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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 401 301
Rank change year-on-year +76 -100 -44
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 873 776 2,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.83% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.87% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 363 569 1,206
10th Percentile £55,400 £48,900 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,818 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +10.42% -
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 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £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 6 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 6 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 +34 687 £80,000 -5.88% 175
UK excluding London +124 627 £65,000 -3.70% 62
North of England +159 288 £62,783 +2.92% 12
North West +133 226 £62,783 +0.45% 8
London 0 223 £105,000 +12.00% 113
Work from Home -97 223 £82,500 +3.13% 118
Scotland +43 172 £80,000 +12.57% 5
South West -24 55 £80,000 +18.52% 12
South East -58 55 £65,000 -13.33% 14
Yorkshire +51 41 £62,783 +2.92% 4
Midlands +14 41 £60,000 -15.79% 11
West Midlands -13 24 £82,500 +15.79% 8
North East +3 21 £62,783 +4.64%
East Midlands -8 17 £55,000 - 3
East of England -20 11 £65,620 +0.95% 6
Wales +12 4 £56,900 -10.25% 3
Northern Ireland +15 1 £58,800 -21.60%

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 56 (6.41%) Apache Spark
2 54 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.29%) nginx
4 18 (2.06%) Apache
5 16 (1.83%) Confluence
5 16 (1.83%) Jupyter
6 15 (1.72%) Cloud Foundry
7 8 (0.92%) IIS
7 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.57%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Mattermost
Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 341 (39.06%) AWS
2 212 (24.28%) Azure
3 81 (9.28%) Datadog
4 73 (8.36%) GCP
5 57 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 54 (6.19%) dbt
6 54 (6.19%) Snowflake
7 53 (6.07%) Serverless
8 49 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (5.50%) Amazon S3
10 47 (5.38%) OpenShift
11 46 (5.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (4.70%) SaaS
13 40 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
13 40 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (3.44%) PaaS
16 29 (3.32%) IaaS
17 28 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
18 27 (3.09%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.09%) Firewall
2 18 (2.06%) DNS
3 15 (1.72%) Network Security
4 9 (1.03%) VPN
5 7 (0.80%) SAN
6 6 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.57%) DHCP
8 4 (0.46%) BGP
8 4 (0.46%) Internet
8 4 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.34%) HTTPS
9 3 (0.34%) SSL
10 2 (0.23%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.23%) DKIM
10 2 (0.23%) DMARC
10 2 (0.23%) HTTP
10 2 (0.23%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (12.60%) Big Data
2 56 (6.41%) Dremio
2 56 (6.41%) Hadoop
3 54 (6.19%) Amazon Athena
3 54 (6.19%) Apache Arrow
3 54 (6.19%) Data Lake
4 35 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (3.32%) MongoDB
6 27 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 24 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.83%) Presto
11 15 (1.72%) MySQL
12 11 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (0.92%) Redis
14 7 (0.80%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.69%) MariaDB
16 5 (0.57%) NoSQL
16 5 (0.57%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 113 (12.94%) Jenkins
2 56 (6.41%) GitLab
3 46 (5.27%) Artifactory
4 42 (4.81%) Git
5 24 (2.75%) JIRA
6 16 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 15 (1.72%) Cucumber
7 15 (1.72%) Cypress.io
7 15 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
8 14 (1.60%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.26%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.69%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.46%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.34%) git-flow
14 1 (0.11%) Gatling
14 1 (0.11%) Gradle
14 1 (0.11%) Terragrunt
14 1 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 412 (47.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 299 (34.25%) Finance
3 178 (20.39%) Law
4 131 (15.01%) Social Skills
5 65 (7.45%) Marketing
6 64 (7.33%) Legal
7 49 (5.61%) Banking
8 32 (3.67%) Public Sector
9 31 (3.55%) Analytical Skills
10 24 (2.75%) Front Office
11 20 (2.29%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.15%) Retail
13 6 (0.69%) Games
13 6 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.23%) Advertising
15 2 (0.23%) Back Office
15 2 (0.23%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.23%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.11%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 219 (25.09%) Software Engineer
2 177 (20.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 160 (18.33%) Lead
4 134 (15.35%) Site Engineer
5 110 (12.60%) Big Data Engineer
5 110 (12.60%) Lead Software Engineer
6 102 (11.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 99 (11.34%) AWS Engineer
