Site Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Site Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Site Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 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
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 115 162
Rank change year-on-year +3 +47 -
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.14% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.15% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £383 - -
25th Percentile £413 £525 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £518
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +6.28% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £539
90th Percentile £568 - -
UK median daily rate £425 £575 £640
% change year-on-year -26.09% -10.16% +6.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,553 1,970 2,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 94.67% 94.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,204 1,758
10th Percentile £233 £200 £250
25th Percentile £358 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 128 54
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £12.58
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.19 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.71 £19.50 £18.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +4.19% -50.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £57.50 £52.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £66.00 £64.40
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -14.77% +76.00%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in Scotland

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in Scotland

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in Scotland

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Glasgow -14 2 £575 +4.55% 16
Edinburgh - 1 £375 - 8
Site Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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 Scotland region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) HNC
2 1 (33.33%) HND
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Loki
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Garbage Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) HNC
1 1 (33.33%) HND
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) PagerDuty
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas
2 1 (33.33%) VMware