Site Reliability Engineering Jobs

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 376 317 301
Rank change year-on-year -59 -16 +32
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 406 1,387 1,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 1.13% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.18% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 323 890 937
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,225 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,200 £60,713 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £101,875 £98,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,351 £66,786 £71,640
% change year-on-year -2.15% -6.78% +10.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,863 117,613 122,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.11% 95.75% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36,022 72,003 82,155
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,680 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the UK

Site Reliability Engineering
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England -57 361 £82,500 +3.13% 148
Work from Home -22 205 £72,500 -8.96% 83
UK excluding London -14 195 £65,351 -2.15% 83
London -23 184 £95,000 +5.56% 82
North of England +43 91 £60,000 -10.16% 22
North West +88 57 £55,000 -16.53% 12
South West +36 33 £75,000 +20.00% 18
South East +78 30 £77,500 +6.90% 25
Yorkshire +26 30 £65,351 -2.15% 10
Scotland -1 22 £80,000 +19.79% 10
Midlands +70 8 £45,250 -35.36% 3
West Midlands +97 7 £30,500 -56.43% 3
Wales +6 5 £65,000 -7.14% 3
North East +29 4 £65,000 -13.33%
East of England +82 3 £65,000 -27.78% 4
Northern Ireland +37 3 £65,000 -3.70%
East Midlands +21 1 £80,000 +14.29%

