Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 129 143
Rank change year-on-year -109 +14 +145
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 114 213 291
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.55% 2.27% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 2.51% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 98 32 71
10th Percentile £46,025 £52,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £61,297 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,384 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +10.51% +0.45%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £84,075 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -3.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,658 8,488 13,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.18% 90.27% 79.37%
Number of salaries quoted 11,003 4,207 10,253
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,100 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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 West -62 80 £73,750 +10.01% 28
Yorkshire -34 18 £65,288 -14.38% 5
North East -40 16 £53,250 -23.25% 6
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (0.88%) Confluence
1 1 (0.88%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.74%) AWS
2 45 (39.47%) Azure
3 34 (29.82%) GitHub
4 21 (18.42%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (16.67%) GCP
6 10 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (4.39%) Serverless
10 4 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.51%) Datadog
10 4 (3.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.63%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.63%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.75%) Cloud Functions
12 2 (1.75%) Google Compute Engine
13 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
13 1 (0.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.28%) DNS
1 14 (12.28%) Firewall
1 14 (12.28%) TCP/IP
2 12 (10.53%) HTTP
3 2 (1.75%) ATM
4 1 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.63%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.75%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
3 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (25.44%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.04%) GitLab
3 14 (12.28%) Git
4 13 (11.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.75%) JIRA
6 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
3 13 (11.40%) Law
4 12 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 10 (8.77%) Finance
6 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Digital Economy
7 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Front Office
8 1 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 45 (39.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (21.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 22 (19.30%) Site Engineer
4 15 (13.16%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 15 (13.16%) Principal Engineer
4 15 (13.16%) Software Engineer
5 14 (12.28%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (11.40%) Senior
7 10 (8.77%) Lead
8 8 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.14%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.26%) Architect
11 5 (4.39%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (3.51%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
12 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 4 (3.51%) Lead DevOps
12 4 (3.51%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.51%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.04%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (10.53%) Spring
2 12 (10.53%) Spring Boot
3 7 (6.14%) .NET
4 6 (5.26%) ARM Templates
5 5 (4.39%) Node.js
5 5 (4.39%) React
6 4 (3.51%) Backbone.js
7 2 (1.75%) Kafka
7 2 (1.75%) Middleware
7 2 (1.75%) YAML
8 1 (0.88%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.88%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.65%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.75%) EMV
6 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.88%) NHS
7 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.05%) Linux
2 11 (9.65%) CentOS
2 11 (9.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (76.32%) DevOps
2 66 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 63 (55.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (38.60%) Platform Engineering
5 35 (30.70%) Containerisation
6 29 (25.44%) Observability
7 23 (20.18%) Software Engineering
8 18 (15.79%) Agile
8 18 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (14.91%) AI
10 16 (14.04%) Microservices
11 15 (13.16%) High Availability
12 14 (12.28%) Continuous Delivery
12 14 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (11.40%) DevSecOps
13 13 (11.40%) Vulnerability Scanning
14 12 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
14 12 (10.53%) Static Code Analysis
15 11 (9.65%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 48 (42.11%) Python
2 28 (24.56%) Bash
3 16 (14.04%) Go
4 12 (10.53%) Java
5 11 (9.65%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.26%) C#
6 6 (5.26%) SQL
7 5 (4.39%) Bicep
8 3 (2.63%) C
8 3 (2.63%) C++
9 2 (1.75%) COBOL
10 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (26.32%) DV Cleared
1 30 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.88%) CISM
4 1 (0.88%) CISSP
4 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.63%) SOC 2
2 2 (1.75%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.88%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (28.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (56.14%) Terraform
2 50 (43.86%) Kubernetes
3 45 (39.47%) Ansible
4 24 (21.05%) Grafana
5 22 (19.30%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.39%) Argo
7 3 (2.63%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.75%) Istio
8 2 (1.75%) linkerd
8 2 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.51%) Google
3 2 (1.75%) HP
3 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.75%) Splunk
3 2 (1.75%) VocaLink
4 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.88%) IBM
4 1 (0.88%) Moogsoft
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle
4 1 (0.88%) Percona