Site Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Site Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Site Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £680 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 413 519
Rank change year-on-year +109 +106 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 41 64 113
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.26% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 55 82
10th Percentile £500 £455 £463
25th Percentile £569 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £697
90th Percentile - £758 £736
UK median daily rate £561 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -13.65% +8.33% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,352 24,650 42,717
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,594 17,415 30,863
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 565 611
10th Percentile £14.38 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.39 £26.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.74 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Site Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Site Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Site Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Site Engineer.

Site Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Site Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Site Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (97.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 31 (75.61%) Kubernetes
2 31 (75.61%) DevOps
3 30 (73.17%) Python
4 26 (63.41%) Prometheus
5 21 (51.22%) Go
5 21 (51.22%) Java
6 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
7 18 (43.90%) Linux
7 18 (43.90%) AWS
8 16 (39.02%) Terraform
9 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
10 14 (34.15%) Finance
10 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
11 13 (31.71%) Shell Script
11 13 (31.71%) Hedge funds
11 13 (31.71%) Asset Management
11 13 (31.71%) Investment Management
11 13 (31.71%) Grafana
11 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (31.71%) Kafka
12 12 (29.27%) Big Data
12 12 (29.27%) Protocol Buffers
12 12 (29.27%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (29.27%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (29.27%) Data Lake
12 12 (29.27%) gRPC
12 12 (29.27%) Apache Airflow
12 12 (29.27%) JavaScript
12 12 (29.27%) Clustering

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (29.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 18 (43.90%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) dbt
2 12 (29.27%) Snowflake
3 2 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.44%) Anthos
4 1 (2.44%) Azure
4 1 (2.44%) Datadog
4 1 (2.44%) GitHub
4 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) Amazon Athena
1 12 (29.27%) Apache Arrow
1 12 (29.27%) Big Data
1 12 (29.27%) Data Lake
1 12 (29.27%) Dremio
2 11 (26.83%) MongoDB
3 7 (17.07%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.44%) MySQL
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) JIRA
1 6 (14.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (4.88%) GitLab
2 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) AppScan
3 1 (2.44%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.44%) Robot Framework
3 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 14 (34.15%) Finance
3 11 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) Kafka
2 12 (29.27%) gRPC
2 12 (29.27%) Protocol Buffers
2 12 (29.27%) RabbitMQ
3 8 (19.51%) RESTful
4 2 (4.88%) .NET
5 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Hedge funds
2 12 (29.27%) Clustering
2 12 (29.27%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (19.51%) Algorithms
3 8 (19.51%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (43.90%) Linux
2 8 (19.51%) Windows
3 6 (14.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (97.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 31 (75.61%) DevOps
3 14 (34.15%) CI/CD
4 13 (31.71%) Asset Management
4 13 (31.71%) Investment Management
4 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (26.83%) Task Automation
6 10 (24.39%) Microservices
7 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (19.51%) Analytical Thinking
9 6 (14.63%) Computer Science
9 6 (14.63%) OO
9 6 (14.63%) Scrum
9 6 (14.63%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (12.20%) OOP
10 5 (12.20%) Systems Engineering
11 4 (9.76%) Analytics
11 4 (9.76%) Data Analytics
12 3 (7.32%) Agile
12 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 30 (73.17%) Python
2 21 (51.22%) Go
2 21 (51.22%) Java
3 13 (31.71%) Shell Script
4 12 (29.27%) JavaScript
5 8 (19.51%) SQL
6 7 (17.07%) C#
6 7 (17.07%) F#
7 6 (14.63%) C++
8 3 (7.32%) Bash
9 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (26.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 4 (9.76%) Docker
3 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.44%) vCloud
4 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (75.61%) Kubernetes
2 26 (63.41%) Prometheus
3 16 (39.02%) Terraform
4 13 (31.71%) Grafana
5 11 (26.83%) Consul
6 2 (4.88%) Ansible
6 2 (4.88%) Istio
7 1 (2.44%) Argo
7 1 (2.44%) Graylog
7 1 (2.44%) HP Fortify
7 1 (2.44%) Kiali
7 1 (2.44%) Kibana
7 1 (2.44%) Nessus
7 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.44%) Puppet
7 1 (2.44%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (26.83%) SaltStack
3 3 (7.32%) VMware
4 2 (4.88%) Splunk
5 1 (2.44%) BT
5 1 (2.44%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.44%) Veracode