Systems Engineering Contracts in the North West

Systems Engineering
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 155 159
Rank change year-on-year +40 +4 -22
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 24 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.87% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.38% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile - - £485
25th Percentile £539 - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £600 £634
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £614 - £700
90th Percentile £619 - £725
England median daily rate £550 £564 £556
% change year-on-year -2.40% +1.30% +4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 8
10th Percentile £38.39 £43.54 £33.90
25th Percentile £42.65 £52.35 £47.11
Median hourly rate £46.91 £55.25 £85.57
Median % change year-on-year -15.10% -35.43% +91.47%
75th Percentile £52.21 £60.41 £96.23
90th Percentile £71.90 £63.76 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +13.82% -8.89% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,370 2,879 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.37% 90.56% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,513 2,045 2,615
10th Percentile £306 £313 £238
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 142 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.36 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.56 £35.00 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -38.41% +70.82% +10.76%
75th Percentile £45.66 £48.56 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the North West

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in the North West

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in the North West

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineering in the North West

Systems Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cumbria -13 11 - - 7
Cheshire - 7 £577 - 10
Manchester +23 4 - - 5
Lancashire +3 2 - - 14
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) RS-422
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Git
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Project Manager
3 6 (25.00%) Senior
3 6 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
7 1 (4.17%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Software Engineering
2 7 (29.17%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) CRM
2 7 (29.17%) Design Patterns
2 7 (29.17%) Project Management
2 7 (29.17%) Requirements Gathering
2 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (29.17%) Thought Leadership
3 6 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Digital Engineering
4 2 (8.33%) GitOps
4 2 (8.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (8.33%) Visualisation
5 1 (4.17%) ERP
5 1 (4.17%) Information Assurance
5 1 (4.17%) PLM
5 1 (4.17%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) PL/SQL
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) C
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Avaloq
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) SAP