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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 303 370
Rank change year-on-year -85 +67 -44
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 222 445 357
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.92% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.02% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 160 267 277
10th Percentile £47,375 £64,471 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £95,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +15.15% +1.85%
75th Percentile £96,563 £115,625 £107,500
90th Percentile £138,250 £138,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,250 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.39% +12.50% -

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 42,481 43,790 44,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.29% 90.69% 89.78%
Number of salaries quoted 25,455 21,528 34,408
10th Percentile £28,560 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -80 107 £87,500 -18.60% 56
North of England +18 64 £75,000 +0.67% 43
North West +2 30 £69,401 -7.47% 18
Yorkshire +5 29 £76,250 +22.00% 19
South West -29 11 £92,500 +23.33% 43
Midlands +22 8 £70,000 +1.00% 29
East of England +13 8 £77,500 +19.23% 31
West Midlands +34 7 £70,000 +1.00% 10
South East -13 6 £80,000 +6.67% 72
North East +7 5 £73,801 +6.48% 6
East Midlands - 1 - - 18
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 7 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.70%) Mule
3 4 (1.80%) Appian
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 125 (56.31%) AWS
2 74 (33.33%) Azure
3 55 (24.77%) GCP
4 33 (14.86%) GitHub
5 32 (14.41%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (13.06%) SaaS
7 28 (12.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (9.91%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (9.46%) Serverless
10 19 (8.56%) Datadog
11 17 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (5.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 11 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (4.95%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (4.95%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 11 (4.95%) dbt
15 11 (4.95%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.76%) TCP/IP
2 13 (5.86%) DNS
3 12 (5.41%) BGP
3 12 (5.41%) Broadband
4 10 (4.50%) 4G
4 10 (4.50%) Cisco IOS
4 10 (4.50%) Ethernet VPN
4 10 (4.50%) Firewall
4 10 (4.50%) IOS XR
4 10 (4.50%) MPLS
5 9 (4.05%) HTTP
6 5 (2.25%) SSL
7 3 (1.35%) AMQP
8 2 (0.90%) Network Security
8 2 (0.90%) WAN
9 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.26%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.76%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.95%) Redis
5 10 (4.50%) Flink
6 9 (4.05%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.15%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.15%) Pinecone
8 6 (2.70%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.80%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.80%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.80%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.90%) Power BI
13 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.45%) MySQL
13 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.45%) Tableau
13 1 (0.45%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 48 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 47 (21.17%) GitLab
3 21 (9.46%) Git
4 6 (2.70%) JIRA
5 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 88 (39.64%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.37%) Finance
3 28 (12.61%) Banking
4 22 (9.91%) Aviation
4 22 (9.91%) Fire and Rescue
4 22 (9.91%) Police
5 21 (9.46%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.50%) Front Office
9 5 (2.25%) Advertising
9 5 (2.25%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.80%) Law
11 3 (1.35%) Games
11 3 (1.35%) Marketing
12 2 (0.90%) Electronics
12 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.90%) Retail
13 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (22.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 43 (19.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (13.96%) Platform Engineer
4 29 (13.06%) Lead
4 29 (13.06%) Operations Manager
5 27 (12.16%) Site Engineer
6 22 (9.91%) Lead DevOps
6 22 (9.91%) Service Manager
6 22 (9.91%) Service Operations Manager
7 20 (9.01%) Senior
8 19 (8.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 13 (5.86%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.41%) Developer
11 11 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (4.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.50%) Network Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 7 (3.15%) Associate Engineer
14 7 (3.15%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.11%) Kafka
1 18 (8.11%) Node.js
2 15 (6.76%) Django
3 12 (5.41%) FastAPI
4 10 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (4.50%) Jinja
4 10 (4.50%) NETCONF
4 10 (4.50%) React
4 10 (4.50%) YANG
5 9 (4.05%) Spring
5 9 (4.05%) Spring Boot
6 6 (2.70%) .NET
6 6 (2.70%) Loki
6 6 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (2.70%) REST
7 5 (2.25%) Next.js
8 4 (1.80%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.80%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 51 (22.97%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.91%) Robotics
3 12 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.50%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.50%) Social Media
5 9 (4.05%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.70%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.25%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.80%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.80%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.35%) CMDB
10 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.52%) Linux
2 17 (7.66%) Unix
3 16 (7.21%) Windows
4 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.45%) Debian
6 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (69.82%) DevOps
2 128 (57.66%) CI/CD
3 106 (47.75%) Observability
4 103 (46.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 92 (41.44%) Agile
6 65 (29.28%) Incident Response
7 61 (27.48%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (22.97%) Incident Management
9 49 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (21.62%) Platform Engineering
11 47 (21.17%) AI
12 44 (19.82%) Containerisation
13 41 (18.47%) ITIL
14 38 (17.12%) Service Management
14 38 (17.12%) Software Engineering
15 30 (13.51%) Change Management
16 28 (12.61%) Collaborative Culture
17 26 (11.71%) Service Delivery
18 25 (11.26%) Root Cause Analysis
19 24 (10.81%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 105 (47.30%) Python
2 47 (21.17%) Java
3 36 (16.22%) Bash
4 24 (10.81%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.01%) Go
6 18 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.66%) JavaScript
8 14 (6.31%) SQL
9 7 (3.15%) Bicep
9 7 (3.15%) C#
10 4 (1.80%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.35%) Ruby
12 1 (0.45%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) Groovy
12 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 32 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.56%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.66%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.31%) Degree
5 7 (3.15%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.61%) QA
2 10 (4.50%) SLA
3 5 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.35%) GDPR
5 2 (0.90%) GRC
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.45%) MiFID
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) PSD2
6 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (27.48%) Docker
2 4 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) Squid
4 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (42.79%) Terraform
2 79 (35.59%) Kubernetes
3 58 (26.13%) Ansible
4 56 (25.23%) Grafana
5 54 (24.32%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.31%) Argo
7 6 (2.70%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.70%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.90%) Nagios
10 1 (0.45%) Control-M
10 1 (0.45%) Icinga
10 1 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.45%) Kibana
10 1 (0.45%) Puppet
10 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (8.56%) Oracle
1 19 (8.56%) Splunk
2 16 (7.21%) Google
3 10 (4.50%) Cisco
4 8 (3.60%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.15%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.70%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.25%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.80%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.80%) New Relic
8 4 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.35%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.90%) BigPanda
10 2 (0.90%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.90%) SAP
10 2 (0.90%) VMware
11 1 (0.45%) Cribl.io
11 1 (0.45%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.45%) Sonatype