Site Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Site Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Site Engineer salary in Manchester is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 221 229
Rank change year-on-year +66 +8 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 8 4 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.35% 0.077% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.082% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 10
10th Percentile £51,000 - £42,586
25th Percentile £60,848 £47,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +34.88% +4.88% -23.90%
75th Percentile £77,500 £64,063 £72,188
90th Percentile £80,500 £73,625 £87,500
North West median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +26.09% +12.20% -23.90%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 2,053 4,904 4,482
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.40% 91.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 3,784 2,640
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,250 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in Manchester

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Site Engineer in Manchester

Site Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Engineer in Manchester

Site Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 11 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
Salford - 1 £67,626 -
Site Engineer
North West

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

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

1 8 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 5 (62.50%) Grafana
3 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 5 (62.50%) Prometheus
3 5 (62.50%) Observability
4 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 4 (50.00%) Linux
4 4 (50.00%) Python
5 3 (37.50%) Windows
5 3 (37.50%) Go
5 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
5 3 (37.50%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (37.50%) New Relic
5 3 (37.50%) Ansible
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Docker
6 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (25.00%) Microservices
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (25.00%) Server Management
6 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) Datadog
4 1 (12.50%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
4 1 (12.50%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Games
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Django
2 1 (12.50%) Loki
2 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) CentOS
3 1 (12.50%) Unix
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Observability
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Service-Level Objective
4 2 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Server Management
4 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Application Performance Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
5 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Grafana
2 5 (62.50%) Prometheus
3 3 (37.50%) Ansible
4 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) New Relic
2 2 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk