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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 378 300
Rank change year-on-year +7 -78 -39
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 750 803 2,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.85% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.89% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 363 587 1,189
10th Percentile £55,400 £49,700 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% -6.90% +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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -27 563 £80,000 -5.88% 140
UK excluding London +71 509 £65,000 -3.70% 62
Work from Home -104 224 £82,500 +3.13% 68
London +24 223 £105,000 +10.53% 86
North of England +93 178 £62,783 +2.92% 16
Scotland +41 173 £80,000 +12.57% 7
North West +78 131 £62,783 +0.45% 12
South East -67 55 £65,000 -13.33% 13
South West -28 47 £80,000 +18.52% 10
Midlands +11 41 £60,000 -15.79% 10
Yorkshire +30 33 £62,783 +3.77% 4
West Midlands -4 24 £82,500 +15.79% 6
East Midlands -4 17 £55,000 - 4
North East +3 14 £62,783 +4.64%
East of England -6 11 £65,620 +0.95% 5
Wales +10 3 £56,900 -10.25% 3
Northern Ireland +15 1 £58,800 -21.60% 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 57 (7.60%) Apache Spark
2 54 (7.20%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.67%) nginx
4 18 (2.40%) Apache
5 16 (2.13%) Confluence
5 16 (2.13%) Jupyter
6 15 (2.00%) Cloud Foundry
7 8 (1.07%) IIS
8 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.67%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.07%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 342 (45.60%) AWS
2 211 (28.13%) Azure
3 81 (10.80%) Datadog
4 70 (9.33%) GCP
5 57 (7.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 55 (7.33%) Serverless
7 54 (7.20%) dbt
7 54 (7.20%) Snowflake
8 50 (6.67%) Amazon S3
9 49 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (6.53%) OpenShift
10 48 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
12 41 (5.47%) SaaS
13 38 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (4.00%) PaaS
15 29 (3.87%) IaaS
16 27 (3.60%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.60%) Firewall
2 19 (2.53%) DNS
3 15 (2.00%) Network Security
4 9 (1.20%) VPN
5 7 (0.93%) SAN
6 6 (0.80%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.67%) BGP
7 5 (0.67%) DHCP
8 4 (0.53%) Internet
8 4 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.53%) SSL
9 3 (0.40%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.40%) HTTP
9 3 (0.40%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.27%) DKIM
10 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (14.80%) Big Data
2 57 (7.60%) Hadoop
3 56 (7.47%) Dremio
4 54 (7.20%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (7.20%) Apache Arrow
4 54 (7.20%) Data Lake
5 35 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
6 29 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (3.87%) MongoDB
7 26 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (3.20%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.07%) Relational Database
10 16 (2.13%) Presto
11 15 (2.00%) MySQL
12 10 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (1.07%) Redis
14 7 (0.93%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.80%) MariaDB
16 5 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 116 (15.47%) Jenkins
2 57 (7.60%) GitLab
3 48 (6.40%) Artifactory
4 43 (5.73%) Git
5 24 (3.20%) JIRA
6 16 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (2.00%) Cucumber
7 15 (2.00%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
8 14 (1.87%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.47%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.80%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.80%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.53%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.40%) git-flow
14 1 (0.13%) Gatling
14 1 (0.13%) Gradle
14 1 (0.13%) JUnit
14 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 301 (40.13%) Finance
2 291 (38.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 179 (23.87%) Law
4 131 (17.47%) Social Skills
5 65 (8.67%) Legal
6 64 (8.53%) Marketing
7 49 (6.53%) Banking
8 32 (4.27%) Public Sector
9 31 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
10 26 (3.47%) Front Office
11 20 (2.67%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.33%) Retail
13 6 (0.80%) Games
13 6 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.27%) Advertising
15 2 (0.27%) Back Office
15 2 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.27%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.13%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 178 (23.73%) Software Engineer
2 176 (23.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 131 (17.47%) Site Engineer
4 120 (16.00%) Lead
5 111 (14.80%) Big Data Engineer
6 102 (13.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 101 (13.47%) AWS Engineer
8 99 (13.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 99 (13.20%) Senior
