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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 285 347
Rank change year-on-year -102 +62 +28
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 363 432 683
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 1.09% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.18% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 292 200 340
10th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £56,165
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,509 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -3.40%
75th Percentile £92,813 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £104,875 £138,750 £125,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% -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 60,608 36,668 77,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.00% 92.69% 82.00%
Number of salaries quoted 42,635 20,028 56,336
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,266
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -62 114 £92,500 -15.91% 152
North of England -108 91 £65,000 -6.32% 65
North West -75 62 £72,500 +8.15% 42
South West -13 57 £72,500 +26.21% 24
South East +20 47 £75,000 - 41
East of England +3 31 £85,000 +30.77% 12
Midlands -18 16 £53,750 -20.37% 25
Yorkshire -33 15 £65,000 -7.14% 15
North East -34 14 £47,500 -31.54% 8
West Midlands -32 10 £47,500 -29.63% 22
East Midlands -17 6 £95,000 +111.11% 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 6 (1.65%) Confluence
2 5 (1.38%) Apache
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 148 (40.77%) Azure
2 143 (39.39%) AWS
3 68 (18.73%) GCP
4 46 (12.67%) GitHub
5 43 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
8 28 (7.71%) Serverless
9 24 (6.61%) Azure AKS
10 20 (5.51%) OpenShift
10 20 (5.51%) SaaS
11 15 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (4.13%) Datadog
12 14 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (3.58%) Power Platform
14 12 (3.31%) Azure Functions
14 12 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.34%) DNS
2 20 (5.51%) Firewall
3 18 (4.96%) HTTP
3 18 (4.96%) TCP/IP
4 14 (3.86%) BGP
5 12 (3.31%) Broadband
5 12 (3.31%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (3.03%) 4G
6 11 (3.03%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (3.03%) IOS XR
6 11 (3.03%) MPLS
7 7 (1.93%) MQTT
8 4 (1.10%) Network Security
8 4 (1.10%) SSL
9 3 (0.83%) VPN
10 2 (0.55%) WAN
11 1 (0.28%) DHCP
11 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.58%) Power BI
3 11 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.48%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.93%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.38%) KDB
8 4 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.55%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.55%) MySQL
9 2 (0.55%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.28%) Big Data
10 1 (0.28%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.28%) Tableau
10 1 (0.28%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 44 (12.12%) GitLab
2 42 (11.57%) Git
3 41 (11.29%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.20%) JIRA
5 6 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (1.65%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.55%) Gradle
8 2 (0.55%) Maven
8 2 (0.55%) MSI
9 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.28%) Gatling
9 1 (0.28%) JMeter
9 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.28%) Selenium
9 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.95%) Finance
3 27 (7.44%) Telecoms
4 21 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.96%) Law
6 15 (4.13%) Banking
6 15 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.48%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.93%) Retail
10 6 (1.65%) Front Office
10 6 (1.65%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.10%) Advertising
12 3 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.83%) Automotive
12 3 (0.83%) Electronics
13 1 (0.28%) Games
13 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 81 (22.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 67 (18.46%) Site Engineer
3 54 (14.88%) Software Engineer
4 53 (14.60%) Lead
5 50 (13.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 43 (11.85%) Senior
7 41 (11.29%) Azure Engineer
8 34 (9.37%) Platform Engineer
9 27 (7.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 20 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (4.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 14 (3.86%) Architect
12 14 (3.86%) Developer
12 14 (3.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 14 (3.86%) Java Engineer
13 13 (3.58%) Java Software Engineer
13 13 (3.58%) Team Leader
14 11 (3.03%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.34%) Elastic Stack
1 23 (6.34%) Kafka
2 22 (6.06%) Spring
3 21 (5.79%) .NET
3 21 (5.79%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.86%) ARM Templates
4 14 (3.86%) React
5 12 (3.31%) Loki
6 11 (3.03%) .NET Core
6 11 (3.03%) Jinja
6 11 (3.03%) NETCONF
6 11 (3.03%) REST
6 11 (3.03%) YANG
7 8 (2.20%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.20%) Vue
8 7 (1.93%) Node.js
9 6 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (1.65%) YAML
10 4 (1.10%) Backbone.js
10 4 (1.10%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 78 (21.49%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (3.03%) Social Media
6 9 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.38%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.83%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.55%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (18.18%) Linux
2 30 (8.26%) Windows
3 16 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (3.86%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.31%) VMS
6 10 (2.75%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.75%) Unix
7 9 (2.48%) CentOS
8 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.28%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (61.71%) DevOps
2 179 (49.31%) CI/CD
3 163 (44.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 146 (40.22%) Observability
5 139 (38.29%) Platform Engineering
6 100 (27.55%) Agile
7 83 (22.87%) AI
8 82 (22.59%) Containerisation
9 79 (21.76%) Software Engineering
10 65 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (15.43%) Incident Response
12 49 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
13 48 (13.22%) Mentoring
14 44 (12.12%) Microservices
15 42 (11.57%) DevSecOps
16 38 (10.47%) High Availability
17 37 (10.19%) Analytics
17 37 (10.19%) Root Cause Analysis
18 35 (9.64%) Migration
19 32 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 153 (42.15%) Python
2 71 (19.56%) Bash
3 50 (13.77%) Java
4 48 (13.22%) PowerShell
5 32 (8.82%) Go
6 27 (7.44%) SQL
7 23 (6.34%) C#
8 14 (3.86%) Bicep
9 11 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (3.03%) Rust
10 9 (2.48%) C
10 9 (2.48%) C++
11 8 (2.20%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.65%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.65%) PHP
13 5 (1.38%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.10%) Groovy
15 2 (0.55%) VB
16 1 (0.28%) JCL
16 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (25.07%) Security Cleared
2 51 (14.05%) DV Cleared
3 47 (12.95%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.16%) Degree
5 10 (2.75%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.28%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.03%) QA
2 6 (1.65%) Data Quality
2 6 (1.65%) SLA
3 5 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.10%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) MiFID
5 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 77 (21.21%) Docker
2 11 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 152 (41.87%) Terraform
2 127 (34.99%) Kubernetes
3 77 (21.21%) Ansible
4 75 (20.66%) Grafana
5 68 (18.73%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.96%) Istio
7 17 (4.68%) Puppet
8 15 (4.13%) Argo
9 10 (2.75%) Nagios
10 8 (2.20%) Podman
11 7 (1.93%) Kustomize
12 5 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.55%) linkerd
13 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.28%) Netcool
14 1 (0.28%) Packer
14 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.51%) Splunk
3 14 (3.86%) Red Hat
4 11 (3.03%) Cisco
4 11 (3.03%) Oracle
5 8 (2.20%) Confluent
6 6 (1.65%) Databricks
6 6 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 6 (1.65%) Google
7 5 (1.38%) Tenable
8 3 (0.83%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.83%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.55%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.55%) Foundry
9 2 (0.55%) Informatica
9 2 (0.55%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.55%) VMware
10 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.28%) New Relic