven
6 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.66%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.33%) Gatling
7 1 (0.33%) JMeter
7 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.33%) Postman
7 1 (0.33%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.33%) Selenium
General
1 76 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.16%) Finance
3 32 (10.56%) Telecoms
4 26 (8.58%) Banking
5 20 (6.60%) Law
6 15 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (3.96%) Front Office
9 7 (2.31%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.98%) Advertising
11 4 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.99%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.99%) Automotive
12 3 (0.99%) Electronics
13 2 (0.66%) Games
13 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.33%) Legal
14 1 (0.33%) Marketing
14 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (23.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 62 (20.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 53 (17.49%) Site Engineer
4 42 (13.86%) Lead
5 38 (12.54%) Senior
6 32 (10.56%) Software Engineer
7 28 (9.24%) AWS Engineer
8 22 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (7.26%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (6.27%) Lead DevOps
10 17 (5.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 16 (5.28%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (5.28%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (4.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 12 (3.96%) Java Engineer
15 11 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
15 11 (3.63%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.91%) Kafka
2 26 (8.58%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (6.27%) .NET
3 19 (6.27%) React
4 15 (4.95%) Spring
5 14 (4.62%) Spring Boot
6 12 (3.96%) .NET Core
7 11 (3.63%) Jinja
7 11 (3.63%) NETCONF
7 11 (3.63%) Node.js
7 11 (3.63%) REST
7 11 (3.63%) YANG
8 10 (3.30%) ARM Templates
8 10 (3.30%) Django
9 9 (2.97%) Loki
10 7 (2.31%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.31%) Vue
11 5 (1.65%) FastAPI
12 4 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (1.32%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.24%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.63%) Social Media
5 10 (3.30%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.31%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.32%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.66%) Equities
10 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.66%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (18.81%) Linux
2 26 (8.58%) Windows
3 12 (3.96%) Unix
3 12 (3.96%) VMS
4 11 (3.63%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.31%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.99%) CentOS
8 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (67.66%) DevOps
2 162 (53.47%) CI/CD
3 133 (43.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 120 (39.60%) Observability
5 96 (31.68%) Agile
6 94 (31.02%) Platform Engineering
7 75 (24.75%) Containerisation
8 67 (22.11%) Incident Response
9 66 (21.78%) AI
9 66 (21.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (16.83%) Software Engineering
11 46 (15.18%) Analytics
12 44 (14.52%) High Availability
12 44 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (13.53%) Root Cause Analysis
14 39 (12.87%) Incident Management
15 38 (12.54%) Microservices
16 35 (11.55%) DevSecOps
17 34 (11.22%) Mentoring
18 30 (9.90%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 141 (46.53%) Python
2 58 (19.14%) Bash
3 51 (16.83%) Java
4 41 (13.53%) Go
5 34 (11.22%) PowerShell
6 30 (9.90%) SQL
7 21 (6.93%) C#
8 12 (3.96%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (3.30%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.97%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.64%) Bicep
12 5 (1.65%) Rust
12 5 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.99%) C
13 3 (0.99%) C++
13 3 (0.99%) Groovy
13 3 (0.99%) Ruby
14 2 (0.66%) PHP
14 2 (0.66%) VB
15 1 (0.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 51 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.25%) Degree
2 25 (8.25%) DV Cleared
3 24 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.31%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.62%) SLA
2 11 (3.63%) QA
3 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.66%) GRC
4 2 (0.66%) MiFID
5 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 83 (27.39%) Docker
2 10 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 134 (44.22%) Terraform
2 118 (38.94%) Kubernetes
3 75 (24.75%) Grafana
4 70 (23.10%) Ansible
5 69 (22.77%) Prometheus
6 19 (6.27%) Argo
7 13 (4.29%) Istio
8 8 (2.64%) Nagios
9 3 (0.99%) Puppet
10 2 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.66%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.33%) Cilium
11 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.33%) Icinga
11 1 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.33%) Podman
11 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 22 (7.26%) Splunk
2 11 (3.63%) Cisco
2 11 (3.63%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.64%) Confluent
3 8 (2.64%) Dynatrace
4 7 (2.31%) Google
5 6 (1.98%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.65%) Oracle
6 5 (1.65%) PagerDuty
7 4 (1.32%) Databricks
7 4 (1.32%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.99%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.99%) VMware
9 2 (0.66%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.66%) New Relic
10 1 (0.33%) F5
10 1 (0.33%) Palantir
10 1 (0.33%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.33%) Veracode