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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 73 98
Rank change year-on-year -44 +25 +75
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 66 100 125
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.04% 4.11% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 4.39% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 58 13 21
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,550 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,297 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,037 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +11.88% +6.78% +2.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,777 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,375 £77,500 £92,500
North West median annual salary £72,500 £67,037 £62,783
% change year-on-year +8.15% +6.78% +0.45%

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 4,627 2,278 4,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.21% 93.59% 83.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,669 1,315 3,426
10th Percentile £32,975 £29,850 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,830
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.11% -8.91%
75th Percentile £78,312 £73,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,500 £82,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.08% +1.78% -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -
Stockport +1 1 £75,000 - 1
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 24 (36.36%) AWS
2 20 (30.30%) Azure
3 6 (9.09%) GitHub
4 5 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.06%) Datadog
6 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.55%) GCP
6 3 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (4.55%) Serverless
6 3 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.03%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (3.03%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.52%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (3.03%) Firewall
2 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.52%) HTTP
3 1 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.52%) MySQL
1 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.58%) Git
2 5 (7.58%) GitLab
3 3 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.58%) Finance
3 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 16 (24.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (24.24%) Site Engineer
2 16 (24.24%) Software Engineer
3 8 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (12.12%) Lead
4 6 (9.09%) Architect
4 6 (9.09%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.06%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
6 4 (6.06%) Senior
6 4 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) CloudOps Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (4.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Principal Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.55%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.67%) Spring
1 11 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 6 (9.09%) React
3 5 (7.58%) Node.js
4 4 (6.06%) .NET
4 4 (6.06%) ARM Templates
4 4 (6.06%) Backbone.js
5 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.52%) REST
5 1 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.76%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) NHS
4 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (6.06%) Windows
3 3 (4.55%) CentOS
3 3 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (74.24%) DevOps
2 28 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 27 (40.91%) Platform Engineering
4 20 (30.30%) Software Engineering
5 17 (25.76%) Containerisation
6 14 (21.21%) AI
6 14 (21.21%) Observability
7 12 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (18.18%) Secure Coding
8 8 (12.12%) Architectural Design
8 8 (12.12%) Code Quality
8 8 (12.12%) Microservices
8 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (10.61%) Agile
9 7 (10.61%) Cost Optimisation
9 7 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (9.09%) Strategic Planning
10 6 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.33%) Python
2 11 (16.67%) Java
3 7 (10.61%) Bash
4 4 (6.06%) C#
5 3 (4.55%) C
5 3 (4.55%) C++
5 3 (4.55%) Go
5 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.03%) SQL
7 1 (1.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (28.79%) DV Cleared
1 19 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 19 (28.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (39.39%) Terraform
2 24 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 16 (24.24%) Ansible
4 9 (13.64%) Grafana
4 9 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.03%) Istio
5 2 (3.03%) linkerd
5 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle
2 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds
2 1 (1.52%) Splunk