Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in County Antrim

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 48 39
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +47
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 2 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 0.55% 0.61% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.73% 1.21%
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
Northern Ireland median annual salary £73,801 £77,154 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +18.70% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 284 273 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 77.81% 83.74% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 155 99 185
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,900 £29,994
25th Percentile £35,625 £47,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +42.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £77,906 £82,500 £68,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £78,750
Northern Ireland median annual salary £50,000 £59,715 £49,500
% change year-on-year -16.27% +20.64% -1.00%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Belfast +12 2 £73,801 -4.35% 1
Site Reliability Engineering
Northern Ireland

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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