Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 450 364
Rank change year-on-year +130 -86 -51
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 445 443 787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.92% 0.50% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.59% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 221 339 558
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,400 £50,875
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £131,750 £117,800
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +10.00%

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 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in England.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in England

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in England over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 May 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
North of England +152 210 £69,384 +10.51% 348
North West +110 194 £67,332 +7.25% 180
London +70 162 £110,000 +4.76% 292
Midlands +39 20 £60,000 - 253
West Midlands +59 19 £63,750 -22.73% 136
South West +93 15 £57,443 -28.20% 164
South East +50 14 £77,500 +19.23% 386
East of England +45 13 £65,000 -0.94% 209
Yorkshire +49 12 £70,000 +11.50% 135
North East +44 4 £69,384 +10.51% 34
East Midlands +23 1 £45,000 -18.18% 98
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 60 (13.48%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (13.26%) Apache
2 59 (13.26%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.80%) Apache Solr
4 7 (1.57%) nginx
5 3 (0.67%) CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Confluence
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 364 (81.80%) AWS
2 272 (61.12%) Azure
3 239 (53.71%) GCP
4 93 (20.90%) Amazon ECS
5 82 (18.43%) Serverless
6 73 (16.40%) AWS Lambda
7 71 (15.96%) OpenShift
8 67 (15.06%) dbt
9 32 (7.19%) Pulumi
10 30 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (3.37%) Datadog
12 12 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (2.70%) GitHub
13 11 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.47%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (1.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.15%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.02%) DNS
3 5 (1.12%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.12%) IPsec
4 4 (0.90%) NAS
4 4 (0.90%) SAN
5 3 (0.67%) Firewall
5 3 (0.67%) Network Security
5 3 (0.67%) WAN
6 2 (0.45%) DHCP
6 2 (0.45%) SNMP
6 2 (0.45%) SSH
6 2 (0.45%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.22%) Multicast
7 1 (0.22%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.22%) Unicast
7 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.22%) VLAN
7 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (13.26%) Amazon Athena
1 59 (13.26%) Apache Arrow
1 59 (13.26%) Apache Iceberg
1 59 (13.26%) Apache Ignite
1 59 (13.26%) Dremio
2 20 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (3.37%) MongoDB
4 15 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.02%) MySQL
5 9 (2.02%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.80%) Redis
7 6 (1.35%) Couchbase
8 4 (0.90%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.67%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.45%) DB2
10 2 (0.45%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 61 (13.71%) Artifactory
2 28 (6.29%) Jenkins
3 25 (5.62%) GitLab
4 10 (2.25%) Git
5 8 (1.80%) JIRA
6 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.45%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.22%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.22%) Subversion
7 1 (0.22%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.22%) Vite
General
1 191 (42.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 134 (30.11%) Finance
3 69 (15.51%) Front Office
4 60 (13.48%) Social Skills
5 28 (6.29%) Banking
6 18 (4.04%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.15%) Law
8 8 (1.80%) Marketing
9 6 (1.35%) Electronics
9 6 (1.35%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.12%) Games
11 3 (0.67%) Advertising
12 1 (0.22%) Aviation
12 1 (0.22%) Billing
12 1 (0.22%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.22%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.22%) Military
12 1 (0.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 225 (50.56%) Senior
2 199 (44.72%) Software Engineer
3 179 (40.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 102 (22.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (18.20%) AWS Engineer
6 79 (17.75%) AWS DevOps
7 78 (17.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 77 (17.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 70 (15.73%) Python Engineer
10 63 (14.16%) Site Engineer
11 59 (13.26%) Data Engineer
12 40 (8.99%) Lead
13 21 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.70%) Junior
16 11 (2.47%) Cloud Engineer
16 11 (2.47%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
