Site Reliability Engineering Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 405 266
Rank change year-on-year +169 -139 +4
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 181 191 545
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.21% 0.56% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.62% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 172 156 398
10th Percentile £61,297 £57,597 £42,874
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £58,782
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £82,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +3.60% +6.18%
75th Percentile £118,750 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £125,000 £109,865
UK median annual salary £91,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +13.75% -3.03% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Site Reliability Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Site Reliability Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Site Reliability Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Site Reliability Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 71 (39.23%) Apache
1 71 (39.23%) Apache Airflow
1 71 (39.23%) Apache Spark
2 11 (6.08%) Apache Solr
3 8 (4.42%) nginx
4 3 (1.66%) CMS
5 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 143 (79.01%) AWS
2 107 (59.12%) Amazon ECS
3 104 (57.46%) Serverless
4 98 (54.14%) AWS Lambda
5 80 (44.20%) dbt
6 77 (42.54%) OpenShift
7 42 (23.20%) Azure
8 35 (19.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (17.13%) GCP
10 25 (13.81%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (13.26%) Amazon S3
11 24 (13.26%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (4.97%) Amazon ECR
12 9 (4.97%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (4.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (4.97%) AWS CodeBuild
12 9 (4.97%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (4.97%) Pulumi
12 9 (4.97%) Sentry
13 8 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.50%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.97%) DNS
3 8 (4.42%) HTTPS
3 8 (4.42%) IPsec
4 2 (1.10%) SNA
4 2 (1.10%) WAN
5 1 (0.55%) DHCP
5 1 (0.55%) Firewall
5 1 (0.55%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.55%) SSH
5 1 (0.55%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (39.23%) Amazon Athena
1 71 (39.23%) Apache Arrow
1 71 (39.23%) Apache Iceberg
1 71 (39.23%) Apache Ignite
1 71 (39.23%) Dremio
2 33 (18.23%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (13.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (7.73%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (7.18%) MySQL
5 13 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (6.08%) NoSQL
7 10 (5.52%) Redis
8 9 (4.97%) Couchbase
8 9 (4.97%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.55%) Big Data
9 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.55%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (39.23%) Artifactory
2 15 (8.29%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.97%) GitLab
4 4 (2.21%) Git
5 2 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 126 (69.61%) Finance
2 95 (52.49%) Front Office
3 39 (21.55%) Banking
4 24 (13.26%) Social Skills
5 14 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (6.08%) Law
7 6 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.76%) Games
8 5 (2.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.55%) Aviation
9 1 (0.55%) Electronics
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.55%) Retail
9 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (62.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 101 (55.80%) AWS DevOps
2 101 (55.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 101 (55.80%) AWS Engineer
3 96 (53.04%) Python Engineer
4 71 (39.23%) Data Engineer
5 37 (20.44%) Senior
6 35 (19.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 31 (17.13%) Site Engineer
8 24 (13.26%) DevOps Manager
8 24 (13.26%) Finance Manager
9 20 (11.05%) Senior DevOps
9 20 (11.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 15 (8.29%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (7.18%) Lead
12 12 (6.63%) Senior Manager
13 11 (6.08%) Software Engineer
14 8 (4.42%) Kubernetes Engineer
15 7 (3.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 7 (3.87%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (45.86%) Kafka
2 71 (39.23%) J2EE
2 71 (39.23%) PySpark
3 9 (4.97%) Django
3 9 (4.97%) REST
4 8 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.31%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.21%) Spring
6 4 (2.21%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.66%) .NET
7 3 (1.66%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.66%) JPA
7 3 (1.66%) Web Services
8 2 (1.10%) Loki
8 2 (1.10%) Node.js
9 1 (0.55%) React
9 1 (0.55%) Redux
9 1 (0.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.42%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.10%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.05%) Linux
2 9 (4.97%) Unix
3 8 (4.42%) Windows
4 4 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (81.77%) DevOps
2 132 (72.93%) CI/CD
3 116 (64.09%) Software Engineering
4 104 (57.46%) Agile
5 95 (52.49%) Asset Management
6 88 (48.62%) Open Source
7 71 (39.23%) Data Engineering
8 27 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (14.36%) Observability
10 24 (13.26%) Fintech
11 22 (12.15%) Containerisation
12 20 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (10.50%) Microservices
14 18 (9.94%) Service-Level Objective
15 17 (9.39%) Artificial Intelligence
15 17 (9.39%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (8.29%) Continuous Delivery
17 12 (6.63%) E-Commerce
18 11 (6.08%) Continuous Integration
18 11 (6.08%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 143 (79.01%) Python
2 92 (50.83%) Java
3 86 (47.51%) Go
4 29 (16.02%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.84%) Bash
6 11 (6.08%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.42%) PHP
8 6 (3.31%) Clojure
8 6 (3.31%) Elixir
8 6 (3.31%) Rust
8 6 (3.31%) Scala
9 3 (1.66%) Bicep
9 3 (1.66%) SQL
10 2 (1.10%) JCL
10 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.55%) C
11 1 (0.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (8.84%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.66%) Degree
4 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.42%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.66%) QA
System Software
1 129 (71.27%) Docker
2 6 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 146 (80.66%) Terraform
2 139 (76.80%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.50%) Prometheus
4 18 (9.94%) Ansible
5 13 (7.18%) Grafana
6 9 (4.97%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (3.31%) Istio
8 2 (1.10%) Tivoli NetView
9 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.55%) Argo
9 1 (0.55%) Puppet
9 1 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 18 (9.94%) Google
2 10 (5.52%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.42%) Dynatrace
4 6 (3.31%) Confluent
5 3 (1.66%) IBM
6 2 (1.10%) VMware
7 1 (0.55%) AppNeta
7 1 (0.55%) Broadcom
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco
7 1 (0.55%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.55%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.55%) New Relic
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle
7 1 (0.55%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.55%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.55%) SAP
7 1 (0.55%) Splunk