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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 313 341
Rank change year-on-year -73 +28 -34
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 220 452 343
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.89% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.99% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 164 270 277
10th Percentile £48,750 £64,471 £49,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £97,813 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £142,750 £138,750 £127,000
UK median annual salary £75,250 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.39% +12.50% -

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 42,755 45,713 40,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.32% 89.63% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 25,458 23,249 31,363
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

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 18 December 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 18 December 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
London -62 107 £87,500 -12.50% 69
North of England +28 64 £75,000 +0.67% 59
Yorkshire +14 33 £77,500 +5.08% 28
North West +6 27 £73,801 -1.60% 29
South West -23 9 £92,500 +23.33% 48
East of England +28 8 £67,500 -15.63% 31
West Midlands +35 7 £70,000 +1.00% 29
Midlands +18 7 £70,000 +1.00% 44
South East -9 7 £77,500 +3.33% 78
North East +4 4 £73,801 +6.48% 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 7 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.73%) Mule
3 4 (1.82%) Appian
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.91%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) nginx
5 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 132 (60.00%) AWS
2 75 (34.09%) Azure
3 56 (25.45%) GCP
4 34 (15.45%) GitHub
5 33 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (14.09%) SaaS
7 29 (13.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (10.45%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (9.55%) Datadog
9 21 (9.55%) Serverless
10 16 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (5.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
14 11 (5.00%) dbt
14 11 (5.00%) Pulumi
15 10 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.36%) TCP/IP
2 11 (5.00%) DNS
2 11 (5.00%) Firewall
3 6 (2.73%) HTTP
4 3 (1.36%) AMQP
4 3 (1.36%) Network Security
4 3 (1.36%) SSL
5 2 (0.91%) BGP
5 2 (0.91%) Broadband
5 2 (0.91%) Internet
5 2 (0.91%) NAS
5 2 (0.91%) SAN
5 2 (0.91%) WAN
6 1 (0.45%) SNMP
6 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.91%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (5.00%) Redis
5 10 (4.55%) Flink
6 7 (3.18%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.18%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.18%) Oracle Database
6 7 (3.18%) Pinecone
7 4 (1.82%) InfluxDB
7 4 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.82%) Weaviate
8 3 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.36%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.45%) MySQL
9 1 (0.45%) Power BI
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.45%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 50 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 47 (21.36%) GitLab
3 11 (5.00%) Git
4 7 (3.18%) JIRA
5 4 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 84 (38.18%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.64%) Finance
3 29 (13.18%) Banking
4 22 (10.00%) Aviation
4 22 (10.00%) Fire and Rescue
4 22 (10.00%) Police
5 12 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.55%) Front Office
6 10 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.27%) Advertising
7 5 (2.27%) Law
7 5 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.82%) Games
9 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.36%) Marketing
10 2 (0.91%) Electronics
10 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.91%) Retail
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (24.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 45 (20.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
4 29 (13.18%) Operations Manager
4 29 (13.18%) Site Engineer
5 28 (12.73%) Lead
6 24 (10.91%) Senior
7 22 (10.00%) Service Manager
7 22 (10.00%) Service Operations Manager
8 20 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
9 17 (7.73%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.91%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (5.00%) Developer
13 9 (4.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 7 (3.18%) Infrastructure Support
15 7 (3.18%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.09%) Node.js
2 18 (8.18%) Kafka
3 15 (6.82%) Django
4 11 (5.00%) .NET
4 11 (5.00%) FastAPI
5 10 (4.55%) React
6 9 (4.09%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.64%) Spring
7 8 (3.64%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.73%) REST
9 5 (2.27%) Next.js
10 4 (1.82%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.82%) Loki
10 4 (1.82%) PyTorch
10 4 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.82%) scikit-learn
10 4 (1.82%) TensorFlow
11 3 (1.36%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.36%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 55 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.00%) Robotics
3 12 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.73%) CMDB
5 6 (2.73%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.27%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.82%) Hackathon
7 4 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.91%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.45%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (21.36%) Linux
2 17 (7.73%) Unix
3 14 (6.36%) Windows
4 3 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.91%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.91%) VMS
6 1 (0.45%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (74.55%) DevOps
2 133 (60.45%) CI/CD
3 108 (49.09%) Observability
4 105 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 81 (36.82%) Agile
6 68 (30.91%) Incident Response
6 68 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (24.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (24.09%) Incident Management
8 50 (22.73%) Containerisation
9 48 (21.82%) AI
9 48 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
10 42 (19.09%) ITIL
11 41 (18.64%) Service Management
12 37 (16.82%) Software Engineering
13 32 (14.55%) Root Cause Analysis
14 30 (13.64%) Change Management
15 29 (13.18%) Collaborative Culture
16 28 (12.73%) Service Delivery
17 26 (11.82%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 101 (45.91%) Python
2 48 (21.82%) Java
3 42 (19.09%) Bash
4 26 (11.82%) PowerShell
5 24 (10.91%) TypeScript
6 19 (8.64%) Go
7 18 (8.18%) JavaScript
8 16 (7.27%) SQL
9 9 (4.09%) C#
10 6 (2.73%) Bicep
11 5 (2.27%) Ruby
12 4 (1.82%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.36%) C++
13 3 (1.36%) Groovy
14 2 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.27%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.36%) Degree
5 11 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.91%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.73%) QA
2 10 (4.55%) SLA
3 7 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.27%) GDPR
5 3 (1.36%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.91%) GRC
6 2 (0.91%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) MiFID
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 64 (29.09%) Docker
2 5 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) Squid
4 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 97 (44.09%) Terraform
2 86 (39.09%) Kubernetes
3 60 (27.27%) Ansible
4 54 (24.55%) Grafana
5 53 (24.09%) Prometheus
6 15 (6.82%) Argo
7 7 (3.18%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.73%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.91%) Control-M
10 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.91%) Nagios
10 2 (0.91%) Puppet
11 1 (0.45%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.45%) Istio
11 1 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.45%) Kibana
11 1 (0.45%) linkerd
11 1 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (9.55%) Oracle
2 18 (8.18%) Splunk
3 17 (7.73%) Google
4 9 (4.09%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.18%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.27%) AppDynamics
6 5 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.82%) New Relic
7 4 (1.82%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.82%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.36%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.36%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.36%) SAP
8 3 (1.36%) Sonatype
8 3 (1.36%) VMware
9 2 (0.91%) BigPanda
9 2 (0.91%) F5
9 2 (0.91%) Moogsoft
9 2 (0.91%) Red Hat