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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 312 459
Rank change year-on-year -93 +147 -136
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 284 339 373
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.93% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.00% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 228 302 266
10th Percentile £46,250 £57,525 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £94,819 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +18.52% -5.88%
75th Percentile £92,500 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -18.92% +15.63% -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 54,337 34,070 67,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.70% 93.20% 86.26%
Number of salaries quoted 34,149 20,338 52,300
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,844 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,875 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -91 115 £87,500 -20.45% 48
North of England -27 77 £65,000 -6.32% 35
North West -9 44 £71,901 +3.74% 17
South West -27 26 £60,000 -11.11% 27
East of England -15 22 £80,150 +23.31% 12
South East -38 22 £80,000 +6.67% 31
Yorkshire -38 19 £65,000 -10.34% 11
North East -16 14 £47,500 -31.54% 7
Midlands -37 12 £47,500 -20.83% 6
West Midlands -21 10 £47,500 -20.83% 3
East Midlands -46 2 £130,000 +188.89% 3
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 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.41%) Apache
2 4 (1.41%) Appian
3 2 (0.70%) Confluence
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 149 (52.46%) AWS
2 123 (43.31%) Azure
3 76 (26.76%) GCP
4 53 (18.66%) GitHub
5 49 (17.25%) GitHub Actions
6 38 (13.38%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (9.86%) Serverless
9 26 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (9.15%) Datadog
10 21 (7.39%) SaaS
11 20 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (5.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 14 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.93%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (4.93%) Power Platform
14 13 (4.58%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 13 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (4.23%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.27%) TCP/IP
2 26 (9.15%) DNS
3 23 (8.10%) HTTP
4 22 (7.75%) Firewall
5 14 (4.93%) Broadband
6 12 (4.23%) BGP
6 12 (4.23%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (3.87%) 4G
7 11 (3.87%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (3.87%) IOS XR
7 11 (3.87%) MPLS
8 6 (2.11%) SSL
9 4 (1.41%) MQTT
10 2 (0.70%) Network Security
11 1 (0.35%) DHCP
11 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.15%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.28%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.93%) Power BI
5 12 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (3.87%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.87%) Redis
7 10 (3.52%) Flink
8 9 (3.17%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.41%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.41%) Weaviate
12 3 (1.06%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.70%) SQLPlus
14 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
14 1 (0.35%) MySQL
14 1 (0.35%) Sybase ASE
14 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (17.61%) Jenkins
2 40 (14.08%) GitLab
3 31 (10.92%) Git
4 9 (3.17%) JIRA
5 6 (2.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.70%) Gradle
6 2 (0.70%) Maven
6 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.70%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) Gatling
7 1 (0.35%) JMeter
7 1 (0.35%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.35%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 77 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.66%) Finance
3 36 (12.68%) Telecoms
4 28 (9.86%) Banking
5 20 (7.04%) Law
6 16 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.87%) Front Office
9 6 (2.11%) Advertising
9 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.11%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.76%) Electronics
11 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.06%) Automotive
12 3 (1.06%) Marketing
13 2 (0.70%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (0.70%) Games
13 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 64 (22.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 60 (21.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (16.55%) Site Engineer
4 38 (13.38%) Lead
4 38 (13.38%) Senior
5 27 (9.51%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (9.15%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (8.10%) Software Engineer
8 19 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (6.69%) Lead DevOps
9 17 (5.99%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (5.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 16 (5.63%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (4.23%) Developer
14 11 (3.87%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.87%) Network Engineer
14 11 (3.87%) Reliability Engineer
14 11 (3.87%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.51%) Elastic Stack
1 27 (9.51%) Kafka
2 17 (5.99%) React
2 17 (5.99%) Spring
3 16 (5.63%) .NET
3 16 (5.63%) Spring Boot
4 15 (5.28%) Django
5 14 (4.93%) Node.js
6 12 (4.23%) .NET Core
7 11 (3.87%) Jinja
7 11 (3.87%) NETCONF
7 11 (3.87%) YANG
8 10 (3.52%) REST
9 8 (2.82%) FastAPI
10 7 (2.46%) ARM Templates
10 7 (2.46%) Loki
11 6 (2.11%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.11%) Vue
12 5 (1.76%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (1.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 57 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.80%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.87%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.87%) Social Media
5 6 (2.11%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.41%) Hackathon
6 4 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.41%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.70%) CMDB
8 2 (0.70%) Equities
8 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.70%) Robotics
8 2 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (22.54%) Linux
2 28 (9.86%) Windows
3 19 (6.69%) Unix
4 12 (4.23%) VMS
5 11 (3.87%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.46%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.06%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (67.61%) DevOps
2 154 (54.23%) CI/CD
3 126 (44.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (39.79%) Observability
5 91 (32.04%) Agile
6 80 (28.17%) Platform Engineering
7 75 (26.41%) Containerisation
8 67 (23.59%) Incident Response
9 60 (21.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (20.07%) AI
11 51 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (16.20%) Analytics
13 41 (14.44%) Software Engineering
14 40 (14.08%) High Availability
14 40 (14.08%) Incident Management
14 40 (14.08%) Root Cause Analysis
15 37 (13.03%) DevSecOps
16 36 (12.68%) Service-Level Objective
17 32 (11.27%) Microservices
18 29 (10.21%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 145 (51.06%) Python
2 54 (19.01%) Bash
3 49 (17.25%) Java
4 42 (14.79%) Go
5 32 (11.27%) PowerShell
6 31 (10.92%) SQL
7 20 (7.04%) C#
8 13 (4.58%) TypeScript
9 12 (4.23%) JavaScript
9 12 (4.23%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (2.46%) Bicep
11 5 (1.76%) Rust
12 3 (1.06%) C
12 3 (1.06%) C++
12 3 (1.06%) Groovy
13 2 (0.70%) PHP
13 2 (0.70%) Ruby
13 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.70%) VB
14 1 (0.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 53 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 25 (8.80%) Degree
2 25 (8.80%) DV Cleared
2 25 (8.80%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.76%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.93%) SLA
2 13 (4.58%) QA
3 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.70%) GRC
4 2 (0.70%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 87 (30.63%) Docker
2 10 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.06%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 133 (46.83%) Terraform
2 107 (37.68%) Kubernetes
3 73 (25.70%) Grafana
4 69 (24.30%) Ansible
5 66 (23.24%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.99%) Argo
7 11 (3.87%) Istio
8 8 (2.82%) Nagios
9 6 (2.11%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.70%) Puppet
11 1 (0.35%) Cilium
11 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.35%) Icinga
11 1 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.35%) Netcool
11 1 (0.35%) Podman
11 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 26 (9.15%) Splunk
2 13 (4.58%) Google
3 11 (3.87%) Cisco
4 10 (3.52%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.52%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.82%) Confluent
6 6 (2.11%) Oracle
6 6 (2.11%) SolarWinds
7 5 (1.76%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.41%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.41%) New Relic
8 4 (1.41%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.06%) Databricks
9 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.06%) VMware
10 2 (0.70%) BigPanda
10 2 (0.70%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.70%) SAP
11 1 (0.35%) Tenable