Site Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Site Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Site Engineer salary in Glasgow is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 79 68
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 5 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.60% 0.10% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.11% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91,250 £72,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +30.43% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £77,500 £69,375
90th Percentile - - £75,750
Scotland median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +25.00% -10.16%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 771 933 657
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 97.19% 98.21%
Number of salaries quoted 353 514 505
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,825 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -9.09%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, 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 Glasgow region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Observability
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (80.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (80.00%) Git
2 4 (80.00%) Grafana
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (80.00%) Law
1 4 (80.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
1 5 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk