Site Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Site Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 September 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
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 108 121
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 +57
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 9 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.052% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.057% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile - - £525
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £455 - £713
90th Percentile £536 - £735
England median daily rate £438 £586 £650
% change year-on-year -25.34% -9.85% -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,567 1,759 2,024
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.95% 92.34% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,011 1,158 1,392
10th Percentile £235 £246 £250
25th Percentile £378 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £578 £613 £600
90th Percentile £644 £713 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 72 60
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.77 £14.09
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £16.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.59 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -6.65% +16.58%
75th Percentile £40.02 £33.64 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £49.88 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +68.27%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in the West Midlands

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in the West Midlands

Site Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Birmingham +7 7 £375 - 2
Warwickshire - 2 £529 -
Site Engineer
England

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 2 September 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) SIEM
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Bash
4 2 (22.22%) Ansible
4 2 (22.22%) Docker
4 2 (22.22%) DHCP
4 2 (22.22%) DNS
4 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (22.22%) Terminal Services
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) Use Case
5 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Linux
5 1 (11.11%) Change Management
5 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
5 1 (11.11%) BT
5 1 (11.11%) Validation

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) SIEM
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Change Management
5 1 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Observability
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Use Case
5 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Kibana
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) BT
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk