#10 by score · #7 editorially · Cloud and Infrastructure
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Tier 1 · AI-era winnersAI risk: lowEstimate5 offers on SOLID.Jobs
Great pay; on-call; reliability judgement is hard to automate
Overall scoreDerived
7.25/ 10
#10 of 63 by score with the default weights. #7 in the editorial ranking.- Salary 30% × 5.31.60
- AI resistance 35% × 9.03.15
- Demand 20% × 8.01.60
- Remote work 10% × 8.00.80
- Low stress 5% × 2.00.10
Salary, k PLN per month
Estimateestimate MID → SENIORmidpoint, medianjunior (derived)
- Range MID → SENIOR
- ≈20–36
- Range midpoint
- ≈28.0
- Junior Derived
- ≈14.0
- Take-home, employment (UoP) Derived
- ≈19.0
- Take-home, B2B flat-rate tax Derived
- ≈23.0
NOTE: this is NOT a junior salary! The bottom of the range = MID level (or just promoted from junior). The top of the range = an experienced SENIOR. Staff/principal/architect levels can earn above it.
Easiest transitions
Estimate2-3 roles with the shortest path from this one (overlapping skills)
Key certifications
EstimateCKATerraform Associatecloud associate+
Scores 1–10
Estimate- AI resistance9/1010 = rides the AI wave, 1 = highly automatable
- Demand8/1010 = acute shortage of specialists, 1 = shrinking market
- Remote work8/1010 = fully remote is the norm, 1 = mostly on-site
- Stress8/1010 = heavy on-call / shifts / pressure, 1 = calm
- Entry barrier7/1010 = years of prerequisites, 1 = open to beginners
- Prestige9/1010 = elite reputation in the industry, 1 = underrated role; a subjective view of the title among engineers - informational, not part of the Score formula
The market in job ads
From job ads SOLID.Jobs · 30/10/2026Too few offers for this role (5 offers, threshold 10). Below are statistics for the DevOps category (76 offers), labelled as category data, not role data.
76offers in the category · 22 employers
25.2kcategory B2B median
24.7koverall median · 20.2–27.4k
53%remote in the category
Most common stack in DevOps
Most common in this role's 5 offers: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Grafana, Jenkins, Prometheus, Python. This is only indicative.