Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
North West > Manchester

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in Manchester is £67,626 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 218 216
Rank change year-on-year +55 -2 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 5 3 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.20% 0.051% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.054% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile £49,500 £58,000 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,625 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,626 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% +6.12% -9.06%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,500 £84,375
90th Percentile - £83,400 £87,500
North West median annual salary £67,626 £80,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -15.47% +30.61% -9.06%

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 2,246 5,578 3,963
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.04% 95.12% 92.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 4,073 2,590
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,784 £67,968 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,200 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Salford - 1 £67,626 -
Site Reliability Engineer
North West

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Grafana
3 3 (60.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) GCP
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) Go
4 2 (40.00%) New Relic
4 2 (40.00%) Ansible
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (20.00%) Loki
5 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation

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 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (20.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Games
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Django
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Loki
1 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Server Management
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) New Relic
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk