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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 346 309
Rank change year-on-year -69 -37 -37
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 580 1,029 2,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.98% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.03% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 320 721 1,213
10th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,938 £61,180 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £81,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £125,500 £112,500 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -137 400 £80,000 -5.88% 137
UK excluding London -21 375 £65,000 - 77
London -52 192 £105,000 +13.51% 70
Work from Home -150 184 £77,500 -2.68% 75
Scotland +33 167 £69,500 +10.83% 8
North of England -38 66 £62,783 +4.64% 25
South East -51 53 £65,000 -13.04% 18
Midlands +26 38 £60,000 -17.24% 5
South West -12 38 £80,000 +23.08% 16
North West -14 38 £62,783 +5.47% 19
West Midlands +34 23 £82,500 +13.79% 2
Yorkshire +16 21 £60,000 -2.83% 6
East Midlands -4 15 £60,000 - 3
East of England +9 10 £65,620 +0.95% 1
North East - 7 £62,783 -
Wales +13 2 £65,000 +2.52% 4
Northern Ireland +27 1 £75,000 +1.69%

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 60 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 30 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.62%) nginx
4 19 (3.28%) Apache
5 17 (2.93%) Jupyter
6 16 (2.76%) Confluence
7 14 (2.41%) Cloud Foundry
8 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (1.38%) IIS
10 5 (0.86%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.86%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 306 (52.76%) AWS
2 193 (33.28%) Azure
3 80 (13.79%) Datadog
4 63 (10.86%) Serverless
5 61 (10.52%) OpenShift
6 59 (10.17%) Amazon S3
7 57 (9.83%) GCP
8 56 (9.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 56 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 54 (9.31%) Amazon ECS
10 50 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (8.28%) Amazon EC2
11 48 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (6.55%) Amazon SQS
13 36 (6.21%) SaaS
14 30 (5.17%) dbt
14 30 (5.17%) Snowflake
15 24 (4.14%) IaaS
16 23 (3.97%) PaaS
17 22 (3.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.66%) Firewall
2 19 (3.28%) DNS
3 15 (2.59%) Network Security
4 8 (1.38%) VPN
5 6 (1.03%) BGP
5 6 (1.03%) DHCP
5 6 (1.03%) SAN
6 5 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.69%) Internet
7 4 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (0.69%) SSL
8 3 (0.52%) HTTP
8 3 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.34%) DKIM
9 2 (0.34%) DMARC
9 2 (0.34%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.34%) SMTP
10 1 (0.17%) Anycast
10 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (15.52%) Big Data
2 60 (10.34%) Hadoop
3 37 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
4 36 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (5.69%) Dremio
5 33 (5.69%) Elasticsearch
6 30 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
6 30 (5.17%) Apache Arrow
6 30 (5.17%) Data Lake
7 23 (3.97%) MongoDB
8 22 (3.79%) Relational Database
9 20 (3.45%) SQL Server
10 17 (2.93%) Presto
11 15 (2.59%) MySQL
12 7 (1.21%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.86%) Pentaho
13 5 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.86%) Redis
14 4 (0.69%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 124 (21.38%) Jenkins
2 58 (10.00%) Artifactory
3 52 (8.97%) GitLab
4 42 (7.24%) Git
5 24 (4.14%) JIRA
6 20 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (2.59%) TeamCity
8 14 (2.41%) Cucumber
8 14 (2.41%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
10 10 (1.72%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (1.03%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.03%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.69%) Spinnaker
14 3 (0.52%) git-flow
14 3 (0.52%) Travis CI
15 2 (0.34%) Gatling
15 2 (0.34%) JUnit
15 2 (0.34%) LoadRunner
General
1 274 (47.24%) Finance
2 171 (29.48%) Law
3 166 (28.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 117 (20.17%) Social Skills
5 67 (11.55%) Legal
6 61 (10.52%) Marketing
7 49 (8.45%) Banking
8 37 (6.38%) Front Office
9 30 (5.17%) Public Sector
10 23 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (3.45%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.72%) Retail
13 6 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.86%) Games
15 4 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.34%) Back Office
16 2 (0.34%) Tech for Good
17 1 (0.17%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.17%) Health Technology
17 1 (0.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 139 (23.97%) Software Engineer
2 137 (23.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 105 (18.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 94 (16.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 93 (16.03%) Senior
6 90 (15.52%) Big Data Engineer
7 89 (15.34%) Site Engineer
8 82 (14.14%) AWS Engineer
9 73 (12.59%) Lead
10 70 (12.07%) Java Engineer
11 66 (11.38%) Java Software Engineer
12 65 (11.21%) Data Engineer
