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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 320 457
Rank change year-on-year -86 +137 -128
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 296 339 392
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.93% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.00% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 238 304 279
10th Percentile £46,250 £57,575 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £93,569 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% +16.96% -5.88%
75th Percentile £92,500 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £91,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -17.58% +13.75% -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 56,409 34,008 69,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.20% 93.07% 85.98%
Number of salaries quoted 35,591 20,482 53,043
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,227 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 10 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 10 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 -92 115 £87,500 -20.45% 48
North of England -27 82 £65,576 -5.49% 35
North West -11 48 £73,151 +5.02% 17
South West -37 29 £65,000 -3.70% 27
East of England -24 26 £85,000 +30.77% 12
South East -32 22 £80,000 +6.67% 31
Yorkshire -41 20 £65,000 -7.14% 11
North East -21 14 £47,500 -31.54% 7
Midlands -55 11 £47,500 -20.83% 6
West Midlands -22 9 £47,500 -20.83% 3
East Midlands -52 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 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.35%) Apache
2 4 (1.35%) Appian
3 2 (0.68%) Confluence
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 146 (49.32%) AWS
2 124 (41.89%) Azure
3 70 (23.65%) GCP
4 56 (18.92%) GitHub
5 51 (17.23%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (13.85%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (9.46%) Datadog
9 26 (8.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (8.78%) Serverless
10 22 (7.43%) SaaS
11 16 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (4.73%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (4.73%) Power Platform
13 14 (4.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (4.05%) Azure Functions
14 12 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (4.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.46%) TCP/IP
2 26 (8.78%) DNS
3 23 (7.77%) HTTP
4 22 (7.43%) Firewall
5 14 (4.73%) Broadband
6 12 (4.05%) BGP
6 12 (4.05%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (3.72%) 4G
7 11 (3.72%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (3.72%) IOS XR
7 11 (3.72%) MPLS
8 6 (2.03%) SSL
9 4 (1.35%) MQTT
10 2 (0.68%) Network Security
11 1 (0.34%) DHCP
11 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.43%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (5.07%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.73%) Power BI
4 11 (3.72%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.38%) Flink
6 9 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.36%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.36%) Redis
9 6 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.03%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.35%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.35%) Weaviate
11 3 (1.01%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.68%) SQLPlus
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.34%) MySQL
13 1 (0.34%) Sybase ASE
13 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (15.54%) Jenkins
2 38 (12.84%) GitLab
3 32 (10.81%) Git
4 9 (3.04%) JIRA
5 6 (2.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.68%) Gradle
6 2 (0.68%) Maven
6 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.34%) Gatling
7 1 (0.34%) JMeter
7 1 (0.34%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.34%) Postman
7 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 79 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.23%) Finance
3 34 (11.49%) Telecoms
4 27 (9.12%) Banking
5 20 (6.76%) Law
6 16 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.72%) Front Office
9 7 (2.36%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.03%) Advertising
11 4 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.01%) Automotive
12 3 (1.01%) Electronics
13 2 (0.68%) Games
13 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.34%) Legal
14 1 (0.34%) Marketing
14 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (22.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 62 (20.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 51 (17.23%) Site Engineer
4 41 (13.85%) Lead
5 39 (13.18%) Senior
6 29 (9.80%) Software Engineer
7 28 (9.46%) AWS Engineer
8 24 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (7.43%) Azure Engineer
10 19 (6.42%) Lead DevOps
11 17 (5.74%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (5.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 16 (5.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (4.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (4.05%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 11 (3.72%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 11 (3.72%) Network Engineer
15 11 (3.72%) Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.12%) Elastic Stack
1 27 (9.12%) Kafka
2 18 (6.08%) .NET
2 18 (6.08%) React
3 14 (4.73%) Spring
4 13 (4.39%) Spring Boot
5 12 (4.05%) .NET Core
5 12 (4.05%) Node.js
6 11 (3.72%) Django
6 11 (3.72%) Jinja
6 11 (3.72%) NETCONF
6 11 (3.72%) YANG
7 10 (3.38%) REST
8 8 (2.70%) ARM Templates
9 7 (2.36%) Loki
10 6 (2.03%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.03%) Vue
11 5 (1.69%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (1.35%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.61%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.72%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.72%) Social Media
5 7 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.03%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.35%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.01%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.68%) CMDB
10 2 (0.68%) Equities
10 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (19.59%) Linux
2 28 (9.46%) Windows
3 14 (4.73%) Unix
4 12 (4.05%) VMS
5 11 (3.72%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.36%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.01%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (67.57%) DevOps
2 160 (54.05%) CI/CD
3 130 (43.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 117 (39.53%) Observability
5 91 (30.74%) Agile
6 87 (29.39%) Platform Engineering
7 75 (25.34%) Containerisation
8 67 (22.64%) Incident Response
9 63 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (20.61%) AI
11 47 (15.88%) Software Engineering
12 46 (15.54%) Analytics
12 46 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (14.53%) High Availability
14 42 (14.19%) Root Cause Analysis
15 40 (13.51%) Incident Management
16 36 (12.16%) Microservices
17 34 (11.49%) DevSecOps
18 32 (10.81%) Service-Level Objective
19 31 (10.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 140 (47.30%) Python
2 55 (18.58%) Bash
3 49 (16.55%) Java
4 42 (14.19%) Go
5 34 (11.49%) PowerShell
6 32 (10.81%) SQL
7 20 (6.76%) C#
8 12 (4.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (3.38%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.04%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.36%) Bicep
12 5 (1.69%) Rust
13 3 (1.01%) C
13 3 (1.01%) C++
13 3 (1.01%) Groovy
13 3 (1.01%) Ruby
14 2 (0.68%) PHP
14 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.68%) VB
15 1 (0.34%) JCL
Qualifications
1 46 (15.54%) Security Cleared
2 26 (8.78%) Degree
3 22 (7.43%) DV Cleared
3 22 (7.43%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.03%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.07%) SLA
2 11 (3.72%) QA
3 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.01%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.68%) GRC
4 2 (0.68%) MiFID
5 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
System Software
1 83 (28.04%) Docker
2 10 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 135 (45.61%) Terraform
2 114 (38.51%) Kubernetes
3 74 (25.00%) Grafana
4 72 (24.32%) Ansible
5 68 (22.97%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.74%) Argo
7 11 (3.72%) Istio
8 8 (2.70%) Nagios
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.68%) Puppet
10 1 (0.34%) Cilium
10 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.34%) Icinga
10 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.34%) Netcool
10 1 (0.34%) Podman
10 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 25 (8.45%) Splunk
2 11 (3.72%) Cisco
3 10 (3.38%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.04%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.70%) Confluent
5 8 (2.70%) Google
6 6 (2.03%) SolarWinds
7 5 (1.69%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.35%) Databricks
8 4 (1.35%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.35%) Oracle
8 4 (1.35%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.01%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.01%) New Relic
9 3 (1.01%) VMware
10 2 (0.68%) BigPanda
10 2 (0.68%) Moogsoft
11 1 (0.34%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.34%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.34%) Tenable