Senior Job Trends in Darlington

Senior
Durham > Darlington

The median Senior salary in Darlington is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 4
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior 7 3 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Darlington 10.94% 7.32% 22.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.50% 10.71% 25.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 15
10th Percentile £55,588 - £54,518
25th Percentile £70,931 £64,509 £54,959
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £69,384 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.30% -0.88% +14.48%
75th Percentile - £74,258 £79,613
90th Percentile - - £80,000
Durham median annual salary £80,000 £45,000 £56,075
% change year-on-year +77.78% -19.75% +1.95%

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 56 28 63
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.50% 68.29% 88.73%
Number of salaries quoted 45 13 61
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,707 £22,000
25th Percentile £67,908 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £40,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -14.89% -12.56%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,258 £62,200
90th Percentile £85,000 - £79,225
Durham median annual salary £50,000 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +42.86% -22.22% -10.00%

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
Salary Histogram in Darlington

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior in Darlington over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior in Darlington

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 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 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) dbt
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Google
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Unix
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (14.29%) Apple

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 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) dbt
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
2 1 (14.29%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Culture Change
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Statistics
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Apple