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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 158 323
Rank change year-on-year -5 +165 -27
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 208 290 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.73% 1.41% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.77% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 28 70 69
10th Percentile £51,113 £54,625 £38,999
25th Percentile £61,297 £57,524 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,505 £62,783 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% +4.64% -17.24%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,438 £78,107
90th Percentile £84,850 £87,500 £91,973
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £82,818
% change year-on-year +6.25% -3.40% +6.86%

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 10,955 16,346 14,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 91.35% 79.52% 96.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,410 12,021 7,692
10th Percentile £25,084 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £81,250
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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -10 194 £67,037 +6.78% 137
Yorkshire +30 11 £70,000 +11.50% 98
North East +36 3 £69,384 +10.51% 18
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 1 (0.48%) Apache Solr
1 1 (0.48%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 195 (93.75%) AWS
2 183 (87.98%) Azure
3 180 (86.54%) GCP
4 7 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (1.92%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (1.92%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 4 (1.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (1.92%) AWS CodeBuild
6 4 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.92%) dbt
6 4 (1.92%) Pulumi
6 4 (1.92%) Sentry
7 2 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.96%) Datadog
7 2 (0.96%) IaaS
7 2 (0.96%) PaaS
7 2 (0.96%) Serverless
8 1 (0.48%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.92%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.33%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.92%) Redis
5 1 (0.48%) MySQL
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (6.73%) GitLab
1 14 (6.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.92%) Git
3 1 (0.48%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.48%) JIRA
General
1 176 (84.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (3.85%) Finance
2 8 (3.85%) Social Skills
3 3 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (0.96%) Electronics
4 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
4 2 (0.96%) Marketing
4 2 (0.96%) Public Sector
4 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.48%) Billing
5 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.48%) Games
5 1 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 178 (85.58%) Senior
2 175 (84.13%) Software Engineer
3 173 (83.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 14 (6.73%) Lead
5 11 (5.29%) Site Engineer
5 11 (5.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (2.88%) Technical Leader
7 5 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.44%) Lead DevOps
9 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 2 (0.96%) Java Engineer
9 2 (0.96%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (0.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.96%) Python Engineer
9 2 (0.96%) Python Software Engineer
10 1 (0.48%) Architect
10 1 (0.48%) Consultant
10 1 (0.48%) Developer
10 1 (0.48%) Infrastructure Manager
10 1 (0.48%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (84.62%) .NET
2 174 (83.65%) Node.js
3 6 (2.88%) Kafka
4 4 (1.92%) Django
5 3 (1.44%) LDAP
6 2 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.96%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.96%) RESTful
6 2 (0.96%) SOAP
6 2 (0.96%) Spring
6 2 (0.96%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.48%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.48%) FIDO
7 1 (0.48%) JWT
7 1 (0.48%) Loki
7 1 (0.48%) OAuth
7 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.48%) OpenID
7 1 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 172 (82.69%) Cyberattack
1 172 (82.69%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (82.69%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 4 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.48%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 179 (86.06%) Linux
2 4 (1.92%) Unix
3 3 (1.44%) Windows
4 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.48%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (88.46%) Software Engineering
2 183 (87.98%) Agile
3 181 (87.02%) Mentoring
3 181 (87.02%) Microservices
4 176 (84.62%) Data Engineering
5 174 (83.65%) Cloud Security
6 173 (83.17%) User Experience
7 172 (82.69%) Machine Learning
7 172 (82.69%) Scrum
8 29 (13.94%) DevOps
9 16 (7.69%) CI/CD
10 11 (5.29%) Observability
11 7 (3.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (3.37%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (3.37%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (2.88%) Coaching
12 6 (2.88%) Continuous Delivery
12 6 (2.88%) Performance Monitoring
12 6 (2.88%) Service-Level Objective
12 6 (2.88%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 190 (91.35%) Python
2 188 (90.38%) Java
3 176 (84.62%) Go
3 176 (84.62%) JavaScript
4 173 (83.17%) Rust
5 172 (82.69%) C++
6 9 (4.33%) Bash
7 8 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.40%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.44%) C#
10 2 (0.96%) SQL
11 1 (0.48%) Bicep
11 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 179 (86.06%) Security Cleared
2 176 (84.62%) AWS Certification
3 174 (83.65%) DV Cleared
4 173 (83.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 172 (82.69%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.92%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.44%) QA
2 2 (0.96%) GDPR
2 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (4.33%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Squid
Systems Management
1 18 (8.65%) Terraform
2 11 (5.29%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.85%) Ansible
4 7 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.88%) Grafana
6 4 (1.92%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.96%) Kibana
7 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.48%) Puppet
8 1 (0.48%) Rancher
8 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (2.40%) Google
1 5 (2.40%) New Relic
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.44%) Oracle
3 2 (0.96%) SAP
4 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.48%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.48%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.48%) Splunk
4 1 (0.48%) TOWER Software
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