Site Engineer Contracts in the South West

Site Engineer
England > South West

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the South West is £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 July 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
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 136 149
Rank change year-on-year +27 +13 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 1 11 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.052% 0.37% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.40% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £57 £301
25th Percentile £534 £210 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £725
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -27.59% +40.44%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £738
90th Percentile - £645 -
England median daily rate £450 £569 £650
% change year-on-year -20.88% -12.50% +1.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 1,697 2,717 3,212
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.99% 92.20% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 999 1,760 2,251
10th Percentile £225 £250 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £720
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 370 271
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.23 £17.70
25th Percentile £18.16 £35.00 £38.53
Median hourly rate £26.28 £65.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.57% +3.17% +30.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £75.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.75
England median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -38.84% -1.71% +70.37%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in the South West

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in the South West

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in the South West

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Bristol +7 1 £543 +158.33% 4
Site Engineer
England

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 27 July 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 West region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform