Site Engineer Jobs in the South East

Site Engineer
England > South East

The median Site Engineer salary in the South East is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 394 356
Rank change year-on-year +91 -38 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 4 12 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.042% 0.065% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.069% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 23
10th Percentile £68,000 - £52,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £38,750 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,688 £100,000
90th Percentile - £84,250 £104,000
England median annual salary £69,384 £88,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -21.82% +26.79% -12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,442 17,510 11,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.99% 94.30% 89.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,530 12,366 7,826
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,331
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.98% +0.55%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in the South East

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Site Engineer in the South East

Site Engineer
Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Hampshire +80 2 £77,500 +6.90% 6
Thames Valley +67 1 £75,000 +25.00% 14
Berkshire +39 1 £75,000 +46.34% 14
West Sussex - 1 - -
Site Engineer
England

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 South East region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Google
3 2 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) Go
4 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
4 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (25.00%) Argo
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Atlassian

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Debian
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Hardware Maintenance
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Go
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Nimble Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Perforce
2 1 (25.00%) VMware