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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 320 463
Rank change year-on-year -67 +143 -143
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 289 338 376
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.92% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.99% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 231 301 268
10th Percentile £46,250 £57,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £92,500 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% +15.63% -3.03%

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 55,018 34,077 68,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.44% 93.17% 86.19%
Number of salaries quoted 34,732 20,466 52,607
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -11.00%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -103 114 £86,250 -21.59% 48
North of England -15 81 £67,788 -2.30% 35
North West -5 48 £73,801 +5.95% 17
South West -30 27 £60,000 -11.11% 27
East of England -12 23 £82,575 +27.04% 12
South East -31 22 £80,000 +6.67% 31
Yorkshire -41 19 £65,000 -10.34% 11
North East -13 14 £47,500 -31.54% 7
Midlands -42 12 £47,500 -20.83% 6
West Midlands -20 10 £47,500 -20.83% 3
East Midlands -42 2 £130,000 +188.89% 3
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 5 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.38%) Apache
2 4 (1.38%) Appian
3 2 (0.69%) Confluence
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 149 (51.56%) AWS
2 126 (43.60%) Azure
3 76 (26.30%) GCP
4 55 (19.03%) GitHub
5 51 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 38 (13.15%) Amazon EKS
7 31 (10.73%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (9.34%) Datadog
9 26 (9.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (9.00%) Serverless
10 22 (7.61%) SaaS
11 20 (6.92%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (5.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 14 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (4.84%) Power Platform
14 13 (4.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 13 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (4.15%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.07%) TCP/IP
2 26 (9.00%) DNS
3 23 (7.96%) HTTP
4 22 (7.61%) Firewall
5 14 (4.84%) Broadband
6 12 (4.15%) BGP
6 12 (4.15%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (3.81%) 4G
7 11 (3.81%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (3.81%) IOS XR
7 11 (3.81%) MPLS
8 6 (2.08%) SSL
9 4 (1.38%) MQTT
10 2 (0.69%) Network Security
11 1 (0.35%) DHCP
11 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.00%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (4.84%) Power BI
4 12 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (3.81%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.81%) Redis
6 10 (3.46%) Flink
7 7 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.38%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.38%) Weaviate
10 3 (1.04%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.69%) SQLPlus
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.35%) MySQL
12 1 (0.35%) Sybase ASE
12 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (16.96%) Jenkins
2 38 (13.15%) GitLab
3 31 (10.73%) Git
4 9 (3.11%) JIRA
5 6 (2.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.69%) Gradle
6 2 (0.69%) Maven
6 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) Gatling
7 1 (0.35%) JMeter
7 1 (0.35%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 77 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.34%) Finance
3 36 (12.46%) Telecoms
4 28 (9.69%) Banking
5 20 (6.92%) Law
6 16 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.81%) Front Office
9 6 (2.08%) Advertising
9 6 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.08%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.73%) Electronics
11 4 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.04%) Automotive
12 3 (1.04%) Marketing
13 2 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (0.69%) Games
13 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 67 (23.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 61 (21.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 50 (17.30%) Site Engineer
4 39 (13.49%) Lead
4 39 (13.49%) Senior
5 28 (9.69%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (9.00%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (9.00%) Software Engineer
7 20 (6.92%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (6.57%) Lead DevOps
9 17 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (5.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 16 (5.54%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) Reliability Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.34%) Elastic Stack
1 27 (9.34%) Kafka
2 17 (5.88%) React
3 16 (5.54%) .NET
4 15 (5.19%) Django
4 15 (5.19%) Spring
5 14 (4.84%) Spring Boot
6 12 (4.15%) .NET Core
6 12 (4.15%) Node.js
7 11 (3.81%) Jinja
7 11 (3.81%) NETCONF
7 11 (3.81%) YANG
8 10 (3.46%) REST
9 8 (2.77%) ARM Templates
10 7 (2.42%) Loki
11 6 (2.08%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.08%) FastAPI
11 6 (2.08%) Vue
12 5 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (1.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 58 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.81%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.81%) Social Media
5 6 (2.08%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.38%) Hackathon
6 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.38%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.69%) CMDB
8 2 (0.69%) Equities
8 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.69%) Robotics
8 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (22.15%) Linux
2 28 (9.69%) Windows
3 19 (6.57%) Unix
4 12 (4.15%) VMS
5 11 (3.81%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.42%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.04%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (68.17%) DevOps
2 156 (53.98%) CI/CD
3 127 (43.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (40.48%) Observability
5 89 (30.80%) Agile
6 83 (28.72%) Platform Engineering
7 74 (25.61%) Containerisation
8 68 (23.53%) Incident Response
9 61 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (20.42%) AI
11 50 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (15.92%) Analytics
13 45 (15.57%) Software Engineering
14 41 (14.19%) Incident Management
14 41 (14.19%) Root Cause Analysis
15 40 (13.84%) High Availability
16 37 (12.80%) Service-Level Objective
17 35 (12.11%) DevSecOps
18 32 (11.07%) Microservices
19 29 (10.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 144 (49.83%) Python
2 55 (19.03%) Bash
3 48 (16.61%) Java
4 42 (14.53%) Go
5 33 (11.42%) PowerShell
6 31 (10.73%) SQL
7 20 (6.92%) C#
8 12 (4.15%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (3.81%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.46%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.42%) Bicep
12 5 (1.73%) Rust
13 3 (1.04%) C
13 3 (1.04%) C++
13 3 (1.04%) Groovy
14 2 (0.69%) PHP
14 2 (0.69%) Ruby
14 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.69%) VB
15 1 (0.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 51 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.65%) Degree
2 25 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.96%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.73%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.19%) SLA
2 13 (4.50%) QA
3 3 (1.04%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.04%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.69%) GRC
4 2 (0.69%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 88 (30.45%) Docker
2 10 (3.46%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 134 (46.37%) Terraform
2 109 (37.72%) Kubernetes
3 74 (25.61%) Grafana
4 69 (23.88%) Ansible
5 67 (23.18%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.88%) Argo
7 11 (3.81%) Istio
8 8 (2.77%) Nagios
9 6 (2.08%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.69%) Puppet
11 1 (0.35%) Cilium
11 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.35%) Icinga
11 1 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.35%) Netcool
11 1 (0.35%) Podman
11 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 26 (9.00%) Splunk
2 13 (4.50%) Google
3 11 (3.81%) Cisco
4 10 (3.46%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.46%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.77%) Confluent
6 6 (2.08%) SolarWinds
7 5 (1.73%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.38%) Databricks
8 4 (1.38%) New Relic
8 4 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.38%) Oracle
9 3 (1.04%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.04%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.04%) VMware
10 2 (0.69%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.69%) BigPanda
10 2 (0.69%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.69%) SAP
11 1 (0.35%) Tenable