Systems Engineering Contracts in England

Systems Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 420 569
Rank change year-on-year +108 +149 -62
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 239 246 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.49% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.54% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 105 105
10th Percentile £354 £463 £449
25th Percentile £488 £510 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +6.13%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £655
90th Percentile £713 £683 £790
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £566
% change year-on-year -2.57% -0.31% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 55 25
10th Percentile £46.91 £49.87 £42.22
25th Percentile £57.50 £55.13 £50.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -8.89% +35.00%
75th Percentile £75.16 £66.00 £75.14
90th Percentile £76.86 £81.19 £96.14
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +13.82% -8.89% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineering in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
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 Systems Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +36 61 £525 -4.55% 81
South West -5 56 £575 +2.22% 70
London +83 40 £575 - 39
North of England +53 33 £577 -3.92% 44
East of England +29 33 £379 -26.10% 44
North West +36 24 £577 -3.92% 35
Midlands +22 15 £550 +2.33% 59
West Midlands +24 10 £550 - 39
North East - 10 - - 3
East Midlands +21 5 £563 +7.14% 20
Yorkshire +23 1 - - 6
Systems Engineering
UK

Systems Engineering
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 3 (1.26%) Apache
1 3 (1.26%) Apache Solr
2 2 (0.84%) Confluence
2 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.09%) Simulink
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.42%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 11 (4.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (2.93%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.67%) Primavera
4 2 (0.84%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.53%) AWS
2 17 (7.11%) Azure
3 7 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.26%) Akamai
6 2 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.84%) Asana
6 2 (0.84%) IaaS
6 2 (0.84%) Miro
6 2 (0.84%) PaaS
6 2 (0.84%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.84%) SaaS
6 2 (0.84%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.42%) Serverless
7 1 (0.42%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.28%) Ethernet
2 12 (5.02%) DNS
3 11 (4.60%) DHCP
4 8 (3.35%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.93%) 4G
5 7 (2.93%) 5G
6 5 (2.09%) Firewall
6 5 (2.09%) Internet
6 5 (2.09%) Network Security
7 4 (1.67%) VoIP
7 4 (1.67%) WAN
8 2 (0.84%) 3G
8 2 (0.84%) GPRS
9 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.42%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.42%) LAN
9 1 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.42%) SMS
9 1 (0.42%) SNMP
9 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.26%) Hadoop
3 3 (1.26%) MySQL
3 3 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.26%) Redis
4 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.42%) Power BI
4 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (15.90%) Rational DOORS
2 22 (9.21%) JIRA
3 10 (4.18%) Rational Rhapsody
4 8 (3.35%) Git
5 7 (2.93%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.84%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.42%) CMake
8 1 (0.42%) GitLab
8 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 43 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.97%) Electronics
3 25 (10.46%) Finance
4 23 (9.62%) Telecoms
5 18 (7.53%) Aerospace
6 17 (7.11%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.18%) Marketing
7 10 (4.18%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.93%) Military
9 6 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.26%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.26%) Front Office
11 2 (0.84%) Law
11 2 (0.84%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Automotive
12 1 (0.42%) Aviation
12 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Local Government
12 1 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 63 (26.36%) Systems Engineer
2 43 (17.99%) Lead
3 41 (17.15%) Architect
4 34 (14.23%) Senior
5 33 (13.81%) Principal Engineer
6 28 (11.72%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 28 (11.72%) Systems Architect
7 26 (10.88%) Network Architect
8 19 (7.95%) Software Engineer
9 18 (7.53%) Consultant
9 18 (7.53%) Lead Architect
10 16 (6.69%) Integration Engineer
11 14 (5.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 12 (5.02%) Site Engineer
12 12 (5.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (4.60%) Validation Engineer
14 10 (4.18%) Ada Engineer
14 10 (4.18%) Ada Software Engineer
15 9 (3.77%) Embedded Engineer
15 9 (3.77%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.93%) PyTorch
1 7 (2.93%) TensorFlow
2 6 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.67%) Kafka
4 3 (1.26%) LDAP
4 3 (1.26%) Web Services
5 2 (0.84%) Middleware
6 1 (0.42%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.42%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.46%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (6.28%) Analogue Electronics
2 15 (6.28%) Robotics
3 9 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.35%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.09%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.67%) Clustering
8 3 (1.26%) FPGA
8 3 (1.26%) VHDL
9 2 (0.84%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.84%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.84%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.84%) Smart Meter
10 1 (0.42%) GNSS
10 1 (0.42%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.23%) Windows
2 19 (7.95%) Unix
3 18 (7.53%) Linux
4 15 (6.28%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.42%) CentOS
7 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (21.76%) Validation
2 41 (17.15%) Software Engineering
3 37 (15.48%) Requirements Management
3 37 (15.48%) UML
4 33 (13.81%) DevOps
5 29 (12.13%) Verification and Validation
6 27 (11.30%) Customer Requirements
6 27 (11.30%) Network Management
7 25 (10.46%) Agile
8 22 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (8.37%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 19 (7.95%) Project Management
12 18 (7.53%) Strategic Thinking
12 18 (7.53%) SysML
13 17 (7.11%) Design for Manufacturing
14 16 (6.69%) ITIL
15 15 (6.28%) Prototyping
15 15 (6.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 14 (5.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.95%) Java
1 19 (7.95%) Python
2 16 (6.69%) C#
2 16 (6.69%) SQL
3 13 (5.44%) C
4 10 (4.18%) Ada
5 9 (3.77%) MATLAB
6 8 (3.35%) Go
7 7 (2.93%) C++
7 7 (2.93%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.51%) F#
9 3 (1.26%) Ruby
10 2 (0.84%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.42%) Bash
11 1 (0.42%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.42%) Perl
11 1 (0.42%) Scala
11 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (37.66%) Security Cleared
2 75 (31.38%) SC Cleared
3 64 (26.78%) Degree
4 17 (7.11%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.35%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (3.35%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.67%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.42%) HNC
9 1 (0.42%) HND
9 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.42%) PMP
9 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.44%) QA
2 8 (3.35%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.93%) NIST
4 6 (2.51%) NCSC
5 5 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 4 (1.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.42%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.42%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 9 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (3.35%) Firmware
3 7 (2.93%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (2.93%) VMware NSX
4 5 (2.09%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.84%) Docker
6 2 (0.84%) vSphere
7 1 (0.42%) NFS
7 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (5.02%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.18%) SCCM
3 7 (2.93%) vCenter Server
4 5 (2.09%) Ansible
4 5 (2.09%) Opsgenie
4 5 (2.09%) Terraform
5 3 (1.26%) Grafana
5 3 (1.26%) IBM BigFix
5 3 (1.26%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.26%) Puppet
5 3 (1.26%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.84%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.42%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.42%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.42%) Kibana
7 1 (0.42%) logstash
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (5.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.02%) VMware
3 11 (4.60%) IBM
3 11 (4.60%) Sparx
4 9 (3.77%) SAP
5 8 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.93%) Adobe
6 7 (2.93%) Avaloq
6 7 (2.93%) New Relic
6 7 (2.93%) PagerDuty
6 7 (2.93%) Splunk
6 7 (2.93%) Veeam
7 6 (2.51%) Oracle
8 5 (2.09%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.09%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.26%) EMC
9 3 (1.26%) Remedy
9 3 (1.26%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.84%) Siemens