dependability-engineer/references/market.md

# Market evidence report — dependability-engineer

Source: **49 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 49), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-11.
This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is
reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 25 | 51 % |
| senior | 20 | 41 % |
| junior | 2 | 4 % |
| lead | 2 | 4 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kubernetes | 9 | 18 % |
| 2 | AWS | 8 | 16 % |
| 3 | Terraform | 7 | 14 % |
| 4 | Python | 6 | 12 % |
| 5 | CMMS | 5 | 10 % |
| 6 | Ansible | 4 | 8 % |
| 7 | Docker | 4 | 8 % |
| 8 | GitHub Actions | 4 | 8 % |
| 9 | Datadog | 3 | 6 % |
| 10 | GCP | 3 | 6 % |
| 11 | Go | 3 | 6 % |
| 12 | Jenkins | 3 | 6 % |
| 13 | Maximo | 3 | 6 % |
| 14 | Reliasoft | 3 | 6 % |
| 15 | SAP | 3 | 6 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | root cause analysis | 23 | 47 % |
| 2 | reliability engineering | 20 | 41 % |
| 3 | data analysis | 14 | 29 % |
| 4 | incident response | 10 | 20 % |
| 5 | failure analysis | 9 | 18 % |
| 6 | predictive maintenance | 9 | 18 % |
| 7 | troubleshooting | 8 | 16 % |
| 8 | risk assessment | 7 | 14 % |
| 9 | performance optimization | 6 | 12 % |
| 10 | preventive maintenance | 6 | 12 % |
| 11 | capacity planning | 5 | 10 % |
| 12 | incident management | 4 | 8 % |
| 13 | performance tuning | 4 | 8 % |
| 14 | reliability analysis | 4 | 8 % |
| 15 | statistical modeling | 4 | 8 % |
| 16 | system design | 4 | 8 % |
| 17 | automation | 3 | 6 % |
| 18 | failure mode analysis | 3 | 6 % |
| 19 | infrastructure as code | 3 | 6 % |
| 20 | infrastructure design | 3 | 6 % |
| 21 | maintenance strategy development | 3 | 6 % |
| 22 | reliability improvement | 3 | 6 % |
| 23 | rotating equipment maintenance | 3 | 6 % |
| 24 | security compliance | 3 | 6 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fault tree analysis | 5 | 10 % |
| 2 | ci/cd | 4 | 8 % |
| 3 | ci/cd pipelines | 3 | 6 % |
| 4 | continuous delivery | 3 | 6 % |
| 5 | continuous improvement | 3 | 6 % |
| 6 | DevSecOps | 3 | 6 % |
| 7 | FMEA | 3 | 6 % |
| 8 | infrastructure as code | 3 | 6 % |
| 9 | lean manufacturing | 3 | 6 % |
| 10 | lean six sigma | 3 | 6 % |
| 11 | reliability centered maintenance (RCM) | 3 | 6 % |
| 12 | sre principles | 3 | 6 % |
| 13 | Weibull analysis | 3 | 6 % |

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | automation development | 6 | 12 % |
| 2 | performance monitoring | 5 | 10 % |
| 3 | system maintenance | 4 | 8 % |
| 4 | maintenance strategy development | 3 | 6 % |
| 5 | performance optimization | 3 | 6 % |
| 6 | system monitoring | 3 | 6 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 49 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

49 ads.

**Top hard skills:**

- root cause analysis — 47 % (23 ads)
- reliability engineering — 41 % (20 ads)
- data analysis — 29 % (14 ads)
- incident response — 20 % (10 ads)
- failure analysis — 18 % (9 ads)
- predictive maintenance — 18 % (9 ads)
- troubleshooting — 16 % (8 ads)
- risk assessment — 14 % (7 ads)
- performance optimization — 12 % (6 ads)
- preventive maintenance — 12 % (6 ads)

**Top tools:**

- Kubernetes — 18 % (9 ads)
- AWS — 16 % (8 ads)
- Terraform — 14 % (7 ads)
- Python — 12 % (6 ads)
- CMMS — 10 % (5 ads)
- Ansible — 8 % (4 ads)
- Docker — 8 % (4 ads)
- GitHub Actions — 8 % (4 ads)
- Datadog — 6 % (3 ads)
- GCP — 6 % (3 ads)

**Seniority:** mid 51 % · senior 41 % · junior 4 % · lead 4 %

### UK (gb)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.


## Job title variants in the market

| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Reliability Engineer | 9 |
| Senior Reliability Engineer | 5 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 4 |
| Rotating Engineer – Onshore Reliability | 2 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | 2 |
| Infrastructure Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Reliability & Quality | 1 |
| Lead Site Reliability Engineer | 1 |
| Performance & Reliability Engineer | 1 |
| Reliability & Maintainability Engineer | 1 |
| Reliability Engineer - Markets RTB | 1 |
| Reliability Engineer (Curtis Bay, MD) | 1 |
| Reliability Product Approval Engineer | 1 |
| Remote Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud-Native & IaC Expert | 1 |
| Rotating Engineer – Offshore Reliability | 1 |
| Senior Engineer, Edge-Cloud Reliability Jobs | 1 |
| Senior Reliability & Test Engineer, Fauna | 1 |
| Senior Reliability Engineer – AI Data Center Cabling | 1 |
| Senior Reliability Engineer, DoD Data & Analytics Platform | 1 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer - CTJ - Top Secret | 1 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer for CIAM | 1 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Kubernetes w/ active TS/SCI | 1 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer, TS Clearance | 1 |
| Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Reliability Engineer | 1 |
| Space Associate/Systems Reliability Engineer Jobs | 1 |
| Sr Reliability Engineer | 1 |

Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.