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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 298 344
Rank change year-on-year -76 +46 +35
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 401 421 676
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.97% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.07% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 336 184 348
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,509 £62,460
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% -3.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £127,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 64,779 39,218 72,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.95% 90.32% 82.36%
Number of salaries quoted 45,743 22,382 52,059
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 13 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 13 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
London -48 113 £90,000 -18.18% 144
North of England -97 110 £70,000 +0.89% 40
North West -79 76 £75,000 +11.88% 26
South West -3 71 £75,000 - 46
South East +25 54 £80,000 +8.47% 27
East of England +6 32 £80,150 +23.31% 6
Yorkshire -33 18 £65,000 -14.75% 6
Midlands -38 16 £62,000 -8.15% 18
North East -38 16 £47,500 -31.54% 8
West Midlands -32 10 £62,000 -8.15% 13
East Midlands -25 6 £65,000 +44.44% 5
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 (2.00%) Apache
1 8 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 166 (41.40%) AWS
2 158 (39.40%) Azure
3 74 (18.45%) GCP
4 58 (14.46%) GitHub
5 47 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (8.98%) Serverless
8 28 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (5.74%) Azure AKS
9 23 (5.74%) SaaS
10 22 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (5.24%) OpenShift
12 20 (4.99%) Datadog
13 15 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (2.99%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.99%) Power Platform
15 11 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (2.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
18 8 (2.00%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.24%) Firewall
2 19 (4.74%) DNS
3 17 (4.24%) TCP/IP
4 14 (3.49%) HTTP
5 7 (1.75%) MQTT
6 4 (1.00%) BGP
6 4 (1.00%) Network Security
6 4 (1.00%) VPN
7 2 (0.50%) Broadband
7 2 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.50%) VLAN
7 2 (0.50%) WAN
8 1 (0.25%) 4G
8 1 (0.25%) ATM
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.25%) DHCP
8 1 (0.25%) IOS XR
8 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.25%) MPLS
8 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.74%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.99%) MongoDB
2 12 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.99%) Power BI
3 10 (2.49%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.25%) KDB
6 4 (1.00%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.00%) MySQL
7 2 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.50%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.50%) SQLPlus
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.25%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.25%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 52 (12.97%) GitLab
2 50 (12.47%) Jenkins
3 44 (10.97%) Git
4 18 (4.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (2.49%) JIRA
6 6 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.50%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.50%) Gradle
8 2 (0.50%) Maven
8 2 (0.50%) MSI
9 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.25%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.25%) JMeter
9 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.25%) Selenium
9 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 70 (17.46%) Social Skills
2 55 (13.72%) Finance
3 27 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.74%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.49%) Law
6 17 (4.24%) Banking
7 16 (3.99%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.75%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.75%) Retail
10 6 (1.50%) Front Office
11 3 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.75%) Automotive
11 3 (0.75%) Electronics
12 2 (0.50%) Advertising
12 2 (0.50%) Digital Economy
12 2 (0.50%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 88 (21.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 84 (20.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (18.70%) Site Engineer
4 65 (16.21%) Lead
5 51 (12.72%) Software Engineer
6 50 (12.47%) Senior
7 43 (10.72%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (8.98%) Platform Engineer
9 30 (7.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (6.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 25 (6.23%) Principal Engineer
12 20 (4.99%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.74%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (3.99%) Architect
15 15 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
15 15 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.49%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 13 (3.24%) Developer
17 13 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 13 (3.24%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.23%) Spring
2 32 (7.98%) Spring Boot
3 27 (6.73%) Kafka
4 25 (6.23%) Elastic Stack
5 23 (5.74%) .NET
6 13 (3.24%) ARM Templates
7 12 (2.99%) React
8 11 (2.74%) .NET Core
8 11 (2.74%) Loki
9 9 (2.24%) REST
10 7 (1.75%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (1.50%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.50%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (1.50%) Node.js
11 6 (1.50%) Vue
11 6 (1.50%) YAML
12 4 (1.00%) Backbone.js
12 4 (1.00%) gRPC
13 3 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
13 3 (0.75%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 103 (25.69%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.49%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.24%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.25%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.00%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.75%) Hackathon
10 3 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.50%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 78 (19.45%) Linux
2 28 (6.98%) Windows
3 26 (6.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (4.74%) CentOS
5 15 (3.74%) Windows Server
6 13 (3.24%) Unix
7 12 (2.99%) VMS
8 10 (2.49%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (66.33%) DevOps
2 213 (53.12%) CI/CD
3 193 (48.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 157 (39.15%) Platform Engineering
5 156 (38.90%) Observability
6 101 (25.19%) Containerisation
7 98 (24.44%) Agile
8 86 (21.45%) AI
9 82 (20.45%) Software Engineering
10 74 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (14.46%) Microservices
12 55 (13.72%) Incident Response
13 54 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
14 51 (12.72%) Mentoring
15 44 (10.97%) Root Cause Analysis
16 42 (10.47%) DevSecOps
16 42 (10.47%) Technical Leadership
17 39 (9.73%) Analytics
17 39 (9.73%) Deployment Automation
18 38 (9.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 174 (43.39%) Python
2 78 (19.45%) Bash
3 64 (15.96%) Java
4 56 (13.97%) PowerShell
5 35 (8.73%) Go
6 32 (7.98%) SQL
7 23 (5.74%) C#
8 14 (3.49%) Bicep
9 11 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (2.74%) Rust
10 9 (2.24%) C
10 9 (2.24%) C++
10 9 (2.24%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.75%) Groovy
12 6 (1.50%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.50%) PHP
13 3 (0.75%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.50%) VB
15 1 (0.25%) COBOL
15 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 136 (33.92%) Security Cleared
2 88 (21.95%) DV Cleared
3 75 (18.70%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.99%) Degree
5 10 (2.49%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.75%) CISSP
8 3 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.25%) CISM
10 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.24%) QA
2 7 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.75%) SLA
3 5 (1.25%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.50%) NIST
5 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) GxP
5 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 101 (25.19%) Docker
2 11 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 192 (47.88%) Terraform
2 164 (40.90%) Kubernetes
3 118 (29.43%) Ansible
4 77 (19.20%) Grafana
5 67 (16.71%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.74%) Puppet
7 18 (4.49%) Istio
8 17 (4.24%) Argo
9 10 (2.49%) Nagios
10 8 (2.00%) Podman
11 7 (1.75%) Kustomize
12 5 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.50%) linkerd
13 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.25%) Netcool
14 1 (0.25%) Packer
14 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (6.73%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.49%) Splunk
3 14 (3.49%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.99%) Oracle
5 11 (2.74%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.24%) Google
7 8 (2.00%) Confluent
8 6 (1.50%) Databricks
9 5 (1.25%) Tenable
10 4 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.75%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.75%) VMware
12 2 (0.50%) Foundry
12 2 (0.50%) Informatica
12 2 (0.50%) PagerDuty
13 1 (0.25%) AppDynamics
13 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.25%) Cloudera
13 1 (0.25%) New Relic
13 1 (0.25%) VocaLink