Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 452 366
Rank change year-on-year +121 -86 -54
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 437 444 764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.89% 0.50% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.59% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 212 337 543
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,400 £50,000
25th Percentile £64,938 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,818
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.40% +10.42%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £130,000 £119,700
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +10.00%

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 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in England.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in England over the 6 months to 30 May 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 30 May 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 +155 208 £69,384 +10.51% 410
North West +123 193 £67,037 +6.78% 200
London +54 155 £110,000 +4.76% 202
Midlands +67 21 £63,750 +6.25% 333
West Midlands +55 20 £67,500 -18.18% 179
South West +81 15 £57,443 -28.20% 207
South East +47 14 £77,500 +19.23% 488
East of England +49 13 £65,000 -0.94% 269
Yorkshire +44 11 £70,000 +11.50% 167
North East +43 4 £69,384 +10.51% 44
East Midlands +30 1 £45,000 -18.18% 129
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 60 (13.73%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (13.50%) Apache
2 59 (13.50%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.06%) Apache Solr
4 8 (1.83%) nginx
5 3 (0.69%) CMS
6 2 (0.46%) Confluence
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 356 (81.46%) AWS
2 271 (62.01%) Azure
3 240 (54.92%) GCP
4 85 (19.45%) Amazon ECS
5 74 (16.93%) Serverless
6 69 (15.79%) OpenShift
7 67 (15.33%) dbt
8 65 (14.87%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (7.55%) Pulumi
10 23 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (3.43%) Datadog
12 14 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (2.75%) GitHub
14 10 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (1.83%) Amazon ECR
16 8 (1.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 8 (1.83%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.43%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.29%) DNS
3 6 (1.37%) HTTPS
3 6 (1.37%) IPsec
4 4 (0.92%) NAS
4 4 (0.92%) SAN
5 3 (0.69%) Firewall
5 3 (0.69%) Network Security
5 3 (0.69%) WAN
6 2 (0.46%) DHCP
6 2 (0.46%) SNMP
6 2 (0.46%) SSH
6 2 (0.46%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.23%) Multicast
7 1 (0.23%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.23%) Unicast
7 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.23%) VLAN
7 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (13.50%) Amazon Athena
1 59 (13.50%) Apache Arrow
1 59 (13.50%) Apache Iceberg
1 59 (13.50%) Apache Ignite
1 59 (13.50%) Dremio
2 18 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (3.43%) MongoDB
3 15 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (2.29%) MySQL
5 10 (2.29%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.83%) Redis
7 7 (1.60%) Couchbase
8 4 (0.92%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.69%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.46%) DB2
10 2 (0.46%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 59 (13.50%) Artifactory
2 25 (5.72%) GitLab
2 25 (5.72%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.29%) Git
4 8 (1.83%) JIRA
5 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.46%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.23%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.23%) Subversion
6 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.23%) Vite
General
1 192 (43.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 126 (28.83%) Finance
3 61 (13.96%) Front Office
4 58 (13.27%) Social Skills
5 23 (5.26%) Banking
6 18 (4.12%) Manufacturing
7 15 (3.43%) Law
8 13 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.83%) Marketing
10 6 (1.37%) Electronics
10 6 (1.37%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.92%) Games
12 3 (0.69%) Advertising
13 1 (0.23%) Aviation
13 1 (0.23%) Billing
13 1 (0.23%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.23%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.23%) Military
13 1 (0.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 222 (50.80%) Senior
2 199 (45.54%) Software Engineer
3 179 (40.96%) Senior Software Engineer
4 94 (21.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 75 (17.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 72 (16.48%) AWS Engineer
7 71 (16.25%) AWS DevOps
8 70 (16.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 64 (14.65%) Python Engineer
10 61 (13.96%) Site Engineer
11 59 (13.50%) Data Engineer
12 43 (9.84%) Lead
13 21 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (2.75%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (2.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 11 (2.52%) Cloud Engineer
