Site Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Site Engineer
England > North West

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the North West is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 114 130
Rank change year-on-year -28 +16 0
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 5 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.19% 0.048% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.051% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £296 - £485
25th Percentile £429 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.43%
75th Percentile - - £581
90th Percentile - - £588
England median daily rate £530 £550 £630
% change year-on-year -3.64% -12.70% -3.08%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,366 1,945 2,560
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 92.97% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,531 1,117 1,742
10th Percentile £213 £259 £302
25th Percentile £358 £381 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £557 £564 £594
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 97 210
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.44 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.13 £18.13 £17.21
Median hourly rate £41.68 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.72% -20.55% +40.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.18 £46.90
90th Percentile £69.25 £70.33 £67.00
England median hourly rate £28.65 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.16% -12.50% +14.29%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 North West.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in the North West

Site Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 21 January 2026. 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
Manchester - 2 £650 - 3
Merseyside - 2 £214 -
Cheshire - 1 - - 2
Site Engineer
England

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 21 January 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 North West region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (40.00%) Android
2 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) LAN

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft