Site Engineer Jobs in England

Site Engineer
UK > England

The median Site Engineer salary in England is £69,384 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 615 725 703
Rank change year-on-year +110 -22 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 64 125 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 55 115 172
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,750 £42,874
25th Percentile £60,565 £77,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £90,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.91% +24.14% -9.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £118,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £143,750 £103,625
UK median annual salary £69,384 £88,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -21.82% +22.41% -9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 44,774 85,031 77,815
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.67% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,692 62,917 50,230
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,066 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Engineer in England

Site Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
London +43 30 £90,000 -20.00% 91
Midlands +78 16 £60,000 +14.29% 6
West Midlands - 16 £60,000 - 5
North of England +41 11 £69,384 -13.27% 22
North West +5 7 £70,000 -12.50% 15
South East +70 4 £75,000 +25.00% 13
North East - 3 £69,384 -
East of England +51 2 - - 6
South West +104 1 £57,500 -16.36% 9
Yorkshire +53 1 £70,000 -12.50% 7
Site Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 England region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (96.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 44 (68.75%) AWS
3 43 (67.19%) Terraform
4 41 (64.06%) DevOps
5 40 (62.50%) Prometheus
6 38 (59.38%) Azure
7 36 (56.25%) Grafana
7 36 (56.25%) Kubernetes
8 32 (50.00%) Python
9 26 (40.63%) Observability
10 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
10 25 (39.06%) Docker
11 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
12 22 (34.38%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (31.25%) Service-Level Objective
14 19 (29.69%) GCP
15 16 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (25.00%) Loki
16 15 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (23.44%) Linux
16 15 (23.44%) Degree
17 14 (21.88%) Finance
17 14 (21.88%) Manufacturing
17 14 (21.88%) .NET
17 14 (21.88%) C#
18 13 (20.31%) Google
18 13 (20.31%) Computer Science
18 13 (20.31%) Computer Science Degree
19 12 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
19 12 (18.75%) TypeScript

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.13%) nginx
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.56%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 44 (68.75%) AWS
2 38 (59.38%) Azure
3 22 (34.38%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (29.69%) GCP
5 11 (17.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (14.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (14.06%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (14.06%) Datadog
7 8 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 8 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
7 8 (12.50%) dbt
7 8 (12.50%) Pulumi
7 8 (12.50%) Sentry
8 6 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (7.81%) Serverless
10 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.69%) Azure Functions
11 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.13%) DNS
2 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 2 (3.13%) NAS
2 2 (3.13%) Network Security
2 2 (3.13%) SAN
2 2 (3.13%) SNMP
2 2 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (17.19%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (14.06%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (14.06%) Redis
4 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.56%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) GitLab
1 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (3.13%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.56%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Finance
2 14 (21.88%) Manufacturing
3 9 (14.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.69%) Banking
4 3 (4.69%) Games
4 3 (4.69%) Law
5 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Electronics
5 2 (3.13%) Marketing
5 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.56%) Advertising
6 1 (1.56%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.00%) Loki
2 14 (21.88%) .NET
3 8 (12.50%) Django
3 8 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (4.69%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.44%) Linux
2 11 (17.19%) Unix
3 5 (7.81%) Windows
4 4 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.13%) CentOS
6 1 (1.56%) Debian
6 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (96.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 41 (64.06%) DevOps
3 26 (40.63%) Observability
4 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
5 20 (31.25%) Service-Level Objective
6 16 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (20.31%) Computer Science
9 12 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (17.19%) Continuous Delivery
10 11 (17.19%) Incident Response
11 10 (15.63%) Incident Management
11 10 (15.63%) Open Source
12 9 (14.06%) Containerisation
13 8 (12.50%) Application Performance Monitoring
13 8 (12.50%) Clean Code
13 8 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (12.50%) Prototyping
13 8 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.00%) Python
2 14 (21.88%) C#
3 12 (18.75%) Bash
3 12 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 8 (12.50%) Java
5 6 (9.38%) Go
6 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.69%) Bicep
7 3 (4.69%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.13%) Gremlin
8 2 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) Degree
2 13 (20.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (39.06%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (67.19%) Terraform
2 40 (62.50%) Prometheus
3 36 (56.25%) Grafana
3 36 (56.25%) Kubernetes
4 11 (17.19%) Ansible
5 8 (12.50%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (4.69%) Argo
7 2 (3.13%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.13%) Istio
7 2 (3.13%) linkerd
7 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.56%) Kibana
8 1 (1.56%) logstash
8 1 (1.56%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Google
2 7 (10.94%) Splunk
3 6 (9.38%) Dynatrace
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.69%) New Relic
5 3 (4.69%) VMware
6 2 (3.13%) F5
6 2 (3.13%) Oracle
6 2 (3.13%) SAP
7 1 (1.56%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.56%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.56%) Perforce
7 1 (1.56%) Sybase