Site Engineer Contracts

Site Engineer
UK

The median Site Engineer daily rate in the UK is £569 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 443 548 651
Rank change year-on-year +105 +103 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Site Engineer 128 139 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 116 137
10th Percentile £455 £500 £443
25th Percentile £500 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £643 £601
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% +6.99% +9.18%
75th Percentile £703 £703 £700
90th Percentile £850 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £650 £634
% change year-on-year -19.23% +2.52% +111.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £65.03 -
25th Percentile £90.00 £65.06 -
Median hourly rate £110.00 £65.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.58% - -
75th Percentile £130.00 £65.56 -
90th Percentile - £65.68 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 18 May 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 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
England +92 115 £573 -11.92% 100
UK excluding London +92 59 £525 -19.23% 70
London +55 58 £705 +8.46% 42
Work from Home +103 47 £705 +17.50% 34
South East +53 22 £493 +1.13% 15
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 - 8

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

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 featuring Site Engineer in the job title.

1 122 (95.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 79 (61.72%) DevOps
2 79 (61.72%) Kubernetes
3 71 (55.47%) Python
4 65 (50.78%) Terraform
5 63 (49.22%) Prometheus
6 58 (45.31%) AWS
7 44 (34.38%) Go
8 43 (33.59%) Grafana
9 42 (32.81%) Java
10 41 (32.03%) Linux
10 41 (32.03%) CI/CD
11 33 (25.78%) Social Skills
12 30 (23.44%) Containerisation
12 30 (23.44%) Docker
13 29 (22.66%) Task Automation
13 29 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (21.09%) Microsoft
15 26 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
15 26 (20.31%) Kafka
16 25 (19.53%) Microservices
17 24 (18.75%) Jenkins
17 24 (18.75%) Finance
17 24 (18.75%) Agile
17 24 (18.75%) QA
18 23 (17.97%) Security Cleared
18 23 (17.97%) Ansible
19 22 (17.19%) Splunk
19 22 (17.19%) Azure
20 20 (15.63%) Bash

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 16 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.13%) nginx
3 3 (2.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 58 (45.31%) AWS
2 22 (17.19%) Azure
3 20 (15.63%) OpenShift
3 20 (15.63%) Snowflake
4 16 (12.50%) dbt
5 13 (10.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (8.59%) GCP
7 10 (7.81%) GitHub
8 8 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (5.47%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.69%) Serverless
11 5 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.13%) Azure AKS
13 3 (2.34%) Amazon ELB
13 3 (2.34%) Anthos
13 3 (2.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 2 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.56%) DHCP
1 2 (1.56%) DNS
1 2 (1.56%) Firewall
1 2 (1.56%) Internet
1 2 (1.56%) IPv4
1 2 (1.56%) NAS
1 2 (1.56%) Network Security
1 2 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (1.56%) SAN
2 1 (0.78%) AMQP
2 1 (0.78%) Broadband
2 1 (0.78%) MPLS
2 1 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.84%) Data Lake
2 17 (13.28%) SQL Server
3 16 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (12.50%) Apache Arrow
3 16 (12.50%) Big Data
3 16 (12.50%) Dremio
4 13 (10.16%) MongoDB
5 12 (9.38%) MySQL
5 12 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (8.59%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (7.81%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.13%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.13%) RDBMS
9 3 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.34%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.56%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.78%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.78%) DB2
11 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.94%) Git
3 13 (10.16%) GitLab
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 33 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.75%) Finance
3 20 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.47%) Retail
5 2 (1.56%) Banking
5 2 (1.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.78%) Legal
6 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.31%) Kafka
2 16 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (12.50%) gRPC
2 16 (12.50%) Protocol Buffers
3 13 (10.16%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (7.81%) RESTful
5 3 (2.34%) .NET
5 3 (2.34%) REST
6 2 (1.56%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.78%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (0.78%) LDAP
7 1 (0.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.84%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (13.28%) Hedge funds
4 16 (12.50%) Clustering
5 10 (7.81%) Algorithms
5 10 (7.81%) Data Structures
5 10 (7.81%) Public Cloud
6 7 (5.47%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.91%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.34%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.56%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.78%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (32.03%) Linux
2 19 (14.84%) Windows
3 14 (10.94%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.47%) Unix
5 1 (0.78%) CentOS
5 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (95.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 79 (61.72%) DevOps
3 41 (32.03%) CI/CD
4 30 (23.44%) Containerisation
5 29 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (22.66%) Task Automation
6 26 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (19.53%) Microservices
8 24 (18.75%) Agile
9 18 (14.06%) Observability
10 17 (13.28%) Asset Management
10 17 (13.28%) Investment Management
11 16 (12.50%) GitOps
12 15 (11.72%) Configuration Management
12 15 (11.72%) ITSM
13 14 (10.94%) Incident Response
14 13 (10.16%) Software Engineering
14 13 (10.16%) Systems Engineering
15 12 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
16 10 (7.81%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 71 (55.47%) Python
2 44 (34.38%) Go
3 42 (32.81%) Java
4 20 (15.63%) Bash
5 18 (14.06%) SQL
6 17 (13.28%) JavaScript
6 17 (13.28%) Shell Script
7 13 (10.16%) PowerShell
8 10 (7.81%) C#
9 9 (7.03%) F#
10 8 (6.25%) C++
11 3 (2.34%) Bicep
11 3 (2.34%) Perl
12 2 (1.56%) C
12 2 (1.56%) Ruby
13 1 (0.78%) Scala
13 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (17.97%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.84%) 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
3 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (23.44%) Docker
2 12 (9.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.78%) vCloud
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (61.72%) Kubernetes
2 65 (50.78%) Terraform
3 63 (49.22%) Prometheus
4 43 (33.59%) Grafana
5 23 (17.97%) Ansible
6 14 (10.94%) Istio
7 13 (10.16%) Kibana
7 13 (10.16%) Progress Chef
8 12 (9.38%) Consul
8 12 (9.38%) Puppet
9 11 (8.59%) Argo
10 9 (7.03%) HP Fortify
11 8 (6.25%) Graylog
12 6 (4.69%) Nessus
12 6 (4.69%) WebInspect
13 5 (3.91%) Opsgenie
14 4 (3.13%) Nagios
15 2 (1.56%) Kiali
15 2 (1.56%) NetBackup
16 1 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 27 (21.09%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.19%) Splunk
3 12 (9.38%) SaltStack
4 8 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 8 (6.25%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.69%) Checkmarx
5 6 (4.69%) New Relic
5 6 (4.69%) Veracode
6 5 (3.91%) Adobe
6 5 (3.91%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.91%) SAP
6 5 (3.91%) VMware
7 3 (2.34%) Google
8 2 (1.56%) Veritas
9 1 (0.78%) BT
9 1 (0.78%) Citrix
9 1 (0.78%) Databricks
9 1 (0.78%) Sybase