Site Engineer Jobs

Site Engineer
UK

The median Site Engineer salary in the UK is £69,384 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 653 774 701
Rank change year-on-year +121 -73 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Site Engineer 74 134 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58 120 191
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,125 £42,874
25th Percentile £59,033 £78,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £87,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.70% +20.69% -9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £118,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £143,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £63,650
% change year-on-year - +6.05% -9.07%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 50,763 102,595 85,167
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 94.88% 91.22%
Number of salaries quoted 26,743 72,457 55,296
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,524 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +5.94%

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 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Site Engineer in the UK

Site Engineer
Top 15 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 9 June 2025. 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 +109 64 £69,384 -22.91% 188
UK excluding London +185 44 £67,500 - 111
London +56 30 £90,000 -20.00% 105
Work from Home +61 29 £69,384 -29.02% 91
Midlands +102 16 £60,000 +14.29% 12
West Midlands - 16 £60,000 - 10
North of England +64 11 £69,384 -13.27% 30
Scotland +110 9 £65,000 -13.33% 2
North West +4 7 £70,000 -12.50% 23
South East +81 4 £75,000 +25.00% 39
North East - 3 £69,384 - 1
East of England +41 2 - - 4
South West +105 1 £57,500 -14.81% 16
Yorkshire +50 1 £70,000 -15.15% 6
Wales +40 1 £67,626 +22.96% 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2025, 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 72 (97.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 52 (70.27%) Terraform
3 48 (64.86%) AWS
4 47 (63.51%) Prometheus
5 45 (60.81%) Azure
6 43 (58.11%) DevOps
6 43 (58.11%) Grafana
7 42 (56.76%) Kubernetes
8 36 (48.65%) Python
9 33 (44.59%) Observability
10 30 (40.54%) Docker
11 28 (37.84%) CI/CD
11 28 (37.84%) Service-Level Objective
12 27 (36.49%) Social Skills
13 24 (32.43%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (31.08%) GCP
15 22 (29.73%) Linux
15 22 (29.73%) Finance
16 19 (25.68%) .NET
17 18 (24.32%) Elasticsearch
18 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure as Code
19 16 (21.62%) Continuous Delivery
19 16 (21.62%) Loki
20 15 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
20 15 (20.27%) Degree
21 14 (18.92%) Google
21 14 (18.92%) Manufacturing
21 14 (18.92%) C#
21 14 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
22 13 (17.57%) Security Cleared

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 2 (2.70%) nginx
2 1 (1.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.35%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 48 (64.86%) AWS
2 45 (60.81%) Azure
3 24 (32.43%) Amazon ECS
4 23 (31.08%) GCP
5 12 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (13.51%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (13.51%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (12.16%) Amazon ECR
7 9 (12.16%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 9 (12.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 9 (12.16%) AWS CodeBuild
7 9 (12.16%) Datadog
7 9 (12.16%) dbt
7 9 (12.16%) Pulumi
7 9 (12.16%) Sentry
8 8 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (9.46%) Azure AKS
10 4 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (5.41%) Serverless
11 3 (4.05%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.16%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.70%) DNS
2 2 (2.70%) Firewall
2 2 (2.70%) NAS
2 2 (2.70%) Network Security
2 2 (2.70%) SAN
2 2 (2.70%) SNMP
2 2 (2.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.32%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (14.86%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (14.86%) Redis
4 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.35%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.46%) GitLab
3 4 (5.41%) Git
4 2 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.70%) JIRA
4 2 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.70%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.35%) Jaeger
General
1 27 (36.49%) Social Skills
2 22 (29.73%) Finance
3 14 (18.92%) Manufacturing
4 13 (17.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (9.46%) Law
6 6 (8.11%) Marketing
7 5 (6.76%) Banking
8 3 (4.05%) Games
9 2 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.70%) Electronics
9 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.35%) Advertising
10 1 (1.35%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.68%) .NET
2 16 (21.62%) Loki
3 10 (13.51%) OpenTelemetry
4 9 (12.16%) Django
5 4 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (5.41%) REST
6 3 (4.05%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (29.73%) Linux
2 12 (16.22%) Unix
3 9 (12.16%) Windows
4 5 (6.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.41%) Ubuntu
5 4 (5.41%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.70%) CentOS
7 1 (1.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (97.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 43 (58.11%) DevOps
3 33 (44.59%) Observability
4 28 (37.84%) CI/CD
4 28 (37.84%) Service-Level Objective
5 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (21.62%) Continuous Delivery
7 15 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (17.57%) Computer Science
9 13 (17.57%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (17.57%) Incident Response
10 12 (16.22%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (14.86%) Open Source
12 10 (13.51%) Incident Management
13 9 (12.16%) Clean Code
13 9 (12.16%) Containerisation
13 9 (12.16%) Performance Monitoring
13 9 (12.16%) Prototyping
13 9 (12.16%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (48.65%) Python
2 14 (18.92%) C#
3 13 (17.57%) Java
4 12 (16.22%) TypeScript
5 11 (14.86%) Bash
6 8 (10.81%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.11%) Go
8 5 (6.76%) SQL
9 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.41%) Shell Script
10 3 (4.05%) Bicep
11 2 (2.70%) Gremlin
11 2 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (20.27%) Degree
2 13 (17.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (17.57%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.16%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (40.54%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (70.27%) Terraform
2 47 (63.51%) Prometheus
3 43 (58.11%) Grafana
4 42 (56.76%) Kubernetes
5 11 (14.86%) Ansible
6 9 (12.16%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (4.05%) Argo
8 2 (2.70%) HAProxy
8 2 (2.70%) Istio
8 2 (2.70%) Kibana
8 2 (2.70%) linkerd
8 2 (2.70%) logstash
8 2 (2.70%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.35%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (18.92%) Google
2 12 (16.22%) Splunk
3 7 (9.46%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.05%) New Relic
5 3 (4.05%) VMware
6 2 (2.70%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.70%) F5
6 2 (2.70%) Oracle
6 2 (2.70%) SAP
7 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.35%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.35%) Perforce
7 1 (1.35%) Sybase
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