Site Engineer Contracts in London

Site Engineer
England > London

The median Site Engineer daily rate in London is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 374 497
Rank change year-on-year +48 +123 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 56 109 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.41% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.44% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 94 76
10th Percentile £502 £523 £431
25th Percentile £590 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £645 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% +7.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £713 £688
90th Percentile - £750 £725
England median daily rate £573 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.92% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,506 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,947 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in London

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in London

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in London

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in London

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +32 14 £678 +4.23% 3
Site Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 London region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (98.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 45 (80.36%) Python
3 41 (73.21%) DevOps
4 39 (69.64%) Kubernetes
5 36 (64.29%) Prometheus
6 34 (60.71%) Java
7 33 (58.93%) Go
7 33 (58.93%) AWS
7 33 (58.93%) Terraform
8 22 (39.29%) Linux
9 20 (35.71%) Grafana
9 20 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
10 19 (33.93%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (33.93%) Microsoft
10 19 (33.93%) Finance
11 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
12 16 (28.57%) Kafka
13 15 (26.79%) Hedge funds
13 15 (26.79%) Investment Management
13 15 (26.79%) Asset Management
13 15 (26.79%) Analytical Skills
13 15 (26.79%) Snowflake
14 14 (25.00%) Dremio
14 14 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
14 14 (25.00%) Data Lake
14 14 (25.00%) gRPC
14 14 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
14 14 (25.00%) dbt
14 14 (25.00%) Apache Arrow

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 14 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) nginx
3 1 (1.79%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 33 (58.93%) AWS
2 15 (26.79%) Snowflake
3 14 (25.00%) dbt
4 9 (16.07%) Azure
5 8 (14.29%) GCP
6 4 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.36%) Azure AKS
8 2 (3.57%) GitHub
9 1 (1.79%) Akamai
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.79%) Anthos
9 1 (1.79%) PaaS
9 1 (1.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) DHCP
1 2 (3.57%) DNS
1 2 (3.57%) Internet
2 1 (1.79%) Broadband
2 1 (1.79%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 14 (25.00%) Apache Arrow
1 14 (25.00%) Big Data
1 14 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 14 (25.00%) Dremio
2 12 (21.43%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.36%) MySQL
5 2 (3.57%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.79%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.71%) Git
3 4 (7.14%) GitLab
4 3 (5.36%) Subversion
5 2 (3.57%) JIRA
5 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.79%) AppScan
6 1 (1.79%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (33.93%) Finance
2 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 15 (26.79%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.57%) Kafka
2 14 (25.00%) gRPC
2 14 (25.00%) Protocol Buffers
3 13 (23.21%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (17.86%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (17.86%) RESTful
5 1 (1.79%) .NET
5 1 (1.79%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (1.79%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (33.93%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (26.79%) Hedge funds
3 14 (25.00%) Clustering
4 10 (17.86%) Algorithms
4 10 (17.86%) Data Structures
5 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
6 5 (8.93%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (7.14%) Public Cloud
8 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (39.29%) Linux
2 6 (10.71%) Windows
3 5 (8.93%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.57%) Unix
5 1 (1.79%) CentOS
5 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (98.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 41 (73.21%) DevOps
3 20 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
5 15 (26.79%) Asset Management
5 15 (26.79%) Investment Management
6 12 (21.43%) Microservices
7 10 (17.86%) Analytical Thinking
7 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (17.86%) Task Automation
8 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (12.50%) Agile
9 7 (12.50%) Configuration Management
9 7 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
10 6 (10.71%) Containerisation
10 6 (10.71%) Observability
11 5 (8.93%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (8.93%) Service-Level Objective
12 3 (5.36%) Software Engineering
12 3 (5.36%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (80.36%) Python
2 34 (60.71%) Java
3 33 (58.93%) Go
4 14 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 13 (23.21%) Shell Script
6 8 (14.29%) C++
7 5 (8.93%) Bash
7 5 (8.93%) SQL
8 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.57%) C#
9 2 (3.57%) F#
9 2 (3.57%) Ruby
10 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.79%) Degree
1 1 (1.79%) SANS
1 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) QA
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 9 (16.07%) Docker
3 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (69.64%) Kubernetes
2 36 (64.29%) Prometheus
3 33 (58.93%) Terraform
4 20 (35.71%) Grafana
5 12 (21.43%) Consul
6 6 (10.71%) Ansible
7 5 (8.93%) Opsgenie
7 5 (8.93%) Puppet
8 4 (7.14%) Progress Chef
9 2 (3.57%) Graylog
9 2 (3.57%) Nagios
10 1 (1.79%) HP Fortify
10 1 (1.79%) Istio
10 1 (1.79%) Nessus
10 1 (1.79%) systemd
10 1 (1.79%) WebInspect
10 1 (1.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (33.93%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.43%) SaltStack
3 10 (17.86%) Splunk
4 6 (10.71%) Dynatrace
4 6 (10.71%) New Relic
5 5 (8.93%) Adobe
5 5 (8.93%) PagerDuty
5 5 (8.93%) Salesforce
5 5 (8.93%) SAP
6 2 (3.57%) Google
7 1 (1.79%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.79%) Databricks
7 1 (1.79%) Veracode
7 1 (1.79%) VMware