Site Engineer Contracts in the South East

Site Engineer
England > South East

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the South East is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 174 208
Rank change year-on-year +39 +34 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 11 23 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.38% 0.42% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.46% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 2
10th Percentile - £458 £435
25th Percentile £413 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £492 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +0.89% -4.88%
75th Percentile £438 £500 £538
90th Percentile £456 - £560
England median daily rate £454 £573 £650
% change year-on-year -20.70% -11.92% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,658 5,052 5,300
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 92.32% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,788 3,030 3,692
10th Percentile £220 £225 £221
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 490 233
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.82 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.43 £18.32 £21.94
Median hourly rate £32.28 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -32.05% -1.86% +142.00%
75th Percentile £63.19 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.04 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.81% -17.38% +95.65%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in the South East

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in the South East

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in the South East

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 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
Thames Valley +25 8 £425 -13.59% 52
Berkshire +20 8 £425 -13.59% 34
Hampshire - 3 £450 - 22
Site Engineer
England

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 23 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 South East region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 11 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) ADO
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (72.73%) Azure Storage
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Azure AKS
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) IaaS
3 5 (45.45%) PaaS
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 3 (27.27%) Power Automate
4 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (27.27%) Power BI
4 3 (27.27%) Terraform
4 3 (27.27%) Grafana
4 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 3 (27.27%) .NET
4 3 (27.27%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (27.27%) Python
4 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (72.73%) Azure
1 8 (72.73%) Azure AKS
1 8 (72.73%) Azure DevOps
1 8 (72.73%) Azure Storage
2 5 (45.45%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (45.45%) IaaS
2 5 (45.45%) PaaS
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Table
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (27.27%) Power Automate
3 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (27.27%) Power BI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) ADO
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
2 3 (27.27%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Identity Management
3 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) Bicep
2 3 (27.27%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Grafana
2 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft