Site Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 345 410
Rank change year-on-year +32 +65 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 26 54 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.28% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 41 30
10th Percentile £348 £350 £493
25th Percentile £413 £493 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £688
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -23.64% +17.02%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £700
90th Percentile £685 £588 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -15.56% -13.46% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £65.25

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +38 10 £425 -14.40% 12
South West +37 6 £546 +4.05% 9
Midlands +21 5 £375 -25.00% 7
West Midlands +17 5 £375 -25.00% 5
North of England +11 3 £508 -7.73% 15
North West +9 2 £700 +27.27% 10
Scotland +9 1 - - 2
Wales +4 1 £586 -15.07%
Yorkshire 0 1 £315 -42.73% 4
Site Engineer
UK

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 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 UK excluding London region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 20 (76.92%) Kubernetes
3 15 (57.69%) Azure
4 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (46.15%) DevOps
6 11 (42.31%) SQL
7 10 (38.46%) Terraform
8 9 (34.62%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (34.62%) Python
9 8 (30.77%) ADO
9 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (26.92%) Azure AKS
10 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
10 7 (26.92%) Prometheus
10 7 (26.92%) Grafana
10 7 (26.92%) Docker
10 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
10 7 (26.92%) Agile
10 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
11 6 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (23.08%) Migration
11 6 (23.08%) Ansible
11 6 (23.08%) Azure Storage
11 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
12 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (19.23%) AWS
12 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
12 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
13 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (57.69%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) Azure AKS
4 6 (23.08%) Azure Storage
4 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (19.23%) AWS
6 4 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
6 4 (15.38%) GitHub
6 4 (15.38%) Google Workspace
6 4 (15.38%) IaaS
6 4 (15.38%) PaaS
7 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Table
8 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
8 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.85%) GCP
9 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.85%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (7.69%) Power BI
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Legal
3 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Retail
3 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) ADO
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (11.54%) ARM Templates
4 2 (7.69%) .NET
4 2 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (7.69%) YAML
5 1 (3.85%) Loki
5 1 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (46.15%) DevOps
4 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (26.92%) Agile
6 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 6 (23.08%) Migration
7 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (15.38%) Change Management
8 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (15.38%) SIEM
8 4 (15.38%) Validation
9 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
9 3 (11.54%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (11.54%) Incident Management
9 3 (11.54%) Incident Response
9 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (11.54%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) Python
3 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
4 4 (15.38%) Bash
5 3 (11.54%) C#
6 2 (7.69%) Bicep
6 2 (7.69%) Java
6 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.85%) Go
7 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) CSSLP
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 10 (38.46%) Terraform
3 7 (26.92%) Grafana
3 7 (26.92%) Prometheus
4 6 (23.08%) Ansible
5 1 (3.85%) Argo
5 1 (3.85%) Nagios
5 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) BT
3 1 (3.85%) PagerDuty
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Veritas
3 1 (3.85%) VMware