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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 305 327
Rank change year-on-year -57 +22 +52
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 414 406 657
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.94% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.04% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 351 170 336
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 £95,625 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £127,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.56% -

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 65,539 39,008 67,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.79% 90.04% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 46,429 22,397 46,860
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £74,280
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%

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 22 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 22 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
North of England -84 121 £70,000 +0.89% 58
London -43 115 £92,500 -11.90% 217
North West -65 85 £75,000 +11.88% 38
South West -11 67 £75,000 -6.25% 29
South East +19 54 £82,500 +8.20% 27
East of England +20 32 £80,150 +27.22% 7
Midlands -24 20 £62,500 -7.41% 20
North East -36 18 £59,000 -14.97% 11
Yorkshire -40 18 £65,288 -14.38% 9
West Midlands -22 14 £62,250 -7.78% 11
East Midlands - 6 £65,000 - 9
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 (1.93%) Apache
1 8 (1.93%) Confluence
2 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 171 (41.30%) AWS
2 159 (38.41%) Azure
3 76 (18.36%) GCP
4 57 (13.77%) GitHub
5 43 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (8.45%) Serverless
8 27 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (6.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (5.80%) Azure AKS
10 24 (5.80%) SaaS
11 21 (5.07%) Datadog
11 21 (5.07%) OpenShift
12 15 (3.62%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (2.66%) Azure Functions
14 10 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (2.42%) Power Platform
14 10 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
16 8 (1.93%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.59%) Firewall
2 18 (4.35%) DNS
3 16 (3.86%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.90%) HTTP
5 7 (1.69%) MQTT
6 5 (1.21%) VPN
7 4 (0.97%) Network Security
8 3 (0.72%) BGP
9 2 (0.48%) ATM
9 2 (0.48%) VLAN
9 2 (0.48%) WAN
10 1 (0.24%) Broadband
10 1 (0.24%) DHCP
10 1 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.24%) Internet
10 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.14%) MongoDB
2 13 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.42%) Power BI
4 9 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.21%) KDB
7 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.97%) MySQL
8 2 (0.48%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.48%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (0.48%) SQLPlus
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.24%) Big Data
9 1 (0.24%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.24%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.24%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 55 (13.29%) GitLab
2 49 (11.84%) Jenkins
3 44 (10.63%) Git
4 20 (4.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.66%) JIRA
6 6 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.45%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.48%) MSI
9 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.24%) Gatling
9 1 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.24%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.24%) Selenium
9 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 73 (17.63%) Social Skills
2 60 (14.49%) Finance
3 31 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.07%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.35%) Banking
6 17 (4.11%) Law
7 13 (3.14%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.93%) Retail
10 7 (1.69%) Front Office
10 7 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.72%) Automotive
11 3 (0.72%) Digital Economy
11 3 (0.72%) Electronics
11 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.48%) Advertising
12 2 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 93 (22.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 89 (21.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 80 (19.32%) Site Engineer
4 67 (16.18%) Lead
5 60 (14.49%) Senior
6 47 (11.35%) Software Engineer
7 42 (10.14%) Azure Engineer
8 38 (9.18%) Platform Engineer
9 31 (7.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 29 (7.00%) Principal Engineer
11 26 (6.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 23 (5.56%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (3.86%) Architect
14 16 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
15 15 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 13 (3.14%) Developer
17 13 (3.14%) Team Leader
18 12 (2.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.25%) Spring
2 29 (7.00%) Spring Boot
3 28 (6.76%) Kafka
4 23 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (5.31%) .NET
6 13 (3.14%) ARM Templates
7 10 (2.42%) .NET Core
7 10 (2.42%) Loki
7 10 (2.42%) React
8 7 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (1.69%) REST
9 6 (1.45%) Node.js
9 6 (1.45%) YAML
10 5 (1.21%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.97%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.97%) Backbone.js
11 4 (0.97%) gRPC
11 4 (0.97%) Middleware
11 4 (0.97%) Vue
12 3 (0.72%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 109 (26.33%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
7 8 (1.93%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.21%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.21%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.72%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.72%) Replication
10 3 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.48%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.48%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 83 (20.05%) Linux
2 29 (7.00%) Windows
3 28 (6.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (5.07%) CentOS
5 15 (3.62%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.90%) Unix
7 11 (2.66%) VMS
8 9 (2.17%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.24%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (65.22%) DevOps
2 217 (52.42%) CI/CD
3 197 (47.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 167 (40.34%) Observability
5 157 (37.92%) Platform Engineering
6 104 (25.12%) Containerisation
7 94 (22.71%) Agile
8 85 (20.53%) AI
8 85 (20.53%) Software Engineering
9 73 (17.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (14.25%) Incident Response
11 57 (13.77%) Microservices
12 51 (12.32%) Mentoring
13 50 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (11.35%) Root Cause Analysis
15 46 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
16 41 (9.90%) DevSecOps
16 41 (9.90%) Incident Management
17 40 (9.66%) Roadmaps
18 39 (9.42%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 182 (43.96%) Python
2 75 (18.12%) Bash
3 61 (14.73%) Java
4 57 (13.77%) PowerShell
5 35 (8.45%) Go
6 34 (8.21%) SQL
7 22 (5.31%) C#
8 14 (3.38%) Bicep
9 11 (2.66%) Rust
10 10 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (2.42%) Shell Script
11 9 (2.17%) C
11 9 (2.17%) C++
12 7 (1.69%) Groovy
13 6 (1.45%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.45%) PHP
14 3 (0.72%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.48%) COBOL
15 2 (0.48%) VB
16 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 138 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 92 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 81 (19.57%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.80%) Degree
5 10 (2.42%) DBS Check
6 8 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.72%) CISSP
8 3 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.24%) CISM
10 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.14%) QA
2 8 (1.93%) SLA
3 7 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.21%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.48%) NIST
6 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.24%) GxP
6 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 104 (25.12%) Docker
2 11 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 198 (47.83%) Terraform
2 171 (41.30%) Kubernetes
3 122 (29.47%) Ansible
4 79 (19.08%) Grafana
5 66 (15.94%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.59%) Puppet
7 18 (4.35%) Argo
7 18 (4.35%) Istio
8 9 (2.17%) Nagios
9 8 (1.93%) Podman
10 7 (1.69%) Kustomize
11 5 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.97%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.72%) linkerd
14 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.24%) Netcool
14 1 (0.24%) Packer
14 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (7.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.35%) Splunk
3 14 (3.38%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.14%) Oracle
5 11 (2.66%) Dynatrace
5 11 (2.66%) Google
6 8 (1.93%) Confluent
7 6 (1.45%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.21%) Databricks
8 5 (1.21%) Tenable
9 3 (0.72%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.72%) VMware
10 2 (0.48%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.48%) HP
10 2 (0.48%) Informatica
10 2 (0.48%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.48%) VocaLink
11 1 (0.24%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.24%) New Relic
11 1 (0.24%) Percona