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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 50 97
Rank change year-on-year -51 +47 +98
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 45 150 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.83% 4.14% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 4.84% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 26
10th Percentile £52,750 £46,160 £42,489
25th Percentile £57,625 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,419
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,800 £96,539
North West median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -1.60% +27.66% -12.03%

All Process and 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 2,096 3,097 2,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.38% 85.43% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,292 1,418 1,877
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -7.65% +8.28%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 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
Oldham -2 3 £65,000 -
Salford +3 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Dukinfield -2 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne -3 2 - - 4
Sale -3 2 - -
Stockport -5 2 - -
Altrincham - 2 - - 2
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Bury - 2 - - 2
Cheadle - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
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 40 (88.89%) AWS
2 37 (82.22%) Azure
3 34 (75.56%) GCP
4 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.67%) PaaS
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.44%) dbt
5 2 (4.44%) Pulumi
5 2 (4.44%) Serverless
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.22%) Datadog
6 1 (2.22%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (4.44%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.44%) WAN
3 1 (2.22%) HTTP
3 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.44%) Redis
4 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 29 (64.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (15.56%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Electronics
3 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
3 4 (8.89%) Marketing
3 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.89%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (68.89%) Senior
1 31 (68.89%) Software Engineer
2 29 (64.44%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Java Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Lead
4 2 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Python Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Site Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Developer
5 1 (2.22%) Junior
5 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (71.11%) Node.js
2 29 (64.44%) .NET
3 3 (6.67%) FastAPI
3 3 (6.67%) Spring
3 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.44%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 30 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 29 (64.44%) Cyberattack
2 29 (64.44%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (73.33%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Unix
2 2 (4.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (86.67%) Agile
2 34 (75.56%) Software Engineering
3 31 (68.89%) Data Engineering
3 31 (68.89%) Scrum
4 30 (66.67%) Machine Learning
4 30 (66.67%) Microservices
4 30 (66.67%) User Experience
5 29 (64.44%) Cloud Security
5 29 (64.44%) Mentoring
6 11 (24.44%) DevOps
7 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
9 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 4 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (8.89%) DevSecOps
10 4 (8.89%) Digital Marketing
10 4 (8.89%) Observability
10 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (8.89%) Programme Management
10 4 (8.89%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (80.00%) Python
2 32 (71.11%) Java
2 32 (71.11%) JavaScript
3 30 (66.67%) Go
4 29 (64.44%) C++
4 29 (64.44%) Rust
5 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.44%) Bash
6 2 (4.44%) Bicep
7 1 (2.22%) C#
7 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (75.56%) DV Cleared
3 30 (66.67%) AWS Certification
4 29 (64.44%) AWS Certified Developer
4 29 (64.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Terraform
2 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (2.22%) Grafana
3 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) SAP
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk