Site Engineer
UK

The median Site Engineer salary in the UK is £73,151 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 August 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 620 665
Rank change year-on-year +10 +45 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 176 72 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.16% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 144 55 134
10th Percentile £56,000 £47,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,151 £69,384 £89,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -22.04% +31.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,750 £118,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +20.00%

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 100,207 44,834 78,907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.91% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 68,470 26,530 52,665
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,076 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Site Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Site Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Top 17 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 15 August 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 -1 143 £72,500 +4.03% 128
UK excluding London -1 132 £75,000 +11.11% 90
Work from Home -8 49 £71,991 +3.30% 56
North of England -9 45 £77,500 +11.70% 12
North West +15 30 £70,000 +55.56% 5
London -49 30 £75,823 -16.22% 81
South East -9 22 £70,000 -5.08% 12
Midlands -21 20 £59,000 -12.59% 6
South West -64 14 £75,000 -18.92% 14
East Midlands - 14 £59,000 - 1
Scotland +6 10 £80,000 +33.33% 22
East of England -12 10 £100,000 +48.15% 8
North East -53 8 £80,000 +15.30% 7
Yorkshire -26 7 £75,000 +3.45%
West Midlands -31 6 £80,000 +18.52% 5
Wales -51 6 £75,996 +14.60% 7
Northern Ireland - 5 £80,000 - 9

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 August 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 featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 137 (77.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 94 (53.41%) Python
3 85 (48.30%) Observability
4 70 (39.77%) Azure
5 66 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (35.23%) Terraform
7 57 (32.39%) AWS
7 57 (32.39%) CI/CD
8 54 (30.68%) DevOps
9 52 (29.55%) Software Engineering
10 46 (26.14%) GCP
11 45 (25.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (22.73%) Security Cleared
13 37 (21.02%) Ansible
13 37 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (18.75%) Grafana
14 33 (18.75%) SC Cleared
15 31 (17.61%) Datadog
15 31 (17.61%) Root Cause Analysis
16 30 (17.05%) Incident Response
16 30 (17.05%) Kubernetes
16 30 (17.05%) PowerShell
17 28 (15.91%) Linux
18 25 (14.20%) Mentoring
18 25 (14.20%) Service-Level Objective
19 23 (13.07%) GitOps
20 22 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
20 22 (12.50%) Task Automation
21 21 (11.93%) Agile
21 21 (11.93%) Docker

Site Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (39.77%) Azure
2 57 (32.39%) AWS
3 46 (26.14%) GCP
4 31 (17.61%) Datadog
5 15 (8.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (7.95%) dbt
7 12 (6.82%) SaaS
8 9 (5.11%) GitHub
9 6 (3.41%) Azure Stack
9 6 (3.41%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.27%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (1.70%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (0.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.95%) TCP/IP
2 8 (4.55%) ATM
3 1 (0.57%) DHCP
3 1 (0.57%) DNS
3 1 (0.57%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.70%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.14%) Redis
3 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.57%) Power BI
4 1 (0.57%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (5.68%) Git
2 7 (3.98%) GitLab
3 6 (3.41%) JIRA
4 5 (2.84%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.48%) Finance
3 28 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.39%) Manufacturing
4 13 (7.39%) Pharmaceutical
5 12 (6.82%) Banking
6 10 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.41%) Digital Economy
7 6 (3.41%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.14%) Electronics
9 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Retail
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Local Government
10 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.68%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.41%) Loki
3 2 (1.14%) .NET
3 2 (1.14%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.57%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.57%) Django
4 1 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.57%) LDAP
4 1 (0.57%) Node.js
4 1 (0.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.20%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (11.36%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.39%) FMCG
4 6 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.84%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.27%) CMDB
6 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.70%) EMV
8 2 (1.14%) Clustering
8 2 (1.14%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.91%) Linux
2 16 (9.09%) Unix
3 12 (6.82%) Windows
4 9 (5.11%) Windows Server
5 8 (4.55%) Ubuntu
6 6 (3.41%) CentOS
6 6 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (77.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 85 (48.30%) Observability
3 66 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (32.39%) CI/CD
5 54 (30.68%) DevOps
6 52 (29.55%) Software Engineering
7 45 (25.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (17.61%) Root Cause Analysis
10 30 (17.05%) Incident Response
11 25 (14.20%) Mentoring
11 25 (14.20%) Service-Level Objective
12 23 (13.07%) GitOps
13 22 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
13 22 (12.50%) Task Automation
14 21 (11.93%) Agile
14 21 (11.93%) ITIL
15 20 (11.36%) Collaborative Culture
16 19 (10.80%) Collaborative Engineering
16 19 (10.80%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (53.41%) Python
2 30 (17.05%) PowerShell
3 20 (11.36%) Bash
4 5 (2.84%) Java
4 5 (2.84%) PHP
5 4 (2.27%) SQL
6 3 (1.70%) COBOL
6 3 (1.70%) Go
6 3 (1.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.14%) Bicep
7 2 (1.14%) C#
7 2 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.57%) Erlang
8 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 40 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.09%) Degree
4 14 (7.95%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.84%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.27%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.14%) RIBA
8 1 (0.57%) HNC
8 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.98%) SLA
2 6 (3.41%) JSP 440
3 3 (1.70%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.14%) QA
5 1 (0.57%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 21 (11.93%) Docker
2 3 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 62 (35.23%) Terraform
2 37 (21.02%) Ansible
3 33 (18.75%) Grafana
4 30 (17.05%) Kubernetes
5 17 (9.66%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.55%) Nagios
7 7 (3.98%) Argo
8 6 (3.41%) Kustomize
9 5 (2.84%) Istio
10 4 (2.27%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (2.27%) Podman
11 1 (0.57%) logstash
11 1 (0.57%) Netcool
Vendors
1 21 (11.93%) Dynatrace
2 15 (8.52%) Google
3 13 (7.39%) CA Agile Central
4 10 (5.68%) Splunk
5 6 (3.41%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.27%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.27%) VocaLink
7 3 (1.70%) Databricks
7 3 (1.70%) HP
8 2 (1.14%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.57%) Oracle
9 1 (0.57%) SGI
9 1 (0.57%) Sybase
9 1 (0.57%) VMware