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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 36 57
Rank change year-on-year -31 +21 -10
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 53 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 3.79% 0.33% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.45% 0.37% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £73,954 - -
25th Percentile - - £55,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £58,800
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.27%
75th Percentile - - £62,200
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - -

All Process & 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 973 269 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 69.50% 87.91% 78.64%
Number of salaries quoted 286 122 246
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £35,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,938
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 7 September 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
County Antrim -29 26 £80,000 - 26
County Down - 16 - -
County Armagh - 9 - -
County Tyrone - 2 - -
Newry - 1 - -
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 48 (90.57%) AWS
1 48 (90.57%) Azure
2 47 (88.68%) SaaS
3 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.89%) dbt
3 1 (1.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
General
1 28 (52.83%) Law
2 1 (1.89%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (88.68%) IT Manager
1 47 (88.68%) IT Services Manager
1 47 (88.68%) Resilience Manager
1 47 (88.68%) Service Manager
2 6 (11.32%) Python Engineer
2 6 (11.32%) Senior
2 6 (11.32%) Site Engineer
2 6 (11.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (88.68%) Middleware
2 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 47 (88.68%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Linux
1 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (90.57%) DevOps
2 47 (88.68%) Agile
2 47 (88.68%) Business Continuity
2 47 (88.68%) Contingency Planning
2 47 (88.68%) Contract Negotiation
2 47 (88.68%) Disaster Recovery
2 47 (88.68%) Enterprise Architecture
2 47 (88.68%) Graceful Degradation
2 47 (88.68%) Information Security
2 47 (88.68%) ITIL
2 47 (88.68%) Runbook
2 47 (88.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 47 (88.68%) Test Automation
2 47 (88.68%) Waterfall
3 28 (52.83%) Business Continuity Management
3 28 (52.83%) Programme Delivery
3 28 (52.83%) Project Delivery
4 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
5 1 (1.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (1.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.32%) Python
Qualifications
1 47 (88.68%) CISM
1 47 (88.68%) CISSP
1 47 (88.68%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (88.68%) ISO 22301
1 47 (88.68%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (1.89%) Google