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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 115 161
Rank change year-on-year -8 +46 +24
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 37 28 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.79% 1.40% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.47% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 31 24 25
10th Percentile £37,500 £54,075 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,281 £61,297 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £69,654 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.85% +16.09% -
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £130,000 £84,500 £87,500
North West median annual salary £73,151 £69,654 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.02% +11.45% +4.17%

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 3,464 1,900 4,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.58% 95.24% 86.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,359 1,246 3,300
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,598 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.91% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -9.09%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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
Bolton - 2 £82,500 -
Salford -11 1 £73,801 +7.79%
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 20 (54.05%) AWS
2 11 (29.73%) Azure
3 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (8.11%) Datadog
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.70%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.70%) dbt
6 1 (2.70%) Pulumi
6 1 (2.70%) Serverless
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) DNS
2 5 (13.51%) HTTP
2 5 (13.51%) SSL
3 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 13 (35.14%) Site Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Software Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Junior
5 4 (10.81%) Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) CloudOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Head of Engineering
7 2 (5.41%) Head of Infrastructure
8 1 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Engineering Manager
8 1 (2.70%) Head of IT
8 1 (2.70%) Principal Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Principal Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Site Manager
8 1 (2.70%) Site Reliability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) React
2 3 (8.11%) Node.js
3 2 (5.41%) .NET
3 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.41%) Backbone.js
3 2 (5.41%) Spring
3 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.70%) Django
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (21.62%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (70.27%) DevOps
2 16 (43.24%) Software Engineering
3 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 11 (29.73%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (27.03%) AI
5 10 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (27.03%) Observability
6 7 (18.92%) Incident Response
6 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
6 7 (18.92%) Secure Coding
7 6 (16.22%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (13.51%) ITIL
8 5 (13.51%) Software Delivery
9 4 (10.81%) Code Quality
9 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
9 4 (10.81%) Machine Learning
9 4 (10.81%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) Bash
2 2 (5.41%) C#
2 2 (5.41%) Java
2 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.41%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) C
3 1 (2.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Grafana
1 8 (21.62%) Prometheus
2 7 (18.92%) Terraform
3 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) SolarWinds
1 5 (13.51%) Splunk
2 1 (2.70%) Google