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 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 415 357 305
Rank change year-on-year -58 -52 -40
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 615 921 2,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.93% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.97% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 348 644 1,207
10th Percentile £57,500 £49,475 £53,358
25th Percentile £62,338 £61,232 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £81,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +9.00% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £126,500 £112,500 £117,500
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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 18 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 18 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 -108 429 £80,000 -5.88% 137
UK excluding London -22 385 £65,000 - 79
London -14 217 £105,000 +13.51% 83
Work from Home -125 207 £83,577 +4.95% 70
Scotland +43 173 £80,000 +33.33% 6
North of England -16 67 £62,783 +3.77% 21
South East -76 53 £65,000 -13.33% 24
Midlands +13 40 £60,000 -40.00% 3
South West -34 39 £80,000 +18.52% 16
North West -9 37 £62,783 +5.47% 12
West Midlands +22 23 £82,500 -17.50% 1
Yorkshire +20 23 £61,391 -2.96% 8
East Midlands +4 17 £55,000 - 2
East of England 0 10 £65,620 +0.95% 3
North East 0 7 £62,783 +4.64% 1
Wales +7 2 £65,000 +2.52% 7
Northern Ireland +16 1 £75,000 - 1

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 (9.76%) Apache Spark
2 48 (7.80%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.41%) nginx
4 19 (3.09%) Apache
5 17 (2.76%) Jupyter
6 15 (2.44%) Cloud Foundry
6 15 (2.44%) Confluence
7 8 (1.30%) IIS
7 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.81%) WebSphere
9 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 6 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 331 (53.82%) AWS
2 207 (33.66%) Azure
3 80 (13.01%) Datadog
4 63 (10.24%) GCP
5 60 (9.76%) Serverless
6 57 (9.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 54 (8.78%) Amazon S3
7 54 (8.78%) OpenShift
8 52 (8.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 48 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (7.80%) dbt
9 48 (7.80%) Snowflake
10 46 (7.48%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
12 41 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (6.34%) SaaS
14 33 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
15 31 (5.04%) PaaS
16 28 (4.55%) IaaS
17 25 (4.07%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.23%) Firewall
2 19 (3.09%) DNS
3 15 (2.44%) Network Security
4 8 (1.30%) VPN
5 7 (1.14%) SAN
6 6 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.81%) DHCP
8 4 (0.65%) BGP
8 4 (0.65%) Internet
8 4 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.65%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.65%) SSL
9 3 (0.49%) HTTP
9 3 (0.49%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.33%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (0.33%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.33%) DKIM
10 2 (0.33%) DMARC
10 2 (0.33%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (17.56%) Big Data
2 60 (9.76%) Hadoop
3 51 (8.29%) Dremio
4 48 (7.80%) Amazon Athena
4 48 (7.80%) Apache Arrow
4 48 (7.80%) Data Lake
5 35 (5.69%) Elasticsearch
6 32 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 29 (4.72%) MongoDB
9 23 (3.74%) SQL Server
10 22 (3.58%) Relational Database
11 17 (2.76%) Presto
12 16 (2.60%) MySQL
13 9 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (1.30%) Redis
15 7 (1.14%) MariaDB
15 7 (1.14%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (0.81%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 117 (19.02%) Jenkins
2 56 (9.11%) GitLab
3 52 (8.46%) Artifactory
4 42 (6.83%) Git
5 23 (3.74%) JIRA
6 17 (2.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 15 (2.44%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (2.44%) TeamCity
8 10 (1.63%) SonarQube
9 9 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.98%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.81%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.49%) git-flow
12 3 (0.49%) Spinnaker
13 1 (0.16%) Gatling
13 1 (0.16%) Gradle
13 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 291 (47.32%) Finance
2 178 (28.94%) Law
3 170 (27.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 125 (20.33%) Social Skills
5 67 (10.89%) Legal
6 63 (10.24%) Marketing
7 49 (7.97%) Banking
8 32 (5.20%) Public Sector
9 31 (5.04%) Front Office
10 28 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
11 21 (3.41%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.63%) Retail
13 6 (0.98%) Games
13 6 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.33%) Back Office
15 2 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.33%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.16%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 164 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 141 (22.93%) Software Engineer
3 118 (19.19%) Site Engineer
4 108 (17.56%) Big Data Engineer
5 100 (16.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 100 (16.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 97 (15.77%) AWS Engineer
