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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 316 428
Rank change year-on-year -100 +112 -103
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 244 409 366
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.96% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 1.03% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 190 299 263
10th Percentile £46,250 £63,163 £51,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -4.48%
75th Percentile £92,500 £118,125 £112,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £129,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £94,637 £80,000
% change year-on-year -20.75% +18.30% -

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 48,558 39,642 58,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.92% 93.04% 88.20%
Number of salaries quoted 29,771 20,090 46,517
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,075 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -92 105 £85,000 -22.73% 54
North of England +11 69 £60,000 -13.91% 37
North West +3 36 £70,000 -6.67% 18
Yorkshire -23 21 £62,500 -5.66% 16
South West -10 17 £60,000 -20.00% 14
South East -32 17 £75,000 - 39
East of England +5 12 £65,000 - 2
North East +1 12 £47,500 -31.54% 3
Midlands -4 11 £58,750 -2.08% 4
West Midlands +10 9 £47,500 -20.83% 2
East Midlands -24 2 £130,000 +188.89% 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 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.46%) Mule
2 4 (1.64%) Appian
3 2 (0.82%) Apache
3 2 (0.82%) Confluence
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 131 (53.69%) AWS
2 96 (39.34%) Azure
3 67 (27.46%) GCP
4 46 (18.85%) GitHub
5 44 (18.03%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (11.07%) Serverless
7 25 (10.25%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (10.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (9.02%) Datadog
10 20 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
11 18 (7.38%) SaaS
12 14 (5.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (5.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 12 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (4.51%) dbt
15 11 (4.51%) Power Platform
15 11 (4.51%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.48%) TCP/IP
2 25 (10.25%) DNS
3 21 (8.61%) Firewall
3 21 (8.61%) HTTP
4 14 (5.74%) Broadband
5 11 (4.51%) 4G
5 11 (4.51%) BGP
5 11 (4.51%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (4.51%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (4.51%) IOS XR
5 11 (4.51%) MPLS
6 5 (2.05%) SSL
7 4 (1.64%) MQTT
8 2 (0.82%) Network Security
8 2 (0.82%) WAN
9 1 (0.41%) DHCP
9 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.66%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.51%) Power BI
5 11 (4.51%) Redis
6 10 (4.10%) Flink
7 9 (3.69%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.28%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.46%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.05%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.64%) Weaviate
13 3 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.23%) InfluxDB
14 2 (0.82%) SQLPlus
15 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.41%) MySQL
15 1 (0.41%) Sybase ASE
15 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (19.67%) Jenkins
2 41 (16.80%) GitLab
3 30 (12.30%) Git
4 9 (3.69%) JIRA
5 6 (2.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.82%) Gradle
6 2 (0.82%) Maven
6 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 76 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.72%) Finance
3 34 (13.93%) Telecoms
4 30 (12.30%) Banking
5 18 (7.38%) Law
6 16 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.10%) Front Office
9 5 (2.05%) Advertising
9 5 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.05%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.23%) Aviation
10 3 (1.23%) Fire and Rescue
10 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.23%) Marketing
10 3 (1.23%) Police
11 2 (0.82%) Electronics
11 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (24.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 50 (20.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (15.16%) Site Engineer
4 31 (12.70%) Platform Engineer
5 29 (11.89%) Senior
6 27 (11.07%) Lead
7 17 (6.97%) Lead DevOps
8 16 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (6.15%) Software Engineer
10 14 (5.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.74%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (4.92%) Developer
13 11 (4.51%) Network Engineer
14 10 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
15 9 (3.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 9 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (3.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 9 (3.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.43%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (9.02%) Kafka
3 16 (6.56%) Spring
4 15 (6.15%) Django
4 15 (6.15%) React
4 15 (6.15%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.74%) Node.js
6 12 (4.92%) .NET
7 11 (4.51%) Jinja
7 11 (4.51%) NETCONF
7 11 (4.51%) YANG
8 9 (3.69%) .NET Core
8 9 (3.69%) FastAPI
8 9 (3.69%) REST
9 8 (3.28%) Loki
10 6 (2.46%) ARM Templates
10 6 (2.46%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (2.05%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.05%) Vue
12 4 (1.64%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 50 (20.49%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.33%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.51%) Social Media
5 7 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.46%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.64%) Hackathon
7 4 (1.64%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.23%) CMDB
8 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.23%) Robotics
9 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.72%) Linux
2 20 (8.20%) Windows
3 19 (7.79%) Unix
4 9 (3.69%) VMS
4 9 (3.69%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.05%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.23%) CentOS
6 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (64.75%) DevOps
2 141 (57.79%) CI/CD
3 116 (47.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (41.39%) Observability
5 87 (35.66%) Agile
6 63 (25.82%) Platform Engineering
7 62 (25.41%) Containerisation
8 55 (22.54%) Incident Response
9 52 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (18.03%) AI
12 37 (15.16%) Analytics
12 37 (15.16%) High Availability
13 34 (13.93%) DevSecOps
13 34 (13.93%) Incident Management
14 33 (13.52%) Root Cause Analysis
14 33 (13.52%) Service-Level Objective
15 30 (12.30%) Software Engineering
16 27 (11.07%) ITIL
17 26 (10.66%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 126 (51.64%) Python
2 53 (21.72%) Java
3 48 (19.67%) Bash
4 30 (12.30%) Go
5 26 (10.66%) PowerShell
6 25 (10.25%) SQL
7 17 (6.97%) TypeScript
8 16 (6.56%) C#
9 13 (5.33%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.69%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (2.87%) Bicep
12 5 (2.05%) Rust
13 2 (0.82%) Ruby
13 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.82%) VB
14 1 (0.41%) Groovy
14 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.84%) Degree
3 20 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.56%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.64%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.74%) QA
2 12 (4.92%) SLA
3 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.82%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) GRC
4 2 (0.82%) MiFID
4 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (28.28%) Docker
2 5 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Squid
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 115 (47.13%) Terraform
2 87 (35.66%) Kubernetes
3 70 (28.69%) Grafana
4 64 (26.23%) Ansible
4 64 (26.23%) Prometheus
5 16 (6.56%) Argo
6 6 (2.46%) AWS Copilot
6 6 (2.46%) Nagios
7 2 (0.82%) Istio
7 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.82%) Puppet
8 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.41%) Icinga
8 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.41%) Kibana
8 1 (0.41%) Netcool
8 1 (0.41%) Podman
8 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (9.84%) Splunk
2 15 (6.15%) Google
3 14 (5.74%) Oracle
4 11 (4.51%) Cisco
5 9 (3.69%) Microsoft
6 8 (3.28%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.46%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.05%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.05%) New Relic
8 5 (2.05%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.64%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.23%) VMware
11 2 (0.82%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.82%) BigPanda
11 2 (0.82%) Moogsoft
11 2 (0.82%) SAP
12 1 (0.41%) Databricks
12 1 (0.41%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.41%) Tenable