Site Engineer Job Trends in Essex

Site Engineer
East of England > Essex

The median Site Engineer salary in Essex is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.072% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - -
75th Percentile £95,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £100,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +48.15% +35.00% -23.08%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 1,293 576 580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 91.28% 92.65%
Number of salaries quoted 922 377 422
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,810 £31,250 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +3.72%
75th Percentile £62,875 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £79,875 £76,540 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.41%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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 Essex.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in Essex

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Essex.

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Essex

Site Engineer
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the Essex region over the 6 months to 11 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
Colchester - 1 £90,000 - 2
Site Engineer
East of England

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex

For the 6 months to 11 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 Essex region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SGI
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SGI