Site Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Site Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Site Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 529 522
Rank change year-on-year +164 -7 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 32 63 151
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.19% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.19% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 31 62 142
10th Percentile £63,630 £55,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £64,509 £80,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £88,750 £75,781
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +17.11% -5.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £118,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £143,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £87,500 £76,641
% change year-on-year -20.00% +14.17% -4.20%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Site Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Site Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Site Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Site Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Site Engineer.

Site Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Site Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Site Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Site Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (96.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 23 (71.88%) Terraform
2 23 (71.88%) Python
3 22 (68.75%) AWS
3 22 (68.75%) Observability
4 21 (65.63%) Azure
5 17 (53.13%) Docker
5 17 (53.13%) GCP
6 16 (50.00%) DevOps
7 15 (46.88%) Prometheus
8 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
9 13 (40.63%) Service-Level Objective
9 13 (40.63%) Linux
9 13 (40.63%) Google
10 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
10 12 (37.50%) Grafana
10 12 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
10 12 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (34.38%) Kubernetes
12 10 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (31.25%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
12 10 (31.25%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (31.25%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (28.13%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (28.13%) Performance Monitoring
13 9 (28.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 9 (28.13%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (28.13%) Open Source

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) AWS
2 21 (65.63%) Azure
3 17 (53.13%) GCP
4 10 (31.25%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (28.13%) Amazon ECR
5 9 (28.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 9 (28.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 9 (28.13%) AWS CodeBuild
5 9 (28.13%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (28.13%) dbt
5 9 (28.13%) Pulumi
5 9 (28.13%) Sentry
6 7 (21.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (21.88%) Serverless
7 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Functions
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (9.38%) Datadog
7 3 (9.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (28.13%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (28.13%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (28.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (21.88%) Finance
4 5 (15.63%) Games
5 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (9.38%) Law
7 2 (6.25%) Banking
8 1 (3.13%) Electronics
8 1 (3.13%) Local Government
8 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (3.13%) Marketing
8 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) Django
2 5 (15.63%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (9.38%) ARM Templates
3 3 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (6.25%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (40.63%) Linux
2 9 (28.13%) Unix
3 4 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (96.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 22 (68.75%) Observability
3 16 (50.00%) DevOps
4 13 (40.63%) Service-Level Objective
5 12 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (28.13%) Application Performance Monitoring
7 9 (28.13%) Clean Code
7 9 (28.13%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (28.13%) Open Source
7 9 (28.13%) Performance Monitoring
7 9 (28.13%) Prototyping
8 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (25.00%) Task Automation
9 7 (21.88%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (15.63%) Incident Response
11 4 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
11 4 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) Python
2 9 (28.13%) Bash
3 5 (15.63%) Go
3 5 (15.63%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) Bicep
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (71.88%) Terraform
2 15 (46.88%) Prometheus
3 12 (37.50%) Grafana
4 11 (34.38%) Kubernetes
5 9 (28.13%) AWS Copilot
6 7 (21.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Google
2 3 (9.38%) Dynatrace
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) New Relic
3 1 (3.13%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Splunk