7 90 (14.63%) Senior
8 80 (13.01%) Lead
9 71 (11.54%) Java Engineer
10 66 (10.73%) Java Software Engineer
11 64 (10.41%) Data Engineer
12 53 (8.62%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 43 (6.99%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 43 (6.99%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 38 (6.18%) AWS DevOps
14 38 (6.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 37 (6.02%) Lead Software Engineer
16 34 (5.53%) Azure Engineer
17 33 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (13.66%) Spring
2 79 (12.85%) Spring Boot
3 55 (8.94%) OpenTelemetry
4 48 (7.80%) gRPC
4 48 (7.80%) Protocol Buffers
5 30 (4.88%) J2EE
6 27 (4.39%) Elastic Stack
7 26 (4.23%) .NET
8 23 (3.74%) Kafka
9 21 (3.41%) React
10 20 (3.25%) CSS
10 20 (3.25%) HTML
10 20 (3.25%) YAML
11 18 (2.93%) ARM Templates
11 18 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (2.76%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (2.76%) Apache NiFi
13 16 (2.60%) Node.js
14 15 (2.44%) JDBC
15 12 (1.95%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 142 (23.09%) Cloud Native
2 117 (19.02%) Public Cloud
3 76 (12.36%) Algorithms
4 55 (8.94%) Hedge funds
5 52 (8.46%) Clustering
6 49 (7.97%) Legacy Code
7 42 (6.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (5.20%) Management Information System
9 31 (5.04%) Tandem
10 30 (4.88%) Data Structures
11 19 (3.09%) Private Cloud
12 14 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
15 10 (1.63%) Data Centre
16 8 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
16 8 (1.30%) Product Ownership
16 8 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
17 6 (0.98%) Hackathon
17 6 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 122 (19.84%) Linux
2 64 (10.41%) Windows
3 19 (3.09%) Unix
4 16 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.98%) VMS
7 5 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.33%) CentOS
10 2 (0.33%) Solaris
11 1 (0.16%) Android
11 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (53.98%) DevOps
2 309 (50.24%) CI/CD
3 271 (44.07%) Agile
4 260 (42.28%) Software Engineering
5 138 (22.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 132 (21.46%) Artificial Intelligence
7 129 (20.98%) Observability
8 126 (20.49%) Machine Learning
9 108 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (14.96%) Mentoring
11 86 (13.98%) Visualisation
12 85 (13.82%) Continuous Delivery
12 85 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
13 81 (13.17%) Asset Management
14 80 (13.01%) Operational Stability
15 79 (12.85%) Containerisation
16 78 (12.68%) Community of Practice
17 77 (12.52%) Decision-Making
18 73 (11.87%) SDLC
19 68 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 268 (43.58%) Java
2 222 (36.10%) Python
3 110 (17.89%) Go
4 100 (16.26%) SQL
5 84 (13.66%) Bash
6 82 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 75 (12.20%) PowerShell
8 33 (5.37%) C#
9 26 (4.23%) Shell Script
10 24 (3.90%) Bicep
11 18 (2.93%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.98%) C
12 6 (0.98%) Ruby
12 6 (0.98%) Scala
13 4 (0.65%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.49%) C++
15 2 (0.33%) Groovy
15 2 (0.33%) Perl
15 2 (0.33%) PHP
15 2 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 45 (7.32%) Security Cleared
2 43 (6.99%) Degree
3 24 (3.90%) DV Cleared
4 22 (3.58%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.76%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.33%) CISSP
13 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.16%) CISA
13 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.16%) CISM
13 1 (0.16%) MCP
13 1 (0.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (2.44%) QA
3 11 (1.79%) SLA
4 4 (0.65%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.49%) NIST
6 2 (0.33%) GDPR
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 166 (26.99%) Docker
2 32 (5.20%) Active Directory
3 20 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.30%) KVM
5 6 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.81%) DFS Replication
7 3 (0.49%) Ceph
7 3 (0.49%) NFS
7 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.33%) vSphere
9 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 315 (51.22%) Terraform
2 261 (42.44%) Kubernetes
3 106 (17.24%) Grafana
4 100 (16.26%) Prometheus
5 93 (15.12%) Ansible
6 20 (3.25%) HAProxy
7 14 (2.28%) Istio
8 13 (2.11%) Puppet
9 10 (1.63%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (0.81%) NetBackup
11 5 (0.81%) Salt
11 5 (0.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 4 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.49%) Kibana
13 3 (0.49%) Packer
14 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 83 (13.50%) Splunk
2 69 (11.22%) Dynatrace
3 57 (9.27%) Microsoft
4 42 (6.83%) Google
5 34 (5.53%) VMware
6 17 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.60%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.11%) Cisco
9 11 (1.79%) Oracle
10 8 (1.30%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.30%) Citrix
11 7 (1.14%) Sybase
12 6 (0.98%) BMC
12 6 (0.98%) Remedy
12 6 (0.98%) Veeam
13 5 (0.81%) CA
13 5 (0.81%) Juniper
14 4 (0.65%) F5
14 4 (0.65%) Serena
15 3 (0.49%) PagerDuty