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 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 622 716 696
Rank change year-on-year +94 -20 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 63 127 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 55 116 173
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,875 £42,874
25th Percentile £60,565 £74,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £88,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +18.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £118,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £143,750 £103,750
UK median annual salary £69,384 £87,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -20.70% +20.69% -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 44,450 84,705 79,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.67% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 23,451 62,722 50,420
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,070 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,952 £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 30 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 30 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 +50 29 £90,000 -20.00% 84
Midlands +99 16 £60,000 +14.29% 124
West Midlands - 16 £60,000 - 68
North of England +54 11 £69,384 -13.27% 156
North West +11 7 £70,000 -12.50% 76
South East +80 4 £75,000 +25.00% 184
North East - 3 £69,384 - 16
East of England +48 2 - - 99
South West +97 1 £57,500 -16.36% 81
Yorkshire +57 1 £70,000 -12.50% 64
Site Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 61 (96.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 43 (68.25%) AWS
3 42 (66.67%) Terraform
4 40 (63.49%) DevOps
5 39 (61.90%) Prometheus
6 37 (58.73%) Azure
7 35 (55.56%) Kubernetes
7 35 (55.56%) Grafana
8 32 (50.79%) Python
9 26 (41.27%) Observability
10 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
11 24 (38.10%) Docker
12 23 (36.51%) CI/CD
13 21 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (31.75%) Service-Level Objective
15 18 (28.57%) GCP
16 16 (25.40%) Infrastructure as Code
16 16 (25.40%) Loki
17 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (23.81%) Degree
18 14 (22.22%) Finance
18 14 (22.22%) Manufacturing
18 14 (22.22%) .NET
18 14 (22.22%) C#
18 14 (22.22%) Linux
19 13 (20.63%) Google
19 13 (20.63%) Computer Science
19 13 (20.63%) Computer Science Degree
20 12 (19.05%) TypeScript
20 12 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement

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 (3.17%) nginx
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 43 (68.25%) AWS
2 37 (58.73%) Azure
3 21 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (28.57%) GCP
5 11 (17.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (12.70%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (12.70%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 8 (12.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (12.70%) AWS CodeBuild
7 8 (12.70%) Datadog
7 8 (12.70%) dbt
7 8 (12.70%) Pulumi
7 8 (12.70%) Sentry
8 6 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (7.94%) Serverless
10 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (4.76%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.17%) DNS
2 2 (3.17%) Firewall
2 2 (3.17%) NAS
2 2 (3.17%) Network Security
2 2 (3.17%) SAN
2 2 (3.17%) SNMP
2 2 (3.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.46%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (17.46%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (12.70%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.70%) Redis
3 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.59%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) GitLab
1 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.17%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (3.17%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.59%) Jaeger
General
1 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.22%) Finance
2 14 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 9 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.76%) Banking
4 3 (4.76%) Games
4 3 (4.76%) Law
5 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Electronics
5 2 (3.17%) Marketing
5 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.59%) Advertising
6 1 (1.59%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.40%) Loki
2 14 (22.22%) .NET
3 8 (12.70%) Django
3 8 (12.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (4.76%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.22%) Linux
2 11 (17.46%) Unix
3 5 (7.94%) Windows
4 4 (6.35%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.17%) CentOS
6 1 (1.59%) Debian
6 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (96.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 40 (63.49%) DevOps
3 26 (41.27%) Observability
4 23 (36.51%) CI/CD
5 20 (31.75%) Service-Level Objective
6 16 (25.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (20.63%) Computer Science
9 12 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (17.46%) Continuous Delivery
10 11 (17.46%) Incident Response
11 10 (15.87%) Incident Management
11 10 (15.87%) Open Source
12 9 (14.29%) Containerisation
13 8 (12.70%) Application Performance Monitoring
13 8 (12.70%) Clean Code
13 8 (12.70%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (12.70%) Prototyping
13 8 (12.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.79%) Python
2 14 (22.22%) C#
3 12 (19.05%) Bash
3 12 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 8 (12.70%) Java
5 6 (9.52%) Go
6 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.35%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.76%) Bicep
8 2 (3.17%) Gremlin
8 2 (3.17%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (23.81%) Degree
2 13 (20.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
4 8 (12.70%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (3.17%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (38.10%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (66.67%) Terraform
2 39 (61.90%) Prometheus
3 35 (55.56%) Grafana
3 35 (55.56%) Kubernetes
4 11 (17.46%) Ansible
5 8 (12.70%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (4.76%) Argo
7 2 (3.17%) HAProxy
7 2 (3.17%) Istio
7 2 (3.17%) linkerd
7 2 (3.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.59%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (20.63%) Google
2 6 (9.52%) Splunk
3 5 (7.94%) Dynatrace
4 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.76%) New Relic
5 3 (4.76%) VMware
6 2 (3.17%) F5
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle
6 2 (3.17%) SAP
7 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.59%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.59%) Perforce
7 1 (1.59%) Sybase