Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in Darlington

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Durham > Darlington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Darlington requiring Site Reliability Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 16 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 1 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Darlington 2.08% 3.03% 6.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 3.92% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £56,307 -
25th Percentile £68,813 £57,668 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £64,054 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -1.46% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £71,158 £69,800
90th Percentile - £72,950 -
Durham median annual salary £73,801 £64,054 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.22% -1.46% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Darlington

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 Darlington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36 51 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Darlington 75.00% 77.27% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 20 33 44
10th Percentile £25,087 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile - £46,713 £35,403
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,188 £65,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -56.63% +28.71% +1.00%
75th Percentile £58,877 £80,000 £66,130
90th Percentile £80,224 - £69,800
Durham median annual salary £35,000 £55,850 £50,000
% change year-on-year -37.33% +11.70% +27.16%

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Site Reliability Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Darlington.

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Darlington

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in Darlington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Site Reliability Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
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 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google