Site Engineer Jobs

Site Engineer
UK

The median Site Engineer salary in the UK is £69,384 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 638 781 732
Rank change year-on-year +143 -49 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 71 131 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58 119 197
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £59,033 £71,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £87,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.70% +20.69% -9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £118,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £143,750 £103,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £66,500 £62,825
% change year-on-year +1.50% +5.85% -10.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 50,066 97,923 88,829
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.81% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,124 69,761 56,179
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
England +94 63 £69,384 -21.82% 673
UK excluding London +200 42 £67,500 +1.50% 671
Work from Home +67 30 £69,692 -30.31% 506
London +50 29 £90,000 -20.00% 83
Midlands +99 16 £60,000 +14.29% 124
West Midlands - 16 £60,000 - 68
North of England +54 11 £69,384 -13.27% 156
North West +11 7 £70,000 -12.50% 76
Scotland - 7 £65,000 - 26
South East +80 4 £75,000 +25.00% 183
North East - 3 £69,384 - 16
East of England +48 2 - - 99
South West +97 1 £57,500 -16.36% 81
Yorkshire +57 1 £70,000 -12.50% 64
Wales +46 1 £67,626 +22.96% 18

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 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 featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 69 (97.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 49 (69.01%) Terraform
3 47 (66.20%) AWS
4 43 (60.56%) Prometheus
5 41 (57.75%) Azure
5 41 (57.75%) DevOps
6 39 (54.93%) Grafana
7 38 (53.52%) Kubernetes
8 35 (49.30%) Python
9 32 (45.07%) Observability
10 28 (39.44%) Social Skills
11 27 (38.03%) Docker
12 26 (36.62%) CI/CD
12 26 (36.62%) Service-Level Objective
13 22 (30.99%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (29.58%) GCP
15 20 (28.17%) Finance
16 18 (25.35%) Linux
16 18 (25.35%) Infrastructure as Code
17 17 (23.94%) .NET
18 16 (22.54%) Loki
19 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
19 15 (21.13%) Degree
20 14 (19.72%) Manufacturing
20 14 (19.72%) Google
20 14 (19.72%) C#
20 14 (19.72%) Elasticsearch
20 14 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
20 14 (19.72%) Continuous Delivery
21 13 (18.31%) Computer Science Degree

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (2.82%) nginx
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 47 (66.20%) AWS
2 41 (57.75%) Azure
3 22 (30.99%) Amazon ECS
4 21 (29.58%) GCP
5 12 (16.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (14.08%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (12.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (12.68%) Amazon ECR
7 9 (12.68%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 9 (12.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 9 (12.68%) AWS CodeBuild
7 9 (12.68%) dbt
7 9 (12.68%) Pulumi
7 9 (12.68%) Sentry
8 8 (11.27%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (11.27%) Datadog
9 5 (7.04%) Azure AKS
9 5 (7.04%) Serverless
10 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.68%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.82%) DNS
2 2 (2.82%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) NAS
2 2 (2.82%) Network Security
2 2 (2.82%) SAN
2 2 (2.82%) SNMP
2 2 (2.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.72%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (16.90%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (12.68%) Redis
4 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.41%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.04%) GitLab
3 2 (2.82%) Git
3 2 (2.82%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.82%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.41%) Jaeger
General
1 28 (39.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.17%) Finance
3 14 (19.72%) Manufacturing
4 12 (16.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.04%) Banking
5 5 (7.04%) Law
6 4 (5.63%) Marketing
7 3 (4.23%) Games
8 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Electronics
8 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.41%) Advertising
9 1 (1.41%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.94%) .NET
2 16 (22.54%) Loki
3 10 (14.08%) OpenTelemetry
4 9 (12.68%) Django
5 3 (4.23%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.82%) Node.js
6 2 (2.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.45%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.23%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.35%) Linux
2 12 (16.90%) Unix
3 7 (9.86%) Windows
4 4 (5.63%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.82%) CentOS
6 2 (2.82%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.41%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (97.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 41 (57.75%) DevOps
3 32 (45.07%) Observability
4 26 (36.62%) CI/CD
4 26 (36.62%) Service-Level Objective
5 18 (25.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (19.72%) Continuous Delivery
7 14 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (18.31%) Computer Science
8 13 (18.31%) Incident Response
9 12 (16.90%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (15.49%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (15.49%) Open Source
11 10 (14.08%) Incident Management
12 9 (12.68%) Clean Code
12 9 (12.68%) Containerisation
12 9 (12.68%) Performance Monitoring
12 9 (12.68%) Prototyping
12 9 (12.68%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (49.30%) Python
2 14 (19.72%) C#
3 12 (16.90%) Bash
3 12 (16.90%) TypeScript
4 11 (15.49%) Java
5 6 (8.45%) Go
5 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.23%) Bicep
7 3 (4.23%) SQL
8 2 (2.82%) Gremlin
8 2 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (21.13%) Degree
2 13 (18.31%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (18.31%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (2.82%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (38.03%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (69.01%) Terraform
2 43 (60.56%) Prometheus
3 39 (54.93%) Grafana
4 38 (53.52%) Kubernetes
5 11 (15.49%) Ansible
6 9 (12.68%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (4.23%) Argo
8 2 (2.82%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.82%) Istio
8 2 (2.82%) linkerd
8 2 (2.82%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.41%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Google
2 8 (11.27%) Splunk
3 5 (7.04%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.23%) New Relic
5 3 (4.23%) VMware
6 2 (2.82%) F5
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle
6 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.82%) SAP
7 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.41%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.41%) Perforce
7 1 (1.41%) Sybase