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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 314 260
Rank change year-on-year -38 -54 +102
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 488 376 705
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.87% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.98% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 362 118 283
10th Percentile £53,750 £61,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - -

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 76,388 38,475 54,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.58% 89.15% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 53,883 21,744 29,840
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,267
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -4 155 £87,500 -1.41% 478
North of England -96 143 £80,000 +6.67% 101
North West -77 97 £75,000 +20.24% 58
South West -8 78 £75,000 -18.92% 66
South East -7 58 £75,000 -3.23% 61
Midlands -25 31 £68,496 +1.47% 58
North East - 25 £80,000 - 16
West Midlands -36 21 £71,991 +6.65% 39
Yorkshire -43 21 £97,500 +27.87% 27
East of England -15 20 £90,000 +28.57% 36
East Midlands - 10 £62,500 - 19
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 (1.43%) Confluence
2 6 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 216 (44.26%) AWS
2 181 (37.09%) Azure
3 115 (23.57%) GCP
4 61 (12.50%) GitHub
5 50 (10.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (9.63%) Datadog
7 41 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (7.17%) Serverless
9 34 (6.97%) Cloud Computing
10 32 (6.56%) Azure AKS
11 27 (5.53%) SaaS
12 26 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (3.69%) OpenShift
14 15 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (2.05%) Entra ID
16 9 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
17 8 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 7 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 7 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.35%) Internet
2 11 (2.25%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.05%) Firewall
3 10 (2.05%) VPN
4 8 (1.64%) DNS
5 4 (0.82%) ATM
5 4 (0.82%) Network Security
6 3 (0.61%) BGP
6 3 (0.61%) MQTT
6 3 (0.61%) WAN
7 2 (0.41%) IPv4
7 2 (0.41%) IPv6
7 2 (0.41%) VLAN
7 2 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.41%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (2.25%) MongoDB
3 10 (2.05%) NoSQL
4 7 (1.43%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.23%) Redis
6 5 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.02%) KDB
6 5 (1.02%) MySQL
7 4 (0.82%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.41%) Big Data
9 2 (0.41%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.41%) Scylla
10 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 76 (15.57%) Git
2 63 (12.91%) GitLab
3 47 (9.63%) Jenkins
4 31 (6.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (1.84%) JIRA
6 6 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.61%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.41%) MSI
9 2 (0.41%) Snyk
10 1 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 112 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 84 (17.21%) Finance
3 70 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.58%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.12%) Banking
6 16 (3.28%) Law
7 14 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.43%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.43%) Retail
10 6 (1.23%) Digital Economy
10 6 (1.23%) Front Office
10 6 (1.23%) Legal
11 5 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.61%) Marketing
14 2 (0.41%) Local Government
15 1 (0.20%) French Language
15 1 (0.20%) Military
15 1 (0.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 139 (28.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 129 (26.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 114 (23.36%) Site Engineer
4 98 (20.08%) Senior
5 65 (13.32%) Lead
6 48 (9.84%) Principal Engineer
7 47 (9.63%) Cloud Engineer
7 47 (9.63%) Platform Engineer
8 41 (8.40%) Python Engineer
9 40 (8.20%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 37 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
11 36 (7.38%) Software Engineer
12 30 (6.15%) Trainee
13 25 (5.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
15 19 (3.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (3.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.69%) Cloud Native Engineer
16 18 (3.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 16 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (50.00%) Terraform
2 43 (8.81%) Spring
2 43 (8.81%) Spring Boot
3 16 (3.28%) Kafka
4 12 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (2.25%) .NET
5 11 (2.25%) Loki
6 10 (2.05%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.84%) Node.js
8 8 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (1.43%) REST
10 6 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (1.23%) React
11 5 (1.02%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (1.02%) YAML
12 4 (0.82%) gRPC
12 4 (0.82%) Middleware
12 4 (0.82%) OpenTofu
13 3 (0.61%) Keycloak
13 3 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 133 (27.25%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (6.56%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.84%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.64%) AI Agents
7 8 (1.64%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.43%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.02%) Clustering
10 5 (1.02%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.02%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.82%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.61%) EMV
12 3 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.61%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 127 (26.02%) Linux
2 36 (7.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (5.94%) CentOS
4 23 (4.71%) Unix
5 20 (4.10%) Windows
6 10 (2.05%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Android
9 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (63.11%) DevOps
2 276 (56.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 275 (56.35%) CI/CD
4 206 (42.21%) Platform Engineering
5 195 (39.96%) Observability
6 136 (27.87%) Containerisation
7 130 (26.64%) Software Engineering
8 93 (19.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 90 (18.44%) Mentoring
10 87 (17.83%) Agile
11 85 (17.42%) AI
12 81 (16.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 79 (16.19%) Incident Management
14 65 (13.32%) Incident Response
15 59 (12.09%) Microservices
15 59 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
16 58 (11.89%) DevSecOps
17 56 (11.48%) Cloud Security
18 55 (11.27%) Configuration Management
18 55 (11.27%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 205 (42.01%) Python
2 73 (14.96%) Java
3 63 (12.91%) PowerShell
4 62 (12.70%) Bash
5 41 (8.40%) Shell Script
6 26 (5.33%) SQL
7 24 (4.92%) Go
8 13 (2.66%) Bicep
9 10 (2.05%) C#
10 8 (1.64%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.43%) C++
11 7 (1.43%) Groovy
11 7 (1.43%) PHP
12 6 (1.23%) C
12 6 (1.23%) Rust
13 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.61%) COBOL
15 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 179 (36.68%) Security Cleared
2 120 (24.59%) DV Cleared
3 111 (22.75%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.12%) Degree
5 11 (2.25%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.05%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.23%) PhD
8 5 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.02%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.61%) CISSP
11 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.07%) SLA
2 8 (1.64%) QA
3 5 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.02%) GDPR
3 5 (1.02%) ISO 20022
4 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.61%) ISO 8583
5 3 (0.61%) NCSC
6 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.41%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.41%) NIST
6 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.20%) GxP
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 148 (30.33%) Docker
2 6 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.41%) iptables
4 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 198 (40.57%) Kubernetes
2 157 (32.17%) Ansible
3 78 (15.98%) Grafana
4 54 (11.07%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.30%) Puppet
6 19 (3.89%) Argo
7 9 (1.84%) Istio
7 9 (1.84%) Kustomize
8 7 (1.43%) Podman
9 5 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.82%) Nagios
11 3 (0.61%) linkerd
12 2 (0.41%) Kibana
12 2 (0.41%) Packer
13 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.20%) logstash
13 1 (0.20%) Opsview
13 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 57 (11.68%) Google
3 23 (4.71%) Dynatrace
4 16 (3.28%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.87%) Oracle
6 13 (2.66%) Splunk
7 8 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.23%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.82%) Databricks
9 4 (0.82%) Tenable
9 4 (0.82%) VMware
9 4 (0.82%) VocaLink
10 3 (0.61%) HP
10 3 (0.61%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.41%) Informatica
11 2 (0.41%) Sage
11 2 (0.41%) SGI
12 1 (0.20%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.20%) Cisco
12 1 (0.20%) IBM