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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 284 412
Rank change year-on-year -84 +128 -41
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 361 441 498
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 1.13% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.21% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 289 213 338
10th Percentile £48,500 £57,500 £55,400
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £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 £92,500 £115,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £130,000
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 61,648 36,515 73,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.00% 93.30% 83.47%
Number of salaries quoted 41,084 19,671 54,793
10th Percentile £30,052 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 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 1 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 -49 123 £90,000 -18.18% 148
North of England -114 91 £65,288 -5.90% 53
North West -85 61 £72,500 +8.15% 34
South West -16 53 £72,500 +26.21% 32
South East +8 38 £72,500 -6.45% 46
East of England +1 33 £85,000 +30.77% 9
Yorkshire -47 16 £65,000 -7.14% 11
North East -33 14 £47,500 -31.54% 8
Midlands -40 14 £47,500 -29.63% 16
West Midlands -38 10 £47,500 -29.63% 14
East Midlands -33 4 £130,000 +188.89% 2
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 5 (1.39%) Apache
1 5 (1.39%) Confluence
2 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Appian
3 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 151 (41.83%) AWS
2 149 (41.27%) Azure
3 68 (18.84%) GCP
4 48 (13.30%) GitHub
5 43 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (10.25%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (8.03%) Serverless
9 23 (6.37%) Azure AKS
10 22 (6.09%) SaaS
11 18 (4.99%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (4.99%) OpenShift
12 17 (4.71%) Datadog
13 14 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (3.88%) Power Platform
13 14 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (3.60%) Azure Functions
15 12 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.65%) DNS
2 19 (5.26%) Firewall
2 19 (5.26%) HTTP
3 18 (4.99%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.60%) BGP
5 12 (3.32%) Broadband
5 12 (3.32%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (3.05%) 4G
6 11 (3.05%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (3.05%) IOS XR
6 11 (3.05%) MPLS
7 7 (1.94%) MQTT
8 5 (1.39%) SSL
9 4 (1.11%) Network Security
10 1 (0.28%) DHCP
10 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.28%) VPN
10 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.16%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.88%) Power BI
3 12 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.49%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.39%) KDB
9 4 (1.11%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.11%) Flink
10 2 (0.55%) InfluxDB
10 2 (0.55%) MySQL
10 2 (0.55%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.28%) Big Data
11 1 (0.28%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.28%) Tableau
11 1 (0.28%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 44 (12.19%) GitLab
2 41 (11.36%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.80%) Git
4 8 (2.22%) JIRA
5 6 (1.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (1.66%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (1.11%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.55%) Gradle
7 2 (0.55%) Maven
7 2 (0.55%) MSI
8 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.28%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.28%) Gatling
8 1 (0.28%) JMeter
8 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 69 (19.11%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.24%) Finance
3 27 (7.48%) Telecoms
4 19 (5.26%) Banking
5 18 (4.99%) Law
6 17 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.05%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.77%) Front Office
9 7 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.11%) Advertising
11 4 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.11%) Retail
12 3 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.83%) Automotive
12 3 (0.83%) Electronics
13 1 (0.28%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 78 (21.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 60 (16.62%) Site Engineer
3 57 (15.79%) Lead
4 56 (15.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 49 (13.57%) Software Engineer
6 43 (11.91%) Senior
7 38 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
8 35 (9.70%) Platform Engineer
9 28 (7.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 24 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (4.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (4.43%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 15 (4.16%) Developer
13 15 (4.16%) Lead DevOps
14 14 (3.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 14 (3.88%) Java Engineer
15 13 (3.60%) Java Software Engineer
15 13 (3.60%) Lead DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.60%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.48%) Kafka
2 24 (6.65%) .NET
3 23 (6.37%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (6.09%) Spring
5 21 (5.82%) Spring Boot
6 19 (5.26%) React
7 15 (4.16%) ARM Templates
8 12 (3.32%) .NET Core
8 12 (3.32%) Loki
8 12 (3.32%) REST
9 11 (3.05%) Jinja
9 11 (3.05%) NETCONF
9 11 (3.05%) YANG
10 10 (2.77%) Node.js
11 8 (2.22%) AngularJS
11 8 (2.22%) Vue
12 6 (1.66%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.66%) YAML
13 4 (1.11%) Backbone.js
13 4 (1.11%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 77 (21.33%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.05%) Social Media
5 10 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.49%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.49%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.39%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.11%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.83%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.55%) CMDB
11 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.55%) Hackathon
11 2 (0.55%) NHS
11 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (19.39%) Linux
2 31 (8.59%) Windows
3 15 (4.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (3.88%) Windows Server
5 13 (3.60%) VMS
6 10 (2.77%) Unix
7 9 (2.49%) Ubuntu
8 8 (2.22%) CentOS
9 4 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.28%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (63.16%) DevOps
2 183 (50.69%) CI/CD
3 161 (44.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (40.72%) Observability
5 137 (37.95%) Platform Engineering
6 103 (28.53%) Agile
7 83 (22.99%) AI
8 82 (22.71%) Containerisation
9 70 (19.39%) Software Engineering
10 66 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (16.62%) Incident Response
12 48 (13.30%) Mentoring
13 45 (12.47%) Microservices
14 43 (11.91%) Analytics
14 43 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (11.36%) High Availability
15 41 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
16 40 (11.08%) DevSecOps
17 38 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
18 37 (10.25%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 158 (43.77%) Python
2 71 (19.67%) Bash
3 54 (14.96%) Java
4 47 (13.02%) PowerShell
5 37 (10.25%) Go
6 31 (8.59%) SQL
7 26 (7.20%) C#
8 16 (4.43%) Bicep
9 12 (3.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 11 (3.05%) Rust
11 9 (2.49%) C
11 9 (2.49%) C++
12 8 (2.22%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.66%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.66%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.39%) PHP
15 4 (1.11%) Groovy
16 2 (0.55%) VB
17 1 (0.28%) JCL
17 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 83 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.57%) DV Cleared
3 39 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 29 (8.03%) Degree
5 10 (2.77%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.11%) 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%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.28%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.32%) QA
2 7 (1.94%) SLA
3 6 (1.66%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.11%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.55%) GRC
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) MiFID
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 83 (22.99%) Docker
2 11 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 158 (43.77%) Terraform
2 132 (36.57%) Kubernetes
3 79 (21.88%) Grafana
4 77 (21.33%) Ansible
5 70 (19.39%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.43%) Argo
6 16 (4.43%) Istio
6 16 (4.43%) Puppet
7 9 (2.49%) Nagios
8 7 (1.94%) Podman
9 4 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.11%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.28%) linkerd
11 1 (0.28%) Netcool
11 1 (0.28%) Packer
11 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 27 (7.48%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.09%) Splunk
3 12 (3.32%) Oracle
3 12 (3.32%) Red Hat
4 11 (3.05%) Cisco
5 8 (2.22%) Confluent
6 7 (1.94%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.66%) Databricks
8 5 (1.39%) Google
8 5 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.39%) Tenable
9 4 (1.11%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.83%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.55%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.55%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.55%) Foundry
11 2 (0.55%) Informatica
11 2 (0.55%) New Relic
11 2 (0.55%) PagerDuty
12 1 (0.28%) VMware