Site Engineer Contracts

Site Engineer
UK

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the UK is £574, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 457 562 669
Rank change year-on-year +105 +107 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 128 135 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 116 127
10th Percentile £455 £486 £431
25th Percentile £500 £550 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £643 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.70% +7.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £710 £713 £700
90th Percentile £850 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -0.95% -16.00% +38.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £65.08 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £65.19 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £67.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.36% - -
75th Percentile £130.00 £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Site Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Site Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +76 117 £574 -11.73% 82
UK excluding London +58 61 £520 -0.95% 58
London +48 58 £710 +9.23% 30
Work from Home +120 51 £710 +18.33% 28
South East +38 27 £493 -1.40% 8
North of England +17 15 £550 -18.52% 15
South West +13 12 £525 +144.19% 15
Yorkshire +20 9 £558 -17.41% 7
North West +6 6 £550 -18.52% 8
Scotland +51 4 £538 +3.86% 7
Wales +21 1 £690 +263.16% 3
West Midlands +13 1 £500 - 1
Midlands +10 1 £500 - 6
East of England +5 1 £600 +1100.00% 4

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 120 (93.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 85 (66.41%) DevOps
2 85 (66.41%) Kubernetes
3 67 (52.34%) Python
4 65 (50.78%) Terraform
4 65 (50.78%) Prometheus
5 56 (43.75%) AWS
6 48 (37.50%) Java
7 46 (35.94%) Go
8 43 (33.59%) Grafana
9 40 (31.25%) Linux
10 36 (28.13%) CI/CD
11 35 (27.34%) Containerisation
11 35 (27.34%) Task Automation
11 35 (27.34%) Social Skills
12 32 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (25.00%) Docker
13 31 (24.22%) Microservices
13 31 (24.22%) Agile
14 30 (23.44%) Security Cleared
15 27 (21.09%) Microsoft
15 27 (21.09%) Kafka
16 26 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (20.31%) Finance
17 25 (19.53%) OpenShift
18 24 (18.75%) Jenkins
18 24 (18.75%) Cloud Native
18 24 (18.75%) SC Cleared
18 24 (18.75%) QA
19 23 (17.97%) Azure

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 18 (14.06%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.13%) nginx
3 2 (1.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 56 (43.75%) AWS
2 25 (19.53%) OpenShift
3 23 (17.97%) Azure
4 22 (17.19%) Snowflake
5 18 (14.06%) dbt
6 13 (10.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (7.81%) GCP
8 9 (7.03%) GitHub
9 8 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (6.25%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.47%) Serverless
11 4 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.13%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.34%) Amazon ELB
12 3 (2.34%) Anthos
12 3 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.34%) Network Security
2 2 (1.56%) AMQP
2 2 (1.56%) Firewall
2 2 (1.56%) IPv4
2 2 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.78%) DHCP
3 1 (0.78%) DNS
3 1 (0.78%) Internet
3 1 (0.78%) MPLS
3 1 (0.78%) NAS
3 1 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.41%) Data Lake
2 18 (14.06%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (14.06%) Apache Arrow
2 18 (14.06%) Big Data
2 18 (14.06%) Dremio
3 17 (13.28%) SQL Server
4 14 (10.94%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (9.38%) MongoDB
6 11 (8.59%) MySQL
6 11 (8.59%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.13%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.34%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.34%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.34%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.78%) DB2
Development Applications
1 24 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.16%) GitLab
3 11 (8.59%) Git
4 9 (7.03%) SonarQube
5 8 (6.25%) JIRA
5 8 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (4.69%) AppScan
6 6 (4.69%) Burp Suite
7 5 (3.91%) Subversion
8 1 (0.78%) Robot Framework
General
1 35 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.31%) Finance
3 22 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.91%) Retail
5 3 (2.34%) Banking
6 2 (1.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.78%) Legal
7 1 (0.78%) Military
7 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.09%) Kafka
2 18 (14.06%) gRPC
2 18 (14.06%) Protocol Buffers
3 15 (11.72%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (10.16%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (9.38%) RESTful
6 3 (2.34%) .NET
7 2 (1.56%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.78%) Node.js
8 1 (0.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.84%) Hedge funds
3 18 (14.06%) Clustering
3 18 (14.06%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (9.38%) Algorithms
4 12 (9.38%) Data Structures
5 8 (6.25%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.91%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.78%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (31.25%) Linux
2 18 (14.06%) Windows
3 13 (10.16%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (93.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 85 (66.41%) DevOps
3 36 (28.13%) CI/CD
4 35 (27.34%) Containerisation
4 35 (27.34%) Task Automation
5 32 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (24.22%) Agile
6 31 (24.22%) Microservices
7 26 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (15.63%) ITSM
9 19 (14.84%) Asset Management
9 19 (14.84%) GitOps
9 19 (14.84%) Investment Management
10 18 (14.06%) Incident Response
11 17 (13.28%) Software Engineering
12 16 (12.50%) Observability
13 15 (11.72%) Change Management
13 15 (11.72%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (10.16%) Configuration Management
15 12 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 67 (52.34%) Python
2 48 (37.50%) Java
3 46 (35.94%) Go
4 20 (15.63%) Bash
5 19 (14.84%) JavaScript
6 18 (14.06%) SQL
7 17 (13.28%) Shell Script
8 15 (11.72%) PowerShell
9 10 (7.81%) C#
9 10 (7.81%) C++
10 9 (7.03%) F#
11 4 (3.13%) Bicep
12 1 (0.78%) C
12 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.78%) Perl
12 1 (0.78%) Ruby
12 1 (0.78%) Scala
12 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.25%) Degree
4 6 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.56%) SANS
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.75%) QA
2 3 (2.34%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.34%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.34%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (25.00%) Docker
2 11 (8.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.78%) vCloud
4 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (66.41%) Kubernetes
2 65 (50.78%) Prometheus
2 65 (50.78%) Terraform
3 43 (33.59%) Grafana
4 18 (14.06%) Ansible
5 17 (13.28%) Istio
6 14 (10.94%) Argo
6 14 (10.94%) Kibana
7 13 (10.16%) Progress Chef
8 11 (8.59%) Consul
8 11 (8.59%) Puppet
9 9 (7.03%) HP Fortify
10 8 (6.25%) Graylog
11 6 (4.69%) Nessus
11 6 (4.69%) WebInspect
12 5 (3.91%) Opsgenie
13 4 (3.13%) Nagios
14 2 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (1.56%) Kiali
15 1 (0.78%) systemd
Vendors
1 27 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.19%) Splunk
3 11 (8.59%) SaltStack
4 7 (5.47%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.69%) Checkmarx
5 6 (4.69%) Dynatrace
5 6 (4.69%) New Relic
5 6 (4.69%) Veracode
6 5 (3.91%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.91%) VMware
7 4 (3.13%) Adobe
7 4 (3.13%) SAP
8 2 (1.56%) Google
9 1 (0.78%) BT
9 1 (0.78%) Databricks
9 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.78%) Sybase
9 1 (0.78%) Veritas