Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in the North West

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
England > North West

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in the North West is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 286 293
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 8 6 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% 0.061% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.065% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 13
10th Percentile £51,000 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £60,848 £49,688 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £61,250 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +18.37% +2.90% -11.62%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,500 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% +25.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 7,226 9,301 6,978
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 94.61% 89.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,120 7,150 4,068
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,619 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Site Reliability Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the North West

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineer in the North West

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineer in the North West

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Reliability Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Manchester +65 8 £72,500 +26.09% 9
Site Reliability Engineer
England

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, Site Reliability Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 5 (62.50%) Grafana
3 5 (62.50%) Prometheus
3 5 (62.50%) Observability
4 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 4 (50.00%) Linux
4 4 (50.00%) Python
5 3 (37.50%) Windows
5 3 (37.50%) Go
5 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
5 3 (37.50%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (37.50%) New Relic
5 3 (37.50%) Ansible
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (25.00%) Docker
6 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Microservices
6 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (25.00%) Server Management
6 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (25.00%) Games
6 2 (25.00%) Google

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) Datadog
4 1 (12.50%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
4 1 (12.50%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Games
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Django
2 1 (12.50%) Loki
2 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) CentOS
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Service-Level Objective
4 2 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Server Management
4 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Grafana
2 5 (62.50%) Prometheus
3 3 (37.50%) Ansible
4 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) New Relic
2 2 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk