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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 320 456
Rank change year-on-year -66 +136 -127
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 313 321 385
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.86% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.92% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 254 290 293
10th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £92,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £92,500 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £125,250 £138,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £91,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -17.58% +13.75% -2.14%

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 58,792 34,849 70,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.40% 92.99% 85.78%
Number of salaries quoted 37,008 20,692 53,458
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 22 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 22 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 -77 113 £90,000 -18.18% 73
North of England -4 86 £65,000 -6.32% 55
North West -3 49 £73,151 +6.30% 31
South West -37 35 £70,000 +3.70% 21
East of England -8 32 £85,000 +30.77% 15
South East -38 26 £72,500 -3.33% 40
Yorkshire -46 21 £65,000 -7.14% 11
North East -30 16 £47,500 -31.54% 13
Midlands -54 10 £47,500 -20.83% 10
West Midlands -33 8 £47,138 -21.44% 5
East Midlands -46 2 £130,000 +188.89% 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 5 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.28%) Apache
2 4 (1.28%) Appian
3 2 (0.64%) Confluence
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 145 (46.33%) AWS
2 126 (40.26%) Azure
3 65 (20.77%) GCP
4 57 (18.21%) GitHub
5 52 (16.61%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (13.10%) Amazon EKS
7 36 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (8.31%) Datadog
8 26 (8.31%) Serverless
9 22 (7.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (7.03%) SaaS
10 16 (5.11%) OpenShift
11 15 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (4.47%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (4.47%) Power Platform
12 14 (4.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (3.83%) Azure Functions
13 12 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.31%) DNS
1 26 (8.31%) TCP/IP
2 23 (7.35%) HTTP
3 22 (7.03%) Firewall
4 14 (4.47%) Broadband
5 13 (4.15%) BGP
6 12 (3.83%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (3.51%) 4G
7 11 (3.51%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (3.51%) IOS XR
7 11 (3.51%) MPLS
8 6 (1.92%) SSL
9 4 (1.28%) MQTT
10 3 (0.96%) Network Security
11 1 (0.32%) DHCP
11 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.32%) VPN
11 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.39%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (4.79%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.47%) Power BI
4 11 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.19%) Flink
6 9 (2.88%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.92%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.60%) Redis
10 4 (1.28%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.28%) Weaviate
11 3 (0.96%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.64%) KDB
12 2 (0.64%) SQLPlus
13 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.32%) MySQL
13 1 (0.32%) Sybase ASE
13 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (14.06%) Jenkins
2 37 (11.82%) GitLab
3 32 (10.22%) Git
4 8 (2.56%) JIRA
5 6 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.64%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.64%) Gradle
6 2 (0.64%) Maven
6 2 (0.64%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.64%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.32%) Gatling
7 1 (0.32%) JMeter
7 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.32%) Postman
7 1 (0.32%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 76 (24.28%) Social Skills
2 51 (16.29%) Finance
3 32 (10.22%) Telecoms
4 25 (7.99%) Banking
5 20 (6.39%) Law
6 16 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (4.15%) Front Office
9 7 (2.24%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.92%) Advertising
11 4 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.28%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.96%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.96%) Automotive
12 3 (0.96%) Electronics
13 2 (0.64%) Games
13 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.32%) iGaming
14 1 (0.32%) Marketing
14 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (23.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 60 (19.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 54 (17.25%) Site Engineer
4 45 (14.38%) Lead
5 39 (12.46%) Senior
6 34 (10.86%) Software Engineer
7 28 (8.95%) AWS Engineer
8 25 (7.99%) Azure Engineer
9 22 (7.03%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.75%) Lead DevOps
11 16 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
12 15 (4.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (4.79%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 15 (4.79%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (4.15%) Java Engineer
14 13 (4.15%) Team Leader
15 12 (3.83%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.63%) Kafka
2 26 (8.31%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (6.71%) .NET
3 21 (6.71%) React
4 16 (5.11%) Spring
5 15 (4.79%) Spring Boot
6 12 (3.83%) .NET Core
6 12 (3.83%) Node.js
6 12 (3.83%) REST
7 11 (3.51%) ARM Templates
7 11 (3.51%) Jinja
7 11 (3.51%) Loki
7 11 (3.51%) NETCONF
7 11 (3.51%) YANG
8 9 (2.88%) Django
9 8 (2.56%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.56%) Vue
10 5 (1.60%) FastAPI
11 4 (1.28%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.28%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 68 (21.73%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.95%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.51%) Social Media
5 9 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.56%) Fixed Income
6 8 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.28%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.28%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.64%) CMDB
10 2 (0.64%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.64%) Equities
10 2 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (17.57%) Linux
2 26 (8.31%) Windows
3 12 (3.83%) VMS
4 11 (3.51%) Unix
4 11 (3.51%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.24%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.96%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (66.45%) DevOps
2 166 (53.04%) CI/CD
3 137 (43.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (39.62%) Observability
5 104 (33.23%) Platform Engineering
6 100 (31.95%) Agile
7 75 (23.96%) Containerisation
8 71 (22.68%) AI
9 68 (21.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 67 (21.41%) Incident Response
11 52 (16.61%) Software Engineering
12 46 (14.70%) Analytics
13 44 (14.06%) High Availability
14 43 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (13.10%) Root Cause Analysis
16 40 (12.78%) Incident Management
16 40 (12.78%) Microservices
17 39 (12.46%) Mentoring
18 35 (11.18%) DevSecOps
19 33 (10.54%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 141 (45.05%) Python
2 60 (19.17%) Bash
3 52 (16.61%) Java
4 41 (13.10%) Go
5 35 (11.18%) PowerShell
6 30 (9.58%) SQL
7 23 (7.35%) C#
8 12 (3.83%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (3.19%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.88%) Bicep
10 9 (2.88%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.92%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.60%) Rust
13 3 (0.96%) C
13 3 (0.96%) C++
13 3 (0.96%) Groovy
14 2 (0.64%) PHP
14 2 (0.64%) Ruby
14 2 (0.64%) VB
15 1 (0.32%) JCL
Qualifications
1 55 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.95%) Degree
3 27 (8.63%) DV Cleared
3 27 (8.63%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.88%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.15%) SLA
2 10 (3.19%) QA
3 3 (0.96%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.64%) GRC
4 2 (0.64%) MiFID
5 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
System Software
1 80 (25.56%) Docker
2 11 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 133 (42.49%) Terraform
2 121 (38.66%) Kubernetes
3 76 (24.28%) Grafana
4 70 (22.36%) Prometheus
5 68 (21.73%) Ansible
6 21 (6.71%) Argo
7 15 (4.79%) Istio
8 8 (2.56%) Nagios
9 4 (1.28%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.96%) Puppet
11 2 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
11 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.32%) Cilium
12 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.32%) Icinga
12 1 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.32%) Netcool
12 1 (0.32%) Podman
12 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 22 (7.03%) Splunk
2 14 (4.47%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.51%) Cisco
4 8 (2.56%) Confluent
4 8 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.92%) Google
5 6 (1.92%) Oracle
5 6 (1.92%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.60%) PagerDuty
6 5 (1.60%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.28%) Databricks
7 4 (1.28%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.64%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.64%) New Relic
9 2 (0.64%) VMware
10 1 (0.32%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.32%) Foundry
10 1 (0.32%) Palantir
10 1 (0.32%) Sybase