Site Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Site Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 114 116
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 4 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.20% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.35% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile £519 £350 £573
25th Percentile £603 £417 £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £527 £655
Median % change year-on-year +23.34% -19.54% +0.77%
75th Percentile £655 £653 £688
90th Percentile £663 £704 £699
Central London median daily rate £650 £527 £655
% change year-on-year +23.34% -19.54% +0.77%

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,863 1,714 2,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 93.00% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 1,051 1,590
10th Percentile £350 £356 £340
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £16.15
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% +57.78% -35.71%
75th Percentile £49.83 £96.19 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £119.55 £49.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% +40.00% -23.08%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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 the City of London.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in the City of London

Site Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

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

1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (50.00%) Change Control
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Data Hub
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Linux

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Change Control
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft