Site Engineer Jobs in London

Site Engineer
England > London

The median Site Engineer salary in London is £90,000 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 366 409 499
Rank change year-on-year +43 +90 +130
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 30 92 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.41% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 25 86 88
10th Percentile £56,554 £80,625 £42,874
25th Percentile £65,000 £81,250 £60,585
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £112,500 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +34.33% +4.69%
75th Percentile £98,750 £120,000 £95,625
90th Percentile £111,250 £143,750 £107,500
England median annual salary £69,384 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -22.91% +24.14% -9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,537 22,689 30,597
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 94.43% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,970 16,827 22,863
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in London

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Site Engineer in London

Site Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Site Engineer in London

Site Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the London 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
Central London +34 8 £77,500 -3.13% 6
Site Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (93.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 20 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 18 (60.00%) Terraform
4 17 (56.67%) Grafana
4 17 (56.67%) Kubernetes
4 17 (56.67%) Python
5 16 (53.33%) DevOps
5 16 (53.33%) AWS
6 15 (50.00%) Azure
6 15 (50.00%) Docker
6 15 (50.00%) Observability
6 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
7 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
7 14 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (43.33%) Service-Level Objective
9 11 (36.67%) Finance
10 10 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (26.67%) GCP
11 8 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (23.33%) Incident Response
12 7 (23.33%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (23.33%) Datadog
12 7 (23.33%) Bash
13 6 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
13 6 (20.00%) Splunk
13 6 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (20.00%) SDLC
13 6 (20.00%) Linux
13 6 (20.00%) Incident Management

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (6.67%) nginx
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) AutoCAD
1 1 (3.33%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) AWS
2 15 (50.00%) Azure
3 8 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (26.67%) GCP
4 7 (23.33%) Datadog
5 6 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (16.67%) Serverless
7 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (10.00%) Azure AKS
8 3 (10.00%) Azure Functions
8 3 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (10.00%) dbt
8 3 (10.00%) Pulumi
8 3 (10.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) NAS
2 2 (6.67%) Network Security
2 2 (6.67%) SAN
2 2 (6.67%) SNMP
2 2 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.33%) Redis
3 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) GitLab
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Electronics
4 2 (6.67%) Games
4 2 (6.67%) Law
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (10.00%) Django
3 2 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Unix
3 2 (6.67%) Windows
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 16 (53.33%) DevOps
3 15 (50.00%) Observability
4 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 14 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (43.33%) Service-Level Objective
6 10 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (23.33%) Incident Response
9 6 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 6 (20.00%) Incident Management
9 6 (20.00%) SDLC
10 5 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
11 4 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (13.33%) Systems Thinking
11 4 (13.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) Bash
3 4 (13.33%) Java
3 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.00%) Bicep
4 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.67%) C#
5 2 (6.67%) Gremlin
5 2 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (3.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 18 (60.00%) Terraform
3 17 (56.67%) Grafana
3 17 (56.67%) Kubernetes
4 5 (16.67%) Ansible
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (6.67%) HAProxy
6 2 (6.67%) Istio
6 2 (6.67%) linkerd
6 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.33%) Argo
7 1 (3.33%) Kibana
7 1 (3.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Splunk
2 5 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 5 (16.67%) Google
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) F5
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) SAP
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics