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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 398 265
Rank change year-on-year +170 -133 +9
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 211 193 542
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.38% 0.57% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 0.62% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 171 157 397
10th Percentile £61,297 £57,597 £42,874
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £58,775
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 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.75% - +6.67%

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 14,284 31,001 40,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.23% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,786 23,546 28,388
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,759 £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 4 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 (33.65%) Apache
1 71 (33.65%) Apache Airflow
1 71 (33.65%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.21%) Apache Solr
3 8 (3.79%) nginx
4 3 (1.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 173 (81.99%) AWS
2 107 (50.71%) Amazon ECS
3 104 (49.29%) Serverless
4 98 (46.45%) AWS Lambda
5 80 (37.91%) dbt
6 77 (36.49%) OpenShift
7 72 (34.12%) Azure
8 61 (28.91%) GCP
9 35 (16.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (11.85%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (11.37%) Amazon S3
11 24 (11.37%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (4.27%) Amazon ECR
12 9 (4.27%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (4.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (4.27%) AWS CodeBuild
12 9 (4.27%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (4.27%) Pulumi
12 9 (4.27%) Sentry
13 8 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.27%) DNS
3 8 (3.79%) HTTPS
3 8 (3.79%) IPsec
4 2 (0.95%) SNA
4 2 (0.95%) WAN
5 1 (0.47%) DHCP
5 1 (0.47%) Firewall
5 1 (0.47%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.47%) SSH
5 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (33.65%) Amazon Athena
1 71 (33.65%) Apache Arrow
1 71 (33.65%) Apache Iceberg
1 71 (33.65%) Apache Ignite
1 71 (33.65%) Dremio
2 33 (15.64%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (11.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (6.64%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (6.16%) MySQL
5 13 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (5.21%) NoSQL
7 10 (4.74%) Redis
8 9 (4.27%) Couchbase
8 9 (4.27%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.47%) Big Data
9 1 (0.47%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (33.65%) Artifactory
2 14 (6.64%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.27%) GitLab
4 4 (1.90%) Git
5 2 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 126 (59.72%) Finance
2 95 (45.02%) Front Office
3 45 (21.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (18.48%) Banking
5 24 (11.37%) Social Skills
6 11 (5.21%) Law
7 5 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.37%) Marketing
8 4 (1.90%) Games
9 1 (0.47%) Aviation
9 1 (0.47%) Electronics
9 1 (0.47%) Legal
9 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.47%) Retail
9 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 113 (53.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 101 (47.87%) AWS DevOps
2 101 (47.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 101 (47.87%) AWS Engineer
3 96 (45.50%) Python Engineer
4 71 (33.65%) Data Engineer
5 68 (32.23%) Senior
6 42 (19.91%) Software Engineer
7 34 (16.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 31 (14.69%) Senior Software Engineer
9 30 (14.22%) Site Engineer
10 24 (11.37%) DevOps Manager
10 24 (11.37%) Finance Manager
11 20 (9.48%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (9.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 15 (7.11%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (6.16%) Lead
14 12 (5.69%) Senior Manager
15 8 (3.79%) Kubernetes Engineer
16 7 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (39.34%) Kafka
2 71 (33.65%) J2EE
2 71 (33.65%) PySpark
3 34 (16.11%) .NET
4 33 (15.64%) Node.js
5 9 (4.27%) Django
5 9 (4.27%) REST
6 8 (3.79%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.84%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.90%) Spring
9 4 (1.90%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.42%) ARM Templates
10 3 (1.42%) JPA
10 3 (1.42%) Web Services
11 2 (0.95%) Loki
12 1 (0.47%) React
12 1 (0.47%) Redux
12 1 (0.47%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.69%) Cyberattack
1 31 (14.69%) Linux Command Line
1 31 (14.69%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.79%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.95%) Cloud Native
5 2 (0.95%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 50 (23.70%) Linux
2 9 (4.27%) Unix
3 7 (3.32%) Windows
4 4 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.95%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (70.14%) DevOps
2 147 (69.67%) Software Engineering
3 135 (63.98%) Agile
4 132 (62.56%) CI/CD
5 102 (48.34%) Data Engineering
6 95 (45.02%) Asset Management
7 88 (41.71%) Open Source
8 50 (23.70%) Microservices
9 41 (19.43%) Mentoring
10 39 (18.48%) Machine Learning
11 34 (16.11%) Cloud Security
11 34 (16.11%) User Experience
12 31 (14.69%) Scrum
13 27 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (11.85%) Observability
15 24 (11.37%) Fintech
16 22 (10.43%) Containerisation
17 20 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 18 (8.53%) Service-Level Objective
19 17 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 174 (82.46%) Python
2 123 (58.29%) Java
3 117 (55.45%) Go
4 60 (28.44%) JavaScript
5 37 (17.54%) Rust
6 31 (14.69%) C++
7 16 (7.58%) Bash
8 11 (5.21%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.79%) PHP
10 6 (2.84%) Clojure
10 6 (2.84%) Elixir
10 6 (2.84%) Scala
11 3 (1.42%) Bicep
11 3 (1.42%) SQL
12 2 (0.95%) JCL
12 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.47%) C
13 1 (0.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 47 (22.27%) Security Cleared
2 33 (15.64%) AWS Certification
3 31 (14.69%) AWS Certified Developer
3 31 (14.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 31 (14.69%) DV Cleared
4 13 (6.16%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.42%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.79%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.42%) QA
System Software
1 129 (61.14%) Docker
2 6 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 145 (68.72%) Terraform
2 139 (65.88%) Kubernetes
3 18 (8.53%) Prometheus
4 17 (8.06%) Ansible
5 12 (5.69%) Grafana
6 9 (4.27%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (2.84%) Istio
8 2 (0.95%) Tivoli NetView
9 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.47%) Argo
9 1 (0.47%) Puppet
9 1 (0.47%) Rancher
Vendors
1 18 (8.53%) Google
2 10 (4.74%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.79%) Dynatrace
4 6 (2.84%) Confluent
5 3 (1.42%) IBM
6 2 (0.95%) VMware
7 1 (0.47%) AppNeta
7 1 (0.47%) Broadcom
7 1 (0.47%) Cisco
7 1 (0.47%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.47%) New Relic
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle
7 1 (0.47%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.47%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.47%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.47%) SAP
7 1 (0.47%) Splunk