Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 321 299
Rank change year-on-year +159 -22 -12
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 207 67 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.76% 0.38% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 0.46% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 32 61 80
10th Percentile £48,213 £51,250 £38,999
25th Percentile £61,297 £57,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £62,783 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.51% +3.77% -16.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,968 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,050 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £91,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +13.75% -5.88% +13.33%

All Process and 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 11,149 14,685 16,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.03% 83.04% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,758 11,267 7,931
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,716 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North of England

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 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 West +112 193 £67,037 +6.78% 39
Yorkshire +58 10 £70,000 +14.02% 23
North East +38 4 £69,384 +10.51% 7
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (0.97%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.48%) CMS
2 1 (0.48%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 195 (94.20%) AWS
2 185 (89.37%) Azure
3 182 (87.92%) GCP
4 7 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (1.93%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (1.93%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 4 (1.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (1.93%) AWS CodeBuild
6 4 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.93%) dbt
6 4 (1.93%) Pulumi
6 4 (1.93%) Sentry
7 3 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.45%) PaaS
8 2 (0.97%) Datadog
8 2 (0.97%) IaaS
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.48%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.48%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.42%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.48%) DNS
2 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.48%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (2.90%) MongoDB
2 5 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.93%) Redis
4 2 (0.97%) MySQL
5 1 (0.48%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (6.76%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.28%) GitLab
3 3 (1.45%) Git
4 1 (0.48%) Jaeger
General
1 176 (85.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (3.38%) Social Skills
3 4 (1.93%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (1.93%) Finance
4 2 (0.97%) Games
5 1 (0.48%) Banking
5 1 (0.48%) Billing
5 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.48%) Law
5 1 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 178 (85.99%) Senior
2 174 (84.06%) Software Engineer
3 173 (83.57%) Senior Software Engineer
4 14 (6.76%) Lead
5 12 (5.80%) Site Engineer
5 12 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (3.38%) Technical Leader
7 4 (1.93%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (1.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.97%) Consultant
9 2 (0.97%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.48%) Architect
10 1 (0.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 1 (0.48%) CloudOps Manager
10 1 (0.48%) Developer
10 1 (0.48%) GCP DevOps
10 1 (0.48%) GCP Engineer
10 1 (0.48%) Infrastructure Manager
10 1 (0.48%) Operations Manager
10 1 (0.48%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (85.02%) .NET
2 173 (83.57%) Node.js
3 6 (2.90%) Kafka
4 4 (1.93%) Django
5 3 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.48%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.48%) FIDO
7 1 (0.48%) JWT
7 1 (0.48%) LDAP
7 1 (0.48%) Loki
7 1 (0.48%) OAuth
7 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.48%) OpenID
7 1 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.48%) RESTful
7 1 (0.48%) SAML
7 1 (0.48%) SOAP
7 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 172 (83.09%) Cyberattack
1 172 (83.09%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (83.09%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (0.97%) Cloud Native
3 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.48%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 180 (86.96%) Linux
2 4 (1.93%) Unix
2 4 (1.93%) Windows
3 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (88.41%) Microservices
2 182 (87.92%) Mentoring
2 182 (87.92%) Software Engineering
3 181 (87.44%) Agile
4 174 (84.06%) Cloud Security
4 174 (84.06%) Data Engineering
5 173 (83.57%) Machine Learning
5 173 (83.57%) User Experience
6 172 (83.09%) Scrum
7 28 (13.53%) DevOps
8 17 (8.21%) CI/CD
9 13 (6.28%) Observability
10 8 (3.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (3.38%) Coaching
11 7 (3.38%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (3.38%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (3.38%) Service-Level Objective
11 7 (3.38%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (2.90%) Open Source
12 6 (2.90%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 186 (89.86%) Python
2 185 (89.37%) Java
3 176 (85.02%) Go
4 175 (84.54%) JavaScript
5 173 (83.57%) Rust
6 172 (83.09%) C++
7 7 (3.38%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.90%) Bash
9 4 (1.93%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.97%) C#
10 2 (0.97%) SQL
11 1 (0.48%) Bicep
11 1 (0.48%) PHP
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 178 (85.99%) Security Cleared
2 176 (85.02%) AWS Certification
3 173 (83.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 172 (83.09%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (83.09%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.42%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.97%) QA
2 1 (0.48%) GDPR
2 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (10.14%) Terraform
2 10 (4.83%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.86%) Ansible
3 8 (3.86%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.90%) Grafana
5 4 (1.93%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.48%) Argo
6 1 (0.48%) Kibana
6 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (2.42%) Google
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.93%) New Relic
3 2 (0.97%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.48%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.48%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.48%) Splunk