Site Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Site Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 726 673
Rank change year-on-year +185 -53 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 39 32 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.045% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.048% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 33 29 85
10th Percentile £53,500 £38,750 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £63,150
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.99% -9.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £96,000
UK median annual salary £69,384 £87,500 £75,781
% change year-on-year -20.70% +15.46% -5.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 35,260 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,851 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,716 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,000 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Site Engineer 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 10 May 2025.

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 10 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
Midlands +82 16 £60,000 +14.29% 11
West Midlands - 16 £60,000 - 4
North of England +63 11 £69,384 +15.64% 16
North West +16 8 £72,500 +26.09% 10
South East +92 4 £75,000 +25.00% 18
East of England +45 3 - - 7
Scotland - 3 £70,000 - 4
North East - 3 £69,384 - 1
South West +104 1 £57,500 -17.86% 6
Wales +39 1 £67,626 +4.04%
Site Engineer
UK

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 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 UK excluding London region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 33 (84.62%) AWS
3 29 (74.36%) Terraform
4 27 (69.23%) DevOps
5 26 (66.67%) Azure
6 21 (53.85%) Grafana
6 21 (53.85%) Prometheus
7 19 (48.72%) Kubernetes
8 18 (46.15%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (43.59%) Python
10 16 (41.03%) Degree
10 16 (41.03%) Loki
11 15 (38.46%) GCP
11 15 (38.46%) Observability
12 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
12 13 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (33.33%) Computer Science
13 12 (30.77%) Manufacturing
13 12 (30.77%) .NET
13 12 (30.77%) C#
13 12 (30.77%) TypeScript
13 12 (30.77%) Docker
14 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (25.64%) Service-Level Objective
15 10 (25.64%) Linux
15 10 (25.64%) Google
16 9 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
16 9 (23.08%) Open Source
16 9 (23.08%) CI/CD
17 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 33 (84.62%) AWS
2 26 (66.67%) Azure
3 18 (46.15%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (38.46%) GCP
5 7 (17.95%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 6 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (15.38%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (15.38%) dbt
6 6 (15.38%) Pulumi
6 6 (15.38%) Sentry
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.56%) Datadog
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (17.95%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (15.38%) Redis
4 1 (2.56%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Jaeger
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Manufacturing
3 7 (17.95%) Finance
4 6 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Games
7 1 (2.56%) Advertising
7 1 (2.56%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (41.03%) Loki
2 12 (30.77%) .NET
3 6 (15.38%) Django
4 3 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (7.69%) Node.js
5 2 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Unix
3 3 (7.69%) Windows
4 1 (2.56%) CentOS
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 27 (69.23%) DevOps
3 15 (38.46%) Observability
4 13 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (25.64%) Service-Level Objective
7 9 (23.08%) CI/CD
7 9 (23.08%) Open Source
8 7 (17.95%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (15.38%) Application Performance Monitoring
9 6 (15.38%) Clean Code
9 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
9 6 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (15.38%) Prototyping
9 6 (15.38%) Task Automation
10 5 (12.82%) Incident Management
11 4 (10.26%) E-Commerce
11 4 (10.26%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) Python
2 12 (30.77%) C#
2 12 (30.77%) TypeScript
3 6 (15.38%) Go
3 6 (15.38%) Java
4 4 (10.26%) Bash
5 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (41.03%) Degree
2 13 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
4 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (74.36%) Terraform
2 21 (53.85%) Grafana
2 21 (53.85%) Prometheus
3 19 (48.72%) Kubernetes
4 6 (15.38%) Ansible
4 6 (15.38%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (2.56%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Google
2 3 (7.69%) New Relic
3 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk
3 1 (2.56%) Sybase