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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 248 343
Rank change year-on-year -157 +95 -24
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 229 660 398
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 1.09% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.31% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 143 239 315
10th Percentile £57,500 £63,500 £51,750
25th Percentile £68,125 £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 £115,000 £118,750 £122,000
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 39,474 50,275 44,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.67% 83.28% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 23,954 26,130 33,820
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,389 £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% - -0.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -

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 12 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 12 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 -35 116 £85,000 -10.53% 133
North of England -142 61 £75,000 - 51
Yorkshire +7 32 £76,250 -10.29% 6
North West -123 26 £73,801 -1.60% 44
Midlands +55 9 £73,801 +6.48% 15
West Midlands +45 9 £73,801 +6.48% 12
South West -36 9 £90,000 +18.03% 28
East of England +14 8 £68,750 -11.29% 16
South East -10 6 £82,500 +10.00% 35
North East -5 3 £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 (2.62%) Mule
2 3 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.31%) nginx
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.44%) Confluence
3 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.44%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 131 (57.21%) AWS
2 69 (30.13%) Azure
3 60 (26.20%) GCP
4 31 (13.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 29 (12.66%) SaaS
6 26 (11.35%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (8.73%) Datadog
7 20 (8.73%) Serverless
8 18 (7.86%) GitHub
8 18 (7.86%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.55%) Pulumi
10 14 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.24%) dbt
12 11 (4.80%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (4.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (3.93%) PaaS
15 8 (3.49%) OpenShift
15 8 (3.49%) Sentry
16 7 (3.06%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.24%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.37%) DNS
2 10 (4.37%) Firewall
3 5 (2.18%) NAS
3 5 (2.18%) SAN
4 3 (1.31%) AMQP
4 3 (1.31%) BGP
4 3 (1.31%) Network Security
5 2 (0.87%) Broadband
5 2 (0.87%) HTTP
5 2 (0.87%) Internet
5 2 (0.87%) SNMP
5 2 (0.87%) SSL
5 2 (0.87%) WAN
5 2 (0.87%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.44%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.30%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (8.30%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (5.68%) Redis
4 12 (5.24%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.80%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.06%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.31%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.31%) Flink
8 3 (1.31%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.31%) MySQL
8 3 (1.31%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.44%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.44%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 51 (22.27%) Jenkins
2 50 (21.83%) GitLab
3 12 (5.24%) Git
4 9 (3.93%) JIRA
5 6 (2.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.75%) Vite
7 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (33.19%) Social Skills
2 72 (31.44%) Finance
3 30 (13.10%) Banking
4 22 (9.61%) Aviation
4 22 (9.61%) Fire and Rescue
4 22 (9.61%) Police
5 13 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.68%) Law
6 11 (4.80%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.37%) Marketing
8 9 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (3.06%) Electronics
9 7 (3.06%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.06%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.18%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.75%) Games
12 3 (1.31%) Front Office
12 3 (1.31%) Retail
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
13 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (26.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 40 (17.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (17.47%) Lead
3 32 (13.97%) Site Engineer
4 31 (13.54%) Senior
5 29 (12.66%) Platform Engineer
6 28 (12.23%) Operations Manager
7 22 (9.61%) Service Manager
7 22 (9.61%) Service Operations Manager
8 15 (6.55%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.80%) Developer
10 11 (4.80%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.37%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.49%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.49%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (3.49%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.86%) Node.js
2 15 (6.55%) Kafka
2 15 (6.55%) Spring
3 13 (5.68%) .NET
4 12 (5.24%) Django
4 12 (5.24%) FastAPI
5 11 (4.80%) Spring Boot
6 7 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.62%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.62%) React
8 5 (2.18%) Loki
9 4 (1.75%) Jest
9 4 (1.75%) Next.js
9 4 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.31%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.31%) LangChain
10 3 (1.31%) LDAP
10 3 (1.31%) SOAP
11 2 (0.87%) RESTful
12 1 (0.44%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 53 (23.14%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.61%) Robotics
3 18 (7.86%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.68%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.37%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.06%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.62%) Private Cloud
8 5 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.18%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.75%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.75%) CMDB
9 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.75%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.31%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.87%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.44%) Cloud Security Posture
12 1 (0.44%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.03%) Linux
2 16 (6.99%) Unix
3 11 (4.80%) Windows
4 3 (1.31%) Android
5 2 (0.87%) Debian
5 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) CentOS
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (69.43%) DevOps
2 128 (55.90%) CI/CD
3 102 (44.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (43.67%) Agile
5 99 (43.23%) Observability
6 73 (31.88%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (24.89%) Incident Response
8 52 (22.71%) Containerisation
9 49 (21.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (21.40%) ITIL
9 49 (21.40%) Service Management
10 46 (20.09%) AI
10 46 (20.09%) Software Engineering
11 41 (17.90%) Platform Engineering
12 40 (17.47%) Incident Management
13 34 (14.85%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 34 (14.85%) Service Design
14 29 (12.66%) Collaborative Culture
14 29 (12.66%) Stakeholder Management
15 27 (11.79%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 100 (43.67%) Python
2 48 (20.96%) Java
3 46 (20.09%) Bash
4 32 (13.97%) PowerShell
5 25 (10.92%) TypeScript
6 19 (8.30%) JavaScript
7 16 (6.99%) SQL
8 15 (6.55%) Go
9 8 (3.49%) C#
10 5 (2.18%) Ruby
10 5 (2.18%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.31%) Bicep
11 3 (1.31%) C++
11 3 (1.31%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.48%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.30%) DV Cleared
4 17 (7.42%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.80%) Degree
6 6 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.31%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.87%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.66%) QA
2 7 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.62%) GDPR
4 4 (1.75%) SLA
5 3 (1.31%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.87%) NIST
6 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.44%) PMO
7 1 (0.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 60 (26.20%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.87%) Squid
5 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (41.92%) Kubernetes
2 90 (39.30%) Terraform
3 52 (22.71%) Ansible
3 52 (22.71%) Grafana
4 49 (21.40%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.93%) Argo
6 6 (2.62%) AWS Copilot
6 6 (2.62%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.75%) Kibana
8 3 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.31%) Puppet
9 2 (0.87%) Control-M
9 2 (0.87%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.87%) Istio
9 2 (0.87%) linkerd
9 2 (0.87%) logstash
10 1 (0.44%) Icinga
10 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.44%) Rancher
10 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (13.10%) Oracle
2 19 (8.30%) Splunk
3 18 (7.86%) Google
4 9 (3.93%) SAP
5 8 (3.49%) Atlassian
5 8 (3.49%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.62%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.18%) VMware
8 4 (1.75%) Hitachi
8 4 (1.75%) New Relic
8 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.31%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.31%) F5
9 3 (1.31%) Microsoft
9 3 (1.31%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.31%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.31%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.87%) TOWER Software
11 1 (0.44%) ForgeRock