15 11 (2.52%) Junior
16 9 (2.06%) Technical Leader
17 8 (1.83%) Junior Linux Engineer
17 8 (1.83%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (46.68%) .NET
2 190 (43.48%) Node.js
3 72 (16.48%) Kafka
4 59 (13.50%) J2EE
4 59 (13.50%) PySpark
5 25 (5.72%) Loki
6 9 (2.06%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (2.06%) Spring
7 8 (1.83%) Django
7 8 (1.83%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.60%) REST
9 6 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.14%) React
11 4 (0.92%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.69%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (0.69%) JPA
12 3 (0.69%) Web Services
13 2 (0.46%) LDAP
13 2 (0.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 181 (41.42%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (40.73%) Cyberattack
2 178 (40.73%) Linux Command Line
3 25 (5.72%) Public Cloud
4 17 (3.89%) Cloud Native
5 15 (3.43%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.92%) Robotics
9 3 (0.69%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.46%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.46%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.23%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.23%) Cyber Warfare
11 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.23%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 219 (50.11%) Linux
2 13 (2.97%) Unix
3 11 (2.52%) Windows
4 9 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.46%) CentOS
5 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.23%) Debian
6 1 (0.23%) SUSE
6 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (66.13%) Agile
2 271 (62.01%) Software Engineering
3 250 (57.21%) Data Engineering
4 210 (48.05%) Mentoring
5 197 (45.08%) Microservices
6 191 (43.71%) Machine Learning
7 189 (43.25%) DevOps
8 185 (42.33%) Scrum
9 183 (41.88%) Cloud Security
10 182 (41.65%) User Experience
11 163 (37.30%) CI/CD
12 79 (18.08%) Open Source
13 66 (15.10%) Infrastructure as Code
14 60 (13.73%) Asset Management
15 56 (12.81%) Observability
16 49 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
17 48 (10.98%) Containerisation
18 38 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
19 29 (6.64%) Stakeholder Management
20 27 (6.18%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 340 (77.80%) Python
2 277 (63.39%) Java
3 273 (62.47%) Go
4 192 (43.94%) JavaScript
5 183 (41.88%) Rust
6 179 (40.96%) C++
7 37 (8.47%) Bash
8 22 (5.03%) PowerShell
8 22 (5.03%) TypeScript
9 21 (4.81%) C#
10 18 (4.12%) Bicep
11 8 (1.83%) Ruby
11 8 (1.83%) SQL
12 6 (1.37%) PHP
13 5 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.92%) Clojure
14 4 (0.92%) Elixir
14 4 (0.92%) Scala
15 3 (0.69%) Gremlin
15 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 198 (45.31%) Security Cleared
2 186 (42.56%) AWS Certification
3 185 (42.33%) DV Cleared
4 180 (41.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 178 (40.73%) AWS Certified Developer
6 20 (4.58%) Degree
7 13 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.52%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.23%) CCSP
10 1 (0.23%) CISA
10 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CISM
10 1 (0.23%) CISSP
10 1 (0.23%) CRISC
10 1 (0.23%) FFIEC
10 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.52%) QA
2 6 (1.37%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.14%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.69%) SLA
6 2 (0.46%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) COBIT
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 134 (30.66%) Docker
2 6 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.46%) Squid
6 1 (0.23%) HDFS
6 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 167 (38.22%) Kubernetes
1 167 (38.22%) Terraform
2 53 (12.13%) Grafana
3 48 (10.98%) Prometheus
4 43 (9.84%) Ansible
5 22 (5.03%) Progress Chef
6 17 (3.89%) Puppet
7 14 (3.20%) Podman
8 8 (1.83%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (1.83%) Istio
9 3 (0.69%) Argo
10 2 (0.46%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.46%) Kibana
10 2 (0.46%) linkerd
10 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.23%) Consul
11 1 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.23%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.23%) Rancher
11 1 (0.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 26 (5.95%) Google
2 13 (2.97%) VMware
3 12 (2.75%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.75%) Oracle
4 9 (2.06%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.06%) Hitachi
4 9 (2.06%) Splunk
5 8 (1.83%) SAP
6 6 (1.37%) Confluent
7 5 (1.14%) New Relic
8 3 (0.69%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.69%) Sybase
9 2 (0.46%) Databricks
9 2 (0.46%) F5
9 2 (0.46%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.46%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.23%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.23%) BigPanda
10 1 (0.23%) Okta
10 1 (0.23%) SaltStack