Senior Systems Engineer Contracts in England

Senior System Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior System Engineer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 605 755
Rank change year-on-year +100 +150 -145
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 44 41 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.084% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.088% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 31 12
10th Percentile £425 £400 £276
25th Percentile £488 £500 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +37.31%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £675
90th Percentile - £700 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -4.55% +18.92% +7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 5 6
10th Percentile - - £30.64
25th Percentile £39.96 £54.56 £41.86
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.69 £44.81
Median % change year-on-year -28.77% +48.84% +27.11%
75th Percentile £70.66 £83.75 £50.13
90th Percentile £75.00 - £57.60
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £67.50 £44.81
% change year-on-year -29.63% +50.65% +27.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +24 17 £525 +5.00% 24
South West +23 8 - - 20
North of England +40 7 - - 19
North West +29 7 - - 12
London +80 6 £450 -18.18% 16
East of England - 4 - - 7
Midlands - 2 - - 18
West Midlands - 2 - - 9
Senior Systems Engineer
UK

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior Systems 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 across the England region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (34.09%) Systems Engineering
2 12 (27.27%) Windows
2 12 (27.27%) Degree
3 10 (22.73%) Marketing
3 10 (22.73%) ITIL
3 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 10 (22.73%) Validation
3 10 (22.73%) Verification and Validation
3 10 (22.73%) Master's Degree
4 9 (20.45%) Customer Requirements
4 9 (20.45%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
4 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
5 8 (18.18%) PCI DSS
5 8 (18.18%) Requirements Management
5 8 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
5 8 (18.18%) Customer Engagement
5 8 (18.18%) Rational DOORS
5 8 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 8 (18.18%) Test Strategy
5 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 8 (18.18%) Unix
5 8 (18.18%) UML
5 8 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (18.18%) Budgeting
6 7 (15.91%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (13.64%) Public Sector

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.27%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (4.55%) Azure
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
3 1 (2.27%) GCP
3 1 (2.27%) IaaS
3 1 (2.27%) Mimecast
3 1 (2.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) DNS
1 2 (4.55%) Internet
1 2 (4.55%) RS-485
2 1 (2.27%) 4G
2 1 (2.27%) 5G
2 1 (2.27%) DHCP
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.27%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.27%) LAN
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.27%) SNMP
2 1 (2.27%) VoIP
2 1 (2.27%) VPN
2 1 (2.27%) WAN
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) LabVIEW
2 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (22.73%) Finance
1 10 (22.73%) Marketing
2 9 (20.45%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.09%) Electronics
6 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.55%) Military
8 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.27%) Automotive
8 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.27%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) CSS
1 1 (2.27%) Keycloak
1 1 (2.27%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
1 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (4.55%) FPGA
1 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.27%) Windows
2 8 (18.18%) Unix
3 5 (11.36%) Linux
4 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Systems Engineering
2 10 (22.73%) ITIL
2 10 (22.73%) Validation
2 10 (22.73%) Verification and Validation
3 9 (20.45%) Customer Requirements
4 8 (18.18%) Budgeting
4 8 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (18.18%) Customer Engagement
4 8 (18.18%) Process Improvement
4 8 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
4 8 (18.18%) Requirements Management
4 8 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (18.18%) Test Strategy
4 8 (18.18%) UML
5 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (9.09%) Agile
6 4 (9.09%) Software Engineering
7 3 (6.82%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.82%) Python
2 2 (4.55%) C#
2 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.55%) Rust
3 1 (2.27%) Bash
3 1 (2.27%) Korn
3 1 (2.27%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) Degree
2 10 (22.73%) Master's Degree
3 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
4 8 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (4.55%) PhD
6 1 (2.27%) MCSA
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) vSphere
3 1 (2.27%) NFS
3 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.27%) Nessus
1 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (2.27%) systemd
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) VMware
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) SAP
4 1 (2.27%) Citrix
4 1 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.27%) HP
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.27%) Sparx
4 1 (2.27%) TOWER Software
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