Site Engineer Job Trends in Durham

Site Engineer
North East > Durham

The median Site Engineer salary in Durham is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 9 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 1.84% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £77,582 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Durham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Durham. 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 Durham with a recognized job title 448 185 261
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 76.13% 84.19%
Number of salaries quoted 256 87 172
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £27,438 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £48,375 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £77,250
North East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -10.00%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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 Durham.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in Durham

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Durham.

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Durham

Site Engineer
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the Durham region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Darlington - 9 £80,000 - 3
Site Engineer
North East

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

For the 6 months to 29 August 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 Durham region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
2 1 (11.11%) Coaching
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) dbt
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
2 1 (11.11%) Observability
2 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Unix

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) dbt
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
2 1 (11.11%) Coaching
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
2 1 (11.11%) Observability
2 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
2 1 (11.11%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google