7 99 (11.34%) DevOps Engineer
7 99 (11.34%) Senior
8 94 (10.77%) Architect
9 79 (9.05%) Software Architect
10 78 (8.93%) Programmer
10 78 (8.93%) Software Programmer
11 69 (7.90%) Java Engineer
12 63 (7.22%) Java Software Engineer
13 60 (6.87%) Data Engineer
14 53 (6.07%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 40 (4.58%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 37 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (9.39%) Spring
2 77 (8.82%) Spring Boot
3 55 (6.30%) OpenTelemetry
4 54 (6.19%) gRPC
4 54 (6.19%) Protocol Buffers
5 27 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (2.98%) .NET
7 24 (2.75%) J2EE
7 24 (2.75%) Kafka
8 21 (2.41%) React
9 20 (2.29%) CSS
9 20 (2.29%) HTML
10 19 (2.18%) ARM Templates
10 19 (2.18%) YAML
11 18 (2.06%) Node.js
12 17 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (1.83%) ActiveMQ
13 16 (1.83%) Apache NiFi
14 15 (1.72%) JDBC
15 12 (1.37%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 238 (27.26%) Cyberattack
2 139 (15.92%) Cloud Native
3 116 (13.29%) Public Cloud
4 73 (8.36%) Algorithms
5 61 (6.99%) Hedge funds
6 58 (6.64%) Clustering
7 48 (5.50%) Legacy Code
8 42 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 32 (3.67%) Management Information System
10 30 (3.44%) Data Structures
11 25 (2.86%) Tandem
12 18 (2.06%) Private Cloud
13 15 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (1.15%) Data Centre
16 8 (0.92%) Product Ownership
16 8 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
17 6 (0.69%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 121 (13.86%) Linux
2 68 (7.79%) Windows
3 18 (2.06%) Unix
4 17 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.69%) VMS
7 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.23%) Solaris
11 1 (0.11%) Android
11 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (58.65%) Agile
2 496 (56.82%) Software Engineering
3 361 (41.35%) Machine Learning
4 344 (39.40%) Mentoring
5 340 (38.95%) DevOps
6 332 (38.03%) Problem-Solving
7 306 (35.05%) CI/CD
8 265 (30.36%) Data Engineering
9 246 (28.18%) User Experience
10 242 (27.72%) Creative Thinking
11 137 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 137 (15.69%) Observability
12 131 (15.01%) Artificial Intelligence
13 112 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 85 (9.74%) Community of Practice
14 85 (9.74%) Continuous Delivery
15 82 (9.39%) Visualisation
16 81 (9.28%) Asset Management
17 80 (9.16%) Operational Stability
18 74 (8.48%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 266 (30.47%) Java
2 227 (26.00%) Python
3 111 (12.71%) Go
4 100 (11.45%) SQL
5 88 (10.08%) JavaScript
6 84 (9.62%) Bash
7 79 (9.05%) PowerShell
8 33 (3.78%) C#
9 25 (2.86%) Bicep
10 23 (2.63%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.06%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.69%) C
12 6 (0.69%) Ruby
12 6 (0.69%) Scala
13 5 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
14 3 (0.34%) C++
14 3 (0.34%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.23%) Groovy
15 2 (0.23%) PHP
16 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 53 (6.07%) Security Cleared
2 44 (5.04%) Degree
3 24 (2.75%) SC Cleared
4 23 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 23 (2.63%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 15 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.26%) AWS Certified Developer
6 11 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.23%) CISSP
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.11%) CISA
10 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.11%) CISM
10 1 (0.11%) CRISC
10 1 (0.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (1.72%) QA
3 13 (1.49%) SLA
4 4 (0.46%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.34%) NIST
6 2 (0.23%) GDPR
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 162 (18.56%) Docker
2 35 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.92%) KVM
5 6 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.57%) DFS Replication
7 3 (0.34%) NFS
7 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.23%) Ceph
8 2 (0.23%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 323 (37.00%) Terraform
2 266 (30.47%) Kubernetes
3 105 (12.03%) Grafana
3 105 (12.03%) Prometheus
4 92 (10.54%) Ansible
5 19 (2.18%) HAProxy
6 15 (1.72%) Istio
7 12 (1.37%) Puppet
8 9 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 9 (1.03%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (0.57%) NetBackup
9 5 (0.57%) Salt
9 5 (0.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 4 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.34%) Packer
12 2 (0.23%) Kibana
12 2 (0.23%) SCCM
12 2 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 87 (9.97%) Splunk
2 69 (7.90%) Dynatrace
3 61 (6.99%) Microsoft
4 42 (4.81%) Google
5 35 (4.01%) VMware
6 18 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.72%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.60%) Cisco
9 11 (1.26%) Oracle
10 8 (0.92%) AppDynamics
10 8 (0.92%) BMC
10 8 (0.92%) Remedy
11 7 (0.80%) Citrix
11 7 (0.80%) Sybase
12 6 (0.69%) Veeam
13 5 (0.57%) CA
13 5 (0.57%) Juniper
14 4 (0.46%) F5
14 4 (0.46%) PagerDuty
14 4 (0.46%) Serena