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 30 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
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 515 645
Rank change year-on-year +97 +130 -61
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 118 123 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.27% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 106 97
10th Percentile £457 £500 £431
25th Percentile £500 £550 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £710 £709 £700
90th Percentile £850 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £575 £645 £600
% change year-on-year -10.85% +7.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £65.50 -
% change year-on-year +67.94% - -

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 34,089 44,934 67,257
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.60% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,498 31,965 48,076
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.75%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,543 1,312 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +89.04% +10.72%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +7.74%

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 30 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 30 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 +56 60 £710 +9.23% 34
South East +36 23 £492 +0.89% 12
North of England +25 16 £550 -20.00% 19
South West +12 13 £525 +144.19% 8
Yorkshire +20 9 £558 -17.41% 11
North West +12 7 £550 -20.00% 7
Midlands +11 2 £500 - 5
West Midlands +11 2 £500 - 1
East of England +14 1 £600 +1100.00% 8
Site Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 112 (94.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 79 (66.95%) DevOps
3 78 (66.10%) Kubernetes
4 64 (54.24%) Python
5 63 (53.39%) Prometheus
6 61 (51.69%) Terraform
7 57 (48.31%) AWS
8 49 (41.53%) Java
9 45 (38.14%) Go
10 41 (34.75%) Grafana
11 38 (32.20%) Linux
12 36 (30.51%) CI/CD
13 31 (26.27%) Social Skills
13 31 (26.27%) Task Automation
13 31 (26.27%) Docker
14 30 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (25.42%) Containerisation
15 28 (23.73%) Microservices
16 27 (22.88%) Microsoft
16 27 (22.88%) Kafka
17 25 (21.19%) Security Cleared
17 25 (21.19%) Finance
18 24 (20.34%) Agile
19 22 (18.64%) Snowflake
19 22 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
19 22 (18.64%) QA
20 21 (17.80%) Splunk
20 21 (17.80%) Data Lake
20 21 (17.80%) Cloud Native
20 21 (17.80%) Jenkins

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 18 (15.25%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.39%) nginx
3 3 (2.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 57 (48.31%) AWS
2 22 (18.64%) Snowflake
3 20 (16.95%) Azure
3 20 (16.95%) OpenShift
4 18 (15.25%) dbt
5 12 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (8.47%) GCP
7 8 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (6.78%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.78%) GitHub
8 7 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.93%) Serverless
9 4 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.54%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.54%) Anthos
10 3 (2.54%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.54%) Network Security
2 2 (1.69%) AMQP
2 2 (1.69%) DHCP
2 2 (1.69%) DNS
2 2 (1.69%) Firewall
2 2 (1.69%) Internet
2 2 (1.69%) IPv4
2 2 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.85%) MPLS
3 1 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.80%) Data Lake
2 18 (15.25%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (15.25%) Apache Arrow
2 18 (15.25%) Big Data
2 18 (15.25%) Dremio
3 14 (11.86%) SQL Server
4 12 (10.17%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (10.17%) MongoDB
4 12 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (9.32%) MySQL
6 10 (8.47%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.54%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.54%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.54%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.54%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (17.80%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.32%) GitLab
3 9 (7.63%) Git
4 8 (6.78%) SonarQube
5 7 (5.93%) JIRA
5 7 (5.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (4.24%) AppScan
6 5 (4.24%) Burp Suite
7 4 (3.39%) Subversion
General
1 31 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.19%) Finance
3 19 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.93%) Retail
5 2 (1.69%) Banking
5 2 (1.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.85%) Legal
6 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.88%) Kafka
2 18 (15.25%) gRPC
2 18 (15.25%) Protocol Buffers
3 14 (11.86%) Elastic Stack
3 14 (11.86%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (10.17%) RESTful
5 3 (2.54%) .NET
6 2 (1.69%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.85%) LDAP
7 1 (0.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.80%) Cloud Native
2 19 (16.10%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (16.10%) Hedge funds
3 18 (15.25%) Clustering
4 12 (10.17%) Algorithms
4 12 (10.17%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.93%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.24%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.54%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.85%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (32.20%) Linux
2 15 (12.71%) Windows
3 11 (9.32%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (94.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 79 (66.95%) DevOps
3 36 (30.51%) CI/CD
4 31 (26.27%) Task Automation
5 30 (25.42%) Containerisation
5 30 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (23.73%) Microservices
7 24 (20.34%) Agile
8 22 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (16.10%) Asset Management
9 19 (16.10%) Investment Management
10 17 (14.41%) GitOps
11 16 (13.56%) ITSM
12 15 (12.71%) Observability
13 14 (11.86%) Incident Response
13 14 (11.86%) Software Engineering
14 13 (11.02%) Configuration Management
15 12 (10.17%) Analytical Thinking
15 12 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
15 12 (10.17%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (54.24%) Python
2 49 (41.53%) Java
3 45 (38.14%) Go
4 19 (16.10%) JavaScript
5 18 (15.25%) Bash
6 17 (14.41%) Shell Script
7 16 (13.56%) SQL
8 13 (11.02%) PowerShell
9 10 (8.47%) C++
10 9 (7.63%) C#
11 8 (6.78%) F#
12 2 (1.69%) Bicep
12 2 (1.69%) C
12 2 (1.69%) Ruby
13 1 (0.85%) Scala
13 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (21.19%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.95%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.93%) Degree
3 7 (5.93%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.64%) QA
2 3 (2.54%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.54%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (26.27%) Docker
2 12 (10.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 78 (66.10%) Kubernetes
2 63 (53.39%) Prometheus
3 61 (51.69%) Terraform
4 41 (34.75%) Grafana
5 16 (13.56%) Ansible
6 15 (12.71%) Istio
7 13 (11.02%) Progress Chef
8 12 (10.17%) Argo
8 12 (10.17%) Consul
8 12 (10.17%) Kibana
9 10 (8.47%) Puppet
10 8 (6.78%) HP Fortify
11 7 (5.93%) Graylog
12 5 (4.24%) Nessus
12 5 (4.24%) Opsgenie
12 5 (4.24%) WebInspect
13 3 (2.54%) Nagios
14 2 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (1.69%) Kiali
15 1 (0.85%) systemd
Vendors
1 27 (22.88%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.80%) Splunk
3 12 (10.17%) SaltStack
4 8 (6.78%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.08%) Dynatrace
5 6 (5.08%) New Relic
6 5 (4.24%) Adobe
6 5 (4.24%) Checkmarx
6 5 (4.24%) PagerDuty
6 5 (4.24%) SAP
6 5 (4.24%) Veracode
7 3 (2.54%) Google
7 3 (2.54%) VMware
8 1 (0.85%) BT
8 1 (0.85%) Databricks