Site Reliability Engineering Jobs

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 372 313
Rank change year-on-year +124 -59 -22
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 815 467 1,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 0.81% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.86% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 266 369 891
10th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,688 £60,200 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% - -
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £99,375
90th Percentile £117,500 £117,236 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £66,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -5.71% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63,881 54,318 133,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.08% 94.30% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30,489 39,141 76,332
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,439 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.69% - +5.00%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 +121 780 £85,000 +3.03% 71
UK excluding London +130 464 £75,000 +13.64% 33
London +96 324 £95,000 +5.56% 40
Work from Home +66 320 £80,000 +6.67% 59
North of England +105 291 £77,500 +19.23% 14
North West +93 240 £75,000 +20.00% 8
South West +39 81 £77,500 -3.13% 5
South East -18 49 £72,500 -4.92% 7
Yorkshire +23 34 £85,000 +30.07% 5
Scotland -10 19 £77,500 -3.13% 2
North East -24 17 £69,308 +6.63% 1
Midlands -30 12 £69,308 +15.51% 2
West Midlands -25 10 £69,308 +53.17% 2
East of England -50 8 £77,500 +3.33% 1
Wales +38 6 £67,154 +3.31% 2
Northern Ireland +15 2 £64,054 -8.49%
East Midlands -39 2 £37,500 -53.13%

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 19 (2.33%) Apache
1 19 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.47%) nginx
4 11 (1.35%) Jupyter
5 8 (0.98%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.25%) Confluence
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 206 (25.28%) AWS
2 160 (19.63%) Azure
3 99 (12.15%) GCP
4 45 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 43 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
5 43 (5.28%) SaaS
5 43 (5.28%) Serverless
6 39 (4.79%) OpenShift
7 37 (4.54%) Amazon S3
7 37 (4.54%) PaaS
8 33 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
9 32 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (3.80%) dbt
11 30 (3.68%) GitHub
12 27 (3.31%) Entra ID
12 27 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
13 26 (3.19%) Amazon SQS
13 26 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
14 23 (2.82%) Azure AKS
14 23 (2.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 131 (16.07%) Broadband
2 17 (2.09%) TCP/IP
3 14 (1.72%) Internet
4 8 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (0.49%) DNS
5 4 (0.49%) SAN
6 3 (0.37%) Firewall
6 3 (0.37%) NAS
7 2 (0.25%) IPsec
7 2 (0.25%) Network Security
7 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.25%) SSL
7 2 (0.25%) VPN
8 1 (0.12%) BGP
8 1 (0.12%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.12%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.12%) MPLS
8 1 (0.12%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.89%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (4.05%) Big Data
3 31 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (3.44%) Redis
5 24 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 22 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (2.33%) Hadoop
9 18 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (2.21%) Apache Arrow
9 18 (2.21%) Dremio
10 13 (1.60%) MongoDB
11 11 (1.35%) Presto
12 10 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.23%) MySQL
12 10 (1.23%) SQL Server
13 9 (1.10%) MariaDB
14 7 (0.86%) ClickHouse
15 6 (0.74%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 67 (8.22%) Jenkins
2 21 (2.58%) Git
3 18 (2.21%) GitLab
4 17 (2.09%) SonarQube
5 11 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (1.23%) Artifactory
6 10 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (0.98%) Spinnaker
8 7 (0.86%) JIRA
8 7 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (0.86%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.12%) Gradle
General
1 342 (41.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 214 (26.26%) Social Skills
3 152 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (15.09%) Finance
5 37 (4.54%) Banking
6 29 (3.56%) Retail
7 26 (3.19%) Front Office
8 25 (3.07%) Marketing
9 22 (2.70%) Advertising
10 19 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.21%) Law
12 15 (1.84%) Tech for Good
13 9 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.10%) Public Speaking
13 9 (1.10%) Retail Banking
14 7 (0.86%) Games
14 7 (0.86%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.61%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.49%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 250 (30.67%) Lead
2 147 (18.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 123 (15.09%) Team Leader
4 112 (13.74%) Site Engineer
4 112 (13.74%) Software Engineer
5 100 (12.27%) Architect
6 83 (10.18%) Software Architect
7 82 (10.06%) Programmer
7 82 (10.06%) Software Programmer
8 79 (9.69%) Lead Software Engineer
8 79 (9.69%) Senior
9 77 (9.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 59 (7.24%) AWS Engineer
11 44 (5.40%) Platform Engineer
12 41 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 39 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
14 36 (4.42%) Senior Manager
15 33 (4.05%) Kubernetes Engineer
16 28 (3.44%) Senior DevOps
17 26 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (19.51%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (2.70%) SAML
3 18 (2.21%) gRPC
3 18 (2.21%) Protocol Buffers
4 14 (1.72%) OAuth
4 14 (1.72%) OAuth2
4 14 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
5 13 (1.60%) Django
5 13 (1.60%) Kafka
5 13 (1.60%) Node.js
6 11 (1.35%) ActiveMQ
6 11 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
6 11 (1.35%) YAML
7 10 (1.23%) ARM Templates
7 10 (1.23%) REST
8 8 (0.98%) J2EE
8 8 (0.98%) Loki
9 6 (0.74%) .NET
10 5 (0.61%) Azure Blueprints
10 5 (0.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 283 (34.72%) Cyberattack
2 132 (16.20%) Private Cloud
3 38 (4.66%) Public Cloud
4 28 (3.44%) Clustering
5 27 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (3.19%) Cloud Native
7 25 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (2.45%) Hedge funds
10 18 (2.21%) Blog
10 18 (2.21%) Digital Media
10 18 (2.21%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.60%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.10%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.98%) Over-the-Top Content
14 8 (0.98%) Product Ownership
14 8 (0.98%) Tandem
15 6 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 205 (25.15%) Linux
2 30 (3.68%) Windows
3 25 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.60%) Unix
5 9 (1.10%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (0.61%) SUSE
6 5 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.49%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (60.74%) Mentoring
2 460 (56.44%) Problem-Solving
3 423 (51.90%) Agile
4 402 (49.33%) DevOps
5 377 (46.26%) Software Engineering
6 334 (40.98%) CI/CD
7 308 (37.79%) Data Engineering
8 305 (37.42%) Machine Learning
9 287 (35.21%) User Experience
10 280 (34.36%) Creative Thinking
11 223 (27.36%) Observability
12 199 (24.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 190 (23.31%) Containerisation
14 169 (20.74%) Deployment Automation
15 162 (19.88%) Configuration Management
16 158 (19.39%) Continuous Integration
17 146 (17.91%) Roadmaps
18 143 (17.55%) Infrastructure as Code
19 138 (16.93%) Computer Science
20 136 (16.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 312 (38.28%) Python
2 202 (24.79%) Bash
3 137 (16.81%) Shell Script
4 83 (10.18%) Java
5 56 (6.87%) JavaScript
6 54 (6.63%) Go
7 46 (5.64%) PowerShell
8 28 (3.44%) SQL
9 19 (2.33%) Bicep
10 17 (2.09%) Perl
11 15 (1.84%) Rust
12 13 (1.60%) C#
13 7 (0.86%) C++
14 6 (0.74%) Clojure
14 6 (0.74%) Elixir
14 6 (0.74%) Scala
15 5 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
16 4 (0.49%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.25%) Groovy
18 1 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 162 (19.88%) Degree
2 138 (16.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 135 (16.56%) Master's Degree
4 123 (15.09%) LPIC
4 123 (15.09%) RHCSA
5 60 (7.36%) Security Cleared
6 30 (3.68%) SC Cleared
7 25 (3.07%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.21%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.74%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.12%) CCSP
13 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.12%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (15.21%) NIST
1 124 (15.21%) SOC 2
2 9 (1.10%) SLA
3 7 (0.86%) QA
4 6 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 270 (33.13%) Docker
2 38 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 6 (0.74%) Varnish
5 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) NFS
6 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 210 (25.77%) Ansible
2 209 (25.64%) Terraform
3 190 (23.31%) Kubernetes
4 187 (22.94%) Prometheus
5 179 (21.96%) Grafana
6 15 (1.84%) Puppet
7 12 (1.47%) HAProxy
7 12 (1.47%) Istio
7 12 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (1.47%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.23%) Salt
9 9 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.49%) Packer
12 2 (0.25%) Argo
12 2 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.25%) Kibana
12 2 (0.25%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 55 (6.75%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.13%) Google
3 22 (2.70%) Dynatrace
4 20 (2.45%) Splunk
5 16 (1.96%) Red Hat
5 16 (1.96%) VMware
6 12 (1.47%) Oracle
7 8 (0.98%) ServiceNow
8 7 (0.86%) AppDynamics
8 7 (0.86%) BMC
8 7 (0.86%) Remedy
8 7 (0.86%) SAP
9 5 (0.61%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.49%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.49%) Ping Identity
10 4 (0.49%) Serena
11 3 (0.37%) HP
11 3 (0.37%) New Relic
12 2 (0.25%) Cisco
12 2 (0.25%) IBM