Site Engineer Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Site Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Site Engineer daily rate in Portsmouth is £469, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.62% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £460 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 - -
75th Percentile £479 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £450 -
% change year-on-year +11.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Portsmouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 151 105 263
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 95.45% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 55 134
10th Percentile £268 £264 £378
25th Percentile £416 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £536
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.43% +9.44%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £635
90th Percentile £638 £669 £790
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 22 61
10th Percentile £25.15 £31.25 £41.70
25th Percentile £44.58 £35.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £48.05 £59.13 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% -4.64% +3.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £67.02
90th Percentile £56.44 £70.63 £75.16
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -27.08% +13.17%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Site Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Portsmouth.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Portsmouth

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth

For the 6 months to 7 February 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 Portsmouth region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian