Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 407 356
Rank change year-on-year -8 -51 -93
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 385 397 684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.67% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.70% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 168 265 544
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,874 £49,125
25th Percentile £57,597 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £89,125 £100,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £81,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.23% +8.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,818 56,534 68,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.50% 95.59% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41,261 29,197 41,375
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK excluding London

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Scotland +43 174 £80,000 +33.33% 10
North of England -30 65 £62,783 +4.64% 24
South East -71 53 £65,000 -13.04% 28
Midlands +15 40 £60,000 -40.00% 4
South West -30 40 £80,000 +18.52% 14
North West -17 35 £62,783 +5.47% 13
Yorkshire +25 23 £61,391 -1.77% 10
West Midlands +23 23 £82,500 -17.50% 2
East Midlands -6 17 £55,000 - 2
East of England +2 10 £65,620 +0.95% 4
North East +5 7 £62,783 +4.64% 1
Wales +9 2 £65,000 +2.52% 8
Northern Ireland +26 1 £75,000 - 1
Site Reliability Engineering
UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 61 (15.84%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.68%) Apache
2 18 (4.68%) Jupyter
2 18 (4.68%) nginx
3 15 (3.90%) Cloud Foundry
4 12 (3.12%) Confluence
5 6 (1.56%) IIS
6 5 (1.30%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.30%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 167 (43.38%) AWS
2 123 (31.95%) Azure
3 75 (19.48%) Datadog
4 55 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 37 (9.61%) SaaS
6 27 (7.01%) GCP
7 21 (5.45%) OpenShift
8 20 (5.19%) Amazon S3
8 20 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (4.68%) MinIO
10 15 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (3.38%) GitHub
11 13 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.60%) IaaS
13 8 (2.08%) Serverless
14 6 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.56%) PaaS
15 5 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.38%) Network Security
2 10 (2.60%) Firewall
3 4 (1.04%) Internet
3 4 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (1.04%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (0.78%) BGP
4 3 (0.78%) DNS
4 3 (0.78%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.78%) SSL
4 3 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (15.84%) Big Data
1 61 (15.84%) Hadoop
2 33 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (5.45%) MongoDB
4 18 (4.68%) Presto
5 15 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.12%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.30%) MySQL
7 5 (1.30%) Pentaho
8 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.52%) Power BI
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 55 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 48 (12.47%) GitLab
3 22 (5.71%) Artifactory
4 19 (4.94%) JIRA
5 18 (4.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 16 (4.16%) Git
7 15 (3.90%) Cucumber
7 15 (3.90%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.34%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.82%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.56%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.78%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.78%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.52%) Spinnaker
General
1 173 (44.94%) Finance
1 173 (44.94%) Law
2 167 (43.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 95 (24.68%) Social Skills
4 62 (16.10%) Marketing
5 59 (15.32%) Legal
6 30 (7.79%) Banking
7 27 (7.01%) Public Sector
8 18 (4.68%) Investment Banking
9 15 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.30%) Games
10 5 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.30%) Retail
11 4 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
12 1 (0.26%) Front Office
12 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 132 (34.29%) Software Engineer
2 87 (22.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 70 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 67 (17.40%) Lead
4 67 (17.40%) Senior
5 66 (17.14%) Java Software Engineer
6 61 (15.84%) Big Data Engineer
6 61 (15.84%) Data Engineer
7 53 (13.77%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 47 (12.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 43 (11.17%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 36 (9.35%) Lead Software Engineer
10 36 (9.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 30 (7.79%) Site Engineer
12 27 (7.01%) Software Engineering Director
13 24 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 24 (6.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (5.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (5.45%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 21 (5.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (21.30%) Spring
2 78 (20.26%) Spring Boot
3 55 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 20 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (5.19%) Kafka
5 19 (4.94%) YAML
6 18 (4.68%) .NET
6 18 (4.68%) ActiveMQ
6 18 (4.68%) Apache NiFi
6 18 (4.68%) CSS
6 18 (4.68%) HTML
6 18 (4.68%) RabbitMQ
7 15 (3.90%) JDBC
7 15 (3.90%) React
8 13 (3.38%) Node.js
9 10 (2.60%) JSON
10 6 (1.56%) XML
11 5 (1.30%) ARM Templates
11 5 (1.30%) Middleware
12 4 (1.04%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 126 (32.73%) Cloud Native
2 105 (27.27%) Public Cloud
3 66 (17.14%) Algorithms
4 49 (12.73%) Legacy Code
5 39 (10.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (8.05%) Management Information System
7 23 (5.97%) Data Structures
8 16 (4.16%) Private Cloud
9 13 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (2.60%) Data Centre
11 8 (2.08%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.56%) Hackathon
13 5 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.30%) Reference Data
14 4 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 3 (0.78%) Robotics
16 2 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
16 2 (0.52%) IoT
16 2 (0.52%) Mobile App
17 1 (0.26%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 78 (20.26%) Linux
2 39 (10.13%) Windows
3 9 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.82%) Unix
5 5 (1.30%) VMS
5 5 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (55.84%) CI/CD
2 198 (51.43%) Software Engineering
3 194 (50.39%) Agile
4 163 (42.34%) DevOps
5 130 (33.77%) Artificial Intelligence
6 124 (32.21%) Machine Learning
7 123 (31.95%) Observability
8 85 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 85 (22.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 82 (21.30%) Continuous Delivery
10 80 (20.78%) Operational Stability
11 78 (20.26%) Community of Practice
12 75 (19.48%) Visualisation
13 71 (18.44%) Mentoring
14 62 (16.10%) SDLC
15 56 (14.55%) Containerisation
16 55 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
17 54 (14.03%) Stakeholder Management
18 52 (13.51%) Information Architecture
18 52 (13.51%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 151 (39.22%) Java
2 76 (19.74%) SQL
3 75 (19.48%) Python
4 48 (12.47%) Bash
5 31 (8.05%) PowerShell
6 24 (6.23%) Shell Script
7 19 (4.94%) Bicep
8 17 (4.42%) JavaScript
9 10 (2.60%) Go
10 4 (1.04%) C#
11 3 (0.78%) Ruby
12 2 (0.52%) C
12 2 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.26%) R
13 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (6.75%) Degree
1 26 (6.75%) Security Cleared
2 21 (5.45%) DV Cleared
3 10 (2.60%) Master's Degree
4 8 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
5 7 (1.82%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.52%) CISSP
9 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.26%) CISA
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.26%) CISM
9 1 (0.26%) CRISC
9 1 (0.26%) MCP
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (3.38%) QA
3 4 (1.04%) SLA
4 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.52%) GDPR
5 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 88 (22.86%) Docker
2 10 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 166 (43.12%) Terraform
2 117 (30.39%) Kubernetes
3 100 (25.97%) Grafana
4 60 (15.58%) Ansible
5 44 (11.43%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.68%) HAProxy
7 5 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.26%) Argo
10 1 (0.26%) Istio
10 1 (0.26%) Pingdom
10 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.26%) Salt
10 1 (0.26%) SCCM
10 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 78 (20.26%) Splunk
2 68 (17.66%) Dynatrace
3 22 (5.71%) Google
4 21 (5.45%) Microsoft
5 14 (3.64%) VMware
6 13 (3.38%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.30%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.30%) CA
8 5 (1.30%) Oracle
8 5 (1.30%) Sybase
9 3 (0.78%) Citrix
9 3 (0.78%) Juniper
9 3 (0.78%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (0.78%) PagerDuty
10 2 (0.52%) New Relic
10 2 (0.52%) YouTube
11 1 (0.26%) Cisco
11 1 (0.26%) Ivanti
11 1 (0.26%) Meraki