Site Engineer Contracts

Site Engineer
UK

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the UK is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 486 559
Rank change year-on-year +29 +73 +99
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 73 115 157
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% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 89 135
10th Percentile £305 £454 £484
25th Percentile £352 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £563 £645
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% -12.79% +7.50%
75th Percentile £615 £695 £700
90th Percentile £713 £850 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £525 £675
% change year-on-year -16.67% -22.22% +8.00%
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 26,887 40,034 55,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,565 26,064 39,048
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £740 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,046 2,665 1,566
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.11
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +90.68%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +115.16%

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 5 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 5 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 +27 67 £488 -13.53% 111
London +41 42 £500 -27.01% 70
UK excluding London +21 24 £438 -16.67% 49
Work from Home +28 21 £454 -33.24% 66
South East +34 9 £425 -14.40% 13
South West +28 5 £550 +4.76% 6
Midlands +21 5 £375 -25.00% 8
West Midlands +20 5 £375 -25.00% 4
North of England +11 3 £508 -7.73% 15
North West +9 2 £700 +27.27% 10
Yorkshire +9 1 £315 -42.73% 4
Scotland +8 1 - - 2
Wales +8 1 £586 -15.07%

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 73 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 49 (67.12%) Kubernetes
3 45 (61.64%) DevOps
4 36 (49.32%) CI/CD
5 34 (46.58%) Azure
6 32 (43.84%) Terraform
7 31 (42.47%) Python
8 27 (36.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (34.25%) Prometheus
10 24 (32.88%) Grafana
11 23 (31.51%) AWS
12 21 (28.77%) Ansible
13 20 (27.40%) Docker
14 19 (26.03%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (23.29%) Observability
15 17 (23.29%) Jenkins
16 16 (21.92%) Social Skills
17 15 (20.55%) Linux
17 15 (20.55%) Agile
17 15 (20.55%) Containerisation
18 14 (19.18%) PowerShell
19 13 (17.81%) High Availability
19 13 (17.81%) Migration
19 13 (17.81%) SQL
19 13 (17.81%) Service-Level Objective
20 12 (16.44%) Elastic Stack
20 12 (16.44%) C#
20 12 (16.44%) Software Engineering
20 12 (16.44%) Splunk
20 12 (16.44%) Bash

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 (6.85%) Apache
2 4 (5.48%) nginx
2 4 (5.48%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 34 (46.58%) Azure
2 23 (31.51%) AWS
3 19 (26.03%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (16.44%) Azure AKS
5 10 (13.70%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (13.70%) GCP
6 7 (9.59%) GitHub
7 6 (8.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (8.22%) Azure Storage
7 6 (8.22%) Datadog
8 5 (6.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.85%) IaaS
8 5 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (6.85%) PaaS
9 4 (5.48%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.48%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.96%) DNS
2 7 (9.59%) HTTP
3 5 (6.85%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.48%) DHCP
4 4 (5.48%) Kerberos
4 4 (5.48%) SSL
5 2 (2.74%) FTP
5 2 (2.74%) SMTP
5 2 (2.74%) VPN
6 1 (1.37%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.37%) NAS
6 1 (1.37%) Network Security
6 1 (1.37%) SAN
6 1 (1.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.48%) Power BI
2 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.37%) ClickHouse
4 1 (1.37%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.37%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (23.29%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.96%) GitLab
3 6 (8.22%) Git
4 5 (6.85%) TeamCity
5 4 (5.48%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.37%) GoCD
7 1 (1.37%) JIRA
7 1 (1.37%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.96%) Banking
2 8 (10.96%) Finance
3 3 (4.11%) Legal
4 2 (2.74%) International Banking
4 2 (2.74%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.37%) Dutch Language
5 1 (1.37%) Front Office
5 1 (1.37%) Military
5 1 (1.37%) Retail
5 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.44%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (10.96%) ADO
3 7 (9.59%) .NET
4 6 (8.22%) OpenTelemetry
4 6 (8.22%) YAML
5 4 (5.48%) JSON
6 3 (4.11%) Kafka
6 3 (4.11%) LDAP
6 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (4.11%) Spring
7 2 (2.74%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.74%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.74%) boto
7 2 (2.74%) Flask
8 1 (1.37%) Loki
8 1 (1.37%) Middleware
8 1 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.59%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.74%) Social Media
4 1 (1.37%) Clustering
4 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.55%) Linux
2 8 (10.96%) Unix
3 5 (6.85%) Windows
4 4 (5.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.11%) Android
6 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.37%) Debian
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.37%) Solaris
7 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 45 (61.64%) DevOps
3 36 (49.32%) CI/CD
4 27 (36.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (23.29%) Observability
6 15 (20.55%) Agile
6 15 (20.55%) Containerisation
7 13 (17.81%) High Availability
7 13 (17.81%) Migration
7 13 (17.81%) Service-Level Objective
8 12 (16.44%) Software Engineering
9 10 (13.70%) Incident Management
9 10 (13.70%) Incident Response
10 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (10.96%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (10.96%) Microservices
11 8 (10.96%) Task Automation
12 7 (9.59%) Change Management
12 7 (9.59%) Data Protection
13 6 (8.22%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (42.47%) Python
2 14 (19.18%) PowerShell
3 13 (17.81%) SQL
4 12 (16.44%) Bash
4 12 (16.44%) C#
5 6 (8.22%) Bicep
5 6 (8.22%) Go
5 6 (8.22%) Java
5 6 (8.22%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.48%) Groovy
6 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.48%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (5.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.11%) Degree
4 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.37%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (27.40%) Docker
2 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (67.12%) Kubernetes
2 32 (43.84%) Terraform
3 25 (34.25%) Prometheus
4 24 (32.88%) Grafana
5 21 (28.77%) Ansible
6 5 (6.85%) Progress Chef
7 4 (5.48%) Puppet
8 1 (1.37%) Argo
8 1 (1.37%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (1.37%) Nagios
8 1 (1.37%) Netcool
8 1 (1.37%) Podman
8 1 (1.37%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.37%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (1.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Splunk
2 11 (15.07%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.96%) Dynatrace
4 6 (8.22%) Google
5 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.11%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.74%) Oracle
7 2 (2.74%) VMware
8 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.37%) BT
8 1 (1.37%) Cisco
8 1 (1.37%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.37%) EMC
8 1 (1.37%) IBM
8 1 (1.37%) Qualys
8 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.37%) Serena
8 1 (1.37%) Sybase
8 1 (1.37%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.37%) Veritas