Site Reliability Engineering Contracts in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 81 94
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 +15
Contract jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 5 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.50% 0.82% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.94% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 15
10th Percentile £516 £441 £509
25th Percentile £585 £495 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £744 £634 £694
90th Percentile £770 £696 £723
North West median daily rate £475 £508 £650
% change year-on-year -6.45% -21.88% +2.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £75.65 - -
25th Percentile £78.88 - -
Median hourly rate £87.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.38 - -
90th Percentile £93.95 - -
North West median hourly rate £87.00 - £65.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Site Reliability Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 878 1,066 1,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.06% 87.16% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 685 1,191
10th Percentile £306 £327 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £453 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 53 60
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.94 £14.59
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.10 £16.22
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +77.22% +12.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £81.30 £66.40
North West median hourly rate £27.90 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -14.80% -0.76% +51.52%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Site Reliability Engineering in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Email Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (20.00%) Service Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) COBIT
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) BMC
1 1 (20.00%) Remedy
1 1 (20.00%) SendGrid
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow