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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 305 306
Rank change year-on-year -56 +1 +67
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 445 399 660
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.92% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.02% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 373 164 322
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,509 £65,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £108,438 £105,000
90th Percentile £102,250 £125,250 £124,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% -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 66,599 38,984 61,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.82% 89.76% 81.55%
Number of salaries quoted 47,002 22,502 42,192
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,185 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -13 131 £92,500 -9.76% 209
North of England -83 131 £73,750 +6.29% 56
North West -66 90 £75,000 +11.88% 33
South West +2 70 £75,000 -20.75% 35
South East +13 55 £80,000 +4.92% 26
East of England +1 31 £80,150 +27.22% 9
Midlands -35 22 £62,500 -7.41% 19
North East -33 21 £68,784 -0.86% 9
Yorkshire -31 20 £70,288 -9.31% 14
West Midlands -34 16 £62,250 -7.78% 12
East Midlands - 6 £65,000 - 7
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 (2.02%) Apache
2 8 (1.80%) 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 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 185 (41.57%) AWS
2 170 (38.20%) Azure
3 82 (18.43%) GCP
4 61 (13.71%) GitHub
5 42 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (8.54%) Serverless
7 35 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
8 33 (7.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (5.84%) Azure AKS
10 26 (5.84%) SaaS
11 24 (5.39%) Datadog
12 21 (4.72%) OpenShift
13 15 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (2.25%) Azure Functions
16 9 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (2.02%) Power Platform
17 8 (1.80%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.27%) TCP/IP
2 18 (4.04%) Firewall
3 17 (3.82%) DNS
4 10 (2.25%) HTTP
5 7 (1.57%) MQTT
6 6 (1.35%) VPN
7 4 (0.90%) ATM
7 4 (0.90%) Network Security
8 3 (0.67%) BGP
9 2 (0.45%) VLAN
9 2 (0.45%) WAN
10 1 (0.22%) Broadband
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 (3.15%) MongoDB
1 14 (3.15%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.25%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.02%) Power BI
5 7 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.12%) KDB
8 4 (0.90%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.90%) MySQL
9 3 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.45%) Big Data
10 2 (0.45%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.45%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.22%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.22%) Scylla
11 1 (0.22%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 61 (13.71%) GitLab
2 52 (11.69%) Jenkins
3 48 (10.79%) Git
4 23 (5.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (2.70%) JIRA
6 6 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.35%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.45%) MSI
9 1 (0.22%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.22%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.22%) Gatling
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%) Snyk
9 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 74 (16.63%) Finance
3 37 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (5.62%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.94%) Banking
6 21 (4.72%) Law
7 13 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.80%) Retail
11 7 (1.57%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.57%) Front Office
11 7 (1.57%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.35%) Digital Economy
13 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.67%) Automotive
13 3 (0.67%) Electronics
14 2 (0.45%) Advertising
14 2 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 105 (23.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 100 (22.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 91 (20.45%) Site Engineer
4 72 (16.18%) Senior
5 70 (15.73%) Lead
6 45 (10.11%) Software Engineer
7 42 (9.44%) Azure Engineer
8 37 (8.31%) Platform Engineer
9 35 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 33 (7.42%) Principal Engineer
11 27 (6.07%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 25 (5.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 19 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
14 18 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (4.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.60%) Architect
16 14 (3.15%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 13 (2.92%) Developer
17 13 (2.92%) Python Engineer
17 13 (2.92%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.87%) Spring
2 34 (7.64%) Spring Boot
3 29 (6.52%) Kafka
4 22 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (4.72%) .NET
6 13 (2.92%) ARM Templates
7 10 (2.25%) React
8 9 (2.02%) .NET Core
8 9 (2.02%) Loki
9 8 (1.80%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (1.80%) REST
10 6 (1.35%) Node.js
10 6 (1.35%) YAML
11 5 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (1.12%) gRPC
12 4 (0.90%) AngularJS
12 4 (0.90%) Backbone.js
12 4 (0.90%) Middleware
12 4 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (0.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 121 (27.19%) Cloud Native
2 33 (7.42%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.80%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.12%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.67%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.67%) Hackathon
11 3 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (21.12%) Linux
2 31 (6.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 31 (6.97%) Windows
3 24 (5.39%) CentOS
4 17 (3.82%) Unix
5 16 (3.60%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.25%) VMS
7 9 (2.02%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.22%) Android
9 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.22%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (65.17%) DevOps
2 237 (53.26%) CI/CD
3 214 (48.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 182 (40.90%) Observability
5 164 (36.85%) Platform Engineering
6 113 (25.39%) Containerisation
7 102 (22.92%) Agile
8 93 (20.90%) Software Engineering
9 90 (20.22%) AI
10 87 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 67 (15.06%) Incident Response
12 63 (14.16%) Microservices
13 57 (12.81%) Mentoring
14 51 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
15 50 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
16 49 (11.01%) Root Cause Analysis
17 48 (10.79%) Roadmaps
18 44 (9.89%) Incident Management
19 41 (9.21%) DevSecOps
20 40 (8.99%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 196 (44.04%) Python
2 75 (16.85%) Bash
3 65 (14.61%) Java
4 58 (13.03%) PowerShell
5 36 (8.09%) SQL
6 35 (7.87%) Go
7 21 (4.72%) C#
8 14 (3.15%) Bicep
9 11 (2.47%) Rust
10 10 (2.25%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.02%) C
11 9 (2.02%) C++
11 9 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.80%) Groovy
13 7 (1.57%) JavaScript
14 6 (1.35%) PHP
15 3 (0.67%) COBOL
15 3 (0.67%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.45%) VB
17 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 156 (35.06%) Security Cleared
2 103 (23.15%) DV Cleared
3 92 (20.67%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.84%) Degree
5 10 (2.25%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.57%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.67%) CISSP
11 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
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 13 (2.92%) QA
2 11 (2.47%) SLA
3 7 (1.57%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.12%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.67%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.45%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.22%) GxP
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.22%) NCSC
7 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 116 (26.07%) Docker
2 12 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 218 (48.99%) Terraform
2 186 (41.80%) Kubernetes
3 132 (29.66%) Ansible
4 79 (17.75%) Grafana
5 65 (14.61%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.27%) Argo
6 19 (4.27%) Puppet
7 18 (4.04%) Istio
8 9 (2.02%) Nagios
9 8 (1.80%) Podman
10 7 (1.57%) Kustomize
11 5 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.90%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.67%) linkerd
14 1 (0.22%) Cilium
14 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.22%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.22%) Packer
14 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (7.42%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.27%) Splunk
3 15 (3.37%) Google
4 14 (3.15%) Oracle
4 14 (3.15%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.92%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.80%) Confluent
7 7 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.12%) Databricks
8 5 (1.12%) Tenable
9 4 (0.90%) VocaLink
10 3 (0.67%) HP
10 3 (0.67%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.67%) VMware
11 2 (0.45%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.45%) Informatica
11 2 (0.45%) PagerDuty
12 1 (0.22%) IBM
12 1 (0.22%) Sage
12 1 (0.22%) Sybase