Site Engineer Contracts in London

Site Engineer
England > London

The median Site Engineer daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 337 384
Rank change year-on-year +27 +47 +103
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 43 54 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.30% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.32% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 43 93
10th Percentile £301 £501 £525
25th Percentile £340 £559 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £680 £650
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £680 £850 £713
90th Percentile £769 - £750
England median daily rate £500 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -11.11% -13.46% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate - - £65.25

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Central London -4 5 £527 -21.93% 7
East London - 2 £250 - 1
Site Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 29 (67.44%) DevOps
3 25 (58.14%) Kubernetes
4 21 (48.84%) Python
5 20 (46.51%) Terraform
5 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
6 18 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (39.53%) Azure
8 15 (34.88%) AWS
8 15 (34.88%) Grafana
9 14 (32.56%) Ansible
9 14 (32.56%) Prometheus
10 12 (27.91%) Docker
10 12 (27.91%) Observability
10 12 (27.91%) Splunk
10 12 (27.91%) Jenkins
11 10 (23.26%) C#
11 10 (23.26%) Service-Level Objective
12 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
12 9 (20.93%) Linux
12 9 (20.93%) Finance
12 9 (20.93%) Agile
12 9 (20.93%) Banking
12 9 (20.93%) High Availability
13 8 (18.60%) PowerShell
13 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
13 8 (18.60%) Migration
13 8 (18.60%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (18.60%) Elastic Stack

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 5 (11.63%) Apache
2 4 (9.30%) nginx
2 4 (9.30%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) Azure
2 15 (34.88%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (18.60%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (16.28%) GCP
5 5 (11.63%) Azure AKS
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (9.30%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (9.30%) Datadog
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (6.98%) GitHub
8 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.33%) Nutanix
9 1 (2.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) DNS
2 5 (11.63%) HTTP
3 4 (9.30%) DHCP
3 4 (9.30%) Kerberos
4 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.65%) FTP
5 2 (4.65%) SMTP
5 2 (4.65%) SSL
6 1 (2.33%) BIG-IP
6 1 (2.33%) NAS
6 1 (2.33%) SAN
6 1 (2.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.65%) Power BI
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (2.33%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.63%) GitLab
2 5 (11.63%) TeamCity
3 4 (9.30%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (6.98%) Git
5 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.33%) JIRA
5 1 (2.33%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (20.93%) Banking
1 9 (20.93%) Finance
1 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.65%) International Banking
2 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
2 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.33%) Front Office
3 1 (2.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (11.63%) .NET
2 5 (11.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (9.30%) JSON
4 3 (6.98%) LDAP
4 3 (6.98%) Spring
5 2 (4.65%) Kafka
5 2 (4.65%) YAML
6 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.95%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.65%) Social Media
5 1 (2.33%) Clustering
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Linux
2 5 (11.63%) Unix
2 5 (11.63%) Windows
3 4 (9.30%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.98%) Android
5 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.33%) Debian
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.33%) Solaris
6 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 29 (67.44%) DevOps
3 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
4 18 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (27.91%) Observability
6 10 (23.26%) Service-Level Objective
7 9 (20.93%) Agile
7 9 (20.93%) High Availability
8 8 (18.60%) Migration
8 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
9 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
9 7 (16.28%) Microservices
10 6 (13.95%) Data Protection
10 6 (13.95%) Incident Management
10 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (11.63%) ITSM
11 5 (11.63%) SDLC
12 4 (9.30%) Task Automation
12 4 (9.30%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 21 (48.84%) Python
2 10 (23.26%) C#
3 8 (18.60%) PowerShell
4 7 (16.28%) Bash
5 5 (11.63%) Java
6 4 (9.30%) Bicep
6 4 (9.30%) Go
6 4 (9.30%) Groovy
6 4 (9.30%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (9.30%) Ruby
6 4 (9.30%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (27.91%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) Kubernetes
2 20 (46.51%) Terraform
3 15 (34.88%) Grafana
4 14 (32.56%) Ansible
4 14 (32.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (9.30%) Progress Chef
5 4 (9.30%) Puppet
6 1 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (2.33%) Netcool
6 1 (2.33%) Podman
6 1 (2.33%) Tivoli
6 1 (2.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (2.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Splunk
2 7 (16.28%) Dynatrace
3 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
4 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.98%) AppDynamics
5 3 (6.98%) Google
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle
7 1 (2.33%) Cisco
7 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.33%) EMC
7 1 (2.33%) F5
7 1 (2.33%) IBM
7 1 (2.33%) Isilon
7 1 (2.33%) Qualys
7 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.33%) Serena
7 1 (2.33%) Sybase
7 1 (2.33%) TOWER Software
7 1 (2.33%) VMware