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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 319 403
Rank change year-on-year -79 +84 -88
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 241 413 384
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.92% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.00% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 179 289 286
10th Percentile £46,250 £63,750 £51,875
25th Percentile £58,125 £71,250 £59,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £92,500 £116,250 £111,622
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £94,819 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.90% +26.42% -6.25%

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 47,072 41,271 58,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.59% 92.27% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,830 20,347 46,275
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,750
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 £75,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 14 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 14 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 -86 110 £86,250 -21.59% 46
North of England +24 68 £63,750 -14.43% 34
North West +17 34 £69,401 -7.47% 21
Yorkshire -13 24 £70,000 +12.00% 10
South West -22 17 £60,000 -20.00% 13
South East -23 13 £72,500 -3.33% 46
East of England +15 11 £67,500 +3.85% 6
Midlands +6 10 £47,500 -20.83% 6
North East -1 10 £48,750 -29.66% 3
West Midlands +16 9 £47,500 -25.49% 3
East Midlands -16 1 - - 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 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.49%) Mule
2 4 (1.66%) Appian
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 126 (52.28%) AWS
2 88 (36.51%) Azure
3 63 (26.14%) GCP
4 45 (18.67%) GitHub
5 43 (17.84%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (11.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (11.20%) SaaS
8 25 (10.37%) Serverless
9 24 (9.96%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (9.13%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (8.71%) Datadog
13 13 (5.39%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 13 (5.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (4.56%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (4.56%) dbt
15 11 (4.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.79%) TCP/IP
2 22 (9.13%) DNS
3 20 (8.30%) Firewall
4 19 (7.88%) HTTP
5 13 (5.39%) Broadband
6 11 (4.56%) 4G
6 11 (4.56%) BGP
6 11 (4.56%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (4.56%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (4.56%) IOS XR
6 11 (4.56%) MPLS
7 5 (2.07%) SSL
8 2 (0.83%) MQTT
8 2 (0.83%) Network Security
8 2 (0.83%) WAN
9 1 (0.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.79%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.81%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.56%) Redis
5 10 (4.15%) Flink
6 9 (3.73%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.73%) Power BI
6 9 (3.73%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.32%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.49%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.49%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.66%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.24%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.83%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.83%) SQLPlus
13 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.41%) MySQL
13 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (20.75%) Jenkins
2 40 (16.60%) GitLab
3 26 (10.79%) Git
4 6 (2.49%) JIRA
5 5 (2.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.83%) Gradle
6 2 (0.83%) Maven
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 83 (34.44%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.33%) Finance
3 32 (13.28%) Telecoms
4 29 (12.03%) Banking
5 16 (6.64%) Law
6 14 (5.81%) Aviation
6 14 (5.81%) Fire and Rescue
6 14 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.81%) Police
7 13 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.15%) Front Office
9 6 (2.49%) Advertising
10 5 (2.07%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.24%) Marketing
12 2 (0.83%) Electronics
13 1 (0.41%) Games
13 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (21.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 48 (19.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (12.86%) Platform Engineer
4 30 (12.45%) Site Engineer
5 27 (11.20%) Senior
6 26 (10.79%) Lead
7 19 (7.88%) Operations Manager
8 17 (7.05%) Lead DevOps
9 15 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (5.81%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.81%) Service Manager
10 14 (5.81%) Service Operations Manager
10 14 (5.81%) Software Engineer
11 13 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.56%) Developer
13 11 (4.56%) Network Engineer
14 10 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
14 10 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
15 9 (3.73%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.71%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (8.30%) Kafka
3 16 (6.64%) Spring
4 15 (6.22%) Django
4 15 (6.22%) Node.js
4 15 (6.22%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.81%) React
6 11 (4.56%) Jinja
6 11 (4.56%) NETCONF
6 11 (4.56%) YANG
7 10 (4.15%) .NET
7 10 (4.15%) FastAPI
8 8 (3.32%) Loki
8 8 (3.32%) REST
9 7 (2.90%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.49%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (1.66%) ARM Templates
11 4 (1.66%) Next.js
11 4 (1.66%) PyTorch
11 4 (1.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.33%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.81%) Robotics
4 13 (5.39%) Public Cloud
5 11 (4.56%) Social Media
6 7 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.49%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.66%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.66%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.66%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.24%) CMDB
9 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.83%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.83%) Equities
10 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (21.16%) Linux
2 19 (7.88%) Unix
3 18 (7.47%) Windows
4 7 (2.90%) VMS
4 7 (2.90%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.66%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.41%) CentOS
6 1 (0.41%) Debian
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (66.80%) DevOps
2 134 (55.60%) CI/CD
3 110 (45.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (42.74%) Observability
5 90 (37.34%) Agile
6 62 (25.73%) Incident Response
7 59 (24.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (24.07%) Platform Engineering
9 57 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (22.82%) Containerisation
11 52 (21.58%) AI
12 45 (18.67%) Incident Management
13 40 (16.60%) Software Engineering
14 36 (14.94%) ITIL
15 35 (14.52%) High Availability
16 33 (13.69%) Analytics
17 32 (13.28%) DevSecOps
18 31 (12.86%) Service Management
18 31 (12.86%) Service-Level Objective
19 30 (12.45%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 121 (50.21%) Python
2 55 (22.82%) Java
3 45 (18.67%) Bash
4 28 (11.62%) Go
5 22 (9.13%) PowerShell
5 22 (9.13%) SQL
6 20 (8.30%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.22%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.98%) C#
9 7 (2.90%) Bicep
9 7 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.24%) Rust
11 2 (0.83%) Ruby
11 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.83%) VB
12 1 (0.41%) Groovy
12 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.71%) Degree
3 20 (8.30%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.05%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.54%) QA
2 12 (4.98%) SLA
3 4 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.24%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) GRC
5 2 (0.83%) MiFID
5 2 (0.83%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (25.73%) Docker
2 4 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Squid
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 109 (45.23%) Terraform
2 82 (34.02%) Kubernetes
3 67 (27.80%) Grafana
4 62 (25.73%) Ansible
4 62 (25.73%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.22%) Argo
6 6 (2.49%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (1.66%) Nagios
8 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.24%) Puppet
9 2 (0.83%) Istio
9 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.41%) Icinga
10 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.41%) Kibana
10 1 (0.41%) Podman
10 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (9.13%) Splunk
2 16 (6.64%) Google
3 14 (5.81%) Oracle
4 11 (4.56%) Cisco
5 7 (2.90%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.90%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.49%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.49%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.07%) New Relic
7 5 (2.07%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.24%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.83%) BigPanda
10 2 (0.83%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.83%) SAP
10 2 (0.83%) VMware
11 1 (0.41%) Foundry
11 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.41%) Tenable