Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 74 75
Rank change year-on-year -35 +1 +68
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 89 98 134
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.26% 3.93% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 4.35% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 79 11 7
10th Percentile £48,500 £57,750 £38,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,297 £47,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,037 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year +11.88% -3.28% +6.63%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,777 £81,072
90th Percentile £96,250 £77,500 £88,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £67,037 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.88% -16.20% +28.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Site Reliability Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,326 2,255 3,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.12% 90.38% 81.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,153 1,317 2,272
10th Percentile £32,755 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,091
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,238
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.42% -6.84%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in Manchester

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 August 2026. 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
Stockport +1 3 £75,000 -
Site Reliability Engineering
North West

Site Reliability Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.12%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.58%) AWS
2 22 (24.72%) Azure
3 9 (10.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (8.99%) GCP
5 7 (7.87%) GitHub
6 6 (6.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (6.74%) Serverless
7 4 (4.49%) Datadog
7 4 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.37%) Cloud Functions
8 3 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.37%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (2.25%) dbt
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.12%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.12%) DNS
2 1 (1.12%) Firewall
2 1 (1.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.12%) MySQL
1 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.24%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.87%) Git
2 7 (7.87%) GitLab
3 4 (4.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.87%) Finance
3 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.12%) Games
5 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.12%) Local Government
5 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (34.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (26.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 23 (25.84%) Site Engineer
4 17 (19.10%) Senior
5 15 (16.85%) Software Engineer
6 11 (12.36%) Lead
7 10 (11.24%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 10 (11.24%) Principal Engineer
7 10 (11.24%) Python Engineer
8 8 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (8.99%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Lead DevOps
9 6 (6.74%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Architect
11 4 (4.49%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
12 3 (3.37%) Principal Architect
12 3 (3.37%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (48.31%) Terraform
2 19 (21.35%) Spring
2 19 (21.35%) Spring Boot
3 5 (5.62%) Node.js
3 5 (5.62%) React
4 4 (4.49%) .NET
4 4 (4.49%) ARM Templates
4 4 (4.49%) Backbone.js
5 1 (1.12%) Middleware
5 1 (1.12%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.47%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.48%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.12%) NHS
4 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.85%) Linux
2 4 (4.49%) CentOS
2 4 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.37%) Unix
3 3 (3.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (69.66%) DevOps
2 43 (48.31%) CI/CD
3 42 (47.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (34.83%) Platform Engineering
4 31 (34.83%) Software Engineering
5 29 (32.58%) Containerisation
6 21 (23.60%) Observability
7 16 (17.98%) AI
8 13 (14.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (12.36%) Secure Coding
11 9 (10.11%) Agile
11 9 (10.11%) Incident Response
11 9 (10.11%) Microservices
11 9 (10.11%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (8.99%) Coaching
12 8 (8.99%) Code Quality
12 8 (8.99%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (7.87%) Architectural Design
13 7 (7.87%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (49.44%) Python
2 19 (21.35%) Java
3 10 (11.24%) Bash
4 6 (6.74%) Go
5 5 (5.62%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.49%) C#
7 3 (3.37%) C
7 3 (3.37%) C++
8 2 (2.25%) SQL
9 1 (1.12%) Bicep
9 1 (1.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (37.08%) Security Cleared
2 31 (34.83%) DV Cleared
3 11 (12.36%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.12%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (33.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (43.82%) Kubernetes
2 29 (32.58%) Ansible
3 13 (14.61%) Grafana
4 11 (12.36%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.37%) Istio
5 3 (3.37%) linkerd
5 3 (3.37%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (8.99%) Google
2 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.25%) Splunk
3 1 (1.12%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.12%) IBM
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.12%) Moogsoft
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle