Site Manager Job Trends

Site Manager
UK

The median Site Manager salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 February 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 686 794
Rank change year-on-year +25 +108 +207
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Manager 9 7 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.013% 0.014% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.016% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £65,000 - £58,250
25th Percentile - - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.00%
75th Percentile - - £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 - £32,500

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 62,995 44,279 71,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 91.43% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 39,740 23,369 55,764
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,268
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Site Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Site Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Site Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Site Manager
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Site Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Site Manager job vacancies in the UK

Site Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Manager over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Site Manager in the UK

Site Manager
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 22 February 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
England +30 9 £70,000 - 6
UK excluding London -2 8 £70,000 - 5
South West - 5 £70,000 -
London +43 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 4
North West - 1 £120,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 1
East of England - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £120,000 -

Site Manager Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 22 February 2026, Site Manager 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 featuring Site Manager in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Service Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
2 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
2 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Structured Cabling

Site Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Service Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
2 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
2 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering