Site Reliability Engineering Jobs

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 413 371
Rank change year-on-year +80 -42 -75
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 468 632 873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.62% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.73% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 234 364 617
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,400 £49,700
25th Percentile £64,537 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £125,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% -9.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
England +130 445 £90,000 +12.50% 340
Work from Home +179 324 £100,000 +19.65% 210
UK excluding London +111 295 £67,500 +3.85% 163
North of England +152 210 £69,384 +10.51% 64
North West +110 194 £67,332 +7.25% 42
London +70 162 £110,000 +4.76% 199
Midlands +39 20 £60,000 - 15
West Midlands +59 19 £63,750 -22.73% 11
Scotland -13 19 £67,500 -15.63% 18
South West +93 15 £57,443 -28.20% 18
South East +50 14 £77,500 +19.23% 24
East of England +45 13 £65,000 -0.94% 12
Yorkshire +49 12 £70,000 +11.50% 21
North East +44 4 £69,384 +10.51% 2
Wales +48 3 £37,733 -33.69% 2
Northern Ireland +42 1 £85,000 +27.06% 4
East Midlands +23 1 £45,000 -18.18% 4

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 60 (12.82%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (12.61%) Apache
2 59 (12.61%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.92%) Apache Solr
4 8 (1.71%) nginx
5 3 (0.64%) CMS
6 2 (0.43%) Confluence
7 1 (0.21%) CICS
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 378 (80.77%) AWS
2 282 (60.26%) Azure
3 246 (52.56%) GCP
4 94 (20.09%) Amazon ECS
5 86 (18.38%) Serverless
6 77 (16.45%) AWS Lambda
7 71 (15.17%) OpenShift
8 68 (14.53%) dbt
9 34 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 33 (7.05%) Pulumi
11 16 (3.42%) Datadog
12 15 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (2.99%) Amazon S3
14 13 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (2.56%) GitHub
16 11 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
18 9 (1.92%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.14%) DNS
3 6 (1.28%) HTTPS
3 6 (1.28%) IPsec
4 4 (0.85%) NAS
4 4 (0.85%) SAN
5 3 (0.64%) Firewall
5 3 (0.64%) Network Security
5 3 (0.64%) WAN
6 2 (0.43%) DHCP
6 2 (0.43%) SNA
6 2 (0.43%) SNMP
6 2 (0.43%) SSH
6 2 (0.43%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.21%) Multicast
7 1 (0.21%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.21%) VLAN
7 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (12.61%) Amazon Athena
1 59 (12.61%) Apache Arrow
1 59 (12.61%) Apache Iceberg
1 59 (12.61%) Apache Ignite
1 59 (12.61%) Dremio
2 22 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (3.21%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.14%) MySQL
6 10 (2.14%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.92%) Redis
8 8 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.50%) Couchbase
10 4 (0.85%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.64%) DB2
11 3 (0.64%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.43%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 61 (13.03%) Artifactory
2 31 (6.62%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.77%) GitLab
4 12 (2.56%) Git
5 10 (2.14%) JIRA
6 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.21%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.21%) Subversion
7 1 (0.21%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.21%) Vite
General
1 197 (42.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 147 (31.41%) Finance
3 69 (14.74%) Front Office
4 64 (13.68%) Social Skills
5 33 (7.05%) Banking
6 18 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 17 (3.63%) Law
8 14 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.14%) Marketing
10 6 (1.28%) Electronics
10 6 (1.28%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.07%) Games
12 3 (0.64%) Advertising
13 1 (0.21%) Billing
13 1 (0.21%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.21%) Military
13 1 (0.21%) Retail
Job Titles
1 227 (48.50%) Senior
2 202 (43.16%) Software Engineer
3 180 (38.46%) Senior Software Engineer
4 104 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 86 (18.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 82 (17.52%) AWS Engineer
7 80 (17.09%) AWS DevOps
8 79 (16.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 70 (14.96%) Python Engineer
9 70 (14.96%) Site Engineer
10 59 (12.61%) Data Engineer
11 45 (9.62%) Lead
12 21 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
13 15 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 13 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
15 12 (2.56%) Junior
16 11 (2.35%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
17 10 (2.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
