Site Reliability Engineering Jobs in the North West

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Site Reliability Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 249 247
Rank change year-on-year +110 -2 -33
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 194 38 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.50% 0.37% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 0.46% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 18 35 24
10th Percentile £56,175 £51,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,297 £57,597 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,332 £62,783 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% +5.05% -17.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,264
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,000 £87,476
England median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,443 8,321 7,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 81.39% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 6,289 3,873
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,011
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North West

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Site Reliability Engineering in the North West

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Reliability Engineering in the North West

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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 +134 103 £67,037 +6.78% 35
Lancashire -14 70 - - 12
Cheshire +24 21 £74,500 -6.88% 6
Site Reliability Engineering
England

Site Reliability Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.03%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.52%) CMS
2 1 (0.52%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 188 (96.91%) AWS
2 178 (91.75%) Azure
3 177 (91.24%) GCP
4 2 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (1.03%) Serverless
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.52%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.52%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.52%) Datadog
5 1 (0.52%) dbt
5 1 (0.52%) Pulumi
5 1 (0.52%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.52%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.12%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.03%) MySQL
4 1 (0.52%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (5.15%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.61%) GitLab
3 2 (1.03%) Git
4 1 (0.52%) Jaeger
General
1 173 (89.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (3.09%) Finance
3 3 (1.55%) Social Skills
4 2 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.03%) Electronics
4 2 (1.03%) Games
4 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.03%) Marketing
4 2 (1.03%) Public Sector
4 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.52%) Banking
5 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 175 (90.21%) Software Engineer
2 174 (89.69%) Senior
3 173 (89.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 10 (5.15%) Lead
5 8 (4.12%) Site Engineer
5 8 (4.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (3.09%) Technical Leader
7 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 2 (1.03%) Java Engineer
7 2 (1.03%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (1.03%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (1.03%) Python Engineer
7 2 (1.03%) Python Software Engineer
8 1 (0.52%) Consultant
8 1 (0.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.52%) GCP DevOps
8 1 (0.52%) GCP Engineer
8 1 (0.52%) Infrastructure Manager
8 1 (0.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.52%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (89.69%) Node.js
2 172 (88.66%) .NET
3 6 (3.09%) Kafka
4 3 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.03%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.03%) Spring
5 2 (1.03%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.52%) Django
6 1 (0.52%) FIDO
6 1 (0.52%) JWT
6 1 (0.52%) Loki
6 1 (0.52%) OAuth
6 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.52%) OpenID
6 1 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.52%) SAML
6 1 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 172 (88.66%) Cyberattack
1 172 (88.66%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (88.66%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (1.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 177 (91.24%) Linux
2 4 (2.06%) Windows
3 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) CentOS
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (93.81%) Software Engineering
2 181 (93.30%) Microservices
3 178 (91.75%) Mentoring
4 176 (90.72%) Agile
5 174 (89.69%) Cloud Security
5 174 (89.69%) Data Engineering
6 173 (89.18%) User Experience
7 172 (88.66%) Machine Learning
7 172 (88.66%) Scrum
8 13 (6.70%) DevOps
9 6 (3.09%) Coaching
9 6 (3.09%) Observability
9 6 (3.09%) Software Architecture
9 6 (3.09%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (2.58%) CI/CD
10 5 (2.58%) Containerisation
11 3 (1.55%) DevSecOps
11 3 (1.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (1.55%) Server Management
11 3 (1.55%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 182 (93.81%) Java
2 180 (92.78%) Python
3 176 (90.72%) Go
4 175 (90.21%) JavaScript
5 173 (89.18%) Rust
6 172 (88.66%) C++
7 2 (1.03%) Bash
7 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.52%) PHP
8 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 176 (90.72%) Security Cleared
2 174 (89.69%) DV Cleared
3 172 (88.66%) AWS Certification
3 172 (88.66%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (88.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (7.73%) Terraform
2 5 (2.58%) Ansible
2 5 (2.58%) Grafana
2 5 (2.58%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.06%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (1.55%) New Relic
2 2 (1.03%) Google
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle
2 2 (1.03%) SAP
3 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.52%) ForgeRock
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.52%) Ping Identity
3 1 (0.52%) Splunk