Site Engineer
UK

The median Site Engineer salary in the UK is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 811 749 693
Rank change year-on-year -62 -56 -128
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 100 253 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.24% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.27% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 91 218 436
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,874 £57,046
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £61,194
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,781 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -5.27% +18.52%
75th Percentile £118,750 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £103,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,706 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.32% -10.42% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Top 13 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 4 May 2024. 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 -33 96 £87,500 +12.90% 99
London +57 70 £110,000 +29.41% 32
Work from Home -4 63 £90,000 +18.76% 32
UK excluding London -70 28 £60,000 -4.32% 74
South East +2 9 £60,000 -22.58% 12
South West -26 8 £70,000 +7.69% 12
North of England +16 6 £58,750 +33.42% 23
North West +4 4 £53,750 +4.88% 10
Yorkshire +78 2 £70,000 +58.97% 12
Wales +13 2 £65,000 +2.52% 7
Midlands +13 2 £53,750 -46.25% 17
East Midlands - 2 £53,750 - 11
East of England +12 1 £65,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 99 (99.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 72 (72.00%) AWS
3 70 (70.00%) DevOps
4 67 (67.00%) Terraform
5 65 (65.00%) Kubernetes
6 61 (61.00%) Python
7 58 (58.00%) Finance
8 47 (47.00%) Java
8 47 (47.00%) Go
9 45 (45.00%) Prometheus
10 40 (40.00%) Hedge funds
11 39 (39.00%) Investment Management
11 39 (39.00%) JavaScript
11 39 (39.00%) Asset Management
12 38 (38.00%) Clustering
13 37 (37.00%) Dremio
14 36 (36.00%) dbt
14 36 (36.00%) Snowflake
14 36 (36.00%) Data Lake
14 36 (36.00%) gRPC
14 36 (36.00%) Apache Airflow
14 36 (36.00%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (36.00%) Protocol Buffers
14 36 (36.00%) Big Data
14 36 (36.00%) Apache Arrow
15 31 (31.00%) CI/CD
16 28 (28.00%) Azure
17 24 (24.00%) Linux
18 22 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
19 21 (21.00%) Docker

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 36 (36.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.00%) nginx
3 2 (2.00%) Apache
3 2 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 72 (72.00%) AWS
2 36 (36.00%) dbt
2 36 (36.00%) Snowflake
3 28 (28.00%) Azure
4 15 (15.00%) GCP
5 13 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 9 (9.00%) Serverless
8 7 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (7.00%) Azure Storage
9 6 (6.00%) Azure App Service
9 6 (6.00%) Azure Functions
10 5 (5.00%) IaaS
10 5 (5.00%) PaaS
11 4 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.00%) GitHub
11 4 (4.00%) SaaS
12 3 (3.00%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (3.00%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) DNS
2 3 (3.00%) Firewall
3 2 (2.00%) BGP
3 2 (2.00%) DKIM
3 2 (2.00%) DMARC
3 2 (2.00%) Network Security
3 2 (2.00%) SMTP
4 1 (1.00%) Anycast
4 1 (1.00%) DHCP
4 1 (1.00%) HTTP
4 1 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.00%) SSL
4 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (37.00%) Dremio
2 36 (36.00%) Amazon Athena
2 36 (36.00%) Apache Arrow
2 36 (36.00%) Big Data
2 36 (36.00%) Data Lake
3 6 (6.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.00%) MySQL
4 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.00%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.00%) Redis
7 1 (1.00%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (19.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.00%) Git
3 6 (6.00%) GitLab
4 3 (3.00%) CircleCI
4 3 (3.00%) git-flow
4 3 (3.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.00%) JIRA
5 2 (2.00%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (58.00%) Finance
2 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.00%) Banking
4 3 (3.00%) Law
5 2 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Electronics
6 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (36.00%) gRPC
1 36 (36.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 9 (9.00%) ARM Templates
3 4 (4.00%) .NET
4 3 (3.00%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (3.00%) REST
5 2 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.00%) Kafka
5 2 (2.00%) LAMP
5 2 (2.00%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (1.00%) Node.js
6 1 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (40.00%) Hedge funds
2 38 (38.00%) Clustering
3 5 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.00%) Replication
5 3 (3.00%) Blockchain
5 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.00%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.00%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.00%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.00%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.00%) Linux
2 10 (10.00%) Windows
3 8 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.00%) Unix
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.00%) Solaris
6 1 (1.00%) CentOS
6 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (99.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 70 (70.00%) DevOps
3 39 (39.00%) Asset Management
3 39 (39.00%) Investment Management
4 31 (31.00%) CI/CD
5 22 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (11.00%) Containerisation
6 11 (11.00%) Incident Management
6 11 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (11.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (8.00%) Agile
7 8 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 8 (8.00%) Software Engineering
8 7 (7.00%) Analytics
8 7 (7.00%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (7.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (7.00%) Fintech
8 7 (7.00%) Observability
8 7 (7.00%) Service-Level Objective
8 7 (7.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (61.00%) Python
2 47 (47.00%) Go
2 47 (47.00%) Java
3 39 (39.00%) JavaScript
4 11 (11.00%) Bash
4 11 (11.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.00%) C#
5 5 (5.00%) SQL
6 3 (3.00%) Bicep
6 3 (3.00%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.00%) C++
7 1 (1.00%) Groovy
7 1 (1.00%) Perl
7 1 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (9.00%) Degree
2 7 (7.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) SLA
2 3 (3.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (21.00%) Docker
2 6 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.00%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 67 (67.00%) Terraform
2 65 (65.00%) Kubernetes
3 45 (45.00%) Prometheus
4 16 (16.00%) Ansible
5 8 (8.00%) Grafana
6 7 (7.00%) Istio
7 3 (3.00%) Salt
8 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.00%) Puppet
8 2 (2.00%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.00%) Kiali
9 1 (1.00%) Kibana
9 1 (1.00%) Packer
9 1 (1.00%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 12 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.00%) Google
3 6 (6.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle
5 2 (2.00%) Serena
5 2 (2.00%) Splunk
5 2 (2.00%) VMware
6 1 (1.00%) Arista
6 1 (1.00%) BMC
6 1 (1.00%) Cisco
6 1 (1.00%) F5
6 1 (1.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.00%) IBM
6 1 (1.00%) Juniper
6 1 (1.00%) McAfee
6 1 (1.00%) New Relic
6 1 (1.00%) Remedy
6 1 (1.00%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.00%) TOWER Software