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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 769 716 700
Rank change year-on-year -53 -16 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 126 238 614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.24% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.26% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 116 204 443
10th Percentile £55,625 £42,874 £55,000
25th Percentile £72,188 £57,500 £61,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £118,750 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £143,750 £103,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,750 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.20% -10.71% +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 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +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 23 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 23 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 +10 123 £87,500 +16.67% 115
London +88 91 £112,500 +32.35% 57
Work from Home +5 82 £100,000 +37.93% 38
UK excluding London -51 33 £65,750 +5.20% 97
South East -1 12 £60,000 -22.58% 32
North of England +19 8 £80,000 +67.54% 23
South West -21 8 £70,000 +7.69% 8
North West -8 5 £80,000 +33.33% 10
Yorkshire +71 3 £80,000 +81.68% 13
Midlands -12 3 £52,500 -47.50% 8
East Midlands - 3 £52,500 - 5
Wales +8 1 £55,000 -13.25% 11
East of England -4 1 £50,000 -23.08% 10

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 125 (99.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 94 (74.60%) AWS
3 93 (73.81%) DevOps
4 87 (69.05%) Terraform
5 85 (67.46%) Kubernetes
6 83 (65.87%) Python
7 78 (61.90%) Finance
8 66 (52.38%) Java
9 65 (51.59%) Go
9 65 (51.59%) Prometheus
10 58 (46.03%) JavaScript
10 58 (46.03%) Hedge funds
11 57 (45.24%) Asset Management
11 57 (45.24%) Investment Management
12 56 (44.44%) Clustering
13 55 (43.65%) Dremio
14 54 (42.86%) dbt
14 54 (42.86%) Snowflake
14 54 (42.86%) Apache Arrow
14 54 (42.86%) Big Data
14 54 (42.86%) Protocol Buffers
14 54 (42.86%) Data Lake
14 54 (42.86%) gRPC
14 54 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
14 54 (42.86%) Amazon Athena
15 32 (25.40%) Azure
15 32 (25.40%) CI/CD
16 24 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
17 23 (18.25%) Linux
18 21 (16.67%) 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 54 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.38%) nginx
3 2 (1.59%) Apache
3 2 (1.59%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 94 (74.60%) AWS
2 54 (42.86%) dbt
2 54 (42.86%) Snowflake
3 32 (25.40%) Azure
4 17 (13.49%) GCP
5 16 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (9.52%) Azure AKS
7 9 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (7.14%) Serverless
8 8 (6.35%) Azure Storage
8 8 (6.35%) IaaS
8 8 (6.35%) PaaS
9 6 (4.76%) Azure App Service
9 6 (4.76%) Azure Functions
9 6 (4.76%) SaaS
10 4 (3.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (3.17%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (3.17%) GitHub
11 3 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.17%) DNS
2 2 (1.59%) DKIM
2 2 (1.59%) DMARC
2 2 (1.59%) Firewall
2 2 (1.59%) Network Security
2 2 (1.59%) SMTP
3 1 (0.79%) Anycast
3 1 (0.79%) BGP
3 1 (0.79%) DHCP
3 1 (0.79%) HTTP
3 1 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (43.65%) Dremio
2 54 (42.86%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (42.86%) Apache Arrow
2 54 (42.86%) Big Data
2 54 (42.86%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.38%) MySQL
4 3 (2.38%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.59%) Redis
6 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.79%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.79%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 19 (15.08%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.52%) Git
3 6 (4.76%) GitLab
4 4 (3.17%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.38%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.38%) git-flow
6 2 (1.59%) JIRA
6 2 (1.59%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 78 (61.90%) Finance
2 18 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (3.17%) Banking
3 4 (3.17%) Law
4 3 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.79%) Electronics
5 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (42.86%) gRPC
1 54 (42.86%) Protocol Buffers
2 11 (8.73%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.17%) .NET
3 4 (3.17%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.38%) Node.js
4 3 (2.38%) REST
5 2 (1.59%) JSON
5 2 (1.59%) Kafka
5 2 (1.59%) LAMP
5 2 (1.59%) LEMP Stack
6 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (46.03%) Hedge funds
2 56 (44.44%) Clustering
3 5 (3.97%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.17%) Replication
5 3 (2.38%) Blockchain
5 3 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.38%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.79%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.79%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (18.25%) Linux
2 10 (7.94%) Windows
3 8 (6.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.38%) Unix
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.59%) Solaris
6 1 (0.79%) CentOS
6 1 (0.79%) VMS
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (99.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 93 (73.81%) DevOps
3 57 (45.24%) Asset Management
3 57 (45.24%) Investment Management
4 32 (25.40%) CI/CD
5 24 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (9.52%) Containerisation
7 12 (9.52%) Observability
8 11 (8.73%) Agile
8 11 (8.73%) Incident Management
8 11 (8.73%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (7.94%) Mentoring
10 9 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (7.14%) Software Engineering
11 8 (6.35%) Analytics
11 8 (6.35%) Fintech
11 8 (6.35%) Log Analytics
11 8 (6.35%) Service-Level Objective
12 7 (5.56%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 83 (65.87%) Python
2 66 (52.38%) Java
3 65 (51.59%) Go
4 58 (46.03%) JavaScript
5 12 (9.52%) Bash
5 12 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.56%) SQL
7 5 (3.97%) Bicep
7 5 (3.97%) C#
8 3 (2.38%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (2.38%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.38%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.79%) C++
9 1 (0.79%) Groovy
9 1 (0.79%) Perl
9 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (7.94%) Degree
2 8 (6.35%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.17%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.59%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.76%) SLA
2 3 (2.38%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.59%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (16.67%) Docker
2 6 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.79%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 87 (69.05%) Terraform
2 85 (67.46%) Kubernetes
3 65 (51.59%) Prometheus
4 15 (11.90%) Ansible
5 10 (7.94%) Grafana
6 8 (6.35%) Istio
7 3 (2.38%) Salt
8 2 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.59%) Puppet
8 2 (1.59%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.79%) Kiali
9 1 (0.79%) Kibana
9 1 (0.79%) Packer
9 1 (0.79%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 14 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.56%) Google
3 6 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 6 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.97%) Splunk
5 2 (1.59%) BMC
5 2 (1.59%) New Relic
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle
5 2 (1.59%) Remedy
5 2 (1.59%) Serena
5 2 (1.59%) VMware
6 1 (0.79%) Arista
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco
6 1 (0.79%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.79%) IBM
6 1 (0.79%) Juniper
6 1 (0.79%) McAfee
6 1 (0.79%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.79%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.79%) TOWER Software