Site Engineer Contracts in England

Site Engineer
UK > England

The median Site Engineer daily rate in England is £454, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 420 513
Rank change year-on-year +19 +93 +105
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 75 117 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.34% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 96 106
10th Percentile £306 £457 £500
25th Percentile £356 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £551 £710 £709
90th Percentile £700 £850 £738
UK median daily rate £455 £575 £645
% change year-on-year -20.87% -10.85% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £65.05
25th Percentile - - £65.13
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £67.88
90th Percentile - - £69.15
UK median hourly rate - £110.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - +67.94% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,187 34,108 44,948
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.74% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,690 22,536 31,954
10th Percentile £293 £285 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.05% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 918 2,538 1,319
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.15 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.30 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.87% -16.67% +91.49%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.60 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +87.50%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
London +34 46 £500 -29.58% 71
South East +47 12 £425 -13.59% 176
Midlands +23 8 £375 -25.00% 124
West Midlands +22 8 £375 -25.00% 68
South West +34 3 £550 +4.76% 81
North of England -1 3 £508 -7.73% 150
North West +5 2 £700 +27.27% 72
Yorkshire +11 1 £315 -43.50% 62
Site Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 75 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 49 (65.33%) DevOps
3 46 (61.33%) Kubernetes
4 35 (46.67%) Azure
5 33 (44.00%) CI/CD
6 29 (38.67%) Terraform
6 29 (38.67%) Python
7 25 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (30.67%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (30.67%) Prometheus
8 23 (30.67%) Grafana
8 23 (30.67%) AWS
9 19 (25.33%) Observability
10 16 (21.33%) Azure AKS
10 16 (21.33%) C#
11 15 (20.00%) SQL
11 15 (20.00%) PowerShell
11 15 (20.00%) Docker
11 15 (20.00%) Jenkins
12 14 (18.67%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
12 14 (18.67%) Service-Level Objective
12 14 (18.67%) Bash
12 14 (18.67%) Agile
13 13 (17.33%) Ansible
13 13 (17.33%) Containerisation
14 12 (16.00%) ADO
14 12 (16.00%) Incident Management
15 11 (14.67%) Security Cleared
15 11 (14.67%) Splunk

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) nginx
2 1 (1.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.67%) Azure
2 23 (30.67%) AWS
2 23 (30.67%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (21.33%) Azure AKS
4 14 (18.67%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (13.33%) Azure Storage
5 10 (13.33%) GitHub
6 9 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (10.67%) GCP
7 8 (10.67%) IaaS
7 8 (10.67%) PaaS
8 7 (9.33%) Datadog
9 6 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
10 5 (6.67%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (5.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (5.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.00%) DNS
2 4 (5.33%) DHCP
2 4 (5.33%) Kerberos
3 3 (4.00%) HTTP
3 3 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.67%) FTP
4 2 (2.67%) SMTP
4 2 (2.67%) SSL
5 1 (1.33%) NAS
5 1 (1.33%) Network Security
5 1 (1.33%) SAN
5 1 (1.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (8.00%) Power BI
3 4 (5.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.33%) ClickHouse
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 15 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.33%) TeamCity
3 6 (8.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (6.67%) Git
4 5 (6.67%) GitLab
5 3 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.67%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.33%) GoCD
7 1 (1.33%) JIRA
7 1 (1.33%) Travis CI
General
1 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.00%) Finance
3 7 (9.33%) Banking
4 2 (2.67%) International Banking
4 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.33%) Front Office
5 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.33%) Legal
5 1 (1.33%) Military
5 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Retail
5 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.00%) ADO
2 9 (12.00%) .NET
3 7 (9.33%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (9.33%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (5.33%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.33%) ARM Templates
4 4 (5.33%) JSON
4 4 (5.33%) YAML
5 3 (4.00%) Kafka
5 3 (4.00%) LDAP
5 3 (4.00%) Spring
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.67%) Social Media
4 1 (1.33%) Clustering
4 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.67%) Linux
2 6 (8.00%) Windows
3 4 (5.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.00%) Android
5 2 (2.67%) Unix
6 1 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 49 (65.33%) DevOps
3 33 (44.00%) CI/CD
4 25 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (25.33%) Observability
6 14 (18.67%) Agile
6 14 (18.67%) Service-Level Objective
7 13 (17.33%) Containerisation
8 12 (16.00%) Incident Management
9 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
10 10 (13.33%) Microservices
10 10 (13.33%) Migration
11 8 (10.67%) High Availability
11 8 (10.67%) Incident Response
11 8 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (10.67%) SIEM
12 7 (9.33%) Data Protection
12 7 (9.33%) ITSM
13 6 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (8.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 29 (38.67%) Python
2 16 (21.33%) C#
3 15 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 15 (20.00%) SQL
4 14 (18.67%) Bash
5 10 (13.33%) Bicep
6 5 (6.67%) Go
6 5 (6.67%) Java
6 5 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.33%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (5.33%) Ruby
8 3 (4.00%) CodeQL
9 1 (1.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.33%) GDPR
2 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (20.00%) Docker
2 5 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (61.33%) Kubernetes
2 29 (38.67%) Terraform
3 23 (30.67%) Grafana
3 23 (30.67%) Prometheus
4 13 (17.33%) Ansible
5 5 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 4 (5.33%) Puppet
7 1 (1.33%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (1.33%) Istio
7 1 (1.33%) Netcool
7 1 (1.33%) Podman
7 1 (1.33%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (14.67%) Splunk
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.00%) Dynatrace
4 5 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.33%) Google
6 3 (4.00%) Oracle
7 2 (2.67%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.33%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.33%) BT
8 1 (1.33%) Cisco
8 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.33%) EMC
8 1 (1.33%) IBM
8 1 (1.33%) Isilon
8 1 (1.33%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.33%) Pega
8 1 (1.33%) Qualys
8 1 (1.33%) Sybase
8 1 (1.33%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.33%) VMware