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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 413 342
Rank change year-on-year +36 -71 -36
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 353 541 1,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.58% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.67% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 312 281 794
10th Percentile £57,525 £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 £125,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,626 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.04% - -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 47,277 80,571 105,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.52% 86.76% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25,823 58,144 61,428
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,000
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 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,404 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

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 3 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 3 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 +105 336 £95,000 +18.75% 434
London +131 225 £110,000 +4.76% 287
Work from Home +196 212 £100,000 +37.93% 213
UK excluding London -2 123 £67,626 +4.04% 177
North of England +43 39 £69,384 +10.51% 62
North West +3 28 £69,654 +11.45% 43
South East +82 25 £75,000 +15.38% 31
South West +84 19 £67,500 -10.00% 26
Midlands +50 15 £60,000 -15.79% 21
West Midlands +28 14 £60,000 -27.27% 21
East of England +64 12 £65,000 -0.94% 13
Scotland -5 12 £68,404 +4.04% 19
Yorkshire +69 6 £72,500 +15.48% 13
North East +42 5 £69,384 +10.51% 7
Wales +44 3 £67,626 -9.83%
Northern Ireland +39 2 £77,154 +2.87% 5
East Midlands +43 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 (20.40%) Apache Airflow
2 71 (20.11%) Apache
2 71 (20.11%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.40%) Apache Solr
4 10 (2.83%) nginx
5 3 (0.85%) 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
1 255 (72.24%) AWS
2 150 (42.49%) Amazon ECS
3 141 (39.94%) Serverless
4 125 (35.41%) AWS Lambda
5 118 (33.43%) Azure
6 91 (25.78%) OpenShift
7 87 (24.65%) dbt
8 76 (21.53%) GCP
9 73 (20.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 54 (15.30%) Amazon EC2
11 53 (15.01%) Amazon S3
12 48 (13.60%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (11.05%) Pulumi
14 24 (6.80%) PaaS
15 19 (5.38%) Datadog
16 18 (5.10%) Cloud Computing
17 17 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (4.82%) GitHub
18 16 (4.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
18 16 (4.53%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.93%) TCP/IP
2 12 (3.40%) DNS
3 9 (2.55%) HTTPS
3 9 (2.55%) IPsec
4 7 (1.98%) Internet
5 3 (0.85%) Firewall
6 2 (0.57%) DHCP
6 2 (0.57%) NAS
6 2 (0.57%) Network Security
6 2 (0.57%) SAN
6 2 (0.57%) SNA
6 2 (0.57%) SSH
6 2 (0.57%) WAN
6 2 (0.57%) 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 (20.11%) Amazon Athena
1 71 (20.11%) Apache Arrow
1 71 (20.11%) Apache Iceberg
1 71 (20.11%) Apache Ignite
1 71 (20.11%) Dremio
2 65 (18.41%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (13.60%) Amazon Redshift
4 26 (7.37%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (5.38%) Redis
7 16 (4.53%) MySQL
8 14 (3.97%) MongoDB
9 13 (3.68%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.83%) Couchbase
11 5 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.13%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.13%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.85%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.57%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 87 (24.65%) Artifactory
2 42 (11.90%) Jenkins
3 18 (5.10%) GitLab
4 9 (2.55%) Git
5 7 (1.98%) JIRA
6 3 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.28%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 195 (55.24%) Finance
2 124 (35.13%) Front Office
3 74 (20.96%) Social Skills
4 59 (16.71%) Banking
5 31 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.82%) Law
7 9 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.98%) Games
9 4 (1.13%) Advertising
9 4 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.13%) Public Speaking
9 4 (1.13%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.85%) Marketing
11 1 (0.28%) Billing
11 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Legal
11 1 (0.28%) Military
11 1 (0.28%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 163 (46.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 131 (37.11%) AWS Engineer
3 130 (36.83%) AWS DevOps
4 129 (36.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 104 (29.46%) Python Engineer
6 97 (27.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 73 (20.68%) Site Engineer
8 71 (20.11%) Data Engineer
9 68 (19.26%) Senior
10 35 (9.92%) Senior DevOps
11 34 (9.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 32 (9.07%) DevOps Manager
12 32 (9.07%) Finance Manager
13 27 (7.65%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
14 26 (7.37%) Lead
14 26 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
15 25 (7.08%) Software Engineer
16 24 (6.80%) Kubernetes Engineer
17 20 (5.67%) Senior Manager
18 16 (4.53%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (24.65%) J2EE
2 81 (22.95%) Kafka
3 71 (20.11%) PySpark
4 26 (7.37%) .NET
5 16 (4.53%) Django
6 14 (3.97%) Loki
6 14 (3.97%) REST
7 13 (3.68%) Node.js
8 12 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (3.12%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (2.83%) SAML
11 9 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.98%) OAuth
12 7 (1.98%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.98%) Spring
12 7 (1.98%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.70%) React
14 5 (1.42%) ARM Templates
15 4 (1.13%) .NET Framework
16 3 (0.85%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.48%) Public Cloud
2 29 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.65%) Cloud Native
4 19 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (4.53%) Tandem
6 6 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.13%) Robotics
9 3 (0.85%) Cyberattack
9 3 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.85%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.57%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.57%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.28%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.28%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.28%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (18.98%) Linux
2 23 (6.52%) Unix
3 18 (5.10%) Windows
4 8 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.57%) zOS
6 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (74.22%) DevOps
2 251 (71.10%) CI/CD
3 163 (46.18%) Agile
4 162 (45.89%) Software Engineering
5 126 (35.69%) Asset Management
6 113 (32.01%) Open Source
7 75 (21.25%) Data Engineering
8 69 (19.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 63 (17.85%) Observability
10 55 (15.58%) Platform Engineering
11 54 (15.30%) Fintech
12 48 (13.60%) Deployment Automation
12 48 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (12.18%) Containerisation
14 32 (9.07%) Artificial Intelligence
14 32 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (9.07%) Microservices
15 31 (8.78%) Continuous Delivery
16 29 (8.22%) Service-Level Objective
17 28 (7.93%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 249 (70.54%) Python
2 127 (35.98%) Java
3 121 (34.28%) Go
4 47 (13.31%) JavaScript
5 40 (11.33%) Bash
6 26 (7.37%) Bicep
7 25 (7.08%) PowerShell
8 16 (4.53%) C#
9 14 (3.97%) Rust
9 14 (3.97%) SQL
9 14 (3.97%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.12%) Clojure
10 11 (3.12%) Elixir
10 11 (3.12%) Ruby
10 11 (3.12%) Scala
11 9 (2.55%) PHP
12 5 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.85%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.85%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.57%) JCL
Qualifications
1 30 (8.50%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.23%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.25%) Degree
4 9 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.42%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.57%) 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 (3.68%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.27%) QA
3 5 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.13%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.13%) SLA
5 1 (0.28%) COBIT
5 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 213 (60.34%) Docker
2 13 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.28%) HDFS
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 247 (69.97%) Terraform
2 240 (67.99%) Kubernetes
3 57 (16.15%) Ansible
4 50 (14.16%) Prometheus
5 47 (13.31%) Grafana
6 25 (7.08%) Progress Chef
7 21 (5.95%) Puppet
8 20 (5.67%) Podman
9 16 (4.53%) AWS Copilot
10 6 (1.70%) Istio
10 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.13%) Argo
12 3 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.85%) Packer
13 2 (0.57%) 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 (9.35%) Google
2 17 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.40%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.12%) Splunk
5 10 (2.83%) VMware
6 4 (1.13%) Confluent
6 4 (1.13%) New Relic
6 4 (1.13%) Oracle
7 3 (0.85%) Sybase
8 2 (0.57%) Databricks
8 2 (0.57%) Hitachi
8 2 (0.57%) 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