Site Reliability Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 264 275
Rank change year-on-year -125 +11 -34
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 207 515 981
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.61% 1.27% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.33% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 171 374 647
10th Percentile £57,597 £42,874 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,338 £58,756 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,577 £79,632 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% +6.18% +7.14%
75th Percentile £118,750 £100,000 £88,200
90th Percentile £125,000 £109,865 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £81,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.14% +9.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Site Reliability Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Site Reliability Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

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 48 (23.19%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.38%) IIS
3 5 (2.42%) Confluence
3 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) nginx
Business Applications
1 6 (2.90%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 140 (67.63%) AWS
2 79 (38.16%) Azure
3 48 (23.19%) dbt
3 48 (23.19%) Snowflake
4 24 (11.59%) GCP
5 18 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (8.21%) SaaS
7 13 (6.28%) Serverless
8 10 (4.83%) Azure AKS
9 9 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.86%) Entra ID
11 7 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.38%) PaaS
12 6 (2.90%) Azure Storage
12 6 (2.90%) GitHub
13 5 (2.42%) IaaS
13 5 (2.42%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.80%) Firewall
2 9 (4.35%) DNS
3 7 (3.38%) SAN
4 6 (2.90%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.42%) DHCP
5 5 (2.42%) VPN
6 4 (1.93%) BGP
6 4 (1.93%) SSL
7 3 (1.45%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.97%) HTTP
8 2 (0.97%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.48%) Anycast
9 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (24.15%) Dremio
2 48 (23.19%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (23.19%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (23.19%) Big Data
2 48 (23.19%) Data Lake
3 10 (4.83%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.86%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.38%) MySQL
5 7 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.93%) MariaDB
6 4 (1.93%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.93%) Redis
6 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.97%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.97%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (14.98%) GitLab
2 24 (11.59%) Git
3 21 (10.14%) Artifactory
4 19 (9.18%) Jenkins
5 13 (6.28%) TeamCity
6 9 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (2.90%) JIRA
7 6 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.97%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.48%) Gatling
9 1 (0.48%) git-flow
9 1 (0.48%) Gradle
9 1 (0.48%) JUnit
9 1 (0.48%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.48%) Vagrant
General
1 69 (33.33%) Finance
2 26 (12.56%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.66%) Social Skills
4 19 (9.18%) Legal
5 13 (6.28%) Law
6 12 (5.80%) Banking
7 10 (4.83%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.93%) Retail
9 3 (1.45%) Games
9 3 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.97%) Back Office
10 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.97%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 83 (40.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 76 (36.71%) Site Engineer
3 58 (28.02%) AWS Engineer
4 48 (23.19%) Big Data Engineer
5 43 (20.77%) Senior
6 32 (15.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (15.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (12.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (11.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (10.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (10.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 16 (7.73%) Lead
12 15 (7.25%) Software Engineer
13 12 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (5.80%) Java Engineer
14 10 (4.83%) Lead DevOps
15 8 (3.86%) Lead DevOps Engineer
15 8 (3.86%) Principal Engineer
15 8 (3.86%) Senior Java Engineer
16 7 (3.38%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (23.19%) gRPC
1 48 (23.19%) Protocol Buffers
2 11 (5.31%) Node.js
3 10 (4.83%) .NET
4 8 (3.86%) GraphQL
4 8 (3.86%) REST
5 7 (3.38%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.90%) JSON
6 6 (2.90%) SAML
6 6 (2.90%) Spring
7 5 (2.42%) ADO
7 5 (2.42%) CSS
7 5 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (2.42%) HTML
7 5 (2.42%) React
8 4 (1.93%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.93%) AWS SAM
8 4 (1.93%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.93%) OpenID
8 4 (1.93%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 54 (26.09%) Hedge funds
2 50 (24.15%) Clustering
3 33 (15.94%) Public Cloud
4 21 (10.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (8.21%) Cloud Native
6 16 (7.73%) Algorithms
7 15 (7.25%) Data Structures
8 11 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (4.83%) Management Information System
10 8 (3.86%) Product Ownership
11 7 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (2.90%) Legacy Code
12 6 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.93%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 3 (1.45%) Client/Server
14 3 (1.45%) Data Centre
14 3 (1.45%) Private Cloud
14 3 (1.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 53 (25.60%) Linux
2 51 (24.64%) Windows
3 12 (5.80%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.86%) Unix
6 6 (2.90%) VMS
7 4 (1.93%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.45%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.97%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.97%) Solaris
10 1 (0.48%) CentOS
10 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (69.57%) DevOps
2 64 (30.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (28.50%) Investment Management
4 58 (28.02%) CI/CD
5 55 (26.57%) Agile
6 51 (24.64%) Asset Management
7 44 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (20.29%) Mentoring
8 42 (20.29%) Software Engineering
9 39 (18.84%) Coaching
10 37 (17.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 35 (16.91%) Service Management
12 33 (15.94%) Microservices
13 30 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (13.04%) Migration
15 26 (12.56%) Computer Science
16 25 (12.08%) ITIL
16 25 (12.08%) Roadmaps
17 21 (10.14%) Operational Stability
18 20 (9.66%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (44.44%) Python
2 77 (37.20%) Java
3 65 (31.40%) Go
4 51 (24.64%) JavaScript
5 34 (16.43%) PowerShell
6 30 (14.49%) Bash
7 19 (9.18%) C#
8 16 (7.73%) SQL
9 10 (4.83%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.42%) C
10 5 (2.42%) Scala
11 3 (1.45%) C++
11 3 (1.45%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.97%) Groovy
12 2 (0.97%) Perl
12 2 (0.97%) Ruby
13 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (14.98%) Degree
2 10 (4.83%) Azure Certification
2 10 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 9 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.38%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.97%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.48%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.28%) QA
2 3 (1.45%) SLA
3 2 (0.97%) GDPR
3 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.48%) NIST
4 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (25.60%) Docker
2 17 (8.21%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.42%) DFS Replication
5 3 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.97%) Ceph
6 2 (0.97%) NFS
6 2 (0.97%) vSphere
7 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 113 (54.59%) Terraform
2 107 (51.69%) Kubernetes
3 53 (25.60%) Prometheus
4 51 (24.64%) Ansible
5 11 (5.31%) Puppet
6 7 (3.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (3.38%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.42%) Grafana
7 5 (2.42%) NetBackup
7 5 (2.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 4 (1.93%) Istio
9 3 (1.45%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.97%) Kibana
10 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.97%) Packer
10 2 (0.97%) Salt
10 2 (0.97%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.48%) Consul
11 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.76%) VMware
3 9 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.90%) BMC
4 6 (2.90%) Remedy
4 6 (2.90%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.90%) Veeam
5 5 (2.42%) Citrix
6 4 (1.93%) Google
6 4 (1.93%) Juniper
6 4 (1.93%) Oracle
7 3 (1.45%) Cisco
7 3 (1.45%) F5
8 2 (0.97%) Imperva
8 2 (0.97%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.97%) Serena
8 2 (0.97%) SonicWALL
8 2 (0.97%) Sybase
8 2 (0.97%) TOWER Software
8 2 (0.97%) YouTube