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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 295 361
Rank change year-on-year -82 +66 -37
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 234 448 359
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.93% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.02% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 170 270 277
10th Percentile £46,250 £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 £94,688 £115,938 £107,500
90th Percentile £130,750 £138,750 £127,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +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 43,077 43,814 44,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.14% 90.86% 89.76%
Number of salaries quoted 25,929 21,493 34,060
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £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 £79,563
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 15 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 15 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 -60 111 £86,250 -19.77% 46
North of England +16 68 £73,801 -0.94% 37
North West +4 32 £65,000 -13.33% 20
Yorkshire +10 30 £75,000 +20.00% 13
South West -31 13 £90,000 +18.03% 40
East of England +21 8 £77,500 +19.23% 19
Midlands +20 8 £70,000 +1.00% 23
South East -15 8 £75,000 - 52
West Midlands +19 7 £70,000 +1.00% 10
North East +13 6 £66,901 -3.47% 4
East Midlands -12 1 - - 13
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 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.56%) Mule
3 4 (1.71%) Appian
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 130 (55.56%) AWS
2 78 (33.33%) Azure
3 58 (24.79%) GCP
4 35 (14.96%) GitHub
5 34 (14.53%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (12.39%) SaaS
7 28 (11.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (9.40%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (8.97%) Serverless
10 19 (8.12%) Datadog
11 18 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (5.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 11 (4.70%) Amazon ECR
15 11 (4.70%) dbt
15 11 (4.70%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.26%) TCP/IP
2 16 (6.84%) DNS
3 13 (5.56%) Firewall
4 12 (5.13%) BGP
4 12 (5.13%) Broadband
4 12 (5.13%) HTTP
5 10 (4.27%) 4G
5 10 (4.27%) Cisco IOS
5 10 (4.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 10 (4.27%) IOS XR
5 10 (4.27%) MPLS
6 6 (2.56%) SSL
7 3 (1.28%) AMQP
8 2 (0.85%) Network Security
8 2 (0.85%) WAN
9 1 (0.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.41%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.70%) Redis
5 10 (4.27%) Flink
5 10 (4.27%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.42%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.99%) Pinecone
8 6 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.56%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.71%) InfluxDB
9 4 (1.71%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.71%) Weaviate
10 3 (1.28%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.85%) Power BI
12 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.43%) MySQL
12 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.43%) Tableau
12 1 (0.43%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 51 (21.79%) Jenkins
2 48 (20.51%) GitLab
3 22 (9.40%) Git
4 6 (2.56%) JIRA
5 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 46 (19.66%) Finance
3 28 (11.97%) Banking
4 23 (9.83%) Telecoms
5 22 (9.40%) Aviation
5 22 (9.40%) Fire and Rescue
5 22 (9.40%) Police
6 13 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.27%) Front Office
9 6 (2.56%) Law
10 5 (2.14%) Advertising
10 5 (2.14%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.28%) Games
11 3 (1.28%) Marketing
12 2 (0.85%) Electronics
12 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.85%) Retail
13 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (21.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 45 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (13.68%) Platform Engineer
4 30 (12.82%) Lead
5 29 (12.39%) Operations Manager
5 29 (12.39%) Site Engineer
6 22 (9.40%) Lead DevOps
6 22 (9.40%) Service Manager
6 22 (9.40%) Service Operations Manager
7 21 (8.97%) Senior
8 19 (8.12%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.13%) Developer
12 11 (4.70%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (4.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.27%) Network Engineer
14 8 (3.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.42%) Software Engineer
15 7 (2.99%) Associate Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.12%) Kafka
2 18 (7.69%) Node.js
3 15 (6.41%) Django
4 13 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (5.13%) FastAPI
5 12 (5.13%) React
6 11 (4.70%) Spring
6 11 (4.70%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.27%) Jinja
7 10 (4.27%) NETCONF
7 10 (4.27%) YANG
8 8 (3.42%) REST
9 7 (2.99%) Loki
10 6 (2.56%) .NET
10 6 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (2.14%) Next.js
12 4 (1.71%) GraphQL
12 4 (1.71%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.71%) scikit-learn
12 4 (1.71%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 52 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.40%) Robotics
3 13 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.27%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.27%) Social Media
5 9 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.56%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.14%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.71%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.28%) CMDB
10 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.85%) Equities
10 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.08%) Linux
2 19 (8.12%) Unix
3 18 (7.69%) Windows
4 4 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.43%) Debian
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (69.66%) DevOps
2 133 (56.84%) CI/CD
3 109 (46.58%) Observability
4 108 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 98 (41.88%) Agile
6 67 (28.63%) Incident Response
7 62 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
9 51 (21.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (21.79%) Incident Management
10 50 (21.37%) AI
11 48 (20.51%) Containerisation
12 42 (17.95%) ITIL
13 41 (17.52%) Software Engineering
14 38 (16.24%) Service Management
15 31 (13.25%) Collaborative Culture
16 30 (12.82%) Change Management
17 27 (11.54%) High Availability
18 26 (11.11%) DevSecOps
18 26 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 111 (47.44%) Python
2 52 (22.22%) Java
3 41 (17.52%) Bash
4 24 (10.26%) TypeScript
5 22 (9.40%) Go
6 19 (8.12%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.26%) JavaScript
8 15 (6.41%) SQL
9 7 (2.99%) Bicep
9 7 (2.99%) C#
10 5 (2.14%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.28%) Ruby
12 2 (0.85%) Groovy
13 1 (0.43%) C++
13 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 36 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.55%) DV Cleared
2 20 (8.55%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.41%) Degree
4 7 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.97%) QA
2 10 (4.27%) SLA
3 5 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.28%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) GRC
5 2 (0.85%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) PSD2
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 65 (27.78%) Docker
2 4 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Squid
4 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (42.74%) Terraform
2 84 (35.90%) Kubernetes
3 62 (26.50%) Ansible
4 61 (26.07%) Grafana
5 59 (25.21%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.98%) Argo
7 6 (2.56%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.56%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (1.28%) Nagios
9 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.85%) Puppet
10 1 (0.43%) Control-M
10 1 (0.43%) Icinga
10 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.43%) Kibana
10 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (8.97%) Splunk
2 19 (8.12%) Oracle
3 16 (6.84%) Google
4 10 (4.27%) Cisco
5 8 (3.42%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.99%) Microsoft
6 7 (2.99%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.14%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.71%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.71%) New Relic
8 4 (1.71%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.28%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.85%) BigPanda
10 2 (0.85%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.85%) SAP
10 2 (0.85%) VMware
11 1 (0.43%) Cribl.io
11 1 (0.43%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.43%) Sonatype