Site Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Site Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 111 134
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 19 12 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.09% 0.56% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 0.61% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 3
10th Percentile £401 £457 -
25th Percentile £413 £458 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -3.60% -16.67%
75th Percentile £495 £500 £550
90th Percentile £559 £507 £580
South East median daily rate £425 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,584 1,969 2,497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.62% 91.58% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 1,120 1,677
10th Percentile £255 £278 £213
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £615
90th Percentile £656 £675 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £513
% change year-on-year -1.48% -0.98% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 84 98
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £15.58
25th Percentile £15.91 £25.12 £21.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +15.00% +187.03%
75th Percentile £54.00 £63.75 £67.63
90th Percentile £84.28 £96.38 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £58.17 £51.90
% change year-on-year -64.26% +12.09% +66.61%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in the Thames Valley

Site Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Berkshire +18 19 £425 -11.83% 6
Site Engineer
South East

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 18 (94.74%) Kubernetes
3 16 (84.21%) CI/CD
4 15 (78.95%) Azure
5 11 (57.89%) DevOps
6 10 (52.63%) ADO
6 10 (52.63%) Azure AKS
6 10 (52.63%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (52.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (52.63%) Azure Storage
6 10 (52.63%) Python
6 10 (52.63%) SQL
7 8 (42.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (42.11%) IaaS
7 8 (42.11%) PaaS
7 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
7 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
8 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (31.58%) Bash
9 6 (31.58%) Grafana
9 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
10 5 (26.32%) OpenShift
10 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (21.05%) Agile
11 4 (21.05%) Argo
11 4 (21.05%) AWS
11 4 (21.05%) GCP
11 4 (21.05%) Go
11 4 (21.05%) High Availability
11 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Management

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) Azure AKS
2 10 (52.63%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) Azure Storage
3 8 (42.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (42.11%) IaaS
3 8 (42.11%) PaaS
4 5 (26.32%) OpenShift
5 4 (21.05%) AWS
5 4 (21.05%) GCP
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Table
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
6 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) ADO
2 4 (21.05%) Loki
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
3 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
1 4 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
1 4 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 16 (84.21%) CI/CD
3 11 (57.89%) DevOps
4 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) High Availability
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (21.05%) Observability
6 4 (21.05%) Release Management
7 3 (15.79%) Business Continuity
7 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
7 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
8 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
8 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
9 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Python
1 10 (52.63%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) Bash
3 4 (21.05%) Go
3 4 (21.05%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) Bicep
4 2 (10.53%) C#
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (21.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (94.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Grafana
2 6 (31.58%) Prometheus
3 4 (21.05%) Argo
3 4 (21.05%) Kustomize
4 3 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Red Hat
1 4 (21.05%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft