Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in Cheshire

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
North West > Cheshire

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in Cheshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.56% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
North West median annual salary £50,000 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +36.36% -17.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,017 567 452
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.10% 92.35% 98.47%
Number of salaries quoted 457 316 364
10th Percentile £27,900 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £66,194
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,119 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.19% -2.63% -

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chester - 3 - -
Knutsford - 3 - -
Macclesfield - 1 £60,000 -
Site Reliability Engineer
North West

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, Site Reliability Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 3 (42.86%) Mule
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Nagios
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (14.29%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Argo
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Nagios
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle