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 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 776 736 697
Rank change year-on-year -40 -39 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 119 242 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.24% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.27% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 109 208 436
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,874 £56,648
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £61,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,391 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% -5.76% +18.52%
75th Percentile £118,750 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £103,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £63,150 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.99% -9.79% +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 93,908 91,208 153,609
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.47% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,161 57,434 84,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

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 15 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 15 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 -28 115 £87,500 +12.90% 90
London +84 85 £112,500 +32.35% 38
Work from Home -4 76 £97,750 +28.99% 36
UK excluding London -90 32 £60,000 -4.99% 63
South East -8 11 £60,000 -22.58% 10
South West -31 8 £70,000 +7.69% 13
North of England +22 7 £75,000 +68.48% 16
North West -3 5 £75,000 +30.43% 7
Midlands -8 3 £52,500 -47.50% 12
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 - 8
Yorkshire +78 2 £70,000 +58.97% 9
Wales +11 2 £65,000 +2.52% 7
East of England -7 1 £50,000 -23.08% 6

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 118 (99.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 88 (73.95%) AWS
3 87 (73.11%) DevOps
4 80 (67.23%) Terraform
5 79 (66.39%) Kubernetes
6 76 (63.87%) Python
7 72 (60.50%) Finance
8 60 (50.42%) Java
9 59 (49.58%) Go
10 58 (48.74%) Prometheus
11 52 (43.70%) JavaScript
11 52 (43.70%) Hedge funds
12 51 (42.86%) Asset Management
12 51 (42.86%) Investment Management
13 50 (42.02%) Clustering
14 49 (41.18%) Dremio
15 48 (40.34%) dbt
15 48 (40.34%) Snowflake
15 48 (40.34%) Apache Arrow
15 48 (40.34%) Protocol Buffers
15 48 (40.34%) Big Data
15 48 (40.34%) Data Lake
15 48 (40.34%) Amazon Athena
15 48 (40.34%) gRPC
15 48 (40.34%) Apache Airflow
16 33 (27.73%) CI/CD
17 31 (26.05%) Azure
18 24 (20.17%) Infrastructure as Code
19 23 (19.33%) Linux
20 21 (17.65%) 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 48 (40.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.52%) nginx
3 2 (1.68%) Apache
3 2 (1.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.84%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 88 (73.95%) AWS
2 48 (40.34%) dbt
2 48 (40.34%) Snowflake
3 31 (26.05%) Azure
4 16 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (13.45%) GCP
5 12 (10.08%) Azure AKS
6 9 (7.56%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (7.56%) Serverless
7 8 (6.72%) Azure Storage
7 8 (6.72%) IaaS
7 8 (6.72%) PaaS
8 6 (5.04%) Azure App Service
8 6 (5.04%) Azure Functions
8 6 (5.04%) SaaS
9 4 (3.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (3.36%) Azure Pipelines
9 4 (3.36%) GitHub
10 3 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) DNS
2 2 (1.68%) DKIM
2 2 (1.68%) DMARC
2 2 (1.68%) Firewall
2 2 (1.68%) Network Security
2 2 (1.68%) SMTP
3 1 (0.84%) Anycast
3 1 (0.84%) BGP
3 1 (0.84%) DHCP
3 1 (0.84%) HTTP
3 1 (0.84%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.84%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (41.18%) Dremio
2 48 (40.34%) Amazon Athena
2 48 (40.34%) Apache Arrow
2 48 (40.34%) Big Data
2 48 (40.34%) Data Lake
3 6 (5.04%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.04%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.52%) MySQL
4 3 (2.52%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.68%) Redis
6 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.84%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.84%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (15.97%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.08%) Git
3 6 (5.04%) GitLab
4 4 (3.36%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.52%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.52%) git-flow
6 2 (1.68%) JIRA
6 2 (1.68%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 72 (60.50%) Finance
2 18 (15.13%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.36%) Banking
3 4 (3.36%) Law
4 3 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.84%) Electronics
5 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.84%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (40.34%) gRPC
1 48 (40.34%) Protocol Buffers
2 11 (9.24%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.36%) .NET
3 4 (3.36%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.52%) Node.js
4 3 (2.52%) REST
5 2 (1.68%) JSON
5 2 (1.68%) Kafka
5 2 (1.68%) LAMP
5 2 (1.68%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (43.70%) Hedge funds
2 50 (42.02%) Clustering
3 6 (5.04%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.36%) Replication
5 3 (2.52%) Blockchain
5 3 (2.52%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.52%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.52%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.84%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.84%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.84%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.84%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.33%) Linux
2 10 (8.40%) Windows
3 8 (6.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.52%) Unix
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.68%) Solaris
6 1 (0.84%) CentOS
6 1 (0.84%) VMS
6 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (99.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 87 (73.11%) DevOps
3 51 (42.86%) Asset Management
3 51 (42.86%) Investment Management
4 33 (27.73%) CI/CD
5 24 (20.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (10.08%) Containerisation
7 12 (10.08%) Incident Management
8 11 (9.24%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (8.40%) Observability
10 9 (7.56%) Agile
10 9 (7.56%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (7.56%) Mentoring
11 8 (6.72%) Analytics
11 8 (6.72%) Log Analytics
11 8 (6.72%) Service-Level Objective
11 8 (6.72%) Software Engineering
12 7 (5.88%) Fintech
12 7 (5.88%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 76 (63.87%) Python
2 60 (50.42%) Java
3 59 (49.58%) Go
4 52 (43.70%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.08%) Bash
5 12 (10.08%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.88%) SQL
7 5 (4.20%) Bicep
7 5 (4.20%) C#
8 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.52%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.68%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.84%) C++
10 1 (0.84%) Groovy
10 1 (0.84%) Perl
10 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (8.40%) Degree
2 8 (6.72%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.36%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.68%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.04%) SLA
2 3 (2.52%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.68%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.84%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (17.65%) Docker
2 6 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.36%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.84%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 80 (67.23%) Terraform
2 79 (66.39%) Kubernetes
3 58 (48.74%) Prometheus
4 15 (12.61%) Ansible
5 9 (7.56%) Grafana
6 8 (6.72%) Istio
7 3 (2.52%) Salt
8 2 (1.68%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.68%) Puppet
8 2 (1.68%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.84%) Kiali
9 1 (0.84%) Kibana
9 1 (0.84%) Packer
9 1 (0.84%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 14 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.88%) Google
3 6 (5.04%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.04%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.36%) Splunk
5 2 (1.68%) BMC
5 2 (1.68%) New Relic
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle
5 2 (1.68%) Remedy
5 2 (1.68%) Serena
5 2 (1.68%) VMware
6 1 (0.84%) Arista
6 1 (0.84%) Cisco
6 1 (0.84%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.84%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.84%) IBM
6 1 (0.84%) Juniper
6 1 (0.84%) McAfee
6 1 (0.84%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.84%) TOWER Software