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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 318 426
Rank change year-on-year -82 +108 -96
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 244 414 374
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.94% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.02% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 187 295 274
10th Percentile £46,250 £63,750 £51,625
25th Percentile £58,125 £71,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -3.03%
75th Percentile £92,500 £116,250 £112,312
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £94,637 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.75% +26.18% -6.25%

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 47,927 40,773 58,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.25% 92.62% 88.16%
Number of salaries quoted 29,474 20,253 46,343
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,706 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,146
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -90 108 £85,000 -22.73% 109
North of England +19 68 £63,750 -11.76% 74
North West +7 35 £70,000 -6.67% 39
Yorkshire -18 23 £65,000 +4.00% 29
South West -20 17 £60,000 -20.00% 36
South East -42 15 £75,000 - 85
East of England +11 12 £65,000 - 20
Midlands -4 11 £58,750 -2.08% 27
North East -4 10 £48,750 -29.70% 6
West Midlands +9 9 £47,500 -20.83% 7
East Midlands -14 2 £130,000 +188.89% 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 6 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.46%) Mule
2 4 (1.64%) Appian
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 129 (52.87%) AWS
2 93 (38.11%) Azure
3 65 (26.64%) GCP
4 45 (18.44%) GitHub
5 43 (17.62%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (11.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (10.25%) Serverless
8 24 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (9.02%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (9.02%) SaaS
11 21 (8.61%) Datadog
12 13 (5.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 13 (5.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.51%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (4.51%) dbt
14 11 (4.51%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.66%) TCP/IP
2 22 (9.02%) DNS
3 19 (7.79%) Firewall
3 19 (7.79%) HTTP
4 13 (5.33%) Broadband
5 11 (4.51%) 4G
5 11 (4.51%) BGP
5 11 (4.51%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (4.51%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (4.51%) IOS XR
5 11 (4.51%) MPLS
6 5 (2.05%) SSL
7 3 (1.23%) MQTT
8 2 (0.82%) Network Security
8 2 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.66%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.51%) Redis
5 10 (4.10%) Flink
5 10 (4.10%) Power BI
5 10 (4.10%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.69%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (2.87%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.46%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.46%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.64%) Weaviate
10 3 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.23%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.82%) SQLPlus
12 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.41%) MySQL
12 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 49 (20.08%) Jenkins
2 41 (16.80%) GitLab
3 28 (11.48%) Git
4 7 (2.87%) JIRA
5 5 (2.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.82%) Gradle
6 2 (0.82%) Maven
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.31%) Finance
3 32 (13.11%) Telecoms
4 29 (11.89%) Banking
5 16 (6.56%) Law
6 14 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.10%) Front Office
8 8 (3.28%) Aviation
8 8 (3.28%) Fire and Rescue
8 8 (3.28%) Police
9 6 (2.46%) Advertising
10 5 (2.05%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.23%) Marketing
13 2 (0.82%) Electronics
14 1 (0.41%) Games
14 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (22.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 49 (20.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (13.11%) Site Engineer
4 31 (12.70%) Platform Engineer
5 29 (11.89%) Senior
6 27 (11.07%) Lead
7 17 (6.97%) Lead DevOps
8 16 (6.56%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (5.74%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.33%) Operations Manager
12 11 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.51%) Developer
12 11 (4.51%) Network Engineer
13 10 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
13 10 (4.10%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (3.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.61%) Elastic Stack
1 21 (8.61%) Kafka
2 16 (6.56%) Spring
3 15 (6.15%) Django
3 15 (6.15%) React
3 15 (6.15%) Spring Boot
4 14 (5.74%) Node.js
5 11 (4.51%) .NET
5 11 (4.51%) Jinja
5 11 (4.51%) NETCONF
5 11 (4.51%) YANG
6 9 (3.69%) FastAPI
6 9 (3.69%) REST
7 8 (3.28%) .NET Core
7 8 (3.28%) Loki
8 6 (2.46%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.05%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.05%) ARM Templates
9 5 (2.05%) Vue
10 4 (1.64%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 49 (20.08%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.33%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.51%) Social Media
5 8 (3.28%) Robotics
6 6 (2.46%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.64%) Hackathon
7 4 (1.64%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.23%) CMDB
8 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.82%) Equities
9 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (21.31%) Linux
2 19 (7.79%) Unix
2 19 (7.79%) Windows
3 8 (3.28%) VMS
4 7 (2.87%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.64%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.82%) CentOS
6 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (65.98%) DevOps
2 138 (56.56%) CI/CD
3 113 (46.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (42.62%) Observability
5 89 (36.48%) Agile
6 61 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 58 (23.77%) Incident Response
8 57 (23.36%) Containerisation
9 56 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (20.08%) AI
12 40 (16.39%) Incident Management
13 36 (14.75%) Software Engineering
14 35 (14.34%) Analytics
14 35 (14.34%) High Availability
15 32 (13.11%) DevSecOps
15 32 (13.11%) ITIL
16 31 (12.70%) Service-Level Objective
17 30 (12.30%) Root Cause Analysis
18 28 (11.48%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (50.00%) Python
2 56 (22.95%) Java
3 46 (18.85%) Bash
4 28 (11.48%) Go
5 25 (10.25%) PowerShell
6 23 (9.43%) SQL
7 19 (7.79%) TypeScript
8 14 (5.74%) JavaScript
9 13 (5.33%) C#
10 8 (3.28%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (2.87%) Bicep
12 4 (1.64%) Rust
13 2 (0.82%) Ruby
13 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.82%) VB
14 1 (0.41%) Groovy
14 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.43%) Degree
3 20 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.97%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.64%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.38%) QA
2 12 (4.92%) SLA
3 4 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.23%) GDPR
5 2 (0.82%) GRC
5 2 (0.82%) MiFID
5 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (26.23%) Docker
2 4 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Squid
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (45.90%) Terraform
2 86 (35.25%) Kubernetes
3 68 (27.87%) Grafana
4 63 (25.82%) Ansible
4 63 (25.82%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.15%) Argo
6 6 (2.46%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.05%) Nagios
8 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.23%) Puppet
9 2 (0.82%) Istio
9 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.41%) Icinga
10 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.41%) Kibana
10 1 (0.41%) Podman
10 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (9.43%) Splunk
2 16 (6.56%) Google
3 13 (5.33%) Oracle
4 11 (4.51%) Cisco
5 8 (3.28%) Microsoft
6 7 (2.87%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.46%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.05%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.05%) New Relic
8 5 (2.05%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.64%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.23%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.82%) BigPanda
11 2 (0.82%) Moogsoft
11 2 (0.82%) SAP
11 2 (0.82%) VMware
12 1 (0.41%) F5
12 1 (0.41%) ForgeRock
12 1 (0.41%) Foundry