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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 282 443
Rank change year-on-year -100 +161 -99
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 346 440 439
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 1.16% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.24% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 276 220 340
10th Percentile £48,125 £57,500 £55,400
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £92,500 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £130,875
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -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 61,164 35,487 72,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.89% 93.36% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 40,556 18,984 54,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,779 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,761
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -56 118 £90,000 -18.18% 134
North of England -119 86 £65,576 -5.49% 52
North West -88 55 £75,000 +11.39% 34
South West -29 48 £70,000 +21.86% 31
South East +11 37 £72,500 -6.45% 42
East of England -4 33 £85,000 +30.77% 7
Yorkshire -44 17 £65,000 -7.14% 11
North East -31 14 £47,500 -31.54% 7
Midlands -46 14 £47,500 -20.83% 14
West Midlands -53 10 £47,500 -25.49% 13
East Midlands -29 4 £130,000 +188.89% 1
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 (1.45%) Confluence
2 4 (1.16%) Apache
3 3 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.58%) Appian
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 150 (43.35%) AWS
2 147 (42.49%) Azure
3 67 (19.36%) GCP
4 48 (13.87%) GitHub
5 43 (12.43%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (10.98%) Amazon EKS
8 30 (8.67%) Serverless
9 22 (6.36%) Azure AKS
10 21 (6.07%) SaaS
11 19 (5.49%) Datadog
12 18 (5.20%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (4.91%) OpenShift
14 14 (4.05%) Power Platform
14 14 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.47%) Azure Functions
16 12 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.94%) DNS
2 19 (5.49%) Firewall
2 19 (5.49%) HTTP
3 18 (5.20%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.76%) BGP
5 12 (3.47%) Broadband
5 12 (3.47%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (3.18%) 4G
6 11 (3.18%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (3.18%) IOS XR
6 11 (3.18%) MPLS
7 7 (2.02%) MQTT
8 5 (1.45%) SSL
9 4 (1.16%) Network Security
10 1 (0.29%) DHCP
10 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.29%) VPN
10 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.34%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.05%) Power BI
3 13 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (2.02%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.73%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.45%) Flink
6 5 (1.45%) KDB
7 4 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.87%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.58%) MySQL
9 2 (0.58%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.58%) SQLPlus
9 2 (0.58%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.29%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.29%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 43 (12.43%) GitLab
2 40 (11.56%) Jenkins
3 36 (10.40%) Git
4 8 (2.31%) JIRA
5 6 (1.73%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.58%) Gradle
6 2 (0.58%) Maven
6 2 (0.58%) MSI
7 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.29%) Gatling
7 1 (0.29%) JMeter
7 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.29%) Selenium
7 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 69 (19.94%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.90%) Finance
3 27 (7.80%) Telecoms
4 20 (5.78%) Banking
5 18 (5.20%) Law
6 17 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (3.18%) Front Office
9 10 (2.89%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.16%) Advertising
13 3 (0.87%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.87%) Automotive
13 3 (0.87%) Electronics
14 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.58%) Retail
15 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 78 (22.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 59 (17.05%) Site Engineer
3 54 (15.61%) Lead
4 51 (14.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 45 (13.01%) Software Engineer
6 41 (11.85%) Senior
7 36 (10.40%) Azure Engineer
8 31 (8.96%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (7.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 23 (6.65%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (4.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 14 (4.05%) Developer
12 14 (4.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 14 (4.05%) Java Engineer
12 14 (4.05%) Lead DevOps
13 13 (3.76%) Java Software Engineer
13 13 (3.76%) Team Leader
14 12 (3.47%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.51%) Kafka
2 23 (6.65%) .NET
2 23 (6.65%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (5.78%) React
4 18 (5.20%) Spring
5 17 (4.91%) Spring Boot
6 15 (4.34%) ARM Templates
7 13 (3.76%) REST
8 12 (3.47%) .NET Core
8 12 (3.47%) Loki
9 11 (3.18%) Jinja
9 11 (3.18%) NETCONF
9 11 (3.18%) Node.js
9 11 (3.18%) YANG
10 8 (2.31%) AngularJS
10 8 (2.31%) Vue
11 6 (1.73%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (1.73%) YAML
12 4 (1.16%) Backbone.js
12 4 (1.16%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 72 (20.81%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.18%) Social Media
5 10 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.73%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.16%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.58%) CMDB
10 2 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.58%) Hackathon
10 2 (0.58%) NHS
10 2 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (18.79%) Linux
2 28 (8.09%) Windows
3 14 (4.05%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.76%) VMS
5 10 (2.89%) Unix
6 9 (2.60%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.73%) CentOS
8 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.29%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (63.29%) DevOps
2 174 (50.29%) CI/CD
3 152 (43.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 146 (42.20%) Observability
5 126 (36.42%) Platform Engineering
6 100 (28.90%) Agile
7 80 (23.12%) AI
8 78 (22.54%) Containerisation
9 63 (18.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (17.92%) Incident Response
10 62 (17.92%) Software Engineering
11 46 (13.29%) Mentoring
12 44 (12.72%) Microservices
13 43 (12.43%) Analytics
14 42 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (12.14%) Root Cause Analysis
15 40 (11.56%) High Availability
16 38 (10.98%) Incident Management
17 37 (10.69%) Deployment Automation
17 37 (10.69%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 150 (43.35%) Python
2 67 (19.36%) Bash
3 51 (14.74%) Java
4 44 (12.72%) PowerShell
5 38 (10.98%) Go
6 29 (8.38%) SQL
7 25 (7.23%) C#
8 15 (4.34%) Bicep
9 12 (3.47%) Kusto Query Language
10 11 (3.18%) Rust
11 8 (2.31%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.31%) TypeScript
12 7 (2.02%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.73%) C
13 6 (1.73%) C++
14 5 (1.45%) PHP
15 3 (0.87%) Groovy
16 2 (0.58%) VB
17 1 (0.29%) JCL
17 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (20.23%) Security Cleared
2 38 (10.98%) DV Cleared
3 34 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 29 (8.38%) Degree
5 10 (2.89%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.47%) QA
2 9 (2.60%) SLA
3 5 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.16%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.58%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (23.41%) Docker
2 11 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 151 (43.64%) Terraform
2 127 (36.71%) Kubernetes
3 80 (23.12%) Grafana
4 73 (21.10%) Ansible
5 71 (20.52%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.62%) Argo
6 16 (4.62%) Istio
6 16 (4.62%) Puppet
7 9 (2.60%) Nagios
8 7 (2.02%) Podman
9 4 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.16%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.29%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.29%) linkerd
11 1 (0.29%) Packer
11 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (7.80%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.07%) Splunk
3 11 (3.18%) Cisco
3 11 (3.18%) Oracle
3 11 (3.18%) Red Hat
4 8 (2.31%) Confluent
4 8 (2.31%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.73%) Databricks
6 5 (1.45%) Google
6 5 (1.45%) Tenable
7 4 (1.16%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.16%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.87%) NVIDIA
9 2 (0.58%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.58%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.58%) Foundry
9 2 (0.58%) Informatica
9 2 (0.58%) New Relic
9 2 (0.58%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.58%) PagerDuty