Site Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 418 465
Rank change year-on-year +92 +47 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 59 26 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 19 31
10th Percentile £388 £380 £413
25th Percentile £491 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £634
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +2.52% +111.33%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £699
90th Percentile £591 - £700
UK median daily rate £569 £643 £601
% change year-on-year -11.48% +6.99% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
UK median hourly rate £110.00 £65.25 -
% change year-on-year +68.58% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,772 21,693 29,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.28% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,127 20,437
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,104 1,447
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.07 £14.29
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.85
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Site Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Site Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in the UK excluding London

Site Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Site Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +53 22 £493 +1.13% 14
North of England +33 16 £550 -21.43% 20
South West +18 12 £525 +144.19% 12
Yorkshire +20 9 £558 -20.36% 13
North West +12 7 £550 -21.43% 7
Scotland +43 4 £525 +1.45% 1
West Midlands +22 3 £500 - 3
Midlands +22 3 £500 - 9
East of England +4 1 £600 +1100.00% 8
Wales - 1 £690 - 9
Site Engineer
UK

Site Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Site Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (91.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 33 (55.93%) Kubernetes
3 32 (54.24%) DevOps
4 26 (44.07%) Terraform
5 25 (42.37%) Prometheus
6 24 (40.68%) Containerisation
7 23 (38.98%) Grafana
7 23 (38.98%) Security Cleared
8 21 (35.59%) CI/CD
9 20 (33.90%) OpenShift
9 20 (33.90%) Python
10 19 (32.20%) SC Cleared
10 19 (32.20%) AWS
11 18 (30.51%) Docker
11 18 (30.51%) Task Automation
12 16 (27.12%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (25.42%) GitOps
13 15 (25.42%) Ansible
13 15 (25.42%) ITSM
13 15 (25.42%) Agile
13 15 (25.42%) QA
14 14 (23.73%) Linux
14 14 (23.73%) Cloud Native
15 13 (22.03%) Istio
15 13 (22.03%) Azure
16 12 (20.34%) Bash
16 12 (20.34%) Microservices
16 12 (20.34%) Observability
17 11 (18.64%) Argo
17 11 (18.64%) Incident Response

Site Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.39%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.90%) OpenShift
2 19 (32.20%) AWS
3 13 (22.03%) Azure
4 7 (11.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (11.86%) GitHub
5 6 (10.17%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
5 6 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (10.17%) Serverless
6 5 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (5.08%) GCP
7 3 (5.08%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.39%) Anthos
8 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.39%) Datadog
8 2 (3.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
1 2 (3.39%) IPv4
1 2 (3.39%) NAS
1 2 (3.39%) Network Security
1 2 (3.39%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (3.39%) SAN
2 1 (1.69%) AMQP
2 1 (1.69%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) Elasticsearch
1 11 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (16.95%) SQL Server
3 8 (13.56%) MySQL
4 7 (11.86%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.08%) Data Lake
5 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.39%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.69%) DB2
7 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Jenkins
2 8 (13.56%) SonarQube
3 7 (11.86%) Git
4 6 (10.17%) GitLab
5 5 (8.47%) AppScan
5 5 (8.47%) Burp Suite
6 4 (6.78%) JIRA
6 4 (6.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Retail
3 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Finance
5 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
6 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.64%) Kafka
2 6 (10.17%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.08%) REST
4 2 (3.39%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.69%) .NET
5 1 (1.69%) Node.js
5 1 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.73%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (8.47%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.69%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.69%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.73%) Linux
2 9 (15.25%) Windows
3 6 (10.17%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (91.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 32 (54.24%) DevOps
3 24 (40.68%) Containerisation
4 21 (35.59%) CI/CD
5 18 (30.51%) Task Automation
6 16 (27.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (25.42%) Agile
7 15 (25.42%) GitOps
7 15 (25.42%) ITSM
8 12 (20.34%) Microservices
8 12 (20.34%) Observability
9 11 (18.64%) Incident Response
9 11 (18.64%) Software Engineering
10 10 (16.95%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (15.25%) Change Management
11 9 (15.25%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (13.56%) Data Protection
13 7 (11.86%) Configuration Management
13 7 (11.86%) E-Commerce
13 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.90%) Python
2 12 (20.34%) Bash
3 9 (15.25%) SQL
4 8 (13.56%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.86%) Go
6 5 (8.47%) C#
7 4 (6.78%) F#
7 4 (6.78%) Java
8 3 (5.08%) Perl
8 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.39%) Bicep
9 2 (3.39%) C
10 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (38.98%) Security Cleared
2 19 (32.20%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.17%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) Degree
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.42%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) ISO 22301
2 3 (5.08%) ISO 9001
2 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (30.51%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (55.93%) Kubernetes
2 26 (44.07%) Terraform
3 25 (42.37%) Prometheus
4 23 (38.98%) Grafana
5 15 (25.42%) Ansible
6 13 (22.03%) Istio
7 11 (18.64%) Argo
7 11 (18.64%) Kibana
8 8 (13.56%) HP Fortify
8 8 (13.56%) Progress Chef
9 5 (8.47%) Graylog
9 5 (8.47%) Nessus
9 5 (8.47%) Puppet
9 5 (8.47%) WebInspect
10 2 (3.39%) Kiali
10 2 (3.39%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.69%) Nagios
11 1 (1.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Splunk
2 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) Checkmarx
3 5 (8.47%) Veracode
4 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.39%) Google
5 2 (3.39%) Veritas
5 2 (3.39%) VMware
6 1 (1.69%) BT
6 1 (1.69%) Citrix
6 1 (1.69%) Sybase