Site Engineer Jobs in London

Site Engineer
England > London

The median Site Engineer salary in London is £90,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 420 507
Rank change year-on-year +48 +87 +100
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 29 85 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.36% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.38% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 26 78 101
10th Percentile £57,879 £80,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £65,000 £81,250 £60,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,500 £112,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.56% +32.35% +4.62%
75th Percentile £98,750 £120,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £114,375 £143,750 £107,500
England median annual salary £69,384 £88,750 £76,250
% change year-on-year -21.82% +16.39% -4.69%

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 11,643 22,208 32,345
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.16% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,236 16,616 23,854
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £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 £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

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 15 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 15 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 +36 8 £77,500 -3.13% 8
Site Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 27 (93.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 19 (65.52%) Prometheus
3 18 (62.07%) Python
4 16 (55.17%) Terraform
4 16 (55.17%) Grafana
4 16 (55.17%) Kubernetes
5 14 (48.28%) Docker
5 14 (48.28%) DevOps
5 14 (48.28%) AWS
5 14 (48.28%) Observability
5 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
6 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
6 13 (44.83%) Azure
7 12 (41.38%) Service-Level Objective
8 10 (34.48%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (34.48%) Finance
9 8 (27.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (24.14%) Datadog
10 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (24.14%) Bash
11 6 (20.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (20.69%) GCP
11 6 (20.69%) Unix
11 6 (20.69%) Incident Management
11 6 (20.69%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
11 6 (20.69%) Incident Response
12 5 (17.24%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving

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 (6.90%) nginx
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) AWS
2 13 (44.83%) Azure
3 8 (27.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (24.14%) Datadog
5 6 (20.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (20.69%) GCP
6 5 (17.24%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (17.24%) Serverless
7 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (10.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (10.34%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (10.34%) Azure AKS
8 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (10.34%) Azure Functions
8 3 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (10.34%) dbt
8 3 (10.34%) Pulumi
8 3 (10.34%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.90%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) NAS
2 2 (6.90%) Network Security
2 2 (6.90%) SAN
2 2 (6.90%) SNMP
2 2 (6.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.34%) Redis
3 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (10.34%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Advertising
6 1 (3.45%) Electronics
6 1 (3.45%) Games
6 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Local Government
6 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (10.34%) ARM Templates
2 3 (10.34%) Django
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Unix
2 5 (17.24%) Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Windows
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (93.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 14 (48.28%) DevOps
2 14 (48.28%) Observability
3 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
3 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (41.38%) Service-Level Objective
5 10 (34.48%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
7 6 (20.69%) Incident Management
7 6 (20.69%) Incident Response
8 5 (17.24%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.24%) SDLC
9 4 (13.79%) Analytics
9 4 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (13.79%) Dashboard Development
9 4 (13.79%) Performance Monitoring
9 4 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) Bash
3 5 (17.24%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) Bicep
6 2 (6.90%) Gremlin
6 2 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.45%) C#
7 1 (3.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
1 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (65.52%) Prometheus
2 16 (55.17%) Grafana
2 16 (55.17%) Kubernetes
2 16 (55.17%) Terraform
3 5 (17.24%) Ansible
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (6.90%) HAProxy
5 2 (6.90%) Istio
5 2 (6.90%) linkerd
5 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Google
1 5 (17.24%) Splunk
2 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) F5
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) New Relic
4 1 (3.45%) SAP