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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 120 127
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +67
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 22 28 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.62% 1.13% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.19% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 21 19 26
10th Percentile £37,500 £52,250 £41,227
25th Percentile £52,750 £60,985 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +30.43% -13.90%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £150,000 £87,500 £74,900
North West median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -

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 2,702 2,351 3,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.77% 95.07% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,714 1,178 2,704
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,230 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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
Salford +3 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Bolton - 2 £82,500 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (13.64%) PaaS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (9.09%) dbt
5 2 (9.09%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.55%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) HTTP
2 5 (22.73%) SSL
3 3 (13.64%) Firewall
3 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
4 2 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Electronics
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Site Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Junior
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Developer
6 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Head of Infrastructure
6 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Django
1 2 (9.09%) Spring
1 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) DevOps
2 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Software Delivery
6 5 (22.73%) Agile
6 5 (22.73%) ITIL
6 5 (22.73%) Observability
6 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (18.18%) AI
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (18.18%) DevSecOps
7 4 (18.18%) Machine Learning
7 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
8 3 (13.64%) Anomaly Detection
8 3 (13.64%) Clean Code
8 3 (13.64%) Incident Response
8 3 (13.64%) Intelligent Automation
8 3 (13.64%) Migration
8 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) Bicep
2 2 (9.09%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Grafana
1 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) SolarWinds
1 5 (22.73%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle