Site Engineer Job Trends in the North East

Site Engineer
England > North East

The median Site Engineer salary in the North East is £73,801 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 January 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.097% - 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% - 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 - £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.54%
75th Percentile £78,790 - £69,800
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £68,750 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% -12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 953 935 581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 95.60% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 633 423 500
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,462 £29,975
25th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £50,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% +1.52% +0.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,782 £85,000 £72,575
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.78%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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 the North East.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the North East

Site Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
Durham - 1 £73,801 -
Site Engineer
England

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 2 January 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 North East region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google