13 53 (9.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 46 (7.93%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 43 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
15 43 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 43 (7.41%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 36 (6.21%) Lead Software Engineer
17 30 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 28 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (14.66%) Spring
2 78 (13.45%) Spring Boot
3 54 (9.31%) OpenTelemetry
4 36 (6.21%) J2EE
5 30 (5.17%) gRPC
5 30 (5.17%) Protocol Buffers
6 27 (4.66%) .NET
7 22 (3.79%) Kafka
8 20 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (3.45%) YAML
9 19 (3.28%) React
10 18 (3.10%) ARM Templates
10 18 (3.10%) CSS
10 18 (3.10%) HTML
10 18 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (2.93%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (2.93%) Apache NiFi
12 14 (2.41%) JDBC
13 13 (2.24%) Node.js
14 11 (1.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 140 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 114 (19.66%) Public Cloud
3 76 (13.10%) Algorithms
4 47 (8.10%) Legacy Code
5 42 (7.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (6.55%) Hedge funds
7 37 (6.38%) Tandem
8 34 (5.86%) Clustering
9 32 (5.52%) Management Information System
10 31 (5.34%) Data Structures
11 15 (2.59%) Private Cloud
12 13 (2.24%) Data Centre
12 13 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.38%) Product Ownership
14 8 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.03%) Hackathon
15 6 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 122 (21.03%) Linux
2 59 (10.17%) Windows
3 19 (3.28%) Unix
4 17 (2.93%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.86%) VMS
7 4 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.34%) CentOS
9 2 (0.34%) Solaris
9 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.17%) Android
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (52.93%) CI/CD
2 298 (51.38%) DevOps
3 276 (47.59%) Agile
4 265 (45.69%) Software Engineering
5 129 (22.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 125 (21.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 124 (21.38%) Machine Learning
8 121 (20.86%) Observability
9 104 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 88 (15.17%) Continuous Delivery
10 88 (15.17%) Mentoring
11 85 (14.66%) Visualisation
12 82 (14.14%) Decision-Making
13 80 (13.79%) Operational Stability
14 79 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
15 77 (13.28%) Community of Practice
16 76 (13.10%) Containerisation
17 72 (12.41%) SDLC
18 69 (11.90%) Asset Management
19 68 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 257 (44.31%) Java
2 206 (35.52%) Python
3 99 (17.07%) Go
4 96 (16.55%) SQL
5 77 (13.28%) Bash
6 71 (12.24%) PowerShell
7 63 (10.86%) JavaScript
8 33 (5.69%) C#
9 29 (5.00%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.97%) Bicep
11 16 (2.76%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.03%) Ruby
12 6 (1.03%) Scala
13 5 (0.86%) C
14 4 (0.69%) Groovy
15 3 (0.52%) C++
15 3 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.34%) PHP
17 1 (0.17%) Perl
17 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 39 (6.72%) Degree
3 23 (3.97%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.93%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.41%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.90%) AWS Certified Developer
7 11 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.34%) CISSP
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.17%) CISA
11 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.17%) CISM
11 1 (0.17%) MCP
11 1 (0.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.41%) QA
3 9 (1.55%) SLA
4 4 (0.69%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.34%) GDPR
6 2 (0.34%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 168 (28.97%) Docker
2 26 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.38%) KVM
5 6 (1.03%) DFS Replication
5 6 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.52%) Ceph
7 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.17%) NFS
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 288 (49.66%) Terraform
2 243 (41.90%) Kubernetes
3 103 (17.76%) Grafana
4 90 (15.52%) Ansible
5 79 (13.62%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.10%) HAProxy
7 14 (2.41%) Puppet
8 12 (2.07%) Istio
9 10 (1.72%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.03%) NetBackup
11 6 (1.03%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 5 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.86%) Salt
13 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.52%) Kibana
14 3 (0.52%) Packer
15 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
15 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 80 (13.79%) Splunk
2 69 (11.90%) Dynatrace
3 49 (8.45%) Microsoft
4 41 (7.07%) Google
5 33 (5.69%) VMware
6 16 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.41%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.07%) Cisco
8 12 (2.07%) Oracle
9 10 (1.72%) Citrix
10 8 (1.38%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.21%) Sybase
11 7 (1.21%) Veeam
12 6 (1.03%) Juniper
13 5 (0.86%) CA
14 4 (0.69%) Serena
15 3 (0.52%) BMC
15 3 (0.52%) New Relic
15 3 (0.52%) PagerDuty
15 3 (0.52%) Remedy