Site Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Site Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Site Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 3 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.33% - 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% - 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £46,350
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.24%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £48,668
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 - £46,350
% change year-on-year - - -27.96%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 818 1,426 1,921
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.59% 95.90% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 385 1,004 1,139
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,516
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,921 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £89,852
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% +6.67%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in Edinburgh

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Site Engineer in Edinburgh

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 17 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 Edinburgh region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Availability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Agility
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus