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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 314 423
Rank change year-on-year -93 +109 -94
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 247 405 367
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.95% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.02% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 191 293 265
10th Percentile £46,250 £61,788 £51,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £71,250 £58,750
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 £117,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £135,000 £138,750 £128,000
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 48,319 39,543 59,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.09% 92.88% 88.24%
Number of salaries quoted 29,618 19,881 46,684
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,125
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 £103,750 £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 24 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 24 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 -96 108 £85,000 -22.73% 62
North of England +9 70 £61,250 -12.50% 42
North West +9 35 £70,000 -6.67% 23
Yorkshire -18 23 £65,000 -1.89% 16
South West -23 17 £60,000 -20.00% 14
South East -36 16 £73,750 -1.67% 44
East of England +6 12 £65,000 - 3
North East 0 12 £47,500 -31.50% 3
Midlands -6 11 £58,750 -2.08% 5
West Midlands +6 9 £47,500 -20.83% 3
East Midlands -22 2 £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 6 (2.43%) Mule
2 5 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.62%) Appian
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Confluence
5 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 133 (53.85%) AWS
2 97 (39.27%) Azure
3 67 (27.13%) GCP
4 46 (18.62%) GitHub
5 44 (17.81%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (11.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (10.53%) Serverless
8 25 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (8.91%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (8.50%) Datadog
12 20 (8.10%) SaaS
13 13 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 13 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.45%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (4.45%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (4.45%) Power Platform
15 11 (4.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.34%) TCP/IP
2 25 (10.12%) DNS
3 21 (8.50%) Firewall
3 21 (8.50%) HTTP
4 14 (5.67%) Broadband
5 11 (4.45%) 4G
5 11 (4.45%) BGP
5 11 (4.45%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (4.45%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (4.45%) IOS XR
5 11 (4.45%) MPLS
6 5 (2.02%) SSL
7 3 (1.21%) MQTT
8 2 (0.81%) Network Security
8 2 (0.81%) WAN
9 1 (0.40%) DHCP
9 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.86%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.45%) Power BI
5 11 (4.45%) Redis
6 10 (4.05%) Flink
7 9 (3.64%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.24%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.43%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.02%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.62%) Weaviate
13 3 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.21%) InfluxDB
14 2 (0.81%) SQLPlus
15 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.40%) MySQL
15 1 (0.40%) Sybase ASE
15 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 43 (17.41%) GitLab
3 30 (12.15%) Git
4 8 (3.24%) JIRA
5 6 (2.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.81%) Gradle
6 2 (0.81%) Maven
6 2 (0.81%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 54 (21.86%) Finance
3 34 (13.77%) Telecoms
4 31 (12.55%) Banking
5 18 (7.29%) Law
6 15 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.05%) Front Office
8 6 (2.43%) Advertising
9 5 (2.02%) Aviation
9 5 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.02%) Fire and Rescue
9 5 (2.02%) Police
9 5 (2.02%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.21%) Marketing
11 2 (0.81%) Electronics
11 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 51 (20.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (14.17%) Site Engineer
4 31 (12.55%) Platform Engineer
5 30 (12.15%) Senior
6 27 (10.93%) Lead
7 17 (6.88%) Lead DevOps
8 16 (6.48%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.07%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (6.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (5.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.86%) Developer
13 11 (4.45%) Network Engineer
14 10 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
14 10 (4.05%) Operations Manager
14 10 (4.05%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 9 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (3.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.31%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (8.50%) Kafka
3 16 (6.48%) Spring
4 15 (6.07%) Django
4 15 (6.07%) React
4 15 (6.07%) Spring Boot
5 14 (5.67%) Node.js
6 12 (4.86%) .NET
7 11 (4.45%) Jinja
7 11 (4.45%) NETCONF
7 11 (4.45%) YANG
8 9 (3.64%) .NET Core
8 9 (3.64%) FastAPI
8 9 (3.64%) REST
9 8 (3.24%) Loki
10 6 (2.43%) ARM Templates
10 6 (2.43%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (2.02%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.02%) Vue
12 4 (1.62%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.84%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.45%) Social Media
5 6 (2.43%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.02%) Robotics
7 4 (1.62%) Hackathon
7 4 (1.62%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.21%) CMDB
8 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (21.86%) Linux
2 21 (8.50%) Windows
3 19 (7.69%) Unix
4 9 (3.64%) VMS
4 9 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.02%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.21%) CentOS
6 3 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (65.99%) DevOps
2 143 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 118 (47.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 103 (41.70%) Observability
5 88 (35.63%) Agile
6 63 (25.51%) Platform Engineering
7 61 (24.70%) Containerisation
8 56 (22.67%) Incident Response
9 54 (21.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (18.22%) AI
12 38 (15.38%) High Availability
13 37 (14.98%) Incident Management
14 36 (14.57%) Analytics
15 33 (13.36%) DevSecOps
15 33 (13.36%) Software Engineering
16 32 (12.96%) Root Cause Analysis
16 32 (12.96%) Service-Level Objective
17 29 (11.74%) ITIL
18 25 (10.12%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (51.42%) Python
2 56 (22.67%) Java
3 49 (19.84%) Bash
4 30 (12.15%) Go
5 28 (11.34%) PowerShell
6 24 (9.72%) SQL
7 19 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 16 (6.48%) C#
9 14 (5.67%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.64%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (2.83%) Bicep
12 4 (1.62%) Rust
13 2 (0.81%) Ruby
13 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.81%) VB
14 1 (0.40%) Groovy
14 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.31%) Degree
3 20 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.88%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.62%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.62%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.07%) QA
2 12 (4.86%) SLA
3 3 (1.21%) GDPR
3 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.81%) GRC
4 2 (0.81%) MiFID
4 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 67 (27.13%) Docker
2 5 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Squid
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 115 (46.56%) Terraform
2 89 (36.03%) Kubernetes
3 71 (28.74%) Grafana
4 67 (27.13%) Ansible
5 65 (26.32%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.48%) Argo
7 6 (2.43%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.43%) Nagios
8 3 (1.21%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.21%) Puppet
9 2 (0.81%) Istio
9 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.40%) Icinga
10 1 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.40%) Kibana
10 1 (0.40%) Netcool
10 1 (0.40%) Podman
10 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (10.12%) Splunk
2 15 (6.07%) Google
3 14 (5.67%) Oracle
4 11 (4.45%) Cisco
5 9 (3.64%) Microsoft
6 7 (2.83%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.43%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.02%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.02%) New Relic
8 5 (2.02%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.62%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.21%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.21%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.21%) VMware
11 2 (0.81%) BigPanda
11 2 (0.81%) Moogsoft
11 2 (0.81%) SAP
12 1 (0.40%) Okta
12 1 (0.40%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.40%) Tenable