Site Reliability Engineering Jobs

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Site Reliability Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 368 297
Rank change year-on-year -38 -71 -34
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 632 866 2,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.89% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.93% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 363 614 1,200
10th Percentile £55,400 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.52% -8.97% +11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Site Reliability Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Top 17 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
England -87 444 £80,000 -5.88% 123
UK excluding London +14 398 £65,000 -1.52% 66
Work from Home -98 222 £83,038 +4.28% 64
London +10 221 £105,000 +10.53% 68
Scotland +53 174 £80,000 +33.33% 5
North of England +5 74 £62,783 +1.67% 21
South East -74 54 £65,000 -13.33% 11
Midlands +16 41 £60,000 -17.24% 6
South West -34 40 £80,000 +18.52% 11
North West +1 39 £62,783 +2.50% 11
Yorkshire +34 27 £62,783 +0.45% 10
West Midlands +19 24 £82,500 +13.79% 5
East Midlands -3 17 £55,000 - 1
East of England -8 11 £65,620 +0.95% 5
North East +1 8 £62,783 +4.64%
Northern Ireland +15 2 £66,900 -10.80% 2
Wales +3 2 £56,900 -10.25% 6

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 59 (9.34%) Apache Spark
2 54 (8.54%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.32%) nginx
4 19 (3.01%) Apache
5 17 (2.69%) Jupyter
6 15 (2.37%) Cloud Foundry
6 15 (2.37%) Confluence
7 8 (1.27%) IIS
7 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.79%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.79%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 341 (53.96%) AWS
2 208 (32.91%) Azure
3 81 (12.82%) Datadog
4 70 (11.08%) GCP
5 57 (9.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 55 (8.70%) Serverless
7 54 (8.54%) dbt
7 54 (8.54%) Snowflake
8 51 (8.07%) Amazon S3
9 50 (7.91%) OpenShift
10 48 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 48 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (6.65%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
12 41 (6.49%) SaaS
13 38 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (4.75%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (4.75%) PaaS
15 29 (4.59%) IaaS
16 26 (4.11%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.27%) Firewall
2 19 (3.01%) DNS
3 15 (2.37%) Network Security
4 9 (1.42%) VPN
5 7 (1.11%) SAN
6 6 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.79%) BGP
7 5 (0.79%) DHCP
8 4 (0.63%) Internet
8 4 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.63%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.63%) SSL
9 3 (0.47%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.47%) HTTP
9 3 (0.47%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.32%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.32%) DKIM
10 2 (0.32%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.32%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (17.88%) Big Data
2 59 (9.34%) Hadoop
3 56 (8.86%) Dremio
4 54 (8.54%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (8.54%) Apache Arrow
4 54 (8.54%) Data Lake
5 35 (5.54%) Elasticsearch
6 30 (4.75%) MongoDB
7 29 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (3.80%) SQL Server
10 22 (3.48%) Relational Database
11 17 (2.69%) Presto
12 16 (2.53%) MySQL
13 9 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (1.27%) Redis
15 7 (1.11%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.95%) MariaDB
17 5 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
17 5 (0.79%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 116 (18.35%) Jenkins
2 58 (9.18%) GitLab
3 48 (7.59%) Artifactory
4 42 (6.65%) Git
5 23 (3.64%) JIRA
6 17 (2.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (2.37%) Cucumber
7 15 (2.37%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.37%) Octopus Deploy
8 14 (2.22%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.74%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.95%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.95%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.63%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.47%) git-flow
14 1 (0.16%) Gatling
14 1 (0.16%) Gradle
14 1 (0.16%) JUnit
14 1 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 302 (47.78%) Finance
2 180 (28.48%) Law
3 176 (27.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 133 (21.04%) Social Skills
5 66 (10.44%) Legal
6 63 (9.97%) Marketing
7 49 (7.75%) Banking
8 32 (5.06%) Public Sector
9 29 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
10 27 (4.27%) Front Office
11 20 (3.16%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.58%) Retail
13 6 (0.95%) Games
13 6 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.32%) Back Office
15 2 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.16%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 173 (27.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 140 (22.15%) Software Engineer
3 129 (20.41%) Site Engineer
4 113 (17.88%) Big Data Engineer
5 101 (15.98%) Cloud Engineer
6 100 (15.82%) AWS Engineer
7 99 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 98 (15.51%) Senior
9 85 (13.45%) Lead
10 71 (11.23%) Java Engineer
11 65 (10.28%) Java Software Engineer
