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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 52 103
Rank change year-on-year -67 +51 +88
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 17 152 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.71% 4.14% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 4.79% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13 16 24
10th Percentile £40,550 £53,325 £41,984
25th Percentile £52,750 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,154 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% +28.27% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £74,205
90th Percentile £139,500 £82,750 £96,539
North West median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +36.36% -17.65%

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 2,029 3,176 2,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.72% 86.59% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 1,483 1,790
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,541
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.63% +8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,777
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 22 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 22 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
Salford 0 2 £73,801 +6.48%
Oldham -4 1 £65,000 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 9 (52.94%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) PaaS
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (11.76%) dbt
5 2 (11.76%) Pulumi
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.88%) Datadog
6 1 (5.88%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) HTTP
2 2 (11.76%) SSL
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (11.76%) Redis
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Electronics
3 4 (23.53%) Manufacturing
3 4 (23.53%) Marketing
3 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Site Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Junior
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) FastAPI
1 3 (17.65%) Node.js
1 3 (17.65%) Spring
1 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
2 2 (11.76%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (52.94%) Agile
3 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) DevSecOps
5 5 (29.41%) Observability
5 5 (29.41%) Software Delivery
6 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Digital Marketing
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Programme Management
7 3 (17.65%) AI
7 3 (17.65%) ITIL
7 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
7 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (11.76%) Intelligent Automation
8 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
8 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Grafana
3 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.88%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (5.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) SAP
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Google
3 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) Atlassian