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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 270 352
Rank change year-on-year -40 +82 -34
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 376 684 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.87% 1.00% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.22% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 121 290 381
10th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,563 £60,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £103,438 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +3.23% -

All Process and 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 38,240 55,872 51,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 88.75% 81.49% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 21,893 31,960 38,921
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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
North of England -20 215 £75,000 -6.25% 20
North West -29 190 £62,375 -22.03% 13
London -47 101 £92,500 -2.63% 84
Yorkshire +6 25 £77,500 -3.13% 6
West Midlands +58 12 £67,500 -3.09% 5
Midlands +56 12 £67,500 +12.50% 20
South West -8 10 £92,500 +17.46% 14
East of England -1 8 £68,750 -11.29%
South East +14 6 £77,500 +10.71% 38
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.06%) Apache Solr
1 4 (1.06%) Mule
2 3 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.80%) CMS
2 3 (0.80%) nginx
3 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.27%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 283 (75.27%) AWS
2 248 (65.96%) Azure
3 226 (60.11%) GCP
4 23 (6.12%) SaaS
5 18 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (3.99%) OpenShift
7 15 (3.99%) Serverless
8 12 (3.19%) Datadog
9 11 (2.93%) GitHub
10 10 (2.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (2.39%) Pulumi
12 7 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.86%) Amazon MSK
13 6 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (1.60%) OCI
14 5 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.66%) DNS
1 10 (2.66%) Firewall
2 7 (1.86%) NAS
2 7 (1.86%) SAN
3 4 (1.06%) WAN
4 3 (0.80%) AMQP
4 3 (0.80%) BGP
5 2 (0.53%) Internet
5 2 (0.53%) Network Security
5 2 (0.53%) SNMP
5 2 (0.53%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.27%) DHCP
6 1 (0.27%) HTTP
6 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.27%) IPsec
6 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.27%) SSL
6 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.27%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.33%) MySQL
6 5 (1.33%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.80%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.80%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.80%) Pinecone
7 3 (0.80%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.53%) Redis
9 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.27%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.27%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 38 (10.11%) GitLab
2 35 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.13%) Git
3 8 (2.13%) JIRA
4 6 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.06%) Vite
6 3 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 190 (50.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 60 (15.96%) Finance
2 60 (15.96%) Social Skills
3 21 (5.59%) Banking
4 19 (5.05%) Aviation
4 19 (5.05%) Fire and Rescue
4 19 (5.05%) Police
5 16 (4.26%) Law
6 12 (3.19%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.66%) Marketing
8 6 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.60%) Electronics
8 6 (1.60%) Games
8 6 (1.60%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.06%) Retail
10 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Advertising
11 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (53.99%) Senior
2 193 (51.33%) Software Engineer
3 179 (47.61%) Senior Software Engineer
4 58 (15.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 38 (10.11%) Lead
6 35 (9.31%) Site Engineer
7 34 (9.04%) DevOps Engineer
8 28 (7.45%) Operations Manager
9 19 (5.05%) Service Manager
9 19 (5.05%) Service Operations Manager
10 18 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (2.39%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.39%) Java Engineer
13 8 (2.13%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (2.13%) Lead DevOps
13 8 (2.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 7 (1.86%) AWS DevOps
14 7 (1.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 7 (1.86%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (52.39%) .NET
2 189 (50.27%) Node.js
3 16 (4.26%) Loki
4 13 (3.46%) Kafka
5 11 (2.93%) Spring
6 8 (2.13%) FastAPI
7 7 (1.86%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (1.33%) React
10 4 (1.06%) Jest
10 4 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (0.80%) .NET Framework
11 3 (0.80%) LangChain
11 3 (0.80%) LDAP
11 3 (0.80%) Next.js
11 3 (0.80%) OAuth
11 3 (0.80%) OAuth2
11 3 (0.80%) OpenID
11 3 (0.80%) SOAP
11 3 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 182 (48.40%) Linux Command Line
2 179 (47.61%) Self-Motivation
3 178 (47.34%) Cyberattack
4 40 (10.64%) Cloud Native
5 20 (5.32%) Product Ownership
6 19 (5.05%) Robotics
7 11 (2.93%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.39%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.33%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.33%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.06%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.06%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.80%) CMDB
13 2 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.53%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.53%) Security Posture
14 1 (0.27%) Cyber Warfare
14 1 (0.27%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 199 (52.93%) Linux
2 11 (2.93%) Windows
3 7 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.80%) Android
5 2 (0.53%) CentOS
5 2 (0.53%) Debian
5 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) SUSE
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (70.48%) Agile
2 219 (58.24%) Software Engineering
3 201 (53.46%) Mentoring
4 190 (50.53%) Data Engineering
5 189 (50.27%) Cloud Security
5 189 (50.27%) Microservices
6 187 (49.73%) Scrum
7 184 (48.94%) User Experience
8 183 (48.67%) Machine Learning
9 138 (36.70%) DevOps
10 95 (25.27%) CI/CD
11 75 (19.95%) Observability
12 69 (18.35%) Infrastructure as Code
13 56 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (14.10%) Containerisation
15 43 (11.44%) Incident Response
16 42 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (10.90%) Artificial Intelligence
18 39 (10.37%) Service Management
19 37 (9.84%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 254 (67.55%) Python
2 218 (57.98%) Java
3 202 (53.72%) Go
4 197 (52.39%) JavaScript
5 181 (48.14%) C++
6 179 (47.61%) Rust
7 41 (10.90%) Bash
8 33 (8.78%) PowerShell
9 25 (6.65%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.72%) C#
11 12 (3.19%) SQL
12 5 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.80%) Groovy
13 3 (0.80%) Ruby
14 2 (0.53%) Bicep
15 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.27%) Perl
15 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 203 (53.99%) Security Cleared
2 194 (51.60%) AWS Certification
3 192 (51.06%) DV Cleared
4 183 (48.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 178 (47.34%) AWS Certified Developer
6 15 (3.99%) Degree
6 15 (3.99%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.53%) CISSP
10 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.18%) QA
2 6 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.33%) GDPR
4 2 (0.53%) NIST
4 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.27%) PMO
5 1 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 50 (13.30%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.53%) Squid
6 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (26.60%) Kubernetes
2 74 (19.68%) Terraform
3 51 (13.56%) Grafana
4 47 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 39 (10.37%) Ansible
6 9 (2.39%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.60%) Istio
8 5 (1.33%) Argo
9 4 (1.06%) Kibana
9 4 (1.06%) Puppet
10 3 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.53%) Control-M
11 2 (0.53%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.53%) linkerd
11 2 (0.53%) logstash
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.27%) Packer
12 1 (0.27%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 26 (6.91%) Oracle
2 10 (2.66%) SAP
2 10 (2.66%) Splunk
3 8 (2.13%) Dynatrace
3 8 (2.13%) Hitachi
3 8 (2.13%) Microsoft
4 7 (1.86%) Red Hat
5 6 (1.60%) Google
5 6 (1.60%) VMware
6 5 (1.33%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.06%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.06%) Confluent
8 3 (0.80%) Cribl.io
8 3 (0.80%) ForgeRock
8 3 (0.80%) New Relic
8 3 (0.80%) Ping Identity
8 3 (0.80%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.53%) F5
9 2 (0.53%) Okta
9 2 (0.53%) TOWER Software