Site Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Site Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Site Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £454, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 304 413
Rank change year-on-year +23 +109 +106
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 23 41 64
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.29% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 36 55
10th Percentile £325 £500 £455
25th Percentile £350 £569 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £680 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.24% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £684 £850 £700
90th Percentile £775 - £758
UK median daily rate £475 £561 £650
% change year-on-year -15.37% -13.65% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Site Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Site Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Site Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Site Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 16 (69.57%) DevOps
2 16 (69.57%) Kubernetes
3 14 (60.87%) Azure
3 14 (60.87%) Python
4 13 (56.52%) Terraform
4 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
5 12 (52.17%) AWS
6 11 (47.83%) Docker
7 10 (43.48%) Ansible
7 10 (43.48%) Grafana
7 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (39.13%) Prometheus
8 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
9 8 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (34.78%) Observability
9 8 (34.78%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (34.78%) High Availability
9 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
10 7 (30.43%) Splunk
10 7 (30.43%) Linux
10 7 (30.43%) HTTP
11 6 (26.09%) Agile
11 6 (26.09%) GCP
11 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
11 6 (26.09%) Cloud Native
11 6 (26.09%) Incident Response
11 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (21.74%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (21.74%) ServiceNow

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 4 (17.39%) Apache
2 3 (13.04%) nginx
2 3 (13.04%) OpenStack
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) AWS
3 8 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) GCP
5 5 (21.74%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (17.39%) Azure AKS
6 4 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (17.39%) Datadog
6 4 (17.39%) GitHub
7 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
8 2 (8.70%) SaaS
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) HTTP
2 5 (21.74%) DNS
2 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
3 4 (17.39%) SSL
4 2 (8.70%) FTP
4 2 (8.70%) SMTP
4 2 (8.70%) VPN
5 1 (4.35%) DHCP
5 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
5 1 (4.35%) NAS
5 1 (4.35%) SAN
5 1 (4.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) GitLab
3 3 (13.04%) Git
4 2 (8.70%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.35%) JIRA
5 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (4.35%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (21.74%) YAML
3 4 (17.39%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (13.04%) .NET
4 3 (13.04%) JSON
5 2 (8.70%) boto
5 2 (8.70%) Flask
6 1 (4.35%) ADO
6 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
6 1 (4.35%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Native
1 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Solaris
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 16 (69.57%) DevOps
3 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
4 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
6 8 (34.78%) High Availability
6 8 (34.78%) Observability
7 6 (26.09%) Agile
7 6 (26.09%) Incident Response
8 5 (21.74%) Incident Management
9 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (17.39%) Microservices
9 4 (17.39%) Proactive Monitoring
9 4 (17.39%) SDLC
9 4 (17.39%) Service-Level Objective
9 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
10 3 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
10 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (13.04%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) C#
2 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.04%) Bash
3 3 (13.04%) Bicep
3 3 (13.04%) Go
3 3 (13.04%) Groovy
3 3 (13.04%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.70%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.70%) Ruby
5 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) QA
1 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Kubernetes
2 13 (56.52%) Terraform
3 10 (43.48%) Ansible
3 10 (43.48%) Grafana
4 9 (39.13%) Prometheus
5 3 (13.04%) Puppet
6 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (4.35%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (4.35%) Netcool
7 1 (4.35%) Tivoli
7 1 (4.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Splunk
2 5 (21.74%) ServiceNow
3 4 (17.39%) Dynatrace
4 3 (13.04%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco
5 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.35%) EMC
5 1 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) Isilon
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) PagerDuty
5 1 (4.35%) Qualys
5 1 (4.35%) Serena
5 1 (4.35%) Sybase
5 1 (4.35%) TOWER Software
5 1 (4.35%) VMware