Site Engineer Contracts

Site Engineer
UK

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 465 554
Rank change year-on-year +19 +89 +97
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 74 117 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.27% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.29% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 90 140
10th Percentile £305 £455 £486
25th Percentile £350 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £561 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -13.65% +8.33%
75th Percentile £586 £694 £713
90th Percentile £715 £850 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £688
% change year-on-year -14.29% -23.64% +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.03
25th Percentile - - £65.06
Median hourly rate - - £65.25
75th Percentile - - £65.56
90th Percentile - - £65.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
England +20 68 £500 -11.11% 107
London +27 43 £500 -26.47% 68
UK excluding London +33 24 £450 -14.29% 48
Work from Home +23 23 £454 -33.24% 62
South East +37 9 £425 -14.40% 12
South West +40 6 £546 +4.05% 8
Midlands +24 5 £375 -25.00% 6
West Midlands +16 5 £375 -25.00% 5
North of England +6 2 £315 -42.73% 15
North West +11 1 - - 10
Scotland +9 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +1 1 £315 -42.73% 4
Wales +1 1 £586 -15.07%

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 74 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 48 (64.86%) Kubernetes
3 44 (59.46%) DevOps
4 35 (47.30%) Azure
4 35 (47.30%) CI/CD
5 33 (44.59%) Python
5 33 (44.59%) Terraform
6 27 (36.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (33.78%) Prometheus
8 24 (32.43%) Grafana
9 23 (31.08%) AWS
10 22 (29.73%) Ansible
11 21 (28.38%) Docker
12 19 (25.68%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (24.32%) Observability
13 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
14 17 (22.97%) Jenkins
15 16 (21.62%) PowerShell
15 16 (21.62%) Agile
16 15 (20.27%) Linux
16 15 (20.27%) Containerisation
17 13 (17.57%) C#
17 13 (17.57%) SQL
17 13 (17.57%) Migration
17 13 (17.57%) High Availability
17 13 (17.57%) Splunk
17 13 (17.57%) Service-Level Objective
18 12 (16.22%) Elastic Stack
18 12 (16.22%) Bash
18 12 (16.22%) Microsoft

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 5 (6.76%) Apache
2 4 (5.41%) nginx
2 4 (5.41%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.35%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 35 (47.30%) Azure
2 23 (31.08%) AWS
3 19 (25.68%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (14.86%) Azure AKS
5 10 (13.51%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (13.51%) GCP
6 7 (9.46%) Datadog
6 7 (9.46%) GitHub
7 6 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Storage
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (5.41%) Entra ID
9 4 (5.41%) Google Workspace
9 4 (5.41%) IaaS
9 4 (5.41%) PaaS
9 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.81%) DNS
2 7 (9.46%) HTTP
3 5 (6.76%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.41%) DHCP
4 4 (5.41%) Kerberos
4 4 (5.41%) SSL
5 2 (2.70%) FTP
5 2 (2.70%) SMTP
5 2 (2.70%) VPN
6 1 (1.35%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.35%) NAS
6 1 (1.35%) Network Security
6 1 (1.35%) SAN
6 1 (1.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.76%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (6.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.41%) Power BI
2 4 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.35%) ClickHouse
3 1 (1.35%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.35%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (22.97%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.81%) GitLab
3 6 (8.11%) Git
4 5 (6.76%) TeamCity
5 4 (5.41%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.35%) GoCD
7 1 (1.35%) JIRA
7 1 (1.35%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Banking
2 9 (12.16%) Finance
3 4 (5.41%) Legal
4 2 (2.70%) International Banking
4 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.35%) Dutch Language
5 1 (1.35%) Front Office
5 1 (1.35%) Military
5 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.22%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (9.46%) .NET
2 7 (9.46%) ADO
3 6 (8.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (8.11%) YAML
4 4 (5.41%) JSON
4 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (4.05%) ARM Templates
5 3 (4.05%) Kafka
5 3 (4.05%) LDAP
5 3 (4.05%) Spring
6 2 (2.70%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.70%) boto
6 2 (2.70%) Flask
7 1 (1.35%) Loki
7 1 (1.35%) Middleware
7 1 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.46%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) Social Media
5 1 (1.35%) Clustering
5 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.27%) Linux
2 8 (10.81%) Unix
3 5 (6.76%) Windows
4 4 (5.41%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.05%) Android
6 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.35%) Debian
7 1 (1.35%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.35%) Solaris
7 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 44 (59.46%) DevOps
3 35 (47.30%) CI/CD
4 27 (36.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (24.32%) Observability
6 16 (21.62%) Agile
7 15 (20.27%) Containerisation
8 13 (17.57%) High Availability
8 13 (17.57%) Migration
8 13 (17.57%) Service-Level Objective
9 11 (14.86%) Incident Response
9 11 (14.86%) Software Engineering
10 10 (13.51%) Incident Management
10 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (10.81%) Change Management
11 8 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (10.81%) Microservices
11 8 (10.81%) Task Automation
12 7 (9.46%) Data Protection
12 7 (9.46%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 33 (44.59%) Python
2 16 (21.62%) PowerShell
3 13 (17.57%) C#
3 13 (17.57%) SQL
4 12 (16.22%) Bash
5 6 (8.11%) Bicep
5 6 (8.11%) Go
5 6 (8.11%) Java
5 6 (8.11%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.41%) Groovy
6 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.41%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (5.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.05%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.05%) Degree
4 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.35%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.35%) GDPR
2 1 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (28.38%) Docker
2 8 (10.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 48 (64.86%) Kubernetes
2 33 (44.59%) Terraform
3 25 (33.78%) Prometheus
4 24 (32.43%) Grafana
5 22 (29.73%) Ansible
6 5 (6.76%) Progress Chef
6 5 (6.76%) Puppet
7 1 (1.35%) Argo
7 1 (1.35%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (1.35%) Nagios
7 1 (1.35%) Netcool
7 1 (1.35%) Podman
7 1 (1.35%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (17.57%) Splunk
2 12 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.81%) Dynatrace
4 7 (9.46%) Google
5 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.05%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle
7 2 (2.70%) VMware
8 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.35%) BT
8 1 (1.35%) Cisco
8 1 (1.35%) EMC
8 1 (1.35%) IBM
8 1 (1.35%) Pega
8 1 (1.35%) Qualys
8 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.35%) Serena
8 1 (1.35%) Sybase
8 1 (1.35%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.35%) Veritas