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Data as of November 2, 2026

SRE & platform

Kubernetes is in 60% of these roles, vs. 21% across tech.

The skills employers mention most in open SRE and platform roles, and how each compares with tech as a whole.

Open roles
136
Companies hiring
29
New in the last 7 days
11
Listed as remote
At least 19%

What sets this apart

  1. +39 Kubernetes 60% here, 21% overall
  2. +37 Terraform 47% here, 10% overall
  3. +31 AWS 58% here, 27% overall
  4. +27 Go 54% here, 27% overall

Percentage points above the share of all tech roles.

Most requested

  • Share of these roles
  • Furthest above tech overall
  • Share across all tech roles
Share of open SRE and platform roles and of companies mentioning each skill
Skill Share of roles, as a bar % of roles % of companies
Python 83 of 136 roles · 24 of 29 companies · 51% across all tech roles 61% 83%
Kubernetes 81 of 136 roles · 23 of 29 companies · 21% across all tech roles 60%+39 pts 79%
AWS 79 of 136 roles · 21 of 29 companies · 27% across all tech roles 58%+31 pts 72%
Go 74 of 136 roles · 20 of 29 companies · 27% across all tech roles 54%+27 pts 69%
Terraform 64 of 136 roles · 21 of 29 companies · 10% across all tech roles 47%+37 pts 72%
GCP 55 of 136 roles · 15 of 29 companies · 20% across all tech roles 40% 52%
Azure 50 of 136 roles · 16 of 29 companies · 20% across all tech roles 37% 55%
CI/CD 50 of 136 roles · 20 of 29 companies · 17% across all tech roles 37% 69%
Linux 50 of 136 roles · 17 of 29 companies · 10% across all tech roles 37% 59%
Prometheus 29 of 136 roles · 10 of 29 companies · 4% across all tech roles 21% 34%
Argo 28 of 136 roles · 9 of 29 companies · 2% across all tech roles 21% 31%
Docker 28 of 136 roles · 12 of 29 companies · 7% across all tech roles 21% 41%
Bash 26 of 136 roles · 13 of 29 companies · 5% across all tech roles 19% 45%
Helm 25 of 136 roles · 7 of 29 companies · 2% across all tech roles 18% 24%
Java 24 of 136 roles · 10 of 29 companies · 20% across all tech roles 18% 34%
Grafana 22 of 136 roles · 8 of 29 companies · 3% across all tech roles 16% 28%
Ansible 20 of 136 roles · 10 of 29 companies · 2% across all tech roles 15% 34%
PostgreSQL 20 of 136 roles · 9 of 29 companies · 7% across all tech roles 15% 31%
Rust 19 of 136 roles · 7 of 29 companies · 14% across all tech roles 14% 24%
C++ 18 of 136 roles · 7 of 29 companies · 24% across all tech roles 13% 24%
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SkillCategoryRoles% of rolesCompanies% of companies
PythonLanguages8361.0%2483%
KubernetesInfrastructure8159.6%2379%
AWSCloud7958.1%2172%
GoLanguages7454.4%2069%
TerraformInfrastructure6447.1%2172%
GCPCloud5540.4%1552%
AzureCloud5036.8%1655%
CI/CDInfrastructure5036.8%2069%
LinuxInfrastructure5036.8%1759%
PrometheusObservability2921.3%1034%
ArgoInfrastructure2820.6%931%
DockerInfrastructure2820.6%1241%
BashLanguages2619.1%1345%
HelmInfrastructure2518.4%724%
JavaLanguages2417.6%1034%
GrafanaObservability2216.2%828%
AnsibleInfrastructure2014.7%1034%
PostgreSQLDatabases2014.7%931%
RustLanguages1914.0%724%
C++Languages1813.2%724%
LLMsAI/ML1712.5%828%
GitInfrastructure128.8%517%
DatadogObservability118.1%414%
FedRAMPSecurity118.1%517%
SQLLanguages118.1%414%
GitHub ActionsInfrastructure107.4%621%
MySQLDatabases107.4%27%
OpenTelemetryObservability107.4%621%
RedisDatabases107.4%27%
RubyLanguages107.4%414%
JavaScriptLanguages96.6%27%
KafkaData96.6%414%
CassandraDatabases85.9%310%
TypeScriptLanguages85.9%621%
SplunkObservability75.1%27%
IstioInfrastructure64.4%27%
OktaIdentity64.4%414%
SOC 2Security64.4%414%
ElasticsearchDatabases53.7%414%
NISTSecurity53.7%517%
RBACIdentity53.7%310%
SparkData53.7%310%
ClickHouseDatabases42.9%310%
ISO 27001Security42.9%27%
Active DirectoryIdentity32.2%27%
ETL/ELTData32.2%27%
Entra IDIdentity32.2%310%
OIDCIdentity32.2%310%
PowerShellLanguages32.2%310%
ReactWeb32.2%310%
SnowflakeData32.2%27%
Zero trustSecurity32.2%310%
dbtData32.2%13%
gRPCWeb32.2%310%
BigQueryData21.5%27%
GraphQLWeb21.5%27%
HadoopData21.5%27%
IntuneIdentity21.5%27%
JamfIdentity21.5%27%
OAuthIdentity21.5%27%
PyTorchAI/ML21.5%13%
SAMLIdentity21.5%27%
SSOIdentity21.5%27%
AirflowData10.7%13%
C#Languages10.7%13%
CrowdStrikeSecurity10.7%13%
Data modelingData10.7%13%
DatabricksData10.7%13%
FlinkData10.7%13%
IcebergData10.7%13%
JenkinsInfrastructure10.7%13%
Node.jsWeb10.7%13%
RAGAI/ML10.7%13%
ScalaLanguages10.7%13%
SwiftLanguages10.7%13%
VueWeb10.7%13%
Vulnerability managementSecurity10.7%13%

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