Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 50 44
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +58
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 2 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.61% 0.41% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.52% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £56,307 -
25th Percentile £68,813 £57,668 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £64,054 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -14.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £78,790 £71,158 £82,500
90th Percentile - £72,950 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 291 381 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 88.72% 78.88% 91.64%
Number of salaries quoted 137 190 258
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,051 £29,921
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £92,625 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% - -

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
County Antrim +12 2 £73,801 +15.22% 6
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (50.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSP
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) CSIRT
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google