Site Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Site Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 January 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 532 523
Rank change year-on-year +82 -9 +140
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 60 42 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.11% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.12% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 29 32 28
10th Percentile £37,500 £61,250 £41,637
25th Percentile £45,000 £64,375 £44,468
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -2.67%
75th Percentile £78,790 £78,750 £70,063
90th Percentile £102,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £71,901 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.13% +7.14% -12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 37,905 34,350 29,872
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 92.99% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 22,968 17,009 22,660
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% -0.79%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Site Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South West +27 24 £95,000 +26.67% 2
North of England +27 17 £45,000 -40.00% 9
North West +36 14 £45,000 -40.00% 5
East of England +24 5 £67,500 - 1
Wales +6 5 £69,401 +6.77%
West Midlands +33 3 £71,901 +2.72% 1
Midlands +21 3 £71,901 +2.72% 2
Scotland - 3 £97,500 -
South East +10 2 £85,000 +13.33% 5
Yorkshire -4 2 £76,250 +22.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 -
North East - 1 £73,801 -
Site Engineer
UK

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 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 UK excluding London region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (55.00%) SC Cleared
1 33 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 31 (51.67%) Windows
3 30 (50.00%) ITIL
4 28 (46.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 27 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (41.67%) Analytics
6 25 (41.67%) Customer Service
6 25 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (41.67%) Windows 10
7 24 (40.00%) Cisco
7 24 (40.00%) CTC Cleared
7 24 (40.00%) Customer Acquisition
7 24 (40.00%) Customer Experience
7 24 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
7 24 (40.00%) Degree
7 24 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
7 24 (40.00%) Patch Management
7 24 (40.00%) People Management
7 24 (40.00%) SLA
7 24 (40.00%) Software Deployment
7 24 (40.00%) Ticket Management
8 21 (35.00%) AWS
9 17 (28.33%) CI/CD
9 17 (28.33%) Linux
9 17 (28.33%) Python
10 15 (25.00%) DevOps
11 12 (20.00%) Docker
11 12 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (20.00%) Terraform

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 24 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (35.00%) AWS
3 9 (15.00%) Azure
4 8 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (13.33%) GCP
5 7 (11.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (10.00%) dbt
6 6 (10.00%) Pulumi
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.00%) GitHub
7 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 3 (5.00%) Serverless
8 2 (3.33%) Datadog
9 1 (1.67%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.33%) DNS
2 5 (8.33%) HTTP
2 5 (8.33%) SSL
3 3 (5.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (10.00%) Redis
4 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.00%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.67%) MySQL
6 1 (1.67%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.33%) GitLab
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (40.00%) Back Office
3 3 (5.00%) Games
4 2 (3.33%) Finance
4 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) Django
2 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.33%) React
4 1 (1.67%) Jest
4 1 (1.67%) Playwright
4 1 (1.67%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.67%) Derivative
4 1 (1.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (51.67%) Windows
2 25 (41.67%) Windows 10
3 17 (28.33%) Linux
4 6 (10.00%) Unix
5 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.00%) ITIL
2 28 (46.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 27 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (41.67%) Analytics
4 25 (41.67%) Customer Service
5 24 (40.00%) Customer Acquisition
5 24 (40.00%) Customer Experience
5 24 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (40.00%) Patch Management
5 24 (40.00%) People Management
5 24 (40.00%) Software Deployment
5 24 (40.00%) Ticket Management
6 17 (28.33%) CI/CD
7 15 (25.00%) DevOps
8 12 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (18.33%) Observability
10 7 (11.67%) Containerisation
11 6 (10.00%) Clean Code
11 6 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
11 6 (10.00%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) Python
2 6 (10.00%) Java
3 5 (8.33%) Go
4 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.00%) SQL
6 2 (3.33%) Bash
6 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (55.00%) SC Cleared
1 33 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (40.00%) CTC Cleared
2 24 (40.00%) Degree
3 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) Terraform
2 11 (18.33%) Grafana
2 11 (18.33%) Prometheus
3 9 (15.00%) Ansible
3 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.33%) Control-M
6 1 (1.67%) Argo
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (40.00%) Cisco
2 7 (11.67%) Google
3 5 (8.33%) SolarWinds
3 5 (8.33%) Splunk
4 2 (3.33%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft