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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 351 304
Rank change year-on-year -67 -47 -36
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 605 985 2,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.95% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.00% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 339 686 1,220
10th Percentile £56,000 £48,091 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,338 £60,830 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +2.56%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £112,500 £117,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +11.54%

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 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
England -113 421 £80,000 -5.88% 147
UK excluding London -24 384 £65,000 - 86
London -28 208 £105,000 +13.51% 69
Work from Home -129 200 £82,500 +3.60% 77
Scotland +42 171 £72,500 +20.83% 6
North of England -27 66 £62,783 +4.64% 30
South East -61 54 £65,000 -13.33% 18
Midlands +36 40 £60,000 -30.43% 5
South West -42 40 £80,000 +20.75% 18
North West -5 37 £62,783 +5.47% 21
West Midlands +35 23 £82,500 -4.35% 1
Yorkshire +24 22 £61,391 -0.58% 9
East Midlands -1 17 £55,000 - 4
East of England +13 10 £65,620 +0.95% 3
North East - 7 £62,783 -
Wales +14 2 £65,000 +2.52% 6
Northern Ireland +19 1 £75,000 -

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 61 (10.08%) Apache Spark
2 42 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.64%) nginx
4 20 (3.31%) Apache
5 18 (2.98%) Jupyter
6 16 (2.64%) Confluence
7 15 (2.48%) Cloud Foundry
8 10 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (1.32%) IIS
10 5 (0.83%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.83%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 326 (53.88%) AWS
2 201 (33.22%) Azure
3 80 (13.22%) Datadog
4 64 (10.58%) Serverless
5 60 (9.92%) OpenShift
6 59 (9.75%) Amazon S3
6 59 (9.75%) GCP
7 57 (9.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 55 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (8.10%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
12 46 (7.60%) Amazon EC2
13 42 (6.94%) dbt
13 42 (6.94%) Snowflake
14 39 (6.45%) SaaS
15 37 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
16 26 (4.30%) IaaS
16 26 (4.30%) PaaS
17 21 (3.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.46%) Firewall
2 19 (3.14%) DNS
3 15 (2.48%) Network Security
4 8 (1.32%) VPN
5 7 (1.16%) SAN
6 6 (0.99%) DHCP
6 6 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.83%) BGP
8 4 (0.66%) Internet
8 4 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.66%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.66%) SSL
9 3 (0.50%) HTTP
9 3 (0.50%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.33%) DKIM
10 2 (0.33%) DMARC
10 2 (0.33%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.33%) SMTP
11 1 (0.17%) Broadband
11 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (17.02%) Big Data
2 61 (10.08%) Hadoop
3 45 (7.44%) Dremio
4 42 (6.94%) Amazon Athena
4 42 (6.94%) Apache Arrow
4 42 (6.94%) Data Lake
5 36 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
7 34 (5.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 27 (4.46%) MongoDB
9 22 (3.64%) Relational Database
10 21 (3.47%) SQL Server
11 18 (2.98%) Presto
12 15 (2.48%) MySQL
13 7 (1.16%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (0.99%) Redis
15 5 (0.83%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.83%) Pentaho
16 4 (0.66%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 123 (20.33%) Jenkins
2 56 (9.26%) Artifactory
3 55 (9.09%) GitLab
4 42 (6.94%) Git
5 24 (3.97%) JIRA
6 20 (3.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (2.48%) Cucumber
7 15 (2.48%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.48%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.98%) Octopus Deploy
9 9 (1.49%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.16%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.99%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.50%) git-flow
14 2 (0.33%) Spinnaker
14 2 (0.33%) Travis CI
15 1 (0.17%) Gatling
15 1 (0.17%) Terragrunt
15 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 287 (47.44%) Finance
2 178 (29.42%) Law
3 170 (28.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 120 (19.83%) Social Skills
5 67 (11.07%) Legal
6 63 (10.41%) Marketing
7 50 (8.26%) Banking
8 35 (5.79%) Front Office
9 32 (5.29%) Public Sector
10 25 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
11 22 (3.64%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.65%) Retail
13 6 (0.99%) Games
13 6 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.33%) Back Office
15 2 (0.33%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.17%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 157 (25.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 140 (23.14%) Software Engineer
3 108 (17.85%) Site Engineer
4 106 (17.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 103 (17.02%) Big Data Engineer
6 96 (15.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 94 (15.54%) AWS Engineer
8 91 (15.04%) Senior
9 78 (12.89%) Lead
10 71 (11.74%) Java Engineer
11 66 (10.91%) Data Engineer
11 66 (10.91%) Java Software Engineer
