Site Engineer Contracts

Site Engineer
UK

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 544 652
Rank change year-on-year +81 +108 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 119 168 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 143 138
10th Percentile £428 £497 £450
25th Percentile £500 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £699
90th Percentile £850 £760 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -25.00% +16.67% +242.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £65.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
England +72 104 £560 -13.85% 100
UK excluding London +73 54 £525 -25.00% 66
London +46 54 £675 +4.25% 41
Work from Home +100 42 £675 +12.50% 36
South East +29 18 £497 +1.85% 9
North of England +27 15 £550 -21.43% 18
South West +28 11 £525 -34.38% 11
Yorkshire +26 8 £550 -26.67% 6
North West -2 7 £550 -21.43% 11
Scotland +35 6 £525 +5.79% 2
Midlands +37 3 £500 - 16
West Midlands +31 3 £500 - 5
Wales - 1 £690 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 112 (94.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 71 (59.66%) DevOps
3 69 (57.98%) Kubernetes
3 69 (57.98%) Python
4 56 (47.06%) Terraform
5 55 (46.22%) Prometheus
6 52 (43.70%) AWS
7 44 (36.97%) Grafana
7 44 (36.97%) CI/CD
8 41 (34.45%) Linux
9 37 (31.09%) Go
10 35 (29.41%) Java
11 32 (26.89%) Social Skills
12 29 (24.37%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (22.69%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (22.69%) Kafka
14 26 (21.85%) Task Automation
14 26 (21.85%) Docker
14 26 (21.85%) Containerisation
15 25 (21.01%) Azure
15 25 (21.01%) Microsoft
16 24 (20.17%) QA
16 24 (20.17%) Ansible
17 23 (19.33%) Jenkins
17 23 (19.33%) Security Cleared
18 21 (17.65%) Agile
18 21 (17.65%) Microservices
19 20 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
19 20 (16.81%) Splunk
19 20 (16.81%) Distributed Systems

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.40%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.52%) Apache
2 3 (2.52%) nginx
3 2 (1.68%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.68%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 52 (43.70%) AWS
2 25 (21.01%) Azure
3 16 (13.45%) OpenShift
4 14 (11.76%) Snowflake
5 13 (10.92%) GCP
6 11 (9.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (9.24%) GitHub
7 10 (8.40%) dbt
8 8 (6.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (5.04%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.20%) Serverless
11 4 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.52%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (2.52%) Anthos
12 3 (2.52%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) DHCP
1 3 (2.52%) DNS
1 3 (2.52%) Internet
2 2 (1.68%) NAS
2 2 (1.68%) Network Security
2 2 (1.68%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.68%) SAN
3 1 (0.84%) AMQP
3 1 (0.84%) Broadband
3 1 (0.84%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) IPv4
3 1 (0.84%) MPLS
3 1 (0.84%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.13%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.92%) Data Lake
2 13 (10.92%) MySQL
3 12 (10.08%) MongoDB
4 11 (9.24%) Big Data
4 11 (9.24%) Relational Database
5 10 (8.40%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (8.40%) Apache Arrow
5 10 (8.40%) Dremio
6 9 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.36%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.36%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.52%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.52%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.68%) DB2
10 2 (1.68%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (19.33%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.61%) Git
3 12 (10.08%) GitLab
4 9 (7.56%) SonarQube
5 8 (6.72%) JIRA
5 8 (6.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (5.04%) AppScan
6 6 (5.04%) Burp Suite
7 5 (4.20%) Subversion
8 2 (1.68%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.84%) Robot Framework
General
1 32 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.13%) Finance
4 7 (5.88%) Retail
5 4 (3.36%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.68%) Banking
6 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.84%) Legal
7 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.69%) Kafka
2 17 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (13.45%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (8.40%) gRPC
4 10 (8.40%) Protocol Buffers
5 9 (7.56%) RESTful
6 4 (3.36%) REST
7 2 (1.68%) .NET
7 2 (1.68%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.68%) LDAP
8 1 (0.84%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.81%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (13.45%) Cloud Native
3 11 (9.24%) Hedge funds
4 10 (8.40%) Clustering
4 10 (8.40%) Public Cloud
5 9 (7.56%) Algorithms
5 9 (7.56%) Data Structures
6 6 (5.04%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.36%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.52%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.84%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.84%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 41 (34.45%) Linux
2 18 (15.13%) Windows
3 14 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.88%) Unix
5 1 (0.84%) CentOS
5 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.84%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (94.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 71 (59.66%) DevOps
3 44 (36.97%) CI/CD
4 29 (24.37%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (22.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (21.85%) Containerisation
6 26 (21.85%) Task Automation
7 21 (17.65%) Agile
7 21 (17.65%) Microservices
8 16 (13.45%) Configuration Management
8 16 (13.45%) Observability
9 13 (10.92%) Systems Engineering
10 12 (10.08%) GitOps
10 12 (10.08%) Software Engineering
11 11 (9.24%) Asset Management
11 11 (9.24%) Incident Response
11 11 (9.24%) Investment Management
11 11 (9.24%) ITSM
12 10 (8.40%) OO
13 9 (7.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 69 (57.98%) Python
2 37 (31.09%) Go
3 35 (29.41%) Java
4 19 (15.97%) Bash
5 18 (15.13%) SQL
6 17 (14.29%) Shell Script
7 14 (11.76%) PowerShell
8 10 (8.40%) JavaScript
9 9 (7.56%) C#
9 9 (7.56%) F#
10 8 (6.72%) C++
11 3 (2.52%) Perl
11 3 (2.52%) Ruby
12 2 (1.68%) Bicep
12 2 (1.68%) C
13 1 (0.84%) Groovy
13 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) Degree
4 6 (5.04%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.68%) SANS
6 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.84%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.17%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.52%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (21.85%) Docker
2 13 (10.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.84%) Ceph
4 1 (0.84%) HDFS
4 1 (0.84%) vCloud
4 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.84%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (57.98%) Kubernetes
2 56 (47.06%) Terraform
3 55 (46.22%) Prometheus
4 44 (36.97%) Grafana
5 24 (20.17%) Ansible
6 14 (11.76%) Progress Chef
7 12 (10.08%) Consul
7 12 (10.08%) Puppet
8 10 (8.40%) Istio
9 9 (7.56%) HP Fortify
9 9 (7.56%) Kibana
10 8 (6.72%) Graylog
11 7 (5.88%) Argo
12 6 (5.04%) Nessus
12 6 (5.04%) WebInspect
13 4 (3.36%) Nagios
13 4 (3.36%) Opsgenie
14 2 (1.68%) Kiali
14 2 (1.68%) NetBackup
15 1 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.81%) Splunk
3 12 (10.08%) SaltStack
4 8 (6.72%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.88%) Dynatrace
6 6 (5.04%) Checkmarx
6 6 (5.04%) New Relic
6 6 (5.04%) Veracode
7 5 (4.20%) Adobe
7 5 (4.20%) Google
7 5 (4.20%) PagerDuty
7 5 (4.20%) SAP
7 5 (4.20%) VMware
8 2 (1.68%) Veritas
9 1 (0.84%) BT
9 1 (0.84%) Citrix
9 1 (0.84%) Juniper
9 1 (0.84%) Oracle
9 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.84%) Sybase