Site Engineer Contracts

Site Engineer
UK

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 562 650
Rank change year-on-year +85 +88 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 115 157 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.28% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 135 143
10th Percentile £454 £484 £453
25th Percentile £500 £550 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £645 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% +7.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £748 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -22.22% +8.00% +47.06%
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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +65 103 £564 -13.27% 102
UK excluding London +88 54 £525 -22.22% 78
London +43 52 £685 +6.20% 33
Work from Home +112 40 £680 +13.33% 34
South East +38 18 £497 +1.85% 13
North of England +17 15 £550 -21.43% 23
South West - 12 £525 - 13
Yorkshire +22 8 £550 -24.14% 12
North West +2 7 £550 -21.43% 10
Scotland +44 5 £525 +1.45% 3
Midlands +28 3 £500 - 17
West Midlands +24 3 £500 - 6
Wales - 1 £690 - 7

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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.

1 109 (94.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 68 (59.13%) Kubernetes
2 68 (59.13%) DevOps
3 67 (58.26%) Python
4 57 (49.57%) Terraform
5 55 (47.83%) Prometheus
6 52 (45.22%) AWS
7 39 (33.91%) Grafana
7 39 (33.91%) Go
7 39 (33.91%) CI/CD
8 38 (33.04%) Linux
9 36 (31.30%) Java
10 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
11 29 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (22.61%) Docker
12 26 (22.61%) Containerisation
13 25 (21.74%) Task Automation
14 24 (20.87%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (20.87%) Jenkins
14 24 (20.87%) Microsoft
14 24 (20.87%) QA
15 23 (20.00%) Kafka
15 23 (20.00%) Azure
15 23 (20.00%) Ansible
16 22 (19.13%) Agile
17 21 (18.26%) Splunk
18 20 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
18 20 (17.39%) Microservices
18 20 (17.39%) Security Cleared
19 19 (16.52%) Finance

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 12 (10.43%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.61%) nginx
3 2 (1.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.87%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 52 (45.22%) AWS
2 23 (20.00%) Azure
3 16 (13.91%) OpenShift
3 16 (13.91%) Snowflake
4 12 (10.43%) dbt
4 12 (10.43%) GCP
5 11 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (8.70%) GitHub
7 7 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (5.22%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.35%) Serverless
10 4 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.61%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (2.61%) Anthos
11 3 (2.61%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.74%) DHCP
1 2 (1.74%) DNS
1 2 (1.74%) Internet
1 2 (1.74%) NAS
1 2 (1.74%) Network Security
1 2 (1.74%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (1.74%) SAN
2 1 (0.87%) AMQP
2 1 (0.87%) Broadband
2 1 (0.87%) Firewall
2 1 (0.87%) IPv4
2 1 (0.87%) MPLS
2 1 (0.87%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.65%) SQL Server
2 15 (13.04%) Data Lake
3 13 (11.30%) Big Data
4 12 (10.43%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (10.43%) Apache Arrow
4 12 (10.43%) Dremio
4 12 (10.43%) MySQL
5 11 (9.57%) MongoDB
5 11 (9.57%) Relational Database
6 8 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (6.09%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.48%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.61%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.74%) DB2
10 2 (1.74%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.74%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.87%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (20.87%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.04%) Git
3 12 (10.43%) GitLab
4 9 (7.83%) SonarQube
5 8 (6.96%) JIRA
5 8 (6.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (5.22%) AppScan
6 6 (5.22%) Burp Suite
7 5 (4.35%) Subversion
8 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.87%) Robot Framework
General
1 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (16.52%) Finance
4 7 (6.09%) Retail
5 2 (1.74%) Banking
5 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.87%) Legal
6 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.00%) Kafka
2 18 (15.65%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (11.30%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (10.43%) gRPC
4 12 (10.43%) Protocol Buffers
5 9 (7.83%) RESTful
6 3 (2.61%) REST
7 2 (1.74%) .NET
7 2 (1.74%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.87%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (0.87%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.52%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (13.91%) Cloud Native
3 13 (11.30%) Hedge funds
4 12 (10.43%) Clustering
5 10 (8.70%) Public Cloud
6 9 (7.83%) Algorithms
6 9 (7.83%) Data Structures
7 6 (5.22%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.61%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.87%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (33.04%) Linux
2 19 (16.52%) Windows
3 14 (12.17%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.09%) Unix
5 1 (0.87%) CentOS
5 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (94.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 68 (59.13%) DevOps
3 39 (33.91%) CI/CD
4 29 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (22.61%) Containerisation
6 25 (21.74%) Task Automation
7 24 (20.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (19.13%) Agile
9 20 (17.39%) Microservices
10 17 (14.78%) Observability
11 15 (13.04%) Configuration Management
12 13 (11.30%) Asset Management
12 13 (11.30%) Investment Management
12 13 (11.30%) Systems Engineering
13 12 (10.43%) GitOps
14 11 (9.57%) Incident Response
14 11 (9.57%) ITSM
14 11 (9.57%) Software Engineering
15 10 (8.70%) OO
16 9 (7.83%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 67 (58.26%) Python
2 39 (33.91%) Go
3 36 (31.30%) Java
4 18 (15.65%) Bash
5 17 (14.78%) Shell Script
5 17 (14.78%) SQL
6 14 (12.17%) PowerShell
7 12 (10.43%) JavaScript
8 9 (7.83%) C#
8 9 (7.83%) F#
9 8 (6.96%) C++
10 3 (2.61%) Perl
11 2 (1.74%) Bicep
11 2 (1.74%) C
11 2 (1.74%) Ruby
12 1 (0.87%) Groovy
12 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) Degree
4 6 (5.22%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.74%) SANS
6 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.87%) QA
2 3 (2.61%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.61%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (22.61%) Docker
2 12 (10.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.87%) HDFS
4 1 (0.87%) vCloud
4 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (59.13%) Kubernetes
2 57 (49.57%) Terraform
3 55 (47.83%) Prometheus
4 39 (33.91%) Grafana
5 23 (20.00%) Ansible
6 13 (11.30%) Progress Chef
7 11 (9.57%) Consul
7 11 (9.57%) Puppet
8 10 (8.70%) Istio
9 9 (7.83%) HP Fortify
9 9 (7.83%) Kibana
10 8 (6.96%) Graylog
11 7 (6.09%) Argo
12 6 (5.22%) Nessus
12 6 (5.22%) WebInspect
13 5 (4.35%) Opsgenie
14 4 (3.48%) Nagios
15 2 (1.74%) Kiali
15 2 (1.74%) NetBackup
16 1 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.26%) Splunk
3 11 (9.57%) SaltStack
4 8 (6.96%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.96%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.22%) Checkmarx
5 6 (5.22%) New Relic
5 6 (5.22%) Veracode
6 5 (4.35%) Adobe
6 5 (4.35%) PagerDuty
6 5 (4.35%) SAP
6 5 (4.35%) VMware
7 4 (3.48%) Google
8 2 (1.74%) Veritas
9 1 (0.87%) BT
9 1 (0.87%) Citrix
9 1 (0.87%) Databricks
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle
9 1 (0.87%) Sybase