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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 412 332
Rank change year-on-year +51 -80 -24
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 356 534 1,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.58% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.66% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 315 280 804
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,323
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £118,750 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £125,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,563 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.94% - -10.34%

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 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

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 2 April 2025.

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 2 April 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
England +100 339 £94,819 +18.52% 420
London +119 227 £110,000 +4.76% 280
Work from Home +182 214 £100,000 +37.93% 204
UK excluding London -12 124 £67,563 +3.94% 165
North of England +47 40 £69,384 +10.51% 59
North West +8 29 £69,308 +10.89% 40
South East +78 25 £75,000 +15.38% 28
South West +84 19 £67,500 -10.00% 24
Midlands +45 15 £60,000 -15.79% 19
West Midlands +23 14 £60,000 -27.27% 19
East of England +56 12 £65,000 -0.94% 14
Scotland -2 12 £68,404 +4.04% 16
Yorkshire +61 6 £72,500 +15.48% 13
North East +40 5 £69,384 +10.51% 7
Wales +45 3 £67,626 -9.83%
Northern Ireland +41 2 £77,154 +2.87% 5
East Midlands +41 1 £45,000 -25.00%

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 72 (20.22%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (19.94%) Apache
2 71 (19.94%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.37%) Apache Solr
4 10 (2.81%) nginx
5 3 (0.84%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 258 (72.47%) AWS
2 152 (42.70%) Amazon ECS
3 143 (40.17%) Serverless
4 127 (35.67%) AWS Lambda
5 118 (33.15%) Azure
6 91 (25.56%) OpenShift
7 87 (24.44%) dbt
8 76 (21.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 76 (21.35%) GCP
9 56 (15.73%) Amazon EC2
10 55 (15.45%) Amazon S3
11 50 (14.04%) Amazon SQS
12 39 (10.96%) Pulumi
13 24 (6.74%) PaaS
14 19 (5.34%) Datadog
15 18 (5.06%) Cloud Computing
16 17 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (4.78%) GitHub
17 16 (4.49%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 16 (4.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.87%) TCP/IP
2 12 (3.37%) DNS
3 9 (2.53%) HTTPS
3 9 (2.53%) IPsec
4 7 (1.97%) Internet
5 3 (0.84%) Firewall
6 2 (0.56%) DHCP
6 2 (0.56%) NAS
6 2 (0.56%) Network Security
6 2 (0.56%) SAN
6 2 (0.56%) SNA
6 2 (0.56%) SSH
6 2 (0.56%) WAN
6 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.28%) Multicast
7 1 (0.28%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.28%) SNMP
7 1 (0.28%) Unicast
7 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (19.94%) Amazon Athena
1 71 (19.94%) Apache Arrow
1 71 (19.94%) Apache Iceberg
1 71 (19.94%) Apache Ignite
1 71 (19.94%) Dremio
2 67 (18.82%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (14.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 26 (7.30%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (5.34%) Redis
7 16 (4.49%) MySQL
8 14 (3.93%) MongoDB
9 13 (3.65%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.81%) Couchbase
11 5 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.12%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.12%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.84%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.56%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 87 (24.44%) Artifactory
2 43 (12.08%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.06%) GitLab
4 9 (2.53%) Git
5 7 (1.97%) JIRA
6 3 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.28%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 197 (55.34%) Finance
2 126 (35.39%) Front Office
3 74 (20.79%) Social Skills
4 61 (17.13%) Banking
5 31 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.78%) Law
7 9 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.97%) Games
9 4 (1.12%) Advertising
9 4 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.12%) Public Speaking
9 4 (1.12%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.84%) Marketing
11 1 (0.28%) Billing
11 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Legal
11 1 (0.28%) Military
11 1 (0.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 165 (46.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 133 (37.36%) AWS Engineer
3 132 (37.08%) AWS DevOps
4 131 (36.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 106 (29.78%) Python Engineer
6 98 (27.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 74 (20.79%) Site Engineer
8 71 (19.94%) Data Engineer
8 71 (19.94%) Senior
9 37 (10.39%) Senior DevOps
10 36 (10.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 34 (9.55%) DevOps Manager
