Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 399 353
Rank change year-on-year -10 -46 -91
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 385 417 687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.70% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.73% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 168 273 553
10th Percentile £50,125 £42,874 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £81,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,616 57,236 66,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.97% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,251 29,494 41,057
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Scotland +40 172 £76,250 +27.08% 2
North of England -37 67 £62,783 +1.67% 22
South East -74 53 £65,000 -13.33% 15
Midlands +15 40 £60,000 -30.43% 5
South West -40 39 £80,000 +18.52% 15
North West -16 37 £62,783 +5.47% 16
West Midlands +20 23 £82,500 -4.35% 1
Yorkshire +16 23 £61,391 -2.96% 6
East Midlands -5 17 £55,000 - 4
East of England +17 11 £65,620 +0.95% 1
North East - 7 £62,783 -
Wales +7 2 £65,000 +2.52% 6
Northern Ireland +22 1 £75,000 -
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (15.58%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.42%) Apache
2 17 (4.42%) Jupyter
2 17 (4.42%) nginx
3 15 (3.90%) Cloud Foundry
4 12 (3.12%) Confluence
5 6 (1.56%) IIS
6 5 (1.30%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.30%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 167 (43.38%) AWS
2 124 (32.21%) Azure
3 75 (19.48%) Datadog
4 55 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 37 (9.61%) SaaS
6 27 (7.01%) GCP
7 21 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (5.19%) OpenShift
9 19 (4.94%) Amazon S3
10 17 (4.42%) MinIO
11 16 (4.16%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (3.38%) GitHub
13 13 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (2.60%) IaaS
15 8 (2.08%) Serverless
16 7 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
17 6 (1.56%) PaaS
18 5 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
18 5 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.38%) Network Security
2 11 (2.86%) Firewall
3 4 (1.04%) BGP
3 4 (1.04%) Internet
3 4 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (1.04%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (1.04%) VPN
4 3 (0.78%) DNS
4 3 (0.78%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.58%) Big Data
1 60 (15.58%) Hadoop
2 33 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (5.45%) MongoDB
4 17 (4.42%) Presto
5 15 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.12%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.56%) MySQL
8 5 (1.30%) Pentaho
9 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.52%) Power BI
10 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 54 (14.03%) Jenkins
2 48 (12.47%) GitLab
3 22 (5.71%) Artifactory
4 19 (4.94%) JIRA
5 17 (4.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 16 (4.16%) Git
7 15 (3.90%) Cucumber
7 15 (3.90%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.82%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.56%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.78%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.78%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.52%) Spinnaker
General
1 173 (44.94%) Finance
1 173 (44.94%) Law
2 167 (43.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 95 (24.68%) Social Skills
4 62 (16.10%) Marketing
5 59 (15.32%) Legal
6 30 (7.79%) Banking
7 27 (7.01%) Public Sector
8 18 (4.68%) Investment Banking
9 15 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.30%) Games
10 5 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.30%) Retail
11 4 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
12 1 (0.26%) Front Office
12 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 132 (34.29%) Software Engineer
2 88 (22.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 70 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 67 (17.40%) Lead
5 66 (17.14%) Java Software Engineer
5 66 (17.14%) Senior
6 60 (15.58%) Big Data Engineer
6 60 (15.58%) Data Engineer
7 53 (13.77%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 47 (12.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 43 (11.17%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 38 (9.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 36 (9.35%) Lead Software Engineer
12 32 (8.31%) Site Engineer
13 27 (7.01%) Software Engineering Director
14 24 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (6.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (5.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 21 (5.45%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 21 (5.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (21.30%) Spring
2 78 (20.26%) Spring Boot
3 55 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 20 (5.19%) Kafka
5 19 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (4.68%) .NET
6 18 (4.68%) CSS
6 18 (4.68%) HTML
6 18 (4.68%) YAML
7 17 (4.42%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (4.42%) Apache NiFi
7 17 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
8 15 (3.90%) JDBC
8 15 (3.90%) React
9 13 (3.38%) Node.js
10 10 (2.60%) JSON
11 6 (1.56%) XML
12 5 (1.30%) ARM Templates
12 5 (1.30%) Middleware
13 4 (1.04%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 126 (32.73%) Cloud Native
2 105 (27.27%) Public Cloud
3 66 (17.14%) Algorithms
4 49 (12.73%) Legacy Code
5 39 (10.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (8.05%) Management Information System
7 23 (5.97%) Data Structures
8 16 (4.16%) Private Cloud
9 13 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.86%) Data Centre
11 8 (2.08%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.56%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.30%) Reference Data
14 4 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 3 (0.78%) Robotics
16 2 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
16 2 (0.52%) IoT
16 2 (0.52%) Mobile App
17 1 (0.26%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 77 (20.00%) Linux
2 38 (9.87%) Windows
3 8 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.82%) Unix
5 5 (1.30%) VMS
5 5 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (55.84%) CI/CD
2 199 (51.69%) Software Engineering
3 195 (50.65%) Agile
4 162 (42.08%) DevOps
5 130 (33.77%) Artificial Intelligence
6 124 (32.21%) Machine Learning
7 121 (31.43%) Observability
8 85 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 83 (21.56%) Infrastructure as Code
10 82 (21.30%) Continuous Delivery
11 80 (20.78%) Operational Stability
12 78 (20.26%) Community of Practice
13 75 (19.48%) Visualisation
14 71 (18.44%) Mentoring
15 62 (16.10%) SDLC
16 55 (14.29%) Containerisation
16 55 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
17 54 (14.03%) Stakeholder Management
18 52 (13.51%) Information Architecture
18 52 (13.51%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 151 (39.22%) Java
2 77 (20.00%) SQL
3 72 (18.70%) Python
4 48 (12.47%) Bash
5 32 (8.31%) PowerShell
6 24 (6.23%) Shell Script
7 19 (4.94%) Bicep
8 17 (4.42%) JavaScript
9 10 (2.60%) Go
10 4 (1.04%) C#
11 3 (0.78%) Ruby
12 2 (0.52%) C
13 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.26%) R
13 1 (0.26%) Scala
13 1 (0.26%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 26 (6.75%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.49%) Degree
3 20 (5.19%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.34%) Azure Certification
4 9 (2.34%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
5 7 (1.82%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.52%) CISSP
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.26%) CISA
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.26%) CISM
9 1 (0.26%) CRISC
9 1 (0.26%) MCP
9 1 (0.26%) MCSE
9 1 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (3.38%) QA
3 4 (1.04%) SLA
4 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.52%) GDPR
5 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 88 (22.86%) Docker
2 10 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 165 (42.86%) Terraform
2 116 (30.13%) Kubernetes
3 99 (25.71%) Grafana
4 59 (15.32%) Ansible
5 43 (11.17%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.42%) HAProxy
7 5 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.26%) Argo
10 1 (0.26%) Istio
10 1 (0.26%) Pingdom
10 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) Salt
10 1 (0.26%) SCCM
10 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (20.00%) Splunk
2 68 (17.66%) Dynatrace
3 21 (5.45%) Google
3 21 (5.45%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.90%) VMware
5 13 (3.38%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.30%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.30%) CA
7 5 (1.30%) Oracle
7 5 (1.30%) Sybase
8 3 (0.78%) Citrix
8 3 (0.78%) Juniper
8 3 (0.78%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (0.78%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.52%) New Relic
9 2 (0.52%) YouTube
10 1 (0.26%) Cisco
10 1 (0.26%) Ivanti
10 1 (0.26%) Meraki