Site Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Site Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Site Engineer daily rate in Bristol is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 61 78
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.20% 0.17% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.18% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile - £575 £650
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £136
% change year-on-year -4.55% +305.35% -80.26%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 945 560 989
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 96.89% 95.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 308 570
10th Percentile £285 £181 £263
25th Percentile £400 £317 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 68 162
10th Percentile £17.87 £35.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £33.50 £61.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £68.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £67.70 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% -18.60%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Site Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in Bristol

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

Site Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 18 February 2026, Site Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform