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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 350 297
Rank change year-on-year -65 -53 -27
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 610 972 2,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.96% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.00% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 342 681 1,217
10th Percentile £57,500 £48,091 £54,500
25th Percentile £62,338 £61,180 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
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 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 -106 425 £80,000 -5.88% 146
UK excluding London -16 385 £65,000 - 77
London -33 212 £105,000 +13.51% 76
Work from Home -135 202 £82,500 +3.60% 83
Scotland +41 172 £76,250 +27.08% 5
North of England -25 67 £62,783 +4.64% 27
South East -80 54 £65,000 -13.33% 15
Midlands +11 40 £60,000 -30.43% 6
South West -32 39 £80,000 +20.75% 16
North West -7 37 £62,783 +5.47% 19
Yorkshire +23 23 £61,391 -1.77% 8
West Midlands +21 23 £82,500 -4.35% 1
East Midlands -4 17 £55,000 - 5
East of England +16 10 £65,620 +0.95% 2
North East - 7 £62,783 -
Wales +4 2 £65,000 +2.52% 6
Northern Ireland +22 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 60 (9.84%) Apache Spark
2 42 (6.89%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.44%) nginx
4 19 (3.11%) Apache
5 17 (2.79%) Jupyter
6 16 (2.62%) Confluence
7 15 (2.46%) Cloud Foundry
8 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (1.31%) IIS
10 5 (0.82%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.82%) 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 5 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 328 (53.77%) AWS
2 205 (33.61%) Azure
3 80 (13.11%) Datadog
4 63 (10.33%) GCP
5 62 (10.16%) Serverless
6 57 (9.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 57 (9.34%) OpenShift
7 56 (9.18%) Amazon S3
8 54 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (8.03%) Amazon ECS
9 49 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (7.70%) AWS Lambda
11 44 (7.21%) Amazon EC2
12 42 (6.89%) dbt
12 42 (6.89%) Snowflake
13 39 (6.39%) SaaS
14 35 (5.74%) Amazon SQS
15 29 (4.75%) PaaS
16 28 (4.59%) IaaS
17 23 (3.77%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.43%) Firewall
2 19 (3.11%) DNS
3 15 (2.46%) Network Security
4 8 (1.31%) VPN
5 7 (1.15%) SAN
6 6 (0.98%) DHCP
6 6 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.82%) BGP
8 4 (0.66%) Internet
8 4 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.66%) OpenLDAP
8 4 (0.66%) SSL
9 3 (0.49%) HTTP
9 3 (0.49%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.33%) DKIM
10 2 (0.33%) DMARC
10 2 (0.33%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.33%) SMTP
11 1 (0.16%) Broadband
11 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (16.72%) Big Data
2 60 (9.84%) Hadoop
3 45 (7.38%) Dremio
4 42 (6.89%) Amazon Athena
4 42 (6.89%) Apache Arrow
4 42 (6.89%) Data Lake
5 35 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
6 34 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (5.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 28 (4.59%) MongoDB
9 22 (3.61%) Relational Database
9 22 (3.61%) SQL Server
10 17 (2.79%) Presto
11 16 (2.62%) MySQL
12 8 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (1.15%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.15%) Redis
14 6 (0.98%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.82%) Pentaho
16 4 (0.66%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 121 (19.84%) Jenkins
2 56 (9.18%) GitLab
3 54 (8.85%) Artifactory
4 42 (6.89%) Git
5 24 (3.93%) JIRA
6 19 (3.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (2.46%) Cucumber
7 15 (2.46%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.46%) TeamCity
8 13 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
9 10 (1.64%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.15%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.98%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.49%) git-flow
14 2 (0.33%) Spinnaker
14 2 (0.33%) Travis CI
15 1 (0.16%) Gatling
15 1 (0.16%) Gradle
15 1 (0.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 286 (46.89%) Finance
2 177 (29.02%) Law
3 170 (27.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 122 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 67 (10.98%) Legal
6 63 (10.33%) Marketing
7 50 (8.20%) Banking
8 33 (5.41%) Front Office
9 32 (5.25%) Public Sector
10 26 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
11 22 (3.61%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.64%) Retail
13 6 (0.98%) Games
13 6 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.33%) Back Office
15 2 (0.33%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.16%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.16%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 159 (26.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 141 (23.11%) Software Engineer
3 112 (18.36%) Site Engineer
4 104 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 102 (16.72%) Big Data Engineer
6 97 (15.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 93 (15.25%) AWS Engineer
7 93 (15.25%) Senior
8 80 (13.11%) Lead
9 71 (11.64%) Java Engineer
10 66 (10.82%) Java Software Engineer
11 65 (10.66%) Data Engineer
12 53 (8.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 44 (7.21%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 43 (7.05%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 40 (6.56%) AWS DevOps
15 40 (6.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 37 (6.07%) Lead Software Engineer
17 32 (5.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 31 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (13.77%) Spring
2 79 (12.95%) Spring Boot
3 55 (9.02%) OpenTelemetry
4 42 (6.89%) gRPC
4 42 (6.89%) Protocol Buffers
5 32 (5.25%) J2EE
6 26 (4.26%) .NET
7 25 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
8 22 (3.61%) Kafka
9 21 (3.44%) React
10 20 (3.28%) CSS
10 20 (3.28%) HTML
10 20 (3.28%) YAML
11 18 (2.95%) ARM Templates
11 18 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (2.79%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (2.79%) Apache NiFi
13 16 (2.62%) Node.js
14 15 (2.46%) JDBC
15 12 (1.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 141 (23.11%) Cloud Native
2 119 (19.51%) Public Cloud
3 76 (12.46%) Algorithms
4 50 (8.20%) Hedge funds
5 49 (8.03%) Legacy Code
6 46 (7.54%) Clustering
7 42 (6.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 33 (5.41%) Tandem
9 32 (5.25%) Management Information System
10 31 (5.08%) Data Structures
11 17 (2.79%) Private Cloud
12 14 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.97%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (1.31%) Product Ownership
18 7 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
19 6 (0.98%) Hackathon
19 6 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 123 (20.16%) Linux
2 63 (10.33%) Windows
3 20 (3.28%) Unix
4 17 (2.79%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.98%) VMS
7 4 (0.66%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.33%) CentOS
9 2 (0.33%) Solaris
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.16%) Android
10 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (53.28%) DevOps
2 313 (51.31%) CI/CD
3 274 (44.92%) Agile
4 263 (43.11%) Software Engineering
5 136 (22.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 131 (21.48%) Artificial Intelligence
7 127 (20.82%) Observability
8 126 (20.66%) Machine Learning
9 108 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (15.08%) Mentoring
11 87 (14.26%) Continuous Delivery
12 86 (14.10%) Visualisation
13 83 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
14 80 (13.11%) Operational Stability
15 79 (12.95%) Containerisation
15 79 (12.95%) Decision-Making
16 78 (12.79%) Community of Practice
17 77 (12.62%) Asset Management
18 73 (11.97%) SDLC
19 68 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 265 (43.44%) Java
2 218 (35.74%) Python
3 106 (17.38%) Go
4 101 (16.56%) SQL
5 82 (13.44%) Bash
6 77 (12.62%) JavaScript
7 74 (12.13%) PowerShell
8 33 (5.41%) C#
9 28 (4.59%) Shell Script
10 24 (3.93%) Bicep
11 18 (2.95%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.98%) C
12 6 (0.98%) Scala
13 5 (0.82%) Ruby
14 4 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.49%) C++
16 2 (0.33%) Groovy
16 2 (0.33%) Perl
16 2 (0.33%) PHP
17 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (7.38%) Security Cleared
2 42 (6.89%) Degree
3 24 (3.93%) DV Cleared
4 21 (3.44%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.79%) SC Cleared
6 15 (2.46%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.80%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.15%) 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 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (2.46%) QA
3 11 (1.80%) SLA
4 4 (0.66%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.66%) 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
1 168 (27.54%) Docker
2 30 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 21 (3.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.31%) KVM
5 6 (0.98%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.49%) Ceph
7 2 (0.33%) NFS
7 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 310 (50.82%) Terraform
2 258 (42.30%) Kubernetes
3 107 (17.54%) Grafana
4 95 (15.57%) Prometheus
5 92 (15.08%) Ansible
6 19 (3.11%) HAProxy
7 14 (2.30%) Istio
8 13 (2.13%) Puppet
9 9 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (1.48%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.98%) NetBackup
10 6 (0.98%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 5 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (0.82%) Salt
12 4 (0.66%) 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%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 83 (13.61%) Splunk
2 69 (11.31%) Dynatrace
3 54 (8.85%) Microsoft
4 42 (6.89%) Google
5 34 (5.57%) VMware
6 17 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.46%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.13%) Cisco
9 12 (1.97%) Oracle
10 9 (1.48%) Citrix
11 8 (1.31%) AppDynamics
12 7 (1.15%) Sybase
12 7 (1.15%) Veeam
13 6 (0.98%) Juniper
14 5 (0.82%) BMC
14 5 (0.82%) CA
14 5 (0.82%) Remedy
15 4 (0.66%) Serena
16 3 (0.49%) New Relic
16 3 (0.49%) PagerDuty