Site Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Site Engineer
England > South East

The median Site Engineer salary in the South East is £78,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 290 263
Rank change year-on-year +18 -27 +151
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 4 15 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.038% 0.16% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.17% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 4
10th Percentile £72,625 £63,250 £43,625
25th Percentile £74,688 £70,000 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +20.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £82,188 £79,063 £68,188
90th Percentile £83,875 £80,000 £69,425
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -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 9,617 8,628 7,314
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 92.23% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6,008 4,679 5,288
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.41%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South 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 South East.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Site Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram 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 26 December 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
Thames Valley +9 2 - - 5
Berkshire -4 2 - - 5
West Sussex +2 1 £72,500 -3.33%
East Sussex - 1 £85,000 - 1
Site Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, 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 South East region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace