Site Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds
Site Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds
The median Site Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £213, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 13 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 89 | 75 | 62 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -14 | -13 | +17 |
| Contract Site Engineer jobs | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| As % of all contract jobs in Leeds | 0.39% | 0.14% | 0.15% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.41% | 0.15% | 0.16% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | £201 | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £203 | - | £158 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £213 | - | £165 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | - | -72.50% |
| 75th Percentile | £228 | - | £173 |
| 90th Percentile | £234 | - | - |
| West Yorkshire median daily rate | £213 | - | £165 |
| % change year-on-year | - | - | -72.50% |
All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in Leeds matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.
| 6 months to 13 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract job adverts in Leeds matching a recognised job title | 974 | 683 | 619 |
| % of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title | 94.84% | 95.79% | 93.93% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 576 | 460 | 383 |
| 10th Percentile | £400 | £306 | £313 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £400 | £400 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £500 | £480 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | +4.17% | -7.16% |
| 75th Percentile | £588 | £575 | £575 |
| 90th Percentile | £650 | £651 | £650 |
| West Yorkshire median daily rate | £500 | £500 | £475 |
| % change year-on-year | - | +5.26% | -7.09% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 15 | 4 | 32 |
| 10th Percentile | £15.54 | £21.63 | £18.17 |
| 25th Percentile | £22.00 | £23.80 | £19.50 |
| Median hourly rate | £26.25 | £25.50 | £26.25 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +2.94% | -2.86% | +23.18% |
| 75th Percentile | £35.00 | £27.06 | £48.75 |
| 90th Percentile | - | £28.08 | - |
| West Yorkshire median hourly rate | £24.97 | £26.00 | £27.50 |
| % change year-on-year | -3.97% | -5.45% | +30.91% |
Site Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract Site Engineer job postings relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.
Site Engineer Daily Rate Trend in Leeds
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.
Site Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds
For the 6 months to 13 November 2026, Site Engineer contract job ads cited 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 Site Engineer job ads across the Leeds region.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CI/CD | 100.0% | 4 |
| 1 | 100.0% | 4 | |
| 1 | Observability | 100.0% | 4 |
| 1 | Site Reliability Engineering | 100.0% | 4 |
| 5 | Azure | 75.0% | 3 |
| 5 | Deployment Automation | 75.0% | 3 |
| 5 | DevOps | 75.0% | 3 |
| 5 | Incident Management | 75.0% | 3 |
| 5 | Infrastructure as Code | 75.0% | 3 |
| 5 | Jenkins | 75.0% | 3 |
| 5 | Kubernetes | 75.0% | 3 |
| 5 | Python | 75.0% | 3 |
| 5 | Terraform | 75.0% | 3 |
| 14 | Amazon EKS | 50.0% | 2 |
| 14 | AWS | 50.0% | 2 |
| 14 | Azure AKS | 50.0% | 2 |
| 14 | Capacity Planning | 50.0% | 2 |
| 14 | GCP | 50.0% | 2 |
| 14 | GitOps | 50.0% | 2 |
| 14 | Google Kubernetes Engine | 50.0% | 2 |
| 14 | Grafana | 50.0% | 2 |
| 14 | Infrastructure Automation | 50.0% | 2 |
| 14 | OpenTelemetry | 50.0% | 2 |
| 14 | Problem-Solving | 50.0% | 2 |
| 14 | Prometheus | 50.0% | 2 |
| 14 | Root Cause Analysis | 50.0% | 2 |
| 27 | AI | 25.0% | 1 |
| 27 | Analytics | 25.0% | 1 |
| 27 | Apache Cassandra | 25.0% | 1 |
| 27 | Bash | 25.0% | 1 |
Site Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Site Reliability Engineer | 100.0% | 4 |
| 2 | Cloud Engineer | 75.0% | 3 |
| 3 | Kubernetes Engineer | 50.0% | 2 |
| 4 | Product Engineer | 25.0% | 1 |