Site Reliability Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 393 267 271
Rank change year-on-year -126 +4 -29
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 202 533 964
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 1.30% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.35% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 166 392 653
10th Percentile £57,597 £42,874 £55,000
25th Percentile £61,522 £58,769 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £79,632 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% +6.18% +5.63%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £109,865 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,884 39,545 66,696
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 23,455 27,516 41,159
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Site Reliability Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Site Reliability Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Site Reliability Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Site Reliability Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 42 (20.79%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.47%) IIS
3 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.50%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (2.97%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 136 (67.33%) AWS
2 79 (39.11%) Azure
3 42 (20.79%) dbt
3 42 (20.79%) Snowflake
4 25 (12.38%) GCP
5 18 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (8.42%) SaaS
7 13 (6.44%) Serverless
8 9 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.46%) Azure AKS
9 8 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (3.47%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.97%) Azure Storage
11 6 (2.97%) PaaS
11 6 (2.97%) Rubrik
12 5 (2.48%) GitHub
12 5 (2.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.94%) Firewall
2 9 (4.46%) DNS
3 7 (3.47%) SAN
4 6 (2.97%) DHCP
5 5 (2.48%) BGP
5 5 (2.48%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.48%) VPN
6 4 (1.98%) SSL
7 3 (1.49%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.99%) HTTP
9 1 (0.50%) Anycast
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.50%) Internet
9 1 (0.50%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (21.78%) Dremio
2 42 (20.79%) Amazon Athena
2 42 (20.79%) Apache Arrow
2 42 (20.79%) Big Data
2 42 (20.79%) Data Lake
3 9 (4.46%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.47%) MySQL
4 7 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.98%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.98%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.49%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.49%) Redis
8 2 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.99%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.99%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (15.35%) GitLab
2 24 (11.88%) Git
3 21 (10.40%) Artifactory
4 20 (9.90%) Jenkins
5 13 (6.44%) TeamCity
6 8 (3.96%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (2.97%) JIRA
7 6 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.49%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.50%) Gatling
9 1 (0.50%) git-flow
9 1 (0.50%) Gradle
9 1 (0.50%) JUnit
9 1 (0.50%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.50%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 62 (30.69%) Finance
2 26 (12.87%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.90%) Social Skills
4 19 (9.41%) Legal
5 13 (6.44%) Law
6 12 (5.94%) Banking
7 10 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.98%) Retail
9 3 (1.49%) Games
9 3 (1.49%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.99%) Back Office
10 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.99%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 78 (38.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 71 (35.15%) Site Engineer
3 52 (25.74%) AWS Engineer
4 44 (21.78%) Senior
5 42 (20.79%) Big Data Engineer
6 32 (15.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (15.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 27 (13.37%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (11.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (10.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (10.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 16 (7.92%) Lead
12 15 (7.43%) Software Engineer
13 12 (5.94%) Java Engineer
14 11 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (4.95%) Lead DevOps
16 8 (3.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
16 8 (3.96%) Principal Engineer
16 8 (3.96%) Senior Java Engineer
17 7 (3.47%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (20.79%) gRPC
1 42 (20.79%) Protocol Buffers
2 11 (5.45%) Node.js
3 10 (4.95%) .NET
4 8 (3.96%) GraphQL
4 8 (3.96%) REST
5 7 (3.47%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.97%) JSON
6 6 (2.97%) Spring
7 5 (2.48%) ADO
7 5 (2.48%) CSS
7 5 (2.48%) HTML
7 5 (2.48%) React
7 5 (2.48%) SAML
8 4 (1.98%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.98%) AWS SAM
8 4 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.98%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.98%) OpenID
8 4 (1.98%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 48 (23.76%) Hedge funds
2 44 (21.78%) Clustering
3 34 (16.83%) Public Cloud
4 21 (10.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (8.42%) Cloud Native
6 16 (7.92%) Algorithms
7 15 (7.43%) Data Structures
8 11 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (4.95%) Management Information System
10 8 (3.96%) Product Ownership
10 8 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.97%) Legacy Code
11 6 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.98%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (1.49%) Client/Server
13 3 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (1.49%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 54 (26.73%) Linux
2 51 (25.25%) Windows
3 13 (6.44%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.46%) Unix
5 6 (2.97%) VMS
6 3 (1.49%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.49%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.99%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.99%) Solaris
7 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.50%) CentOS
8 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (68.81%) DevOps
2 64 (31.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 60 (29.70%) CI/CD
4 55 (27.23%) Agile
5 54 (26.73%) Investment Management
6 45 (22.28%) Asset Management
7 44 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (21.29%) Software Engineering
9 42 (20.79%) Mentoring
10 39 (19.31%) Coaching
11 37 (18.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 35 (17.33%) Service Management
13 33 (16.34%) Microservices
14 31 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (13.37%) Migration
16 26 (12.87%) Computer Science
17 25 (12.38%) ITIL
17 25 (12.38%) Roadmaps
18 21 (10.40%) Data Management
18 21 (10.40%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 87 (43.07%) Python
2 72 (35.64%) Java
3 59 (29.21%) Go
4 45 (22.28%) JavaScript
5 34 (16.83%) PowerShell
6 29 (14.36%) Bash
7 19 (9.41%) C#
8 16 (7.92%) SQL
9 10 (4.95%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.48%) C
10 5 (2.48%) Scala
11 3 (1.49%) C++
11 3 (1.49%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.99%) Groovy
12 2 (0.99%) Perl
12 2 (0.99%) Ruby
12 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (15.35%) Degree
2 10 (4.95%) Azure Certification
2 10 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (4.95%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.46%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.47%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.44%) QA
2 3 (1.49%) SLA
3 2 (0.99%) GDPR
3 2 (0.99%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) NIST
4 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (26.24%) Docker
2 16 (7.92%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.97%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.99%) Ceph
5 2 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.50%) NFS
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 108 (53.47%) Terraform
2 102 (50.50%) Kubernetes
3 52 (25.74%) Ansible
4 47 (23.27%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.94%) Puppet
6 7 (3.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (3.47%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.97%) NetBackup
7 6 (2.97%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 5 (2.48%) Grafana
9 4 (1.98%) Istio
10 2 (0.99%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.99%) Kibana
10 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.99%) Packer
10 2 (0.99%) Salt
11 1 (0.50%) Consul
11 1 (0.50%) SCCM
11 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.93%) VMware
3 8 (3.96%) Red Hat
4 7 (3.47%) Veeam
5 6 (2.97%) BMC
5 6 (2.97%) Citrix
5 6 (2.97%) Remedy
5 6 (2.97%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.98%) Google
6 4 (1.98%) Juniper
6 4 (1.98%) Oracle
7 2 (0.99%) Cisco
7 2 (0.99%) F5
7 2 (0.99%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.99%) Serena
7 2 (0.99%) Sybase
7 2 (0.99%) TOWER Software
7 2 (0.99%) YouTube
8 1 (0.50%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.50%) Zerto