Site Engineer Contracts in England

Site Engineer
UK > England

The median Site Engineer daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 509 609
Rank change year-on-year +90 +100 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 114 139 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 116 110
10th Percentile £450 £500 £431
25th Percentile £500 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £648 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +7.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £710 £713 £700
90th Percentile £850 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £574 £639 £600
% change year-on-year -10.18% +6.46% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.25 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £65.25 -
% change year-on-year +68.58% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,813 46,135 67,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.65% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,418 32,774 48,161
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,361 1,875
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.52 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.52
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.03%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.02 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Site Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +35 59 £705 +9.30% 38
South East +39 20 £493 +1.13% 12
North of England +24 16 £550 -21.43% 14
South West +21 12 £525 +144.19% 13
Yorkshire +25 9 £558 -23.10% 7
North West +18 7 £550 -21.43% 7
Midlands +24 3 £500 - 14
West Midlands +21 3 £500 - 6
East of England +14 1 £600 +1100.00% 7
Site Engineer
UK

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Site Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 108 (94.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 74 (64.91%) DevOps
3 71 (62.28%) Kubernetes
4 64 (56.14%) Python
5 60 (52.63%) Prometheus
6 59 (51.75%) Terraform
7 56 (49.12%) AWS
8 42 (36.84%) Go
9 41 (35.96%) Java
10 40 (35.09%) Grafana
11 38 (33.33%) CI/CD
12 37 (32.46%) Linux
13 29 (25.44%) Social Skills
14 28 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (24.56%) Docker
14 28 (24.56%) Containerisation
15 27 (23.68%) Task Automation
16 25 (21.93%) Infrastructure as Code
16 25 (21.93%) Kafka
16 25 (21.93%) Microsoft
17 23 (20.18%) Microservices
18 22 (19.30%) Finance
18 22 (19.30%) Azure
18 22 (19.30%) QA
18 22 (19.30%) Security Cleared
19 21 (18.42%) Splunk
20 20 (17.54%) Jenkins
20 20 (17.54%) Agile
20 20 (17.54%) Snowflake
21 19 (16.67%) Distributed Systems

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (14.04%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.63%) nginx
3 2 (1.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 56 (49.12%) AWS
2 22 (19.30%) Azure
3 20 (17.54%) Snowflake
4 16 (14.04%) dbt
4 16 (14.04%) OpenShift
5 12 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (9.65%) GCP
7 9 (7.89%) GitHub
8 8 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (6.14%) Amazon S3
10 6 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.26%) Serverless
11 5 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.63%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (2.63%) Anthos
12 3 (2.63%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
13 2 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) DHCP
1 2 (1.75%) DNS
1 2 (1.75%) Firewall
1 2 (1.75%) Internet
1 2 (1.75%) IPv4
1 2 (1.75%) Network Security
1 2 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (0.88%) AMQP
2 1 (0.88%) Broadband
2 1 (0.88%) MPLS
2 1 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 16 (14.04%) Amazon Athena
2 16 (14.04%) Apache Arrow
2 16 (14.04%) Big Data
2 16 (14.04%) Dremio
3 14 (12.28%) SQL Server
4 12 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.65%) MySQL
6 10 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (7.89%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.51%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.63%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.63%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.75%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.88%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (17.54%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.65%) GitLab
3 10 (8.77%) Git
4 8 (7.02%) SonarQube
5 7 (6.14%) JIRA
5 7 (6.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (4.39%) AppScan
6 5 (4.39%) Burp Suite
7 4 (3.51%) Subversion
General
1 29 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.30%) Finance
3 17 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.14%) Retail
5 2 (1.75%) Banking
5 2 (1.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.88%) Legal
6 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.93%) Kafka
2 16 (14.04%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (14.04%) gRPC
2 16 (14.04%) Protocol Buffers
3 14 (12.28%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (8.77%) RESTful
5 3 (2.63%) .NET
6 2 (1.75%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.88%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (0.88%) LDAP
7 1 (0.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 17 (14.91%) Hedge funds
4 16 (14.04%) Clustering
5 10 (8.77%) Algorithms
5 10 (8.77%) Data Structures
6 9 (7.89%) Public Cloud
7 6 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (4.39%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.63%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (32.46%) Linux
2 15 (13.16%) Windows
3 11 (9.65%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.51%) Unix
5 1 (0.88%) CentOS
5 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (94.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 74 (64.91%) DevOps
3 38 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 28 (24.56%) Containerisation
4 28 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (23.68%) Task Automation
6 25 (21.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (20.18%) Microservices
8 20 (17.54%) Agile
9 17 (14.91%) Asset Management
9 17 (14.91%) Investment Management
10 15 (13.16%) Observability
11 14 (12.28%) Configuration Management
11 14 (12.28%) GitOps
12 13 (11.40%) ITSM
12 13 (11.40%) Software Engineering
13 12 (10.53%) Incident Response
13 12 (10.53%) Systems Engineering
14 11 (9.65%) Performance Tuning
15 10 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (56.14%) Python
2 42 (36.84%) Go
3 41 (35.96%) Java
4 17 (14.91%) Bash
4 17 (14.91%) JavaScript
5 16 (14.04%) Shell Script
5 16 (14.04%) SQL
6 12 (10.53%) PowerShell
7 9 (7.89%) C#
8 8 (7.02%) C++
8 8 (7.02%) F#
9 2 (1.75%) Bicep
9 2 (1.75%) C
9 2 (1.75%) Ruby
10 1 (0.88%) Scala
10 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.14%) Degree
4 6 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (19.30%) QA
2 3 (2.63%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.63%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (24.56%) Docker
2 12 (10.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 71 (62.28%) Kubernetes
2 60 (52.63%) Prometheus
3 59 (51.75%) Terraform
4 40 (35.09%) Grafana
5 18 (15.79%) Ansible
6 12 (10.53%) Consul
6 12 (10.53%) Istio
6 12 (10.53%) Progress Chef
7 10 (8.77%) Puppet
8 9 (7.89%) Argo
8 9 (7.89%) Kibana
9 8 (7.02%) HP Fortify
10 7 (6.14%) Graylog
11 5 (4.39%) Nessus
11 5 (4.39%) Opsgenie
11 5 (4.39%) WebInspect
12 3 (2.63%) Nagios
13 2 (1.75%) Kiali
14 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.88%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.42%) Splunk
3 12 (10.53%) SaltStack
4 8 (7.02%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.26%) Dynatrace
5 6 (5.26%) New Relic
6 5 (4.39%) Adobe
6 5 (4.39%) Checkmarx
6 5 (4.39%) PagerDuty
6 5 (4.39%) SAP
6 5 (4.39%) Veracode
7 4 (3.51%) Google
8 3 (2.63%) VMware
9 1 (0.88%) BT
9 1 (0.88%) Citrix
9 1 (0.88%) Databricks