12 63 (9.97%) Data Engineer
13 53 (8.39%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 42 (6.65%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 38 (6.01%) Kubernetes Engineer
16 37 (5.85%) Lead Software Engineer
17 35 (5.54%) AWS DevOps
17 35 (5.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 35 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
18 33 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (13.29%) Spring
2 79 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 55 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 54 (8.54%) gRPC
4 54 (8.54%) Protocol Buffers
5 28 (4.43%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (4.11%) .NET
6 26 (4.11%) J2EE
7 24 (3.80%) Kafka
8 21 (3.32%) React
9 20 (3.16%) CSS
9 20 (3.16%) HTML
9 20 (3.16%) YAML
10 19 (3.01%) ARM Templates
11 18 (2.85%) Node.js
11 18 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (2.69%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (2.69%) Apache NiFi
13 15 (2.37%) JDBC
14 12 (1.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 140 (22.15%) Cloud Native
2 115 (18.20%) Public Cloud
3 75 (11.87%) Algorithms
4 61 (9.65%) Hedge funds
5 58 (9.18%) Clustering
6 50 (7.91%) Legacy Code
7 41 (6.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (5.06%) Management Information System
9 30 (4.75%) Data Structures
10 27 (4.27%) Tandem
11 18 (2.85%) Private Cloud
12 15 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
15 10 (1.58%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (1.27%) Product Ownership
16 8 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
17 6 (0.95%) Hackathon
17 6 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 124 (19.62%) Linux
2 66 (10.44%) Windows
3 19 (3.01%) Unix
4 16 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.95%) VMS
7 5 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.32%) Solaris
11 1 (0.16%) Android
11 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.16%) CentOS
11 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (53.96%) DevOps
2 311 (49.21%) CI/CD
3 275 (43.51%) Agile
4 260 (41.14%) Software Engineering
5 138 (21.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (21.20%) Observability
7 131 (20.73%) Artificial Intelligence
8 125 (19.78%) Machine Learning
9 113 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 105 (16.61%) Mentoring
11 90 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
12 85 (13.45%) Community of Practice
12 85 (13.45%) Continuous Delivery
12 85 (13.45%) Visualisation
13 83 (13.13%) Asset Management
14 80 (12.66%) Operational Stability
15 76 (12.03%) Containerisation
16 75 (11.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 74 (11.71%) SDLC
18 73 (11.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 271 (42.88%) Java
2 227 (35.92%) Python
3 113 (17.88%) Go
4 100 (15.82%) SQL
5 89 (14.08%) JavaScript
6 84 (13.29%) Bash
7 75 (11.87%) PowerShell
8 33 (5.22%) C#
9 25 (3.96%) Bicep
9 25 (3.96%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.85%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.95%) C
11 6 (0.95%) Ruby
11 6 (0.95%) Scala
12 4 (0.63%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.47%) C++
13 3 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.32%) Groovy
14 2 (0.32%) PHP
15 1 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 53 (8.39%) Security Cleared
2 44 (6.96%) Degree
3 24 (3.80%) DV Cleared
3 24 (3.80%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.48%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.37%) AWS Certification
5 15 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.74%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.32%) CISSP
9 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.16%) CISA
10 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CISM
10 1 (0.16%) MCP
10 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (2.37%) QA
3 13 (2.06%) SLA
4 4 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.47%) NIST
6 2 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 163 (25.79%) Docker
2 33 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 21 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.27%) KVM
5 6 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.79%) DFS Replication
7 3 (0.47%) NFS
7 3 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.32%) Ceph
8 2 (0.32%) vSphere
9 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 323 (51.11%) Terraform
2 268 (42.41%) Kubernetes
3 107 (16.93%) Grafana
3 107 (16.93%) Prometheus
4 93 (14.72%) Ansible
5 20 (3.16%) HAProxy
6 15 (2.37%) Istio
7 12 (1.90%) Puppet
8 9 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (0.79%) NetBackup
9 5 (0.79%) Salt
9 5 (0.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 4 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.47%) Packer
12 2 (0.32%) Kibana
12 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 84 (13.29%) Splunk
2 69 (10.92%) Dynatrace
3 57 (9.02%) Microsoft
4 43 (6.80%) Google
5 34 (5.38%) VMware
6 18 (2.85%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.37%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.06%) Cisco
9 11 (1.74%) Oracle
10 8 (1.27%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.27%) Citrix
11 7 (1.11%) BMC
11 7 (1.11%) Remedy
11 7 (1.11%) Sybase
12 6 (0.95%) Veeam
13 5 (0.79%) CA
13 5 (0.79%) Juniper
14 4 (0.63%) F5
14 4 (0.63%) PagerDuty
14 4 (0.63%) Serena