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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 66 134
Rank change year-on-year -3 +68 +58
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 94 139 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.98% 3.43% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.14% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 33
10th Percentile £46,650 £38,875 £41,227
25th Percentile £52,750 £51,550 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £68,404 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.48% +9.45% -5.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,608 £87,419
90th Percentile £81,500 £88,000 £94,731
North West median annual salary £62,375 £80,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -22.03% +36.17% -21.24%

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 2,114 3,356 2,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.50% 82.74% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 1,777 2,098
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,900 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.11% -8.99% +4.76%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -3 7 £65,000 -
Stockport +6 6 - -
Heywood - 6 - -
Altrincham - 6 - -
Cheadle - 6 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne -3 5 - -
Dukinfield -4 5 - -
Sale -4 5 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Bury - 5 - -
Site Reliability Engineering
North West

Site Reliability Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.06%) Apache Solr
1 1 (1.06%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 87 (92.55%) AWS
1 87 (92.55%) Azure
2 83 (88.30%) GCP
3 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.13%) Datadog
4 2 (2.13%) PaaS
4 2 (2.13%) Serverless
5 1 (1.06%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) DNS
2 2 (2.13%) Firewall
2 2 (2.13%) WAN
3 1 (1.06%) HTTP
3 1 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.13%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.06%) MySQL
2 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.06%) Git
2 1 (1.06%) GitLab
2 1 (1.06%) Jaeger
General
1 82 (87.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (4.26%) Finance
3 2 (2.13%) Electronics
3 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
3 2 (2.13%) Marketing
3 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.13%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (89.36%) Software Engineer
2 82 (87.23%) Senior
2 82 (87.23%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (2.13%) Java Engineer
4 2 (2.13%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (2.13%) Lead
4 2 (2.13%) Python Engineer
4 2 (2.13%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (2.13%) Site Engineer
4 2 (2.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (1.06%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (1.06%) Junior
5 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (1.06%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (1.06%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (89.36%) Node.js
2 82 (87.23%) .NET
3 2 (2.13%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.13%) Spring
3 2 (2.13%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.06%) Loki
4 1 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 82 (87.23%) Cyberattack
1 82 (87.23%) Linux Command Line
1 82 (87.23%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (91.49%) Linux
2 4 (4.26%) Windows
3 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.06%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (95.74%) Agile
2 84 (89.36%) Data Engineering
2 84 (89.36%) Software Engineering
3 83 (88.30%) Microservices
3 83 (88.30%) Scrum
3 83 (88.30%) User Experience
4 82 (87.23%) Cloud Security
4 82 (87.23%) Machine Learning
4 82 (87.23%) Mentoring
5 7 (7.45%) DevOps
6 5 (5.32%) CI/CD
7 4 (4.26%) Containerisation
7 4 (4.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (3.19%) ITIL
8 3 (3.19%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (3.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (2.13%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (2.13%) Programme Management
9 2 (2.13%) Risk Management
9 2 (2.13%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (93.62%) Python
2 85 (90.43%) JavaScript
3 84 (89.36%) Go
3 84 (89.36%) Java
4 82 (87.23%) C++
4 82 (87.23%) Rust
5 3 (3.19%) Bash
6 2 (2.13%) Bicep
6 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (90.43%) DV Cleared
1 85 (90.43%) Security Cleared
2 82 (87.23%) AWS Certification
2 82 (87.23%) AWS Certified Developer
2 82 (87.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.32%) Terraform
2 3 (3.19%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.13%) Ansible
3 2 (2.13%) Grafana
3 2 (2.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.06%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle
1 2 (2.13%) SAP
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.06%) New Relic
2 1 (1.06%) SolarWinds
2 1 (1.06%) Splunk