Site Engineer Contracts

Site Engineer
UK

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 555 631
Rank change year-on-year +84 +76 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 115 167 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.29% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 142 137
10th Percentile £445 £497 £450
25th Percentile £500 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £690 £709 £699
90th Percentile £850 £761 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -25.00% +16.67% +242.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +67 103 £555 -14.62% 86
UK excluding London +85 53 £525 -25.00% 61
London +49 53 £678 +4.63% 31
Work from Home +102 40 £675 +12.50% 30
South East +28 18 £497 +1.85% 7
North of England +20 15 £550 -21.43% 19
South West +32 11 £525 -34.38% 10
Yorkshire +27 8 £550 -26.67% 6
North West -5 7 £550 -21.43% 12
Scotland +28 5 £525 +5.79% 1
West Midlands +27 3 £500 - 5
Midlands +25 3 £500 - 14
Wales - 1 £690 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 109 (94.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 69 (60.00%) DevOps
3 67 (58.26%) Kubernetes
3 67 (58.26%) Python
4 55 (47.83%) Terraform
5 53 (46.09%) Prometheus
6 51 (44.35%) AWS
7 42 (36.52%) CI/CD
8 41 (35.65%) Grafana
9 39 (33.91%) Linux
10 37 (32.17%) Go
11 34 (29.57%) Java
12 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
13 28 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (22.61%) Containerisation
14 26 (22.61%) Docker
14 26 (22.61%) Kafka
15 25 (21.74%) Task Automation
16 24 (20.87%) Ansible
16 24 (20.87%) Microsoft
16 24 (20.87%) Azure
16 24 (20.87%) QA
17 23 (20.00%) Jenkins
18 22 (19.13%) Security Cleared
19 21 (18.26%) Agile
19 21 (18.26%) Microservices
20 20 (17.39%) Splunk
20 20 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
21 19 (16.52%) Distributed Systems

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.61%) Apache
2 3 (2.61%) nginx
3 2 (1.74%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.87%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.35%) AWS
2 24 (20.87%) Azure
3 15 (13.04%) OpenShift
4 14 (12.17%) Snowflake
5 13 (11.30%) GCP
6 11 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (9.57%) GitHub
7 10 (8.70%) dbt
8 8 (6.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (5.22%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.35%) Serverless
11 4 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.61%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (2.61%) Anthos
12 3 (2.61%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) DHCP
1 3 (2.61%) DNS
1 3 (2.61%) Internet
2 2 (1.74%) NAS
2 2 (1.74%) Network Security
2 2 (1.74%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.74%) SAN
3 1 (0.87%) AMQP
3 1 (0.87%) Broadband
3 1 (0.87%) Firewall
3 1 (0.87%) IPv4
3 1 (0.87%) MPLS
3 1 (0.87%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.65%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.30%) Data Lake
2 13 (11.30%) MySQL
3 11 (9.57%) Big Data
3 11 (9.57%) MongoDB
3 11 (9.57%) Relational Database
4 10 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (8.70%) Apache Arrow
4 10 (8.70%) Dremio
5 8 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.48%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.61%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.61%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.74%) DB2
9 2 (1.74%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.04%) Git
3 12 (10.43%) GitLab
4 9 (7.83%) SonarQube
5 8 (6.96%) JIRA
5 8 (6.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (5.22%) AppScan
6 6 (5.22%) Burp Suite
7 5 (4.35%) Subversion
8 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.87%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.87%) Robot Framework
General
1 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.65%) Finance
4 7 (6.09%) Retail
5 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.74%) Banking
6 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.87%) Legal
7 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (22.61%) Kafka
2 17 (14.78%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (8.70%) gRPC
4 10 (8.70%) Protocol Buffers
5 9 (7.83%) RESTful
6 3 (2.61%) REST
7 2 (1.74%) .NET
7 2 (1.74%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.74%) LDAP
8 1 (0.87%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.52%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (13.91%) Cloud Native
3 11 (9.57%) Hedge funds
4 10 (8.70%) Clustering
4 10 (8.70%) Public Cloud
5 9 (7.83%) Algorithms
5 9 (7.83%) Data Structures
6 6 (5.22%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.48%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.61%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.87%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 39 (33.91%) Linux
2 18 (15.65%) Windows
3 14 (12.17%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.09%) Unix
5 1 (0.87%) CentOS
5 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (94.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 69 (60.00%) DevOps
3 42 (36.52%) CI/CD
4 28 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (22.61%) Containerisation
5 26 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (21.74%) Task Automation
7 21 (18.26%) Agile
7 21 (18.26%) Microservices
8 16 (13.91%) Configuration Management
9 15 (13.04%) Observability
10 13 (11.30%) Systems Engineering
11 12 (10.43%) GitOps
11 12 (10.43%) Software Engineering
12 11 (9.57%) Asset Management
12 11 (9.57%) Incident Response
12 11 (9.57%) Investment Management
12 11 (9.57%) ITSM
13 10 (8.70%) OO
14 9 (7.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 67 (58.26%) Python
2 37 (32.17%) Go
3 34 (29.57%) Java
4 18 (15.65%) Bash
5 17 (14.78%) Shell Script
5 17 (14.78%) SQL
6 14 (12.17%) PowerShell
7 10 (8.70%) JavaScript
8 9 (7.83%) C#
8 9 (7.83%) F#
9 8 (6.96%) C++
10 3 (2.61%) Perl
10 3 (2.61%) Ruby
11 2 (1.74%) Bicep
11 2 (1.74%) C
12 1 (0.87%) Groovy
12 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (19.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) Degree
4 6 (5.22%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.74%) SANS
6 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.87%) QA
2 3 (2.61%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.61%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (22.61%) Docker
2 12 (10.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.87%) HDFS
4 1 (0.87%) vCloud
4 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (58.26%) Kubernetes
2 55 (47.83%) Terraform
3 53 (46.09%) Prometheus
4 41 (35.65%) Grafana
5 24 (20.87%) Ansible
6 14 (12.17%) Progress Chef
7 12 (10.43%) Puppet
8 11 (9.57%) Consul
9 10 (8.70%) Istio
10 9 (7.83%) HP Fortify
10 9 (7.83%) Kibana
11 8 (6.96%) Graylog
12 7 (6.09%) Argo
13 6 (5.22%) Nessus
13 6 (5.22%) WebInspect
14 4 (3.48%) Nagios
14 4 (3.48%) Opsgenie
15 2 (1.74%) Kiali
15 2 (1.74%) NetBackup
16 1 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 20 (17.39%) Splunk
3 11 (9.57%) SaltStack
4 8 (6.96%) Salesforce
5 7 (6.09%) Dynatrace
6 6 (5.22%) Checkmarx
6 6 (5.22%) New Relic
6 6 (5.22%) Veracode
7 5 (4.35%) Adobe
7 5 (4.35%) Google
7 5 (4.35%) PagerDuty
7 5 (4.35%) SAP
7 5 (4.35%) VMware
8 2 (1.74%) Veritas
9 1 (0.87%) BT
9 1 (0.87%) Citrix
9 1 (0.87%) Databricks
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle
9 1 (0.87%) Sybase