Principal Systems Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Principal Systems Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

As of 2 May 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Principal Systems Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 446 517
Rank change year-on-year +103 +71 -81
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Systems Engineer 55 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.038% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.040% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £800 -
UK median daily rate - £725 £520
% change year-on-year - +39.42% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 4 2
10th Percentile £50.00 £51.54 £52.57
25th Percentile £56.25 £52.06 £56.33
Median hourly rate £67.27 £60.69 £63.23
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% -4.01% +34.52%
75th Percentile £75.16 £65.00 £69.50
90th Percentile £76.86 - £72.88
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £60.69 £63.23
% change year-on-year +7.93% -4.01% +5.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,163 22,551 29,607
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.20% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,700 15,818 20,751
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,248 1,160 1,483
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Principal Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Principal Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Systems Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Systems Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +42 21 - - 15
South West +36 11 - - 10
East of England - 9 - - 7
Scotland - 6 - -
West Midlands - 5 - - 2
Midlands - 5 - - 5
North of England +34 3 - - 9
North West +21 3 - - 8
Principal Systems Engineer
UK

Principal Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Principal 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 UK excluding London region featuring Principal Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (50.91%) Systems Engineering
2 20 (36.36%) Verification and Validation
2 20 (36.36%) Validation
3 9 (16.36%) MATLAB
3 9 (16.36%) Degree
3 9 (16.36%) Algorithms
4 7 (12.73%) Aerospace
5 5 (9.09%) Automotive
5 5 (9.09%) Agile
5 5 (9.09%) Subversion
5 5 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 5 (9.09%) Software Testing
5 5 (9.09%) Simulink
5 5 (9.09%) Stateflow
5 5 (9.09%) Project Management
5 5 (9.09%) Quality Management
5 5 (9.09%) Management Information System
5 5 (9.09%) C
5 5 (9.09%) UML
5 5 (9.09%) ISO 26262
5 5 (9.09%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 5 (9.09%) MISRA C
5 5 (9.09%) MISRA
5 5 (9.09%) Software Audit
5 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (9.09%) Master's Degree
5 5 (9.09%) Integration Testing
5 5 (9.09%) QMS
5 5 (9.09%) Azure

Principal Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Simulink
1 5 (9.09%) Stateflow
1 5 (9.09%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.09%) Azure
1 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 5 (9.09%) Git
1 5 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 7 (12.73%) Aerospace
2 5 (9.09%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.27%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.91%) Systems Engineering
2 20 (36.36%) Validation
2 20 (36.36%) Verification and Validation
3 5 (9.09%) Agile
3 5 (9.09%) Black-Box Testing
3 5 (9.09%) DevOps
3 5 (9.09%) Functional Testing
3 5 (9.09%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 5 (9.09%) Integration Testing
3 5 (9.09%) Line Management
3 5 (9.09%) Product Backlog
3 5 (9.09%) Project Management
3 5 (9.09%) QMS
3 5 (9.09%) Quality Management
3 5 (9.09%) Requirements Engineering
3 5 (9.09%) Software Engineering
3 5 (9.09%) Software Testing
3 5 (9.09%) Sprint Review
3 5 (9.09%) UML
3 5 (9.09%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.36%) MATLAB
2 5 (9.09%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Degree
2 5 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (9.09%) ISO 26262
1 5 (9.09%) MISRA
1 5 (9.09%) MISRA C