Site Manager Contracts

Site Manager
UK

The median Site Manager daily rate in the UK is £623 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 683 829
Rank change year-on-year +114 +146 -134
Contract jobs requiring a Site Manager 14 22 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.037% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.039% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile £256 £391 -
25th Percentile £267 £407 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £453 £620
Median % change year-on-year +37.57% -27.02% +188.37%
75th Percentile £634 £517 -
90th Percentile £635 £544 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £623 £525 -
% change year-on-year +18.57% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £42.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £42.00 -

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 40,269 56,187 84,691
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,215 39,262 59,481
10th Percentile £276 £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 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,567 2,094
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%

Site Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Manager in the UK

Site Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Site Manager in the UK

Site Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Manager over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Manager in the UK

Site Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Site Manager in the UK

Site Manager
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London +55 14 £623 +18.57% 54
England +103 7 £267 -40.99% 62
Scotland - 7 £623 - 5
South East +27 5 - - 16
Work from Home +109 3 - - 4
Midlands +28 2 £267 - 12
East Midlands - 2 £267 - 7

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Site Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Logistics
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) Bash
3 5 (35.71%) OWASP
3 5 (35.71%) Git
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (35.71%) Groovy
3 5 (35.71%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Gradle
3 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
3 5 (35.71%) OpenShift
3 5 (35.71%) Ansible
3 5 (35.71%) Docker
3 5 (35.71%) Ruby
3 5 (35.71%) Maven
3 5 (35.71%) Firewall
3 5 (35.71%) Unix
3 5 (35.71%) Windows
3 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 5 (35.71%) Python
3 5 (35.71%) Shell Script
3 5 (35.71%) Service-Level Objective
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (35.71%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (35.71%) Terraform
3 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native

Site Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (35.71%) OpenShift
3 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
1 5 (35.71%) Gradle
1 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
1 5 (35.71%) Maven
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 2 (14.29%) Legal
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
1 5 (35.71%) Unix
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Logistics
2 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Application Security
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (35.71%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (35.71%) OWASP
3 5 (35.71%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Service-Level Objective
4 3 (21.43%) Bill of Materials
4 3 (21.43%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (21.43%) Presales
4 3 (21.43%) Proactive Management
4 3 (21.43%) Statistics
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Bash
1 5 (35.71%) Groovy
1 5 (35.71%) Python
1 5 (35.71%) Ruby
1 5 (35.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) HNC
2 2 (14.29%) HND
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft