Site Engineer Job Trends in Dorset

Site Engineer
South West > Dorset

The median Site Engineer salary in Dorset is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - 94
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 7 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 1.05% - 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% - 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £70,000
75th Percentile £42,500 - £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% -17.86% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Dorset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Dorset. 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 Dorset with a recognized job title 630 224 1,148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 97.39% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 325 146 678
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £27,035
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £65,725
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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 Dorset.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in Dorset

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Dorset.

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Dorset

Site Engineer
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
Blandford Forum - 3 - -
Bournemouth - 1 - - 1
Site Engineer
South West

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 21 May 2026, 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 Dorset region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) JSP 440
1 6 (85.71%) Project Management
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Service Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) ATM
2 4 (57.14%) Chartered Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Project Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (28.57%) RIBA
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) Grafana
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Response

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) ATM
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) CMDB
1 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
1 4 (57.14%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Project Management
1 6 (85.71%) Service Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) Project Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) Chartered Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk