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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 306 296
Rank change year-on-year -56 -10 +69
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 457 404 654
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.92% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.03% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 374 163 303
10th Percentile £52,875 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £61,762 £64,509 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +2.63%
75th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £120,000 £124,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +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 69,222 39,170 58,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.76% 89.42% 81.39%
Number of salaries quoted 48,821 22,704 38,917
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,519 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -35 140 £90,000 -2.70% 353
North of England -89 132 £75,000 +7.14% 78
North West -61 91 £75,000 +11.88% 42
South West -6 71 £75,000 -18.76% 38
South East +16 54 £75,000 -1.64% 35
East of England -5 32 £84,450 +22.84% 18
Midlands -27 23 £65,000 -3.70% 21
North East -38 22 £80,000 +15.30% 12
Yorkshire -46 19 £75,000 -3.23% 24
West Midlands -27 17 £65,000 -3.70% 16
East Midlands - 6 £65,000 - 5
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 9 (1.97%) Apache
2 8 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 190 (41.58%) AWS
2 170 (37.20%) Azure
3 87 (19.04%) GCP
4 59 (12.91%) GitHub
5 40 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (8.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 35 (7.66%) Serverless
8 31 (6.78%) Datadog
8 31 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (5.91%) Azure AKS
9 27 (5.91%) SaaS
10 22 (4.81%) OpenShift
11 13 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (1.97%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.75%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (1.75%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.16%) TCP/IP
2 17 (3.72%) Firewall
3 16 (3.50%) DNS
4 9 (1.97%) VPN
5 6 (1.31%) HTTP
6 5 (1.09%) MQTT
7 4 (0.88%) ATM
7 4 (0.88%) Network Security
8 3 (0.66%) BGP
9 2 (0.44%) IPv4
9 2 (0.44%) IPv6
9 2 (0.44%) VLAN
9 2 (0.44%) WAN
9 2 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.44%) WireGuard
10 1 (0.22%) DHCP
10 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.22%) Internet
10 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.06%) MongoDB
2 13 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.41%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.19%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (1.53%) Power BI
6 6 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.09%) KDB
8 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.88%) MySQL
9 3 (0.66%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.44%) Big Data
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.22%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.22%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.22%) Scylla
11 1 (0.22%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 59 (12.91%) GitLab
2 48 (10.50%) Jenkins
3 47 (10.28%) Git
4 23 (5.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (2.63%) JIRA
6 6 (1.31%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.09%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.44%) MSI
8 2 (0.44%) Snyk
8 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.22%) JMeter
9 1 (0.22%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.22%) Postman
9 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.22%) Selenium
9 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 94 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 82 (17.94%) Finance
3 40 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (5.69%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.47%) Banking
6 19 (4.16%) Law
7 15 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.75%) Retail
11 7 (1.53%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.53%) Front Office
11 7 (1.53%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.31%) Digital Economy
12 6 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.66%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.66%) Automotive
13 3 (0.66%) Electronics
13 3 (0.66%) Legal
13 3 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 122 (26.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 108 (23.63%) Site Engineer
3 98 (21.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 81 (17.72%) Senior
5 69 (15.10%) Lead
6 44 (9.63%) Software Engineer
7 42 (9.19%) Azure Engineer
8 39 (8.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 37 (8.10%) Platform Engineer
10 34 (7.44%) Principal Engineer
11 28 (6.13%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 28 (6.13%) Python Engineer
12 24 (5.25%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (5.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 20 (4.38%) Senior DevOps
14 19 (4.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 14 (3.06%) Architect
17 13 (2.84%) Developer
17 13 (2.84%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.66%) Spring
2 34 (7.44%) Spring Boot
3 27 (5.91%) Kafka
4 19 (4.16%) .NET
4 19 (4.16%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (2.84%) ARM Templates
6 10 (2.19%) React
7 9 (1.97%) Loki
8 8 (1.75%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (1.75%) REST
9 7 (1.53%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.31%) Node.js
10 6 (1.31%) YAML
11 5 (1.09%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (1.09%) gRPC
12 4 (0.88%) AngularJS
12 4 (0.88%) Backbone.js
12 4 (0.88%) Middleware
12 4 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 121 (26.48%) Cloud Native
2 37 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.09%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.88%) AI Agents
9 4 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.88%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.66%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.66%) Replication
10 3 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 98 (21.44%) Linux
2 31 (6.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 31 (6.78%) Windows
3 24 (5.25%) CentOS
4 20 (4.38%) Unix
5 16 (3.50%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.97%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.75%) VMS
8 5 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.22%) Android
10 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.22%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (63.46%) DevOps
2 238 (52.08%) CI/CD
3 223 (48.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 195 (42.67%) Observability
5 170 (37.20%) Platform Engineering
6 111 (24.29%) Containerisation
7 105 (22.98%) Software Engineering
8 100 (21.88%) Agile
9 93 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 89 (19.47%) AI
11 67 (14.66%) Incident Response
12 61 (13.35%) Mentoring
12 61 (13.35%) Microservices
13 55 (12.04%) Root Cause Analysis
14 53 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
15 52 (11.38%) Roadmaps
16 51 (11.16%) Technical Leadership
17 50 (10.94%) Incident Management
18 44 (9.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 42 (9.19%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 205 (44.86%) Python
2 72 (15.75%) Bash
3 64 (14.00%) Java
3 64 (14.00%) PowerShell
4 31 (6.78%) Go
4 31 (6.78%) SQL
5 19 (4.16%) C#
6 15 (3.28%) Bicep
7 10 (2.19%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.97%) C
8 9 (1.97%) C++
9 8 (1.75%) Groovy
9 8 (1.75%) JavaScript
9 8 (1.75%) Rust
10 7 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (1.31%) PHP
12 3 (0.66%) COBOL
13 2 (0.44%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.22%) VBA
14 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 159 (34.79%) Security Cleared
2 104 (22.76%) DV Cleared
3 93 (20.35%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.03%) Degree
5 10 (2.19%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.19%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.66%) CISSP
11 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.44%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.22%) CISM
12 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.22%) PhD
12 1 (0.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.06%) SLA
2 11 (2.41%) QA
3 7 (1.53%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.09%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.66%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.44%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.44%) NCSC
6 2 (0.44%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) GxP
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 117 (25.60%) Docker
2 12 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.44%) iptables
4 2 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 225 (49.23%) Terraform
2 184 (40.26%) Kubernetes
3 136 (29.76%) Ansible
4 78 (17.07%) Grafana
5 56 (12.25%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.16%) Argo
7 18 (3.94%) Puppet
8 17 (3.72%) Istio
9 9 (1.97%) Nagios
10 8 (1.75%) Podman
11 7 (1.53%) Kustomize
12 5 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.88%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.66%) linkerd
15 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
15 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
15 1 (0.22%) Netcool
15 1 (0.22%) Packer
15 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 37 (8.10%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.38%) Dynatrace
3 19 (4.16%) Google
3 19 (4.16%) Splunk
4 14 (3.06%) Oracle
4 14 (3.06%) Red Hat
5 8 (1.75%) Confluent
6 7 (1.53%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.09%) Databricks
8 4 (0.88%) Tenable
8 4 (0.88%) VocaLink
9 3 (0.66%) HP
9 3 (0.66%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.66%) VMware
10 2 (0.44%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.44%) Informatica
10 2 (0.44%) Sage
11 1 (0.22%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.22%) New Relic
11 1 (0.22%) PagerDuty