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 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 380 276 281
Rank change year-on-year -104 +5 -24
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 224 454 1,032
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 1.18% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.23% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 187 350 635
10th Percentile £55,400 £42,874 £52,843
25th Percentile £58,174 £60,328 £61,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £118,750 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £109,865 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +10.00% -

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 31,322 36,922 72,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 96.00% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,561 26,118 41,820
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 54 (24.11%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.13%) IIS
3 5 (2.23%) Confluence
3 5 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.45%) nginx
Business Applications
1 8 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 149 (66.52%) AWS
2 83 (37.05%) Azure
3 54 (24.11%) dbt
3 54 (24.11%) Snowflake
4 24 (10.71%) GCP
5 19 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (8.48%) SaaS
6 13 (5.80%) Serverless
7 11 (4.91%) Azure AKS
8 10 (4.46%) Entra ID
9 9 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (3.57%) Azure Storage
11 7 (3.13%) PaaS
12 6 (2.68%) GitHub
13 5 (2.23%) IaaS
13 5 (2.23%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.36%) Firewall
2 9 (4.02%) DNS
3 7 (3.13%) SAN
4 6 (2.68%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.23%) DHCP
5 5 (2.23%) VPN
6 4 (1.79%) BGP
6 4 (1.79%) SSL
7 3 (1.34%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.89%) HTTP
8 2 (0.89%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.45%) Anycast
9 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (24.55%) Dremio
2 54 (24.11%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (24.11%) Apache Arrow
2 54 (24.11%) Big Data
2 54 (24.11%) Data Lake
3 10 (4.46%) MongoDB
4 8 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.13%) MySQL
5 7 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.23%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.79%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.79%) Redis
8 3 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.34%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.89%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (14.29%) GitLab
2 23 (10.27%) Git
3 21 (9.38%) Artifactory
4 20 (8.93%) Jenkins
5 12 (5.36%) TeamCity
6 9 (4.02%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (2.68%) JIRA
7 6 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.89%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.45%) Gatling
9 1 (0.45%) git-flow
9 1 (0.45%) Gradle
9 1 (0.45%) JUnit
9 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.45%) Vagrant
General
1 82 (36.61%) Finance
2 27 (12.05%) Social Skills
3 26 (11.61%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.48%) Legal
5 17 (7.59%) Law
6 12 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.91%) Banking
8 9 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.79%) Retail
10 3 (1.34%) Games
11 2 (0.89%) Back Office
11 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.89%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 92 (41.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 82 (36.61%) Site Engineer
3 65 (29.02%) AWS Engineer
4 54 (24.11%) Big Data Engineer
5 51 (22.77%) Senior
6 34 (15.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (10.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (9.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (9.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 16 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (7.14%) Lead
13 15 (6.70%) Software Engineer
14 12 (5.36%) Java Engineer
15 10 (4.46%) Lead DevOps
16 8 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 8 (3.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
16 8 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
16 8 (3.57%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (24.11%) gRPC
1 54 (24.11%) Protocol Buffers
2 13 (5.80%) Node.js
3 10 (4.46%) .NET
4 8 (3.57%) GraphQL
4 8 (3.57%) REST
5 7 (3.13%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.68%) JSON
6 6 (2.68%) SAML
6 6 (2.68%) Spring
7 5 (2.23%) ADO
7 5 (2.23%) CSS
7 5 (2.23%) HTML
7 5 (2.23%) React
8 4 (1.79%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.79%) AWS SAM
8 4 (1.79%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.79%) OpenID
8 4 (1.79%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 60 (26.79%) Hedge funds
2 56 (25.00%) Clustering
3 34 (15.18%) Public Cloud
4 21 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (8.04%) Cloud Native
6 16 (7.14%) Algorithms
7 15 (6.70%) Data Structures
8 11 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (4.46%) Management Information System
10 8 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (3.57%) Legacy Code
10 8 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (3.57%) Product Ownership
11 7 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (1.34%) Client/Server
13 3 (1.34%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (1.34%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 54 (24.11%) Linux
2 53 (23.66%) Windows
3 12 (5.36%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (3.57%) Unix
6 6 (2.68%) VMS
7 4 (1.79%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.34%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.89%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (69.20%) DevOps
2 66 (29.46%) CI/CD
3 65 (29.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 65 (29.02%) Investment Management
4 63 (28.13%) Agile
5 57 (25.45%) Asset Management
6 50 (22.32%) Mentoring
7 46 (20.54%) Coaching
8 44 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (18.75%) Software Engineering
10 39 (17.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 37 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (16.52%) Service Management
12 35 (15.63%) Microservices
13 26 (11.61%) Computer Science
13 26 (11.61%) Migration
14 25 (11.16%) ITIL
14 25 (11.16%) Roadmaps
15 21 (9.38%) Operational Stability
16 20 (8.93%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (43.75%) Python
2 84 (37.50%) Java
3 71 (31.70%) Go
4 57 (25.45%) JavaScript
5 36 (16.07%) PowerShell
6 32 (14.29%) Bash
7 19 (8.48%) C#
8 17 (7.59%) SQL
9 10 (4.46%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.23%) C
10 5 (2.23%) Scala
11 3 (1.34%) C++
11 3 (1.34%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.89%) Groovy
12 2 (0.89%) Ruby
13 1 (0.45%) Perl
13 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (13.84%) Degree
2 18 (8.04%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.36%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.02%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.02%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.13%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.45%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.80%) QA
2 3 (1.34%) SLA
3 2 (0.89%) GDPR
3 2 (0.89%) HIPAA
3 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) NIST
4 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (23.66%) Docker
2 19 (8.48%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.23%) DFS Replication
5 3 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.89%) NFS
6 2 (0.89%) vSphere
7 1 (0.45%) Ceph
7 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 119 (53.13%) Terraform
2 113 (50.45%) Kubernetes
3 58 (25.89%) Prometheus
4 50 (22.32%) Ansible
5 10 (4.46%) Puppet
6 7 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (2.68%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.23%) NetBackup
8 5 (2.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 4 (1.79%) Grafana
9 4 (1.79%) Istio
10 3 (1.34%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.89%) Packer
11 2 (0.89%) Salt
11 2 (0.89%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.45%) Consul
12 1 (0.45%) Kibana
12 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (11.16%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.70%) VMware
3 8 (3.57%) BMC
3 8 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.57%) Remedy
4 6 (2.68%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.68%) Veeam
5 5 (2.23%) Citrix
6 4 (1.79%) Google
6 4 (1.79%) Juniper
6 4 (1.79%) Oracle
7 3 (1.34%) Cisco
7 3 (1.34%) F5
8 2 (0.89%) Imperva
8 2 (0.89%) Serena
8 2 (0.89%) SonicWALL
8 2 (0.89%) Sybase
8 2 (0.89%) YouTube
9 1 (0.45%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.45%) SaltStack