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 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 789 727 709
Rank change year-on-year -62 -18 -132
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 113 249 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.27% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 103 215 433
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,874 £57,046
25th Percentile £66,625 £57,500 £61,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,781 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -5.27% +18.52%
75th Percentile £118,750 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £103,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £63,150 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.99% -9.79% +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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 9 May 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 9 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -7 109 £87,500 +12.90% 94
London +55 79 £110,000 +29.41% 32
Work from Home 0 71 £90,000 +18.76% 34
UK excluding London -53 32 £60,000 -4.99% 73
South East -12 11 £60,000 -25.00% 14
South West -27 8 £70,000 +7.69% 13
North of England +37 7 £60,000 +36.26% 21
North West +8 5 £57,500 +12.20% 10
Midlands -13 3 £52,500 -47.50% 12
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 - 7
Yorkshire +79 2 £70,000 +58.97% 11
Wales +4 2 £65,000 +2.52% 8
East of England +9 1 £65,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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.

1 112 (99.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 82 (72.57%) AWS
3 81 (71.68%) DevOps
4 75 (66.37%) Terraform
5 74 (65.49%) Kubernetes
6 68 (60.18%) Python
7 66 (58.41%) Finance
8 54 (47.79%) Java
9 53 (46.90%) Go
10 52 (46.02%) Prometheus
11 46 (40.71%) JavaScript
11 46 (40.71%) Hedge funds
12 45 (39.82%) Asset Management
12 45 (39.82%) Investment Management
13 44 (38.94%) Clustering
14 43 (38.05%) Dremio
15 42 (37.17%) dbt
15 42 (37.17%) Snowflake
15 42 (37.17%) Apache Arrow
15 42 (37.17%) gRPC
15 42 (37.17%) Apache Airflow
15 42 (37.17%) Data Lake
15 42 (37.17%) Amazon Athena
15 42 (37.17%) Protocol Buffers
15 42 (37.17%) Big Data
16 34 (30.09%) CI/CD
17 32 (28.32%) Azure
18 24 (21.24%) Linux
18 24 (21.24%) Infrastructure as Code
19 22 (19.47%) Docker

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 42 (37.17%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.65%) nginx
3 2 (1.77%) Apache
3 2 (1.77%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 82 (72.57%) AWS
2 42 (37.17%) dbt
2 42 (37.17%) Snowflake
3 32 (28.32%) Azure
4 17 (15.04%) GCP
5 16 (14.16%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (10.62%) Azure AKS
7 9 (7.96%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.96%) Serverless
8 8 (7.08%) Azure Storage
8 8 (7.08%) IaaS
8 8 (7.08%) PaaS
9 6 (5.31%) Azure App Service
9 6 (5.31%) Azure Functions
9 6 (5.31%) SaaS
10 4 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (3.54%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (3.54%) GitHub
11 3 (2.65%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) DNS
2 3 (2.65%) Firewall
3 2 (1.77%) BGP
3 2 (1.77%) DKIM
3 2 (1.77%) DMARC
3 2 (1.77%) Network Security
3 2 (1.77%) SMTP
4 1 (0.88%) Anycast
4 1 (0.88%) DHCP
4 1 (0.88%) HTTP
4 1 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.88%) SSL
4 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (38.05%) Dremio
2 42 (37.17%) Amazon Athena
2 42 (37.17%) Apache Arrow
2 42 (37.17%) Big Data
2 42 (37.17%) Data Lake
3 6 (5.31%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.31%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.54%) MySQL
5 3 (2.65%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.65%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.77%) Redis
7 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.88%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.88%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (16.81%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.62%) Git
3 6 (5.31%) GitLab
4 4 (3.54%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.65%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.65%) git-flow
6 2 (1.77%) JIRA
6 2 (1.77%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (58.41%) Finance
2 17 (15.04%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.54%) Banking
3 4 (3.54%) Law
4 3 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.88%) Electronics
5 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (37.17%) gRPC
1 42 (37.17%) Protocol Buffers
2 11 (9.73%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.54%) .NET
3 4 (3.54%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.65%) Node.js
4 3 (2.65%) REST
5 2 (1.77%) JSON
5 2 (1.77%) Kafka
5 2 (1.77%) LAMP
5 2 (1.77%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (40.71%) Hedge funds
2 44 (38.94%) Clustering
3 6 (5.31%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.54%) Replication
5 3 (2.65%) Blockchain
5 3 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.65%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.65%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.65%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.88%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.24%) Linux
2 10 (8.85%) Windows
3 8 (7.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.65%) Unix
5 2 (1.77%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.77%) Solaris
6 1 (0.88%) CentOS
6 1 (0.88%) VMS
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (99.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 81 (71.68%) DevOps
3 45 (39.82%) Asset Management
3 45 (39.82%) Investment Management
4 34 (30.09%) CI/CD
5 24 (21.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (10.62%) Containerisation
7 12 (10.62%) Incident Management
8 11 (9.73%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (7.96%) Agile
9 9 (7.96%) Deployment Automation
9 9 (7.96%) Mentoring
9 9 (7.96%) Observability
10 8 (7.08%) Analytics
10 8 (7.08%) Log Analytics
10 8 (7.08%) Service-Level Objective
10 8 (7.08%) Software Engineering
11 7 (6.19%) Fintech
11 7 (6.19%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 68 (60.18%) Python
2 54 (47.79%) Java
3 53 (46.90%) Go
4 46 (40.71%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.62%) Bash
5 12 (10.62%) PowerShell
6 8 (7.08%) SQL
7 5 (4.42%) Bicep
7 5 (4.42%) C#
8 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.65%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.88%) C++
9 1 (0.88%) Groovy
9 1 (0.88%) Perl
9 1 (0.88%) Scala
9 1 (0.88%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 9 (7.96%) Degree
2 8 (7.08%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.42%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.77%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.31%) SLA
2 3 (2.65%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.77%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (19.47%) Docker
2 6 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.54%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.88%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 75 (66.37%) Terraform
2 74 (65.49%) Kubernetes
3 52 (46.02%) Prometheus
4 16 (14.16%) Ansible
5 9 (7.96%) Grafana
6 8 (7.08%) Istio
7 3 (2.65%) Salt
8 2 (1.77%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.77%) Puppet
8 2 (1.77%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.88%) Kiali
9 1 (0.88%) Kibana
9 1 (0.88%) Packer
9 1 (0.88%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 14 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.19%) Google
3 6 (5.31%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.31%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.65%) Splunk
5 2 (1.77%) BMC
5 2 (1.77%) New Relic
5 2 (1.77%) Oracle
5 2 (1.77%) Remedy
5 2 (1.77%) Serena
5 2 (1.77%) VMware
6 1 (0.88%) Arista
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco
6 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.88%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.88%) IBM
6 1 (0.88%) Juniper
6 1 (0.88%) McAfee
6 1 (0.88%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.88%) TOWER Software