Site Engineer Job Trends in the West Midlands

Site Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Site Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £71,901 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 197 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 3 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.057% 0.048% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.052% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £67,631 - -
25th Percentile £67,828 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,901 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% - -
75th Percentile £77,217 - -
90th Percentile £78,161 - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £69,250
% change year-on-year -6.67% +8.30% -13.44%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 4,749 3,866 3,538
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.84% 93.34% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,747 1,842 2,953
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -5.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Site Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Site Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Site Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

Site Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Birmingham +22 2 £73,801 +5.43% 1
Coventry - 1 £70,000 -
Site Engineer
England

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 14 January 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) Django
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Redis
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) TimescaleDB
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Derivative
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) IT Governance
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft