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 13 November 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 157 140
Rank change year-on-year +23 -17 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 3 11 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.12% 0.30% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.32% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 8
10th Percentile - £57,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £69,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £75,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +22.45% -8.29%
75th Percentile £60,645 £77,500 £67,070
90th Percentile £71,532 £88,000 £73,199
North West median annual salary £40,000 £75,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -46.67% +22.45% -17.88%

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 2,227 3,451 2,284
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.72% 95.41% 96.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,455 1,729 1,857
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £49,250 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% -9.09% +4.76%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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 Manchester.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend 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
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 November 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 13 November 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 £73,801 -
Site Reliability Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 13 November 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 Manchester region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Django
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Observability

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Google