Systems Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

System Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £473 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 245 358
Rank change year-on-year +93 +113 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 294 211 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.44% 0.90% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 0.95% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 93 86
10th Percentile £280 £313 £269
25th Percentile £386 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +11.11% +11.80%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £549
90th Percentile £635 £625 £575
UK median daily rate £467 £513 £483
% change year-on-year -8.88% +6.22% +13.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 66 33
10th Percentile £39.96 £46.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £49.00 £52.50 £17.64
Median hourly rate £59.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +33.33% -2.60%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £70.00 £58.17
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £61.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -6.50% +38.20% -6.32%

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 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £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 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

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 Systems Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 West +43 81 £600 +23.39% 91
South East +23 77 £500 +8.11% 123
East of England +33 47 £350 -24.32% 63
North of England +55 42 £430 -16.10% 65
North West +34 32 - - 40
Scotland +56 25 £450 +9.09% 24
Midlands +24 15 £543 +13.32% 99
West Midlands +18 14 £543 -16.54% 58
Wales +16 7 £425 -29.17% 9
Yorkshire +22 6 £430 +32.31% 19
North East - 4 - - 8
East Midlands +17 1 - - 41
Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (20.41%) Security Cleared
1 60 (20.41%) Systems Engineering
2 50 (17.01%) SC Cleared
3 47 (15.99%) Aerospace
4 39 (13.27%) Validation
4 39 (13.27%) Degree
5 31 (10.54%) Verification and Validation
6 27 (9.18%) Military
7 24 (8.16%) Windows
7 24 (8.16%) Rational DOORS
7 24 (8.16%) Customer Requirements
8 22 (7.48%) Software Engineering
9 21 (7.14%) Azure
9 21 (7.14%) Social Skills
9 21 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (6.80%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 20 (6.80%) MATLAB
11 18 (6.12%) Microsoft
12 17 (5.78%) Agile
12 17 (5.78%) Master's Degree
13 16 (5.44%) Simulink
13 16 (5.44%) Python
14 15 (5.10%) Unix
14 15 (5.10%) Automotive
14 15 (5.10%) DV Cleared
15 14 (4.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 13 (4.42%) Linux
16 13 (4.42%) UML
16 13 (4.42%) SysML
17 12 (4.08%) Risk Management

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.70%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.36%) Confluence
2 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.34%) MTS
3 1 (0.34%) SAS
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 16 (5.44%) Simulink
2 5 (1.70%) Stateflow
2 5 (1.70%) TargetLink
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (7.14%) Azure
2 6 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (1.70%) Entra ID
4 2 (0.68%) AWS
4 2 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (0.68%) IaaS
5 1 (0.34%) Azure Stack
5 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.34%) PaaS
5 1 (0.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.06%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.72%) Firewall
3 5 (1.70%) SAN
4 4 (1.36%) Network Security
4 4 (1.36%) VLAN
4 4 (1.36%) VoIP
4 4 (1.36%) WAAS
5 3 (1.02%) 4G
5 3 (1.02%) 5G
5 3 (1.02%) DHCP
5 3 (1.02%) DNS
5 3 (1.02%) DWDM
5 3 (1.02%) LAN
5 3 (1.02%) VPN
5 3 (1.02%) WAN
5 3 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.68%) Internet
6 2 (0.68%) RS-232
6 2 (0.68%) RS-485
6 2 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.68%) Data Mining
2 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (8.16%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (2.04%) Git
3 5 (1.70%) Bitbucket
3 5 (1.70%) JIRA
3 5 (1.70%) Subversion
4 3 (1.02%) LabVIEW
4 3 (1.02%) TestRail
5 1 (0.34%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (15.99%) Aerospace
2 27 (9.18%) Military
3 21 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 15 (5.10%) Automotive
5 11 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.06%) Electronics
6 9 (3.06%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.72%) Finance
7 8 (2.72%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.72%) Marketing
8 7 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.02%) Aviation
10 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Avionics
11 2 (0.68%) French Language
11 2 (0.68%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Portuguese Language
11 2 (0.68%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.70%) ISPF
2 2 (0.68%) Middleware
3 1 (0.34%) .NET
3 1 (0.34%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.34%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.34%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.34%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.74%) Algorithms
2 10 (3.40%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.06%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.70%) Digital Signage
4 5 (1.70%) Mainframe
4 5 (1.70%) SCADA
5 4 (1.36%) Clustering
5 4 (1.36%) LPAR
5 4 (1.36%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.68%) FPGA
6 2 (0.68%) Life Science
6 2 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.34%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.34%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.16%) Windows
2 15 (5.10%) Unix
3 13 (4.42%) Linux
4 5 (1.70%) zOS
5 4 (1.36%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.68%) Android
7 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.34%) Debian
8 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (20.41%) Systems Engineering
2 39 (13.27%) Validation
3 31 (10.54%) Verification and Validation
4 24 (8.16%) Customer Requirements
5 22 (7.48%) Software Engineering
6 21 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (6.80%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 17 (5.78%) Agile
9 14 (4.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (4.42%) SysML
10 13 (4.42%) UML
11 12 (4.08%) Risk Management
12 11 (3.74%) Customer Engagement
12 11 (3.74%) Functional Testing
12 11 (3.74%) ITIL
12 11 (3.74%) Requirements Management
13 10 (3.40%) Project Management
13 10 (3.40%) Requirements Analysis
13 10 (3.40%) Software Testing
13 10 (3.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (6.80%) MATLAB
2 16 (5.44%) Python
3 11 (3.74%) C
3 11 (3.74%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.70%) JCL
5 4 (1.36%) REXX
6 3 (1.02%) C++
6 3 (1.02%) CLIST
6 3 (1.02%) Java
6 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.02%) SQL
7 2 (0.68%) C#
7 2 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.68%) Rust
8 1 (0.34%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.34%) Bash
8 1 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 60 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.01%) SC Cleared
3 39 (13.27%) Degree
4 17 (5.78%) Master's Degree
5 15 (5.10%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.02%) HNC
9 3 (1.02%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CCNA
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CISSP
10 2 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.68%) MCSE
10 2 (0.68%) PhD
10 2 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.38%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.04%) ISO 26262
3 5 (1.70%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (1.70%) MISRA
3 5 (1.70%) MISRA C
4 3 (1.02%) JSP 440
4 3 (1.02%) QA
5 2 (0.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.34%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.34%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.70%) Firmware
2 5 (1.70%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (1.70%) vSphere
3 4 (1.36%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 4 (1.36%) Microcode
3 4 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.34%) ACF2
6 1 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) RACF
6 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (1.70%) SCCM
2 3 (1.02%) vCenter Server
3 2 (0.68%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.34%) Ansible
4 1 (0.34%) Check_MK
4 1 (0.34%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.34%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (0.34%) SCOM
4 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.40%) VMware
3 8 (2.72%) Sparx
4 6 (2.04%) IBM
5 4 (1.36%) Cisco
6 3 (1.02%) EMC
6 3 (1.02%) Siemens
6 3 (1.02%) Thales
7 2 (0.68%) Apple
7 2 (0.68%) BMC
7 2 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.68%) SAP
7 2 (0.68%) Splunk
8 1 (0.34%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.34%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.34%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle
8 1 (0.34%) Remedy
8 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.34%) SolarWinds