11 34 (9.55%) Finance Manager
12 29 (8.15%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
13 26 (7.30%) Lead
13 26 (7.30%) Platform Engineer
14 25 (7.02%) Software Engineer
15 24 (6.74%) Kubernetes Engineer
16 22 (6.18%) Senior Manager
17 16 (4.49%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (24.44%) J2EE
2 81 (22.75%) Kafka
3 71 (19.94%) PySpark
4 26 (7.30%) .NET
5 16 (4.49%) Django
6 14 (3.93%) Loki
6 14 (3.93%) REST
7 13 (3.65%) Node.js
8 12 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (3.09%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (2.81%) SAML
11 9 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.97%) OAuth
12 7 (1.97%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.97%) Spring
12 7 (1.97%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.69%) React
14 5 (1.40%) ARM Templates
15 4 (1.12%) .NET Framework
16 3 (0.84%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.39%) Public Cloud
2 29 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.58%) Cloud Native
4 19 (5.34%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (4.49%) Tandem
6 6 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.12%) Robotics
9 3 (0.84%) Cyberattack
9 3 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.84%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.56%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.56%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.56%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.56%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.28%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.28%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.28%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (19.10%) Linux
2 23 (6.46%) Unix
3 19 (5.34%) Windows
4 9 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.56%) zOS
6 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (74.16%) DevOps
2 254 (71.35%) CI/CD
3 165 (46.35%) Agile
4 164 (46.07%) Software Engineering
5 128 (35.96%) Asset Management
6 113 (31.74%) Open Source
7 75 (21.07%) Data Engineering
8 70 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 63 (17.70%) Observability
10 56 (15.73%) Fintech
11 55 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
12 48 (13.48%) Deployment Automation
12 48 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (12.36%) Containerisation
14 32 (8.99%) Artificial Intelligence
14 32 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (8.99%) Microservices
15 31 (8.71%) Continuous Delivery
16 30 (8.43%) Service-Level Objective
17 28 (7.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 252 (70.79%) Python
2 128 (35.96%) Java
3 122 (34.27%) Go
4 49 (13.76%) JavaScript
5 41 (11.52%) Bash
6 26 (7.30%) Bicep
7 25 (7.02%) PowerShell
8 16 (4.49%) C#
9 15 (4.21%) Rust
10 14 (3.93%) SQL
10 14 (3.93%) TypeScript
11 11 (3.09%) Clojure
11 11 (3.09%) Elixir
11 11 (3.09%) Ruby
11 11 (3.09%) Scala
12 9 (2.53%) PHP
13 5 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.84%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.56%) JCL
Qualifications
1 30 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.18%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.21%) Degree
4 9 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.25%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.28%) CCSP
9 1 (0.28%) CISA
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CISM
9 1 (0.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.28%) CRISC
9 1 (0.28%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.65%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.25%) QA
3 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.12%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.12%) SLA
5 1 (0.28%) COBIT
5 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 216 (60.67%) Docker
2 13 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.28%) HDFS
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 249 (69.94%) Terraform
2 242 (67.98%) Kubernetes
3 58 (16.29%) Ansible
4 50 (14.04%) Prometheus
5 47 (13.20%) Grafana
6 25 (7.02%) Progress Chef
7 21 (5.90%) Puppet
8 20 (5.62%) Podman
9 16 (4.49%) AWS Copilot
10 6 (1.69%) Istio
10 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.12%) Argo
12 3 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.84%) Packer
13 2 (0.56%) Tivoli NetView
14 1 (0.28%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.28%) linkerd
14 1 (0.28%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (9.27%) Google
2 17 (4.78%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.37%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.09%) Splunk
5 10 (2.81%) VMware
6 4 (1.12%) Confluent
6 4 (1.12%) New Relic
6 4 (1.12%) Oracle
7 3 (0.84%) Sybase
8 2 (0.56%) Databricks
8 2 (0.56%) Hitachi
8 2 (0.56%) IBM
9 1 (0.28%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.28%) BigPanda
9 1 (0.28%) F5
9 1 (0.28%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.28%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow