Site Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Site Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Site Engineer salary in the City of London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 170 206
Rank change year-on-year +35 +36 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 8 2 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.060% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.063% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 23
10th Percentile £47,500 £65,500 £63,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £70,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% -11.69%
75th Percentile £98,750 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £94,500 £100,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% -5.88% -11.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,888 3,196 4,416
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 96.00% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,445 2,525 3,701
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £119,500 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year - -2.03% +2.07%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in the City of London

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Site Engineer in the City of London

Site Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Engineer in the City of London

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Site Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (62.50%) Service-Level Objective
3 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (62.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
3 5 (62.50%) Docker
3 5 (62.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (50.00%) Python
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Observability
5 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
5 3 (37.50%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (37.50%) Grafana
5 3 (37.50%) Data Structures
5 3 (37.50%) Datadog
5 3 (37.50%) SDLC
5 3 (37.50%) Java
5 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (25.00%) .NET
6 2 (25.00%) Azure
6 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (25.00%) Law
6 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
6 2 (25.00%) Release Management

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (37.50%) Datadog
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Data Structures
1 3 (37.50%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
2 5 (62.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (62.50%) Service-Level Objective
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Observability
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) SDLC
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (25.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (37.50%) Grafana
4 1 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (12.50%) Argo
4 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace