Most In-Demand SRE Skills
The most in-demand skills for SRE roles right now are cloud, sre, automation — ranked across 75790 open postings.
Updated November 3, 2026
| # | Skill | Open postings | 30-day growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloud | 4,441 | -476 |
| 2 | sre | 4,036 | -362 |
| 3 | automation | 3,948 | -412 |
| 4 | python | 3,822 | -339 |
| 5 | observability | 3,720 | -351 |
| 6 | kubernetes | 3,612 | -283 |
| 7 | ci-cd | 3,319 | -243 |
| 8 | terraform | 3,008 | -287 |
| 9 | aws | 2,999 | -287 |
| 10 | infrastructure-as-code | 2,733 | -225 |
| 11 | ai | 2,628 | -264 |
| 12 | devops | 2,461 | -273 |
| 13 | linux | 2,446 | -252 |
| 14 | networking | 2,348 | -249 |
| 15 | grafana | 2,297 | -212 |
| 16 | prometheus | 2,058 | -226 |
| 17 | bash | 2,042 | -121 |
| 18 | azure | 1,790 | -236 |
| 19 | gcp | 1,737 | -183 |
| 20 | docker | 1,673 | -116 |
| 21 | distributed-systems | 1,491 | -340 |
| 22 | ansible | 1,478 | -186 |
| 23 | java | 1,410 | -149 |
| 24 | root-cause-analysis | 1,302 | -86 |
| 25 | datadog | 1,254 | -153 |
| 26 | jenkins | 1,073 | -82 |
| 27 | github | 1,033 | -88 |
| 28 | cloud-native | 979 | -51 |
| 29 | splunk | 891 | -78 |
| 30 | api | 843 | -84 |
| 31 | gitlab | 775 | -111 |
| 32 | dns | 715 | -28 |
| 33 | github-actions | 711 | -32 |
| 34 | sql | 690 | -37 |
| 35 | agile | 686 | -106 |
| 36 | containerization | 685 | -96 |
| 37 | postgresql | 682 | -37 |
| 38 | elk | 672 | -111 |
| 39 | opentelemetry | 657 | -113 |
| 40 | gitops | 645 | -48 |