17 10 (2.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
18 8 (1.80%) Junior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (46.07%) .NET
2 191 (42.92%) Node.js
3 72 (16.18%) Kafka
4 61 (13.71%) J2EE
5 59 (13.26%) PySpark
6 24 (5.39%) Loki
7 9 (2.02%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (2.02%) Spring
8 8 (1.80%) Django
8 8 (1.80%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.57%) REST
10 5 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.12%) React
11 4 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.90%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.67%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.67%) JPA
12 3 (0.67%) Web Services
13 2 (0.45%) LDAP
13 2 (0.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 181 (40.67%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (40.00%) Cyberattack
2 178 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
3 25 (5.62%) Public Cloud
4 17 (3.82%) Cloud Native
5 15 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.90%) Robotics
9 3 (0.67%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.45%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.45%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.45%) Tandem
11 1 (0.22%) Cyber Warfare
11 1 (0.22%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.22%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.22%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 220 (49.44%) Linux
2 13 (2.92%) Unix
3 12 (2.70%) Windows
4 9 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.45%) CentOS
5 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Android
6 1 (0.22%) Debian
6 1 (0.22%) SUSE
6 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (66.52%) Agile
2 279 (62.70%) Software Engineering
3 250 (56.18%) Data Engineering
4 209 (46.97%) Mentoring
5 197 (44.27%) DevOps
5 197 (44.27%) Microservices
6 191 (42.92%) Machine Learning
7 185 (41.57%) Scrum
8 183 (41.12%) Cloud Security
9 182 (40.90%) User Experience
10 169 (37.98%) CI/CD
11 82 (18.43%) Open Source
12 68 (15.28%) Asset Management
13 65 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 55 (12.36%) Observability
15 47 (10.56%) Containerisation
15 47 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (8.31%) Platform Engineering
17 28 (6.29%) Artificial Intelligence
17 28 (6.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 347 (77.98%) Python
2 278 (62.47%) Java
3 273 (61.35%) Go
4 198 (44.49%) JavaScript
5 183 (41.12%) Rust
6 179 (40.22%) C++
7 36 (8.09%) Bash
8 22 (4.94%) PowerShell
8 22 (4.94%) TypeScript
9 21 (4.72%) C#
10 18 (4.04%) Bicep
11 8 (1.80%) Ruby
11 8 (1.80%) SQL
12 5 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.12%) PHP
13 4 (0.90%) Clojure
13 4 (0.90%) Elixir
13 4 (0.90%) Scala
14 3 (0.67%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 198 (44.49%) Security Cleared
2 185 (41.57%) AWS Certification
2 185 (41.57%) DV Cleared
3 180 (40.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 178 (40.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 21 (4.72%) Degree
6 13 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.47%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.22%) CCSP
9 1 (0.22%) CISA
9 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CISM
9 1 (0.22%) CISSP
9 1 (0.22%) CRISC
9 1 (0.22%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.25%) QA
2 6 (1.35%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.67%) SLA
6 2 (0.45%) GDPR
7 1 (0.22%) COBIT
7 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 142 (31.91%) Docker
2 6 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.90%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.45%) Squid
7 1 (0.22%) HDFS
7 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 175 (39.33%) Terraform
2 172 (38.65%) Kubernetes
3 53 (11.91%) Grafana
4 49 (11.01%) Prometheus
5 43 (9.66%) Ansible
6 22 (4.94%) Progress Chef
7 17 (3.82%) Puppet
8 14 (3.15%) Podman
9 8 (1.80%) AWS Copilot
9 8 (1.80%) Istio
10 3 (0.67%) Argo
11 2 (0.45%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.45%) Kibana
11 2 (0.45%) linkerd
11 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.22%) Consul
12 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.22%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.22%) Rancher
12 1 (0.22%) Salt
Vendors
1 26 (5.84%) Google
2 13 (2.92%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.92%) VMware
3 12 (2.70%) Oracle
4 9 (2.02%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.02%) Splunk
5 8 (1.80%) Hitachi
5 8 (1.80%) SAP
6 6 (1.35%) Confluent
7 5 (1.12%) New Relic
8 3 (0.67%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.67%) Sybase
9 2 (0.45%) Databricks
9 2 (0.45%) F5
9 2 (0.45%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.45%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.22%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.22%) BigPanda
10 1 (0.22%) Okta
10 1 (0.22%) SaltStack