Site Reliability Engineering Job Trends in Durham

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham 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 34 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +19
Permanent jobs citing Site Reliability Engineering 1 15 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 0.39% 5.36% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 7.58% 2.38%
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 -
North East median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 198 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 73.23% 70.71% 97.67%
Number of salaries quoted 92 82 99
10th Percentile £25,087 £32,514 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,875 £43,125 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,850 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.33% +11.70% +27.16%
75th Percentile £50,625 £70,000 £60,400
90th Percentile £84,724 £80,000 £69,800
North East median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -

Site Reliability Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Site Reliability Engineering job vacancy trend in Durham

Site Reliability Engineering
Salary Trend in Durham

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering
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 Engineering within the Durham region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Darlington +1 1 £73,801 +15.22% 3
Site Reliability Engineering
North East

Site Reliability Engineering
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 (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