Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
North West > Manchester

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in Manchester is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 179 161
Rank change year-on-year +29 -18 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 1 4 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.042% 0.098% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.10% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 15
10th Percentile - £60,125 £42,874
25th Percentile £37,500 £64,063 £46,437
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £77,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -48.55% +29.58% -10.91%
75th Percentile £42,500 £88,000 £67,070
90th Percentile - - £87,500
North West median annual salary £40,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -50.00% +33.33% -10.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 2,151 3,850 2,637
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.84% 94.52% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 2,200 2,125
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £34,572
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £82,500 £84,034
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Site Reliability Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk