Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
North West > Manchester

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in Manchester is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 134 204
Rank change year-on-year -11 +70 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 16 10 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.31% 0.48% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.53% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 5
10th Percentile - £52,000 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £63,973 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +30.43% -3.40%
75th Percentile £73,125 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £78,500 £74,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +30.43% -3.40%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,724 1,899 4,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.85% 90.95% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,383 1,262 3,749
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,875 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,169
Median % change year-on-year - +10.77% -5.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,822 £81,400
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +9.59% -9.09%

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 26 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2026, 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 16 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 11 (68.75%) AWS
3 8 (50.00%) Grafana
3 8 (50.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (43.75%) DevOps
5 6 (37.50%) DNS
5 6 (37.50%) Linux
6 5 (31.25%) HTTP
6 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
6 5 (31.25%) ITIL
6 5 (31.25%) SolarWinds
6 5 (31.25%) Splunk
6 5 (31.25%) SSL
6 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (31.25%) Windows
7 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
7 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (25.00%) Terraform
8 3 (18.75%) AI
8 3 (18.75%) ARM Templates
8 3 (18.75%) Azure
8 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (18.75%) Bash
8 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
8 3 (18.75%) Cloud Operations
8 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
8 3 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment

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 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Datadog
2 3 (18.75%) GitHub
2 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) HTTP
2 5 (31.25%) SSL
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
3 5 (31.25%) ITIL
3 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) AI
5 3 (18.75%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (18.75%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (18.75%) Observability
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Secure Coding
5 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Bash
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) Python
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Grafana
1 8 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) SolarWinds
1 5 (31.25%) Splunk