Site Engineer Job Trends in Cheshire

Site Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Site Engineer salary in Cheshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.32% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
North West median annual salary £45,000 £75,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -40.00% +42.86% -21.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,007 573 420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.01% 92.42% 98.59%
Number of salaries quoted 447 320 339
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £34,250 £37,750 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £75,400 £68,750 £76,300
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,890 £54,750
% change year-on-year -1.75% -7.05% +4.29%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Site Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Site Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 3 - -
Macclesfield - 1 £60,000 -
Site Engineer
North West

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, Site Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Argo
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform