Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in Belfast

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 46 42
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +34
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 2 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 0.60% 0.70% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.79% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £66,274 -
25th Percentile £68,813 £68,978 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £77,154 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +18.70% -3.70%
75th Percentile £78,790 £84,161 £73,650
90th Percentile - £86,164 £75,960
County Antrim median annual salary £73,801 £77,154 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +18.70% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Belfast

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 in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 254 252 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 75.82% 87.80% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 149 83 181
10th Percentile £26,850 £40,200 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £78,312 £88,750 £69,800
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,000
County Antrim median annual salary £50,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.93% +35.00% -

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Belfast

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google