17 10 (2.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (45.09%) .NET
2 193 (41.24%) Node.js
3 72 (15.38%) Kafka
4 61 (13.03%) J2EE
5 59 (12.61%) PySpark
6 24 (5.13%) Loki
7 12 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (2.35%) Spring
9 10 (2.14%) Spring Boot
10 9 (1.92%) Django
11 8 (1.71%) REST
12 7 (1.50%) React
13 6 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
14 4 (0.85%) .NET Framework
14 4 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
14 4 (0.85%) FastAPI
15 3 (0.64%) ASP.NET
15 3 (0.64%) Java EE
15 3 (0.64%) SAML
15 3 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 182 (38.89%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (38.03%) Cyberattack
2 178 (38.03%) Linux Command Line
3 26 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 20 (4.27%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.07%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.85%) Robotics
10 3 (0.64%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.64%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.64%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.43%) Tandem
12 1 (0.21%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.21%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.21%) Cyber Warfare
12 1 (0.21%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 223 (47.65%) Linux
2 14 (2.99%) Unix
3 13 (2.78%) Windows
4 9 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.43%) CentOS
6 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.43%) zOS
7 1 (0.21%) Android
7 1 (0.21%) Debian
7 1 (0.21%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (65.60%) Agile
2 288 (61.54%) Software Engineering
3 252 (53.85%) Data Engineering
4 210 (44.87%) DevOps
5 209 (44.66%) Mentoring
6 200 (42.74%) Microservices
7 192 (41.03%) Machine Learning
8 186 (39.74%) Scrum
9 184 (39.32%) Cloud Security
10 183 (39.10%) User Experience
11 180 (38.46%) CI/CD
12 83 (17.74%) Open Source
13 71 (15.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 68 (14.53%) Asset Management
15 63 (13.46%) Observability
16 50 (10.68%) Containerisation
17 48 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
18 41 (8.76%) Platform Engineering
19 30 (6.41%) Stakeholder Management
20 29 (6.20%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 352 (75.21%) Python
2 285 (60.90%) Java
3 274 (58.55%) Go
4 198 (42.31%) JavaScript
5 184 (39.32%) Rust
6 179 (38.25%) C++
7 37 (7.91%) Bash
8 25 (5.34%) C#
9 24 (5.13%) PowerShell
10 22 (4.70%) TypeScript
11 18 (3.85%) Bicep
12 11 (2.35%) SQL
13 8 (1.71%) Ruby
14 6 (1.28%) PHP
15 5 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.85%) Clojure
16 4 (0.85%) Elixir
16 4 (0.85%) Scala
17 3 (0.64%) Gremlin
17 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 201 (42.95%) Security Cleared
2 185 (39.53%) AWS Certification
2 185 (39.53%) DV Cleared
3 180 (38.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 178 (38.03%) AWS Certified Developer
5 21 (4.49%) Degree
6 14 (2.99%) SC Cleared
7 13 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.21%) CCSP
9 1 (0.21%) CISA
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.21%) CISM
9 1 (0.21%) CISSP
9 1 (0.21%) CRISC
9 1 (0.21%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.14%) QA
2 6 (1.28%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.07%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.64%) SLA
6 2 (0.43%) GDPR
7 1 (0.21%) COBIT
7 1 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 148 (31.62%) Docker
2 6 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.85%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.64%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.43%) Squid
7 1 (0.21%) HDFS
7 1 (0.21%) RACF
7 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 187 (39.96%) Terraform
2 180 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 60 (12.82%) Grafana
4 54 (11.54%) Prometheus
5 47 (10.04%) Ansible
6 24 (5.13%) Progress Chef
7 18 (3.85%) Puppet
8 14 (2.99%) Podman
9 9 (1.92%) AWS Copilot
10 8 (1.71%) Istio
11 5 (1.07%) Argo
12 3 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.43%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.43%) Kibana
13 2 (0.43%) linkerd
13 2 (0.43%) Tivoli NetView
14 1 (0.21%) Consul
14 1 (0.21%) Packer
14 1 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 27 (5.77%) Google
2 13 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.78%) Oracle
2 13 (2.78%) Splunk
2 13 (2.78%) VMware
3 10 (2.14%) Dynatrace
4 8 (1.71%) Hitachi
4 8 (1.71%) SAP
5 6 (1.28%) Confluent
6 5 (1.07%) New Relic
7 4 (0.85%) IBM
7 4 (0.85%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.64%) ForgeRock
8 3 (0.64%) Ping Identity
8 3 (0.64%) Sybase
9 2 (0.43%) Broadcom
9 2 (0.43%) Databricks
9 2 (0.43%) F5
9 2 (0.43%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.43%) ServiceNow