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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 307 468
Rank change year-on-year -94 +161 -142
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 271 380 350
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 1.00% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.07% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 214 304 250
10th Percentile £46,250 £61,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £59,063 £67,500 £62,338
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 £130,000 £138,750 £125,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% +15.63% -1.23%

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 51,670 35,658 65,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.78% 93.55% 87.00%
Number of salaries quoted 32,008 20,224 50,768
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -102 115 £85,000 -22.73% 60
North of England -17 71 £62,500 -9.92% 36
North West -4 37 £70,000 -3.11% 18
South East -40 21 £75,000 - 41
Yorkshire -25 20 £63,750 -12.07% 13
South West -27 20 £60,000 -11.11% 25
East of England -7 19 £70,000 +7.69% 12
North East -12 14 £47,500 -31.54% 5
Midlands -21 13 £58,750 -2.08% 6
West Midlands -5 11 £47,500 -20.83% 3
East Midlands -43 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 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.48%) Appian
3 3 (1.11%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) Confluence
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.74%) Mule
4 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 151 (55.72%) AWS
2 119 (43.91%) Azure
3 75 (27.68%) GCP
4 48 (17.71%) GitHub
5 46 (16.97%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (13.28%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (10.70%) Serverless
8 28 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (9.23%) Datadog
11 21 (7.75%) SaaS
12 20 (7.38%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (5.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (4.80%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 13 (4.80%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (4.80%) Power Platform
15 12 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (4.06%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.44%) TCP/IP
2 26 (9.59%) DNS
3 23 (8.49%) HTTP
4 22 (8.12%) Firewall
5 14 (5.17%) Broadband
6 11 (4.06%) 4G
6 11 (4.06%) BGP
6 11 (4.06%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (4.06%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (4.06%) IOS XR
6 11 (4.06%) MPLS
7 5 (1.85%) SSL
8 4 (1.48%) MQTT
9 2 (0.74%) Network Security
10 1 (0.37%) DHCP
10 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.59%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.17%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.80%) Power BI
5 12 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (4.06%) Redis
7 10 (3.69%) Flink
7 10 (3.69%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.32%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.48%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.48%) Weaviate
12 3 (1.11%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.74%) MySQL
13 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.74%) SQLPlus
14 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.37%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 52 (19.19%) Jenkins
2 42 (15.50%) GitLab
3 32 (11.81%) Git
4 9 (3.32%) JIRA
5 6 (2.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.74%) Gradle
6 2 (0.74%) Maven
6 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.74%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.37%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.37%) Gatling
7 1 (0.37%) JMeter
7 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.37%) Postman
7 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 79 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.77%) Finance
3 36 (13.28%) Telecoms
4 33 (12.18%) Banking
5 20 (7.38%) Law
6 17 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.06%) Front Office
9 5 (1.85%) Advertising
9 5 (1.85%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.85%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.48%) Electronics
11 3 (1.11%) Aviation
11 3 (1.11%) Fire and Rescue
11 3 (1.11%) Marketing
11 3 (1.11%) Police
12 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.74%) Automotive
12 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (22.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 61 (22.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (15.50%) Site Engineer
4 37 (13.65%) Senior
5 34 (12.55%) Lead
6 28 (10.33%) Platform Engineer
7 24 (8.86%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (7.01%) Lead DevOps
9 18 (6.64%) AWS DevOps
9 18 (6.64%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (5.90%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.54%) Software Engineer
12 14 (5.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.80%) Developer
14 12 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (4.06%) Network Engineer
16 10 (3.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 10 (3.69%) Reliability Engineer
16 10 (3.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.96%) Kafka
2 26 (9.59%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (6.27%) React
3 17 (6.27%) Spring
4 16 (5.90%) .NET
4 16 (5.90%) Node.js
4 16 (5.90%) Spring Boot
5 15 (5.54%) Django
6 11 (4.06%) .NET Core
6 11 (4.06%) Jinja
6 11 (4.06%) NETCONF
6 11 (4.06%) YANG
7 9 (3.32%) FastAPI
7 9 (3.32%) REST
8 7 (2.58%) Loki
9 6 (2.21%) ARM Templates
9 6 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (1.85%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.85%) Vue
11 4 (1.48%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.66%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.43%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.06%) Social Media
5 10 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.21%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.48%) Hackathon
7 4 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.11%) CMDB
8 3 (1.11%) Robotics
9 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.74%) Equities
9 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.88%) Linux
2 24 (8.86%) Windows
3 19 (7.01%) Unix
4 11 (4.06%) VMS
4 11 (4.06%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.58%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.11%) CentOS
6 3 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (66.79%) DevOps
2 153 (56.46%) CI/CD
3 126 (46.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 114 (42.07%) Observability
5 88 (32.47%) Agile
6 78 (28.78%) Containerisation
7 70 (25.83%) Platform Engineering
8 67 (24.72%) Incident Response
9 59 (21.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (18.82%) AI
12 44 (16.24%) Analytics
13 40 (14.76%) High Availability
13 40 (14.76%) Incident Management
14 38 (14.02%) Root Cause Analysis
15 37 (13.65%) DevSecOps
16 35 (12.92%) Service-Level Objective
17 32 (11.81%) Microservices
17 32 (11.81%) Software Engineering
18 28 (10.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 143 (52.77%) Python
2 54 (19.93%) Bash
3 52 (19.19%) Java
4 41 (15.13%) Go
5 29 (10.70%) PowerShell
5 29 (10.70%) SQL
6 20 (7.38%) C#
7 16 (5.90%) TypeScript
8 14 (5.17%) JavaScript
9 11 (4.06%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (2.58%) Bicep
11 5 (1.85%) Rust
12 2 (0.74%) Groovy
12 2 (0.74%) PHP
12 2 (0.74%) Ruby
12 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.74%) VB
13 1 (0.37%) JCL
Qualifications
1 46 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.23%) Degree
3 20 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.01%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.85%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.90%) QA
2 13 (4.80%) SLA
3 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.74%) GRC
3 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.74%) MiFID
3 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.37%) GDPR
4 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 85 (31.37%) Docker
2 10 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) Squid
5 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 132 (48.71%) Terraform
2 104 (38.38%) Kubernetes
3 73 (26.94%) Grafana
4 71 (26.20%) Ansible
5 66 (24.35%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.90%) Argo
7 10 (3.69%) Istio
8 8 (2.95%) Nagios
9 6 (2.21%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.74%) Puppet
11 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.37%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.37%) Icinga
11 1 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.37%) Kibana
11 1 (0.37%) Netcool
11 1 (0.37%) Podman
11 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (9.96%) Splunk
2 14 (5.17%) Google
3 11 (4.06%) Cisco
4 10 (3.69%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.69%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.69%) Oracle
5 8 (2.95%) Confluent
6 6 (2.21%) SolarWinds
7 5 (1.85%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.85%) New Relic
7 5 (1.85%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.48%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.11%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.11%) VMware
10 2 (0.74%) BigPanda
10 2 (0.74%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.74%) SAP
11 1 (0.37%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.37%) Tenable