Systems Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Systems Engineering
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Systems Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 159 190
Rank change year-on-year +41 +31 -43
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 7 15 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.32% 0.41% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.45% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £575 -
25th Percentile £638 £594 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +13.04% -20.69%
75th Percentile £788 £675 £625
90th Percentile - - £640
Central London median daily rate £725 £613 £575
% change year-on-year +18.37% +6.52% -20.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Systems Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,975 3,332 3,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.54% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,399 2,240 2,946
10th Percentile £361 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.44% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the City of London

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in the City of London

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in the City of London

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Akamai
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Front Office
3 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Pricing Developer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Java Pricing Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Scala Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Pricing Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Scala Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Strategy Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Hedge funds
1 2 (28.57%) Market Risk
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Information Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Open Source
3 1 (14.29%) Test Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Transition Management
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Ruby
4 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Opsgenie
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe
1 2 (28.57%) New Relic
1 2 (28.57%) PagerDuty
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk