SLIs jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-06, SLIs appears in 583 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — most often required for Site Reliability Engineer roles, with demand up 57% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-06
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Frequently asked questions about SLIs
+Is SLIs in demand in 2026?
Yes. SLIs appears in 583 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-06, with demand up 57% vs the prior 4 weeks. It is most often required for Site Reliability Engineer roles (39% of Site Reliability Engineer postings list it).
+What jobs require SLIs?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-06, the job titles most likely to require SLIs are Site Reliability Engineer (39% of postings list SLIs), Software Engineer (14% of postings list SLIs), DevOps Engineer (5% of postings list SLIs).
+What skills are commonly paired with SLIs?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-06), SLIs most often appears alongside SLOs, observability, Kubernetes, error budgets, CI/CD.
+Where is SLIs most in demand?
As of 2026-09-06, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring SLIs are Bengaluru, San Francisco, London, New York City, Berlin, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly job postings requiring SLIs — last 90 days
Job titles most likely to require SLIs
| Role | Postings mentioning | % requiring |
|---|---|---|
| Site Reliability Engineer | 226 | 38.8% |
| Software Engineer | 81 | 13.9% |
| DevOps Engineer | 28 | 4.8% |
| Engineering Manager | 26 | 4.5% |
| Platform Engineer | 18 | 3.1% |
| Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | 13 | 2.2% |
| Data Engineer | 9 | 1.5% |
| Operations Engineer | 9 | 1.5% |
| Backend Engineer | 8 | 1.4% |
| Cloud Platform Engineer | 7 | 1.2% |
Top metros hiring for SLIs
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bengaluru | 25 | 4.3% |
| San Francisco | 21 | 3.6% |
| London | 14 | 2.4% |
| New York City | 14 | 2.4% |
| Berlin | 13 | 2.2% |
| Sunnyvale | 11 | 1.9% |
| Toronto | 11 | 1.9% |
| Paris | 8 | 1.4% |
| San Jose | 8 | 1.4% |
Skills commonly paired with SLIs
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-06. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills).
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The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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