12 53 (8.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 46 (7.60%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 43 (7.11%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 42 (6.94%) AWS DevOps
15 42 (6.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 37 (6.12%) Lead Software Engineer
17 31 (5.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 30 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (13.88%) Spring
2 79 (13.06%) Spring Boot
3 55 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
4 42 (6.94%) gRPC
4 42 (6.94%) Protocol Buffers
5 34 (5.62%) J2EE
6 26 (4.30%) .NET
7 25 (4.13%) Elastic Stack
8 22 (3.64%) Kafka
9 21 (3.47%) YAML
10 20 (3.31%) React
11 19 (3.14%) CSS
11 19 (3.14%) HTML
11 19 (3.14%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (2.98%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (2.98%) Apache NiFi
13 16 (2.64%) ARM Templates
13 16 (2.64%) Node.js
14 15 (2.48%) JDBC
15 10 (1.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 141 (23.31%) Cloud Native
2 118 (19.50%) Public Cloud
3 76 (12.56%) Algorithms
4 50 (8.26%) Hedge funds
5 49 (8.10%) Legacy Code
6 46 (7.60%) Clustering
7 43 (7.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 35 (5.79%) Tandem
9 32 (5.29%) Management Information System
10 31 (5.12%) Data Structures
11 17 (2.81%) Private Cloud
12 14 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.98%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
16 8 (1.32%) Product Ownership
16 8 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
17 6 (0.99%) Hackathon
17 6 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (0.99%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 124 (20.50%) Linux
2 62 (10.25%) Windows
3 20 (3.31%) Unix
4 17 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.83%) VMS
7 4 (0.66%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.33%) CentOS
9 2 (0.33%) Solaris
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.17%) Android
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (53.22%) DevOps
2 311 (51.40%) CI/CD
3 273 (45.12%) Agile
4 263 (43.47%) Software Engineering
5 135 (22.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 131 (21.65%) Artificial Intelligence
7 127 (20.99%) Observability
8 126 (20.83%) Machine Learning
9 107 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 89 (14.71%) Mentoring
11 87 (14.38%) Continuous Delivery
12 86 (14.21%) Visualisation
13 81 (13.39%) Decision-Making
14 80 (13.22%) Containerisation
14 80 (13.22%) Operational Stability
14 80 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
15 79 (13.06%) Asset Management
16 78 (12.89%) Community of Practice
17 72 (11.90%) SDLC
18 68 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 266 (43.97%) Java
2 220 (36.36%) Python
3 108 (17.85%) Go
4 98 (16.20%) SQL
5 80 (13.22%) Bash
6 76 (12.56%) JavaScript
7 72 (11.90%) PowerShell
8 33 (5.45%) C#
9 29 (4.79%) Shell Script
10 23 (3.80%) Bicep
11 17 (2.81%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.99%) C
12 6 (0.99%) Scala
13 5 (0.83%) Ruby
14 3 (0.50%) C++
14 3 (0.50%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.33%) Groovy
15 2 (0.33%) Perl
15 2 (0.33%) PHP
16 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (7.44%) Security Cleared
2 41 (6.78%) Degree
3 25 (4.13%) DV Cleared
4 20 (3.31%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.81%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.31%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.82%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.33%) CISSP
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.17%) CISA
12 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.17%) CISM
12 1 (0.17%) MCP
12 1 (0.17%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.31%) QA
3 9 (1.49%) SLA
4 4 (0.66%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.50%) NIST
6 2 (0.33%) GDPR
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 167 (27.60%) Docker
2 29 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 21 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.32%) KVM
5 6 (0.99%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.50%) Ceph
7 2 (0.33%) NFS
7 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 309 (51.07%) Terraform
2 256 (42.31%) Kubernetes
3 107 (17.69%) Grafana
4 95 (15.70%) Prometheus
5 92 (15.21%) Ansible
6 20 (3.31%) HAProxy
7 13 (2.15%) Istio
7 13 (2.15%) Puppet
8 9 (1.49%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.99%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.99%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 5 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (0.83%) Salt
12 4 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.50%) Kibana
13 3 (0.50%) Packer
14 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 81 (13.39%) Splunk
2 69 (11.40%) Dynatrace
3 51 (8.43%) Microsoft
4 41 (6.78%) Google
5 35 (5.79%) VMware
6 16 (2.64%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.48%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.15%) Cisco
9 12 (1.98%) Oracle
10 10 (1.65%) Citrix
11 8 (1.32%) AppDynamics
12 7 (1.16%) Sybase
12 7 (1.16%) Veeam
13 6 (0.99%) Juniper
14 5 (0.83%) CA
15 4 (0.66%) BMC
15 4 (0.66%) Remedy
15 4 (0.66%) Serena
16 3 (0.50%) New Relic
16 3 (0.50%) PagerDuty