Site Reliability Engineer Job Trends in Durham

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
North East > Durham

The median Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) salary in Durham 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 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Reliability Engineer 9 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 1.84% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £77,582 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Durham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Durham. 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 Durham with a recognized job title 449 184 276
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 76.03% 84.40%
Number of salaries quoted 258 87 182
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £28,425
25th Percentile £35,000 £27,438 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £48,375 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £75,000
North East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -10.00%

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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 Durham.

Site Reliability Engineer job vacancy trend in Durham

Site Reliability Engineer
Salary Trend in Durham

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

Salary distribution trend for Site Reliability Engineer job vacancies in Durham

Site Reliability Engineer
Job Locations in Durham

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 Durham region over the 6 months to 28 August 2026. 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
Darlington - 9 £80,000 - 2
Site Reliability Engineer
North East

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

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 Durham 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 Durham 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