Site Engineer
UK

The median Site Engineer salary in the UK is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 804 718 692
Rank change year-on-year -86 -26 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 90 274 582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.28% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 82 236 425
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,874 £57,046
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,809 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,781 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -5.27% +14.29%
75th Percentile £118,750 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £103,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,706 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.32% -10.42% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -27 86 £87,500 +12.90% 100
London +74 62 £112,500 +32.35% 41
Work from Home -2 57 £87,500 +18.02% 36
UK excluding London -46 25 £60,000 -4.32% 66
South East +8 8 £60,000 -20.00% 9
South West -20 6 £70,000 +16.67% 11
North of England +27 5 £57,500 +6.48% 18
North West +1 4 £53,750 -10.42% 11
East of England +21 2 £65,000 - 5
Wales +9 2 £65,000 +2.52% 6
Midlands 0 2 £53,750 -46.25% 16
East Midlands - 2 £53,750 - 11
Yorkshire +75 1 £60,000 +36.26% 6

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Site Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 90 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 62 (68.89%) AWS
3 60 (66.67%) DevOps
4 57 (63.33%) Kubernetes
4 57 (63.33%) Terraform
5 54 (60.00%) Python
6 50 (55.56%) Finance
7 42 (46.67%) Go
8 40 (44.44%) Java
9 37 (41.11%) Prometheus
10 34 (37.78%) Hedge funds
11 33 (36.67%) Investment Management
11 33 (36.67%) JavaScript
11 33 (36.67%) Asset Management
12 32 (35.56%) Clustering
13 31 (34.44%) Dremio
14 30 (33.33%) dbt
14 30 (33.33%) Snowflake
14 30 (33.33%) Data Lake
14 30 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (33.33%) gRPC
14 30 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
14 30 (33.33%) Big Data
14 30 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
14 30 (33.33%) Apache Arrow
15 29 (32.22%) CI/CD
16 25 (27.78%) Azure
16 25 (27.78%) Linux
17 21 (23.33%) Docker
18 19 (21.11%) Infrastructure as Code

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 30 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.33%) nginx
3 2 (2.22%) Apache
4 1 (1.11%) Confluence
4 1 (1.11%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 62 (68.89%) AWS
2 30 (33.33%) dbt
2 30 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 25 (27.78%) Azure
4 12 (13.33%) GCP
5 11 (12.22%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 8 (8.89%) Serverless
8 7 (7.78%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (7.78%) Azure Storage
9 6 (6.67%) Azure App Service
9 6 (6.67%) Azure Functions
10 5 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.44%) SaaS
11 4 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (3.33%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (3.33%) GitHub
12 3 (3.33%) IaaS
12 3 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) DNS
1 4 (4.44%) Firewall
2 3 (3.33%) BGP
3 2 (2.22%) DKIM
3 2 (2.22%) DMARC
3 2 (2.22%) Network Security
3 2 (2.22%) SMTP
3 2 (2.22%) VPN
4 1 (1.11%) Anycast
4 1 (1.11%) HTTP
4 1 (1.11%) Multicast
4 1 (1.11%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (34.44%) Dremio
2 30 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (33.33%) Apache Arrow
2 30 (33.33%) Big Data
2 30 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 5 (5.56%) MySQL
4 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.33%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.22%) Redis
7 1 (1.11%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.11%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 16 (17.78%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.00%) Git
3 5 (5.56%) GitLab
4 3 (3.33%) git-flow
5 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.22%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.11%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.11%) JIRA
6 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (55.56%) Finance
2 13 (14.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.33%) Banking
3 3 (3.33%) Law
4 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (33.33%) gRPC
1 30 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
2 8 (8.89%) ARM Templates
3 4 (4.44%) .NET
4 3 (3.33%) REST
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (2.22%) Kafka
5 2 (2.22%) LAMP
5 2 (2.22%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.11%) Node.js
6 1 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.11%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (37.78%) Hedge funds
2 32 (35.56%) Clustering
3 4 (4.44%) Replication
4 3 (3.33%) Blockchain
4 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.22%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.11%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (27.78%) Linux
2 9 (10.00%) Windows
3 8 (8.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.22%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.22%) Solaris
4 2 (2.22%) Unix
5 1 (1.11%) CentOS
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 60 (66.67%) DevOps
3 33 (36.67%) Asset Management
3 33 (36.67%) Investment Management
4 29 (32.22%) CI/CD
5 19 (21.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (12.22%) Containerisation
6 11 (12.22%) Incident Management
7 10 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (8.89%) Analytics
9 8 (8.89%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (8.89%) Software Engineering
10 7 (7.78%) Agile
10 7 (7.78%) Configuration Management
10 7 (7.78%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (7.78%) Log Analytics
10 7 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (6.67%) Fintech
11 6 (6.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (60.00%) Python
2 42 (46.67%) Go
3 40 (44.44%) Java
4 33 (36.67%) JavaScript
5 11 (12.22%) PowerShell
6 10 (11.11%) Bash
7 6 (6.67%) SQL
8 5 (5.56%) C#
9 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.33%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.22%) Bicep
11 1 (1.11%) C++
11 1 (1.11%) Groovy
11 1 (1.11%) Rust
11 1 (1.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (8.89%) Degree
2 7 (7.78%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.22%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.22%) SLA
3 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (23.33%) Docker
2 6 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.11%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 57 (63.33%) Kubernetes
1 57 (63.33%) Terraform
2 37 (41.11%) Prometheus
3 16 (17.78%) Ansible
4 6 (6.67%) Grafana
5 5 (5.56%) Istio
6 3 (3.33%) Salt
7 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.22%) Puppet
7 2 (2.22%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.11%) Argo
8 1 (1.11%) Kiali
8 1 (1.11%) Kibana
8 1 (1.11%) Packer
8 1 (1.11%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 10 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.78%) Google
3 6 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle
5 2 (2.22%) Serena
5 2 (2.22%) Splunk
5 2 (2.22%) VMware
6 1 (1.11%) Arista
6 1 (1.11%) BMC
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco
6 1 (1.11%) F5
6 1 (1.11%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.11%) IBM
6 1 (1.11%) Juniper
6 1 (1.11%) McAfee
6 1 (1.11%) New Relic
6 1 (1.11%) Remedy
6 1 (1.11%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.11%) TOWER Software