Site Engineer Contracts in London

Site Engineer
England > London

The median Site Engineer daily rate in London is £678 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 391 492
Rank change year-on-year +55 +101 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 53 110 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.40% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.42% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 94 74
10th Percentile £477 £523 £431
25th Percentile £552 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £678 £648 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% +7.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £831 £713 £688
90th Percentile £850 £750 £725
England median daily rate £555 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -14.62% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in London

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in London

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in London

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in London

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Central London +32 13 £675 +3.85% 3
Site Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 London region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (98.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 42 (79.25%) Python
3 39 (73.58%) DevOps
4 36 (67.92%) Kubernetes
5 32 (60.38%) Prometheus
6 30 (56.60%) AWS
7 29 (54.72%) Go
7 29 (54.72%) Java
7 29 (54.72%) Terraform
8 23 (43.40%) Linux
9 22 (41.51%) Grafana
10 21 (39.62%) CI/CD
11 18 (33.96%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (33.96%) Microsoft
11 18 (33.96%) Kafka
12 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
13 15 (28.30%) Finance
14 14 (26.42%) RabbitMQ
14 14 (26.42%) Analytical Skills
15 12 (22.64%) Microservices
15 12 (22.64%) Shell Script
16 11 (20.75%) Asset Management
16 11 (20.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 11 (20.75%) MongoDB
16 11 (20.75%) Azure
16 11 (20.75%) Hedge funds
16 11 (20.75%) Investment Management
16 11 (20.75%) SaltStack
16 11 (20.75%) Consul

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (18.87%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.66%) Apache
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.89%) nginx
4 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 30 (56.60%) AWS
2 11 (20.75%) Azure
2 11 (20.75%) Snowflake
3 10 (18.87%) dbt
4 9 (16.98%) GCP
5 4 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.66%) Azure AKS
6 3 (5.66%) GitHub
7 2 (3.77%) Akamai
7 2 (3.77%) PaaS
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.89%) Anthos
8 1 (1.89%) IaaS
8 1 (1.89%) SaaS
8 1 (1.89%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.89%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) DHCP
1 3 (5.66%) DNS
1 3 (5.66%) Internet
2 1 (1.89%) Broadband
2 1 (1.89%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.75%) MongoDB
2 10 (18.87%) Amazon Athena
2 10 (18.87%) Apache Arrow
2 10 (18.87%) Big Data
2 10 (18.87%) Data Lake
2 10 (18.87%) Dremio
3 4 (7.55%) MySQL
3 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.77%) Redis
4 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.89%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.32%) Git
3 4 (7.55%) GitLab
4 3 (5.66%) Subversion
5 2 (3.77%) JIRA
5 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.89%) AppScan
6 1 (1.89%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.89%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.30%) Finance
3 14 (26.42%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (33.96%) Kafka
2 14 (26.42%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (18.87%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (18.87%) gRPC
3 10 (18.87%) Protocol Buffers
4 9 (16.98%) RESTful
5 2 (3.77%) LDAP
6 1 (1.89%) .NET
6 1 (1.89%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.96%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (20.75%) Hedge funds
3 10 (18.87%) Clustering
4 9 (16.98%) Algorithms
4 9 (16.98%) Data Structures
5 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
6 4 (7.55%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (43.40%) Linux
2 6 (11.32%) Windows
3 5 (9.43%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.77%) Unix
5 1 (1.89%) CentOS
5 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (98.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 39 (73.58%) DevOps
3 21 (39.62%) CI/CD
4 18 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (22.64%) Microservices
6 11 (20.75%) Asset Management
6 11 (20.75%) Investment Management
7 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (16.98%) Analytical Thinking
8 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (16.98%) Task Automation
9 8 (15.09%) Configuration Management
10 7 (13.21%) Containerisation
10 7 (13.21%) Systems Engineering
11 6 (11.32%) Agile
11 6 (11.32%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (9.43%) Observability
13 4 (7.55%) High Availability
13 4 (7.55%) Service-Level Objective
13 4 (7.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (79.25%) Python
2 29 (54.72%) Go
2 29 (54.72%) Java
3 12 (22.64%) Shell Script
4 10 (18.87%) JavaScript
5 8 (15.09%) C++
6 5 (9.43%) Bash
6 5 (9.43%) SQL
7 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.66%) Ruby
9 2 (3.77%) C#
9 2 (3.77%) F#
10 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Degree
3 1 (1.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) QA
System Software
1 11 (20.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 10 (18.87%) Docker
3 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (67.92%) Kubernetes
2 32 (60.38%) Prometheus
3 29 (54.72%) Terraform
4 22 (41.51%) Grafana
5 11 (20.75%) Consul
6 7 (13.21%) Ansible
7 6 (11.32%) Puppet
8 5 (9.43%) Progress Chef
9 4 (7.55%) Opsgenie
10 2 (3.77%) Graylog
10 2 (3.77%) Nagios
11 1 (1.89%) HP Fortify
11 1 (1.89%) Istio
11 1 (1.89%) Nessus
11 1 (1.89%) systemd
11 1 (1.89%) WebInspect
11 1 (1.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (33.96%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.75%) SaltStack
3 8 (15.09%) Splunk
4 6 (11.32%) New Relic
5 5 (9.43%) Adobe
5 5 (9.43%) Dynatrace
5 5 (9.43%) PagerDuty
5 5 (9.43%) Salesforce
5 5 (9.43%) SAP
6 3 (5.66%) Google
7 1 (1.89%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.89%) Databricks
7 1 (1.89%) Veracode
7 1 (1.89%) VMware