Senior Job Trends in Darlington

Senior
Durham > Darlington

As of 7 June 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Senior salary in Darlington.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 1 3 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Darlington 3.23% 6.82% 14.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.17% 9.09% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 14
10th Percentile - - £36,130
25th Percentile - £64,509 £54,518
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £69,384 £64,400
Median % change year-on-year - +7.74% +22.67%
75th Percentile - £74,258 £75,000
90th Percentile - - £78,500
Durham median annual salary £34,000 £69,384 £55,538
% change year-on-year -51.00% +24.93% +0.98%

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 24 33 106
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 77.42% 75.00% 92.98%
Number of salaries quoted 15 13 90
10th Percentile - £29,800 £25,825
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £59,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% +31.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile - £74,258 £57,633
90th Percentile £78,000 - £72,750
Durham median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -22.22% -

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

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

Senior job vacancy trend in Darlington

Senior
Salary Trend in Darlington

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Darlington.

Salary distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Darlington

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington

For the 6 months to 7 June 2026, Senior 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 Senior in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
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%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Migration

Senior 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 (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%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
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
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
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%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
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%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
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