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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 252 349
Rank change year-on-year -101 +97 -27
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 286 664 401
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 1.09% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.32% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 137 240 319
10th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £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 £93,750 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £121,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - -

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 37,755 50,464 44,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 87.01% 83.00% 93.79%
Number of salaries quoted 23,331 26,513 33,966
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £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% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,627
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.58% - -

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 5 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 5 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
North of England -86 120 £75,000 - 60
London -35 113 £85,000 -10.53% 198
North West -62 86 £73,801 -1.60% 52
Yorkshire +1 31 £75,000 -11.76% 6
Midlands +49 9 £73,801 +6.48% 25
West Midlands +48 9 £73,801 +6.48% 16
South West -14 9 £90,000 +16.13% 22
East of England +24 7 £70,000 -9.68% 35
South East +3 6 £82,500 +13.79% 185
North East -6 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
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 (2.10%) Mule
2 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.05%) nginx
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.35%) Confluence
3 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.35%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 190 (66.43%) AWS
2 130 (45.45%) Azure
3 121 (42.31%) GCP
4 30 (10.49%) AWS CloudFormation
5 28 (9.79%) SaaS
6 26 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (6.99%) Datadog
7 20 (6.99%) Serverless
8 16 (5.59%) GitHub
8 16 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (5.24%) Pulumi
10 14 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (4.20%) dbt
12 11 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (3.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (3.15%) PaaS
15 8 (2.80%) Sentry
16 7 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (2.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.20%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.50%) Firewall
3 9 (3.15%) DNS
4 5 (1.75%) NAS
4 5 (1.75%) SAN
5 3 (1.05%) AMQP
5 3 (1.05%) BGP
5 3 (1.05%) Network Security
6 2 (0.70%) Internet
6 2 (0.70%) SNMP
6 2 (0.70%) WAN
6 2 (0.70%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.35%) Broadband
7 1 (0.35%) HTTP
7 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.35%) IPsec
7 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.35%) SSL
7 1 (0.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.64%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (6.64%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (4.55%) Redis
4 12 (4.20%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.50%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.45%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.05%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.05%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.05%) MySQL
8 3 (1.05%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.70%) Flink
10 1 (0.35%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.35%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 50 (17.48%) Jenkins
2 48 (16.78%) GitLab
3 12 (4.20%) Git
4 8 (2.80%) JIRA
5 6 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.40%) Vite
7 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (26.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 73 (25.52%) Social Skills
3 71 (24.83%) Finance
4 29 (10.14%) Banking
5 22 (7.69%) Aviation
5 22 (7.69%) Fire and Rescue
5 22 (7.69%) Police
6 14 (4.90%) Law
7 11 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.50%) Marketing
9 9 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.45%) Electronics
10 7 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.45%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.75%) Games
11 5 (1.75%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.05%) Retail
13 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.70%) Front Office
13 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (32.87%) Senior
2 78 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 63 (22.03%) Senior Software Engineer
4 58 (20.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 38 (13.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 38 (13.29%) Lead
6 31 (10.84%) Site Engineer
7 29 (10.14%) Platform Engineer
8 28 (9.79%) Operations Manager
9 22 (7.69%) Service Manager
9 22 (7.69%) Service Operations Manager
10 12 (4.20%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 11 (3.85%) Developer
12 10 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (3.50%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (3.15%) AWS DevOps
13 9 (3.15%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (2.80%) Java Engineer
14 8 (2.80%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (28.32%) Node.js
2 76 (26.57%) .NET
3 15 (5.24%) Spring
4 13 (4.55%) Kafka
5 12 (4.20%) Django
5 12 (4.20%) FastAPI
6 11 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.10%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.10%) React
9 5 (1.75%) Loki
10 4 (1.40%) Jest
10 4 (1.40%) Next.js
10 4 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (1.05%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.05%) LangChain
11 3 (1.05%) LDAP
11 3 (1.05%) SOAP
12 2 (0.70%) RESTful
13 1 (0.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 73 (25.52%) Linux Command Line
2 63 (22.03%) Cyberattack
2 63 (22.03%) Self-Motivation
3 52 (18.18%) Cloud Native
4 22 (7.69%) Robotics
5 19 (6.64%) Product Ownership
6 14 (4.90%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.10%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.75%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.40%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.40%) CMDB
10 4 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.70%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 100 (34.97%) Linux
2 16 (5.59%) Unix
3 10 (3.50%) Windows
4 3 (1.05%) Android
5 2 (0.70%) Debian
5 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) CentOS
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (56.29%) Agile
2 157 (54.90%) DevOps
3 125 (43.71%) CI/CD
4 109 (38.11%) Software Engineering
5 98 (34.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 97 (33.92%) Observability
7 84 (29.37%) Mentoring
8 75 (26.22%) Cloud Security
8 75 (26.22%) Data Engineering
8 75 (26.22%) Scrum
9 73 (25.52%) Microservices
10 71 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
11 70 (24.48%) User Experience
12 69 (24.13%) Machine Learning
13 55 (19.23%) Incident Response
14 52 (18.18%) Containerisation
15 47 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (16.43%) ITIL
15 47 (16.43%) Service Management
16 45 (15.73%) AI
Programming Languages
1 160 (55.94%) Python
2 109 (38.11%) Java
3 82 (28.67%) JavaScript
4 77 (26.92%) Go
5 66 (23.08%) C++
6 63 (22.03%) Rust
7 44 (15.38%) Bash
8 32 (11.19%) PowerShell
9 25 (8.74%) TypeScript
10 15 (5.24%) SQL
11 8 (2.80%) C#
12 5 (1.75%) Ruby
12 5 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.05%) Bicep
13 3 (1.05%) Groovy
14 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 100 (34.97%) Security Cleared
2 82 (28.67%) DV Cleared
3 80 (27.97%) AWS Certification
4 68 (23.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 63 (22.03%) AWS Certified Developer
6 24 (8.39%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.20%) Degree
8 6 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.70%) CISSP
11 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.14%) QA
2 7 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.10%) GDPR
4 4 (1.40%) SLA
5 3 (1.05%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.70%) NIST
6 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 58 (20.28%) Docker
2 3 (1.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.70%) Squid
3 2 (0.70%) vSphere
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 92 (32.17%) Kubernetes
2 86 (30.07%) Terraform
3 50 (17.48%) Ansible
3 50 (17.48%) Grafana
4 46 (16.08%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.80%) Argo
6 6 (2.10%) AWS Copilot
6 6 (2.10%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.40%) Kibana
8 3 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.05%) Puppet
9 2 (0.70%) Control-M
9 2 (0.70%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.70%) Istio
9 2 (0.70%) linkerd
9 2 (0.70%) logstash
10 1 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.35%) Rancher
10 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (10.49%) Oracle
2 18 (6.29%) Google
2 18 (6.29%) Splunk
3 9 (3.15%) SAP
4 8 (2.80%) Atlassian
4 8 (2.80%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.10%) AppDynamics
6 5 (1.75%) VMware
7 4 (1.40%) Hitachi
7 4 (1.40%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.40%) New Relic
7 4 (1.40%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.05%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.05%) F5
8 3 (1.05%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.70%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.70%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.35%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.35%) Nimble Storage