9 72 (9.60%) Lead Software Engineer
10 70 (9.33%) Java Engineer
11 64 (8.53%) Java Software Engineer
12 61 (8.13%) Data Engineer
13 54 (7.20%) Architect
14 53 (7.07%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 41 (5.47%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 39 (5.20%) Software Architect
17 38 (5.07%) Kubernetes Engineer
17 38 (5.07%) Programmer
17 38 (5.07%) Software Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.07%) Spring
2 78 (10.40%) Spring Boot
3 55 (7.33%) OpenTelemetry
4 54 (7.20%) gRPC
4 54 (7.20%) Protocol Buffers
5 27 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (3.47%) .NET
6 26 (3.47%) J2EE
7 24 (3.20%) Kafka
8 21 (2.80%) React
9 20 (2.67%) CSS
9 20 (2.67%) HTML
10 19 (2.53%) ARM Templates
10 19 (2.53%) YAML
11 18 (2.40%) Node.js
12 17 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (2.13%) ActiveMQ
13 16 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
14 15 (2.00%) JDBC
15 12 (1.60%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 140 (18.67%) Cloud Native
2 116 (15.47%) Cyberattack
2 116 (15.47%) Public Cloud
3 74 (9.87%) Algorithms
4 61 (8.13%) Hedge funds
5 58 (7.73%) Clustering
6 49 (6.53%) Legacy Code
7 41 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (4.27%) Management Information System
9 30 (4.00%) Data Structures
10 27 (3.60%) Tandem
11 18 (2.40%) Private Cloud
12 15 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (1.33%) Data Centre
16 8 (1.07%) Product Ownership
16 8 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
17 6 (0.80%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 122 (16.27%) Linux
2 66 (8.80%) Windows
3 18 (2.40%) Unix
4 16 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.80%) VMS
7 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.27%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.13%) CentOS
11 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (52.13%) Agile
2 376 (50.13%) Software Engineering
3 340 (45.33%) DevOps
4 310 (41.33%) CI/CD
5 240 (32.00%) Machine Learning
6 221 (29.47%) Mentoring
7 208 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (19.07%) Data Engineering
9 138 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 136 (18.13%) Observability
11 131 (17.47%) Artificial Intelligence
12 124 (16.53%) User Experience
13 120 (16.00%) Creative Thinking
14 113 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 85 (11.33%) Community of Practice
15 85 (11.33%) Continuous Delivery
16 84 (11.20%) Visualisation
17 83 (11.07%) Asset Management
18 80 (10.67%) Operational Stability
19 74 (9.87%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 269 (35.87%) Java
2 229 (30.53%) Python
3 114 (15.20%) Go
4 100 (13.33%) SQL
5 88 (11.73%) JavaScript
6 84 (11.20%) Bash
7 77 (10.27%) PowerShell
8 33 (4.40%) C#
9 25 (3.33%) Bicep
10 23 (3.07%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.40%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.80%) C
12 6 (0.80%) Ruby
12 6 (0.80%) Scala
13 5 (0.67%) Search Processing Language
14 3 (0.40%) C++
14 3 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.27%) Groovy
15 2 (0.27%) PHP
16 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 53 (7.07%) Security Cleared
2 44 (5.87%) Degree
3 24 (3.20%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.07%) Azure Certification
4 23 (3.07%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 15 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.27%) CISSP
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.13%) CISA
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.13%) CISM
10 1 (0.13%) MCP
10 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (2.00%) QA
3 13 (1.73%) SLA
4 4 (0.53%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.27%) GDPR
7 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 163 (21.73%) Docker
2 34 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.07%) KVM
5 6 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.67%) DFS Replication
7 3 (0.40%) NFS
7 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.27%) Ceph
8 2 (0.27%) vSphere
9 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 323 (43.07%) Terraform
2 267 (35.60%) Kubernetes
3 105 (14.00%) Grafana
3 105 (14.00%) Prometheus
4 93 (12.40%) Ansible
5 19 (2.53%) HAProxy
6 15 (2.00%) Istio
7 12 (1.60%) Puppet
8 9 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (0.67%) NetBackup
9 5 (0.67%) Salt
9 5 (0.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.40%) Packer
12 2 (0.27%) Kibana
12 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 86 (11.47%) Splunk
2 69 (9.20%) Dynatrace
3 60 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 42 (5.60%) Google
5 34 (4.53%) VMware
6 18 (2.40%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 13 (1.73%) Cisco
9 11 (1.47%) Oracle
10 8 (1.07%) AppDynamics
10 8 (1.07%) BMC
10 8 (1.07%) Remedy
11 7 (0.93%) Citrix
11 7 (0.93%) Sybase
12 6 (0.80%) Veeam
13 5 (0.67%) CA
13 5 (0.67%) Juniper
14 4 (0.53%) F5
14 4 (0.53%) PagerDuty
14 4 (0.53%) Serena