Systems Engineer Contracts in Surrey

System Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median System Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 52 73
Rank change year-on-year +17 +21 -
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 18 18 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.07% 2.59% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.31% 2.70% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 3
10th Percentile £290 £400 -
25th Percentile £350 £419 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £263
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +90.48% -
75th Percentile £563 - £447
90th Percentile - - £554
South East median daily rate £500 £463 £435
% change year-on-year +8.11% +6.32% +28.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile - £57.92 -
25th Percentile - £61.89 £37.50
Median hourly rate £76.86 £62.55 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.88% +56.38% -
75th Percentile - £64.39 £42.50
90th Percentile - £65.01 -
South East median hourly rate £66.74 £55.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year +20.47% +38.49% -8.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 544 666 849
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 95.69% 97.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 496 596
10th Percentile £231 £200 £185
25th Percentile £388 £325 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £595
90th Percentile £694 £725 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 37 26
10th Percentile £12.34 £19.37 £11.83
25th Percentile £13.25 £42.50 £18.16
Median hourly rate £28.37 £45.00 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year -36.97% +109.64% -48.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.99 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £64.25 £48.13
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.21% +140.40% -18.37%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in Surrey

Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineer in Surrey

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineer in Surrey

Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineer in Surrey

Systems Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 8 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
Redhill -1 9 £525 +5.00% 1
Camberley - 5 - -
Guildford - 2 £350 - 1
Woking - 1 £450 -
Systems Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 Surrey region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (66.67%) Validation
1 12 (66.67%) Verification and Validation
2 11 (61.11%) Degree
2 11 (61.11%) Unix
3 9 (50.00%) Master's Degree
4 8 (44.44%) Systems Engineering
4 8 (44.44%) Windows
5 7 (38.89%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (38.89%) Risk Management
5 7 (38.89%) Finance
5 7 (38.89%) UML
5 7 (38.89%) ITIL
5 7 (38.89%) Requirements Management
5 7 (38.89%) Requirements Analysis
5 7 (38.89%) Marketing
5 7 (38.89%) PCI DSS
5 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (38.89%) Budgeting
5 7 (38.89%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (38.89%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (38.89%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (38.89%) Customer Requirements
5 7 (38.89%) Customer Engagement
5 7 (38.89%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (38.89%) Process Improvement
5 7 (38.89%) Test Strategy
6 5 (27.78%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
7 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
7 4 (22.22%) Linux

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
2 2 (11.11%) NAS
2 2 (11.11%) SAN
2 2 (11.11%) SSL
2 2 (11.11%) VLAN
2 2 (11.11%) VoIP
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.56%) OpenLDAP
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) TestRail
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
1 7 (38.89%) Marketing
1 7 (38.89%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Automotive
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Unix
2 8 (44.44%) Windows
3 4 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Validation
1 12 (66.67%) Verification and Validation
2 8 (44.44%) Systems Engineering
3 7 (38.89%) Budgeting
3 7 (38.89%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (38.89%) Customer Engagement
3 7 (38.89%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (38.89%) ITIL
3 7 (38.89%) Process Improvement
3 7 (38.89%) Requirements Analysis
3 7 (38.89%) Requirements Management
3 7 (38.89%) Risk Management
3 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (38.89%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (38.89%) Test Strategy
3 7 (38.89%) UML
4 2 (11.11%) Change Management
4 2 (11.11%) Project Planning
4 2 (11.11%) Security Management
4 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Degree
2 9 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 7 (38.89%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (11.11%) CCNA
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.11%) HNC
4 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
4 2 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (11.11%) MCSE
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) PCI DSS
2 2 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Firmware
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat