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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 302 350
Rank change year-on-year -83 +48 +23
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 396 416 675
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.96% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.06% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 334 179 349
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,509 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £127,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 64,729 39,091 72,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.90% 90.22% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 45,730 22,350 51,838
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,771 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -55 113 £90,000 -16.28% 114
North of England -95 110 £70,000 +0.89% 47
North West -67 78 £75,000 +11.88% 31
South West -1 66 £75,000 - 24
South East +32 52 £85,000 +15.25% 22
East of England +12 32 £80,150 +23.31% 4
Midlands -22 18 £62,000 -8.15% 13
Yorkshire -34 17 £65,288 -15.76% 7
North East -42 15 £47,500 -31.54% 9
West Midlands -38 12 £62,000 -8.15% 11
East Midlands - 6 £65,000 - 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 8 (2.02%) Confluence
2 7 (1.77%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 163 (41.16%) AWS
2 156 (39.39%) Azure
3 71 (17.93%) GCP
4 56 (14.14%) GitHub
5 44 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (9.09%) Serverless
7 27 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (6.06%) SaaS
9 23 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (5.81%) Azure AKS
10 21 (5.30%) OpenShift
11 20 (5.05%) Datadog
12 15 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (3.03%) Azure Functions
13 12 (3.03%) Power Platform
14 11 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (2.02%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.80%) Firewall
2 18 (4.55%) DNS
3 16 (4.04%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.03%) HTTP
5 7 (1.77%) MQTT
6 5 (1.26%) VPN
7 4 (1.01%) BGP
7 4 (1.01%) Network Security
8 2 (0.51%) Broadband
8 2 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.51%) VLAN
8 2 (0.51%) WAN
9 1 (0.25%) 4G
9 1 (0.25%) ATM
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.25%) DHCP
9 1 (0.25%) Internet
9 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.25%) MPLS
9 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.79%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.03%) Power BI
3 11 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.77%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.26%) KDB
7 4 (1.01%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.01%) MySQL
8 2 (0.51%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.51%) SQLPlus
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.25%) Big Data
9 1 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.25%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.25%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 52 (13.13%) GitLab
2 46 (11.62%) Jenkins
3 43 (10.86%) Git
4 18 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.78%) JIRA
6 6 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.51%) MSI
9 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.25%) Gatling
9 1 (0.25%) JMeter
9 1 (0.25%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.25%) Selenium
9 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (17.93%) Social Skills
2 55 (13.89%) Finance
3 30 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.80%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.55%) Banking
6 15 (3.79%) Law
7 14 (3.54%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.77%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.77%) Retail
11 6 (1.52%) Front Office
12 3 (0.76%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.76%) Automotive
12 3 (0.76%) Electronics
13 2 (0.51%) Advertising
13 2 (0.51%) Digital Economy
13 2 (0.51%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.25%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 87 (21.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 83 (20.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 74 (18.69%) Site Engineer
4 64 (16.16%) Lead
5 52 (13.13%) Senior
6 48 (12.12%) Software Engineer
7 43 (10.86%) Azure Engineer
8 35 (8.84%) Platform Engineer
9 30 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (6.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 25 (6.31%) Principal Engineer
11 20 (5.05%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (4.04%) Architect
13 16 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (3.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 14 (3.54%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 13 (3.28%) Developer
16 13 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 13 (3.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.32%) Spring
2 28 (7.07%) Spring Boot
3 26 (6.57%) Kafka
4 23 (5.81%) .NET
5 22 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (3.28%) ARM Templates
7 11 (2.78%) .NET Core
7 11 (2.78%) React
8 10 (2.53%) Loki
9 8 (2.02%) REST
10 6 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (1.52%) Node.js
10 6 (1.52%) YAML
11 5 (1.26%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.26%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (1.26%) Vue
12 4 (1.01%) Backbone.js
12 4 (1.01%) gRPC
12 4 (1.01%) Middleware
13 3 (0.76%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 103 (26.01%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.26%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.01%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.76%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 76 (19.19%) Linux
2 28 (7.07%) Windows
3 26 (6.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (4.80%) CentOS
5 15 (3.79%) Windows Server
6 12 (3.03%) Unix
6 12 (3.03%) VMS
7 9 (2.27%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (65.40%) DevOps
2 208 (52.53%) CI/CD
3 189 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 158 (39.90%) Observability
5 150 (37.88%) Platform Engineering
6 98 (24.75%) Containerisation
7 93 (23.48%) Agile
8 83 (20.96%) AI
9 79 (19.95%) Software Engineering
10 72 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (14.14%) Incident Response
12 55 (13.89%) Microservices
13 51 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
14 50 (12.63%) Mentoring
15 47 (11.87%) Root Cause Analysis
16 42 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
17 41 (10.35%) DevSecOps
18 39 (9.85%) Deployment Automation
18 39 (9.85%) Incident Management
19 37 (9.34%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 172 (43.43%) Python
2 72 (18.18%) Bash
3 59 (14.90%) Java
4 58 (14.65%) PowerShell
5 33 (8.33%) Go
5 33 (8.33%) SQL
6 23 (5.81%) C#
7 14 (3.54%) Bicep
8 11 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (2.78%) Rust
9 9 (2.27%) C
9 9 (2.27%) C++
10 8 (2.02%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.52%) Groovy
11 6 (1.52%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.52%) PHP
12 3 (0.76%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.51%) VB
14 1 (0.25%) VBA
14 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 133 (33.59%) Security Cleared
2 87 (21.97%) DV Cleared
3 77 (19.44%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.81%) Degree
5 10 (2.53%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.76%) CISSP
8 3 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.25%) CISM
10 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.28%) QA
2 7 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.77%) SLA
3 6 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.26%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) GxP
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 99 (25.00%) Docker
2 11 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 188 (47.47%) Terraform
2 160 (40.40%) Kubernetes
3 115 (29.04%) Ansible
4 75 (18.94%) Grafana
5 62 (15.66%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.55%) Argo
6 18 (4.55%) Puppet
7 17 (4.29%) Istio
8 9 (2.27%) Nagios
9 8 (2.02%) Podman
10 7 (1.77%) Kustomize
11 5 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.51%) linkerd
12 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.25%) Netcool
13 1 (0.25%) Packer
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.55%) Splunk
3 14 (3.54%) Red Hat
4 12 (3.03%) Oracle
5 11 (2.78%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.02%) Confluent
6 8 (2.02%) Google
7 6 (1.52%) Databricks
7 6 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.26%) Tenable
9 3 (0.76%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.76%) VMware
10 2 (0.51%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.51%) Foundry
10 2 (0.51%) Informatica
10 2 (0.51%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.25%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.25%) New Relic
11 1 (0.25%) Palantir
11 1 (0.25%) VocaLink