Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in Darlington

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Durham > Darlington

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in Darlington is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 9 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Darlington 13.04% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 14.52% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £77,582 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Durham median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Darlington

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Darlington. 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 Darlington with a recognized job title 62 26 63
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.86% 65.00% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 51 10 59
10th Percentile £35,000 £24,929 £22,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £29,891 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £36,250 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +106.90% -27.94% -12.19%
75th Percentile £80,000 £50,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,510 £80,000
Durham median annual salary £55,000 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +57.14% -22.22% -10.00%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Site Reliability Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Darlington.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Darlington

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in Darlington

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Darlington.

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Darlington

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington

For the 6 months to 28 August 2026, Site Reliability Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Darlington region featuring Site Reliability Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
2 1 (11.11%) Coaching
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) dbt
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
2 1 (11.11%) Observability
2 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Unix

Site Reliability Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington 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 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) dbt
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
2 1 (11.11%) Coaching
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
2 1 (11.11%) Observability
2 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
2 1 (11.11%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google