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (4.93%) nginx
2 15 (3.69%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.69%) Confluence
3 13 (3.20%) Apache
4 11 (2.71%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.25%) PTC Creo
1 1 (0.25%) Simulink
1 1 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 231 (56.90%) AWS
2 189 (46.55%) Azure
3 144 (35.47%) GCP
4 74 (18.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 58 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 53 (13.05%) Serverless
7 51 (12.56%) GitHub
8 42 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
9 40 (9.85%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
12 28 (6.90%) Amazon S3
13 26 (6.40%) PaaS
14 25 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (5.91%) dbt
16 21 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (5.17%) SaaS
17 20 (4.93%) Pulumi
18 13 (3.20%) Azure AKS
18 13 (3.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.39%) TCP/IP
2 15 (3.69%) DNS
3 13 (3.20%) Network Security
4 11 (2.71%) Firewall
5 6 (1.48%) SAN
5 6 (1.48%) VPN
6 4 (0.99%) DHCP
6 4 (0.99%) HTTP
6 4 (0.99%) SSL
7 3 (0.74%) BGP
8 2 (0.49%) NGFW
8 2 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.25%) AMQP
9 1 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.25%) LAN
9 1 (0.25%) Multicast
9 1 (0.25%) NAS
9 1 (0.25%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.64%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (6.40%) Redis
4 16 (3.94%) Big Data
5 15 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (3.69%) Hadoop
6 12 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.96%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.71%) Presto
8 10 (2.46%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.48%) MySQL
11 5 (1.23%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.99%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.99%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
14 2 (0.49%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
15 1 (0.25%) Oracle Exadata
15 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 108 (26.60%) Jenkins
2 45 (11.08%) GitLab
3 39 (9.61%) Git
4 22 (5.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 22 (5.42%) JIRA
5 20 (4.93%) Artifactory
6 13 (3.20%) TeamCity
7 11 (2.71%) Maven
8 8 (1.97%) Liquibase
8 8 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.72%) Gradle
10 5 (1.23%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.23%) Gatling
10 5 (1.23%) JUnit
10 5 (1.23%) LoadRunner
10 5 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.99%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.74%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.74%) Travis CI
13 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
General
1 170 (41.87%) Finance
2 89 (21.92%) Banking
3 65 (16.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (13.30%) Social Skills
5 31 (7.64%) Front Office
6 21 (5.17%) Investment Banking
7 17 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (4.19%) Retail
8 13 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (2.71%) Law
10 7 (1.72%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.23%) Aviation
11 5 (1.23%) Electronics
11 5 (1.23%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.99%) Games
12 4 (0.99%) Legal
12 4 (0.99%) Public Speaking
13 3 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 155 (38.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 113 (27.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 101 (24.88%) Site Engineer
4 71 (17.49%) Senior
5 57 (14.04%) Lead
6 56 (13.79%) AWS Engineer
7 41 (10.10%) AWS DevOps
8 40 (9.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 32 (7.88%) Senior DevOps
10 29 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 27 (6.65%) Developer
12 26 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
13 23 (5.67%) Software Engineer
14 20 (4.93%) Python Engineer
15 18 (4.43%) Kubernetes Engineer
16 17 (4.19%) Architect
16 17 (4.19%) Service Manager
17 16 (3.94%) Data Engineer
18 15 (3.69%) Big Data Engineer
19 14 (3.45%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.07%) Node.js
2 35 (8.62%) .NET
3 27 (6.65%) Elastic Stack
4 24 (5.91%) Django
5 22 (5.42%) ARM Templates
6 21 (5.17%) Kafka
7 15 (3.69%) Azure Blueprints
8 14 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
8 14 (3.45%) YAML
9 12 (2.96%) J2EE
9 12 (2.96%) Spring
10 11 (2.71%) ActiveMQ
10 11 (2.71%) Apache NiFi
11 9 (2.22%) SAML
12 8 (1.97%) OAuth
12 8 (1.97%) OAuth2
12 8 (1.97%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.48%) .NET Core
13 6 (1.48%) REST
14 5 (1.23%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.36%) Cloud Native
1 38 (9.36%) Public Cloud
2 37 (9.11%) Self-Motivation
3 33 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
5 27 (6.65%) Virtual Team
6 24 (5.91%) Product Ownership
7 23 (5.67%) Cyberattack
8 17 (4.19%) Tandem
9 13 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (3.20%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.96%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (2.71%) Private Cloud
12 9 (2.22%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.48%) CMDB
14 6 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (1.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 122 (30.05%) Linux
2 43 (10.59%) Unix
3 23 (5.67%) Windows
4 14 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (3.45%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.25%) CentOS
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (61.82%) DevOps
2 211 (51.97%) CI/CD
3 173 (42.61%) Agile
4 110 (27.09%) Software Engineering
5 107 (26.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 76 (18.72%) Observability
7 73 (17.98%) Mentoring
8 65 (16.01%) Microservices
9 63 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (14.53%) Containerisation
11 48 (11.82%) Open Source
11 48 (11.82%) Roadmaps
12 45 (11.08%) Continuous Integration
13 44 (10.84%) Machine Learning
14 42 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
15 41 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (10.10%) Migration
16 37 (9.11%) Data Engineering
16 37 (9.11%) ITIL
17 36 (8.87%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 175 (43.10%) Python
2 147 (36.21%) Java
3 82 (20.20%) Go
4 81 (19.95%) Bash
5 68 (16.75%) PowerShell
6 53 (13.05%) JavaScript
7 30 (7.39%) SQL
8 24 (5.91%) Rust
9 21 (5.17%) Shell Script
10 19 (4.68%) Bicep
11 17 (4.19%) Ruby
11 17 (4.19%) TypeScript
12 15 (3.69%) Groovy
13 13 (3.20%) C#
13 13 (3.20%) Kotlin
14 9 (2.22%) Scala
15 7 (1.72%) Perl
16 4 (0.99%) C++
17 3 (0.74%) PHP
18 2 (0.49%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 68 (16.75%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.11%) DV Cleared
3 34 (8.37%) AWS Certification
4 31 (7.64%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 23 (5.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 23 (5.67%) AWS Certified Developer
7 22 (5.42%) Degree
8 8 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.74%) MCSE
12 1 (0.25%) MCSA
12 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.65%) QA
2 5 (1.23%) SLA
3 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.49%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 137 (33.74%) Docker
2 15 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.23%) Varnish
5 4 (0.99%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.49%) vSphere
7 1 (0.25%) Ceph
7 1 (0.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 216 (53.20%) Kubernetes
2 192 (47.29%) Terraform
3 63 (15.52%) Ansible
4 55 (13.55%) Grafana
5 42 (10.34%) Prometheus
6 28 (6.90%) Argo
7 27 (6.65%) Puppet
8 18 (4.43%) Rancher
9 16 (3.94%) Istio
10 13 (3.20%) Progress Chef
11 11 (2.71%) HAProxy
12 6 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (1.23%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.99%) NetBackup
14 4 (0.99%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 3 (0.74%) Icinga
15 3 (0.74%) Nagios
16 2 (0.49%) Packer
16 2 (0.49%) Salt
17 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 44 (10.84%) Google
2 28 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.90%) Splunk
3 20 (4.93%) VMware
4 16 (3.94%) Dynatrace
5 14 (3.45%) Red Hat
6 13 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.71%) Citrix
8 10 (2.46%) PagerDuty
8 10 (2.46%) TOWER Software
9 8 (1.97%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.23%) EMC
10 5 (1.23%) New Relic
10 5 (1.23%) Synopsys
11 4 (0.99%) Oracle
11 4 (0.99%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.99%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.99%) Veeam
12 3 (0.74%) Apple
12 3 (0.74%) F5