Systems Engineering Contracts

Systems Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 457 602
Rank change year-on-year +98 +145 -78
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 250 274 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.46% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.51% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 118 132
10th Percentile £362 £463 £442
25th Percentile £488 £511 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +0.40% +2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £613 £634
90th Percentile £703 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £565 £560
% change year-on-year -2.57% +0.80% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 62 24
10th Percentile £46.91 £47.50 £41.98
25th Percentile £56.88 £53.51 £50.01
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 £76.42
90th Percentile £76.86 £79.87 £96.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +13.82% -8.89% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +110 237 £550 -2.40% 323
UK excluding London +77 204 £550 -2.57% 309
Work from Home +95 67 £525 -9.33% 145
South East +41 61 £525 -8.70% 82
South West -6 54 £575 +3.37% 69
London +77 40 £575 - 36
North of England +54 33 £577 -3.92% 43
East of England +37 33 £379 -26.10% 44
North West +29 24 £577 -3.92% 35
Midlands +18 15 £550 +2.33% 57
West Midlands +23 10 £550 - 37
North East - 10 - - 2
Scotland +36 9 £590 +32.47% 26
East Midlands +20 5 £563 +7.14% 20
Yorkshire +20 1 - - 6

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.20%) Apache
1 3 (1.20%) Apache Solr
2 2 (0.80%) Confluence
2 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Simulink
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.40%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 11 (4.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (2.80%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.60%) Primavera
4 2 (0.80%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.20%) AWS
2 17 (6.80%) Azure
3 7 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.20%) Akamai
6 2 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.80%) Asana
6 2 (0.80%) IaaS
6 2 (0.80%) Miro
6 2 (0.80%) PaaS
6 2 (0.80%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.80%) SaaS
6 2 (0.80%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.40%) Serverless
7 1 (0.40%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.00%) Ethernet
2 12 (4.80%) DNS
3 11 (4.40%) DHCP
4 8 (3.20%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.80%) 4G
5 7 (2.80%) 5G
6 6 (2.40%) Network Security
7 5 (2.00%) Firewall
7 5 (2.00%) Internet
8 4 (1.60%) VoIP
8 4 (1.60%) WAN
9 2 (0.80%) 3G
9 2 (0.80%) GPRS
10 1 (0.40%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.40%) LAN
10 1 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
10 1 (0.40%) SCCP
10 1 (0.40%) SMS
10 1 (0.40%) SNMP
10 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.80%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.20%) Hadoop
3 3 (1.20%) MySQL
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.20%) Redis
4 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.40%) Power BI
4 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (15.20%) Rational DOORS
2 24 (9.60%) JIRA
3 10 (4.00%) Rational Rhapsody
4 9 (3.60%) Git
5 8 (3.20%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.40%) CMake
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 44 (17.60%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.40%) Electronics
3 26 (10.40%) Finance
4 24 (9.60%) Aerospace
5 21 (8.40%) Telecoms
6 19 (7.60%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.00%) Marketing
7 10 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.20%) Military
9 6 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Front Office
11 3 (1.20%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Automotive
12 2 (0.80%) Police
12 2 (0.80%) Retail
13 1 (0.40%) Aviation
13 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 70 (28.00%) Systems Engineer
2 41 (16.40%) Lead
3 39 (15.60%) Architect
4 35 (14.00%) Senior
5 33 (13.20%) Principal Engineer
6 28 (11.20%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 26 (10.40%) Systems Architect
8 24 (9.60%) Network Architect
9 19 (7.60%) Software Engineer
10 18 (7.20%) Consultant
11 16 (6.40%) Integration Engineer
11 16 (6.40%) Lead Architect
12 14 (5.60%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 13 (5.20%) Site Engineer
13 13 (5.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (4.40%) Validation Engineer
15 10 (4.00%) Ada Engineer
15 10 (4.00%) Ada Software Engineer
15 10 (4.00%) Project Manager
16 9 (3.60%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.80%) PyTorch
1 7 (2.80%) TensorFlow
2 6 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.60%) Kafka
4 3 (1.20%) LDAP
4 3 (1.20%) Web Services
5 2 (0.80%) Middleware
6 1 (0.40%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.40%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.20%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (6.00%) Analogue Electronics
2 15 (6.00%) Robotics
3 11 (4.40%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.60%) Clustering
8 3 (1.20%) FPGA
8 3 (1.20%) VHDL
9 2 (0.80%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.80%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.80%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.80%) Smart Meter
10 1 (0.40%) GNSS
10 1 (0.40%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.00%) Windows
2 19 (7.60%) Linux
2 19 (7.60%) Unix
3 15 (6.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (21.20%) Validation
2 41 (16.40%) Software Engineering
3 37 (14.80%) Requirements Management
3 37 (14.80%) UML
4 34 (13.60%) DevOps
5 30 (12.00%) Verification and Validation
6 27 (10.80%) Agile
6 27 (10.80%) Customer Requirements
7 25 (10.00%) Network Management
8 24 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (8.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 20 (8.00%) Project Management
11 18 (7.20%) SysML
12 17 (6.80%) Design for Manufacturing
13 16 (6.40%) ITIL
13 16 (6.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 16 (6.40%) Strategic Thinking
14 15 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence
14 15 (6.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.00%) Python
2 19 (7.60%) Java
3 17 (6.80%) C#
3 17 (6.80%) SQL
4 13 (5.20%) C
5 10 (4.00%) Ada
6 9 (3.60%) MATLAB
7 8 (3.20%) Go
8 7 (2.80%) C++
8 7 (2.80%) F#
8 7 (2.80%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.20%) Ruby
10 2 (0.80%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.40%) Bash
11 1 (0.40%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.40%) Perl
11 1 (0.40%) Scala
11 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 94 (37.60%) Security Cleared
2 79 (31.60%) SC Cleared
3 63 (25.20%) Degree
4 17 (6.80%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (3.20%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.60%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (0.80%) CISSP
7 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.40%) CLAS
8 1 (0.40%) HNC
8 1 (0.40%) HND
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.40%) PMP
8 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.00%) QA
2 8 (3.20%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.80%) NIST
4 6 (2.40%) NCSC
5 5 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 4 (1.60%) SLA
7 2 (0.80%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.40%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.40%) HAZOP
System Software
1 9 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (3.20%) Firmware
3 7 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (2.80%) VMware NSX
4 5 (2.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.80%) Docker
6 2 (0.80%) vSphere
7 1 (0.40%) NFS
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.00%) SCCM
3 7 (2.80%) vCenter Server
4 5 (2.00%) Ansible
4 5 (2.00%) Opsgenie
4 5 (2.00%) Terraform
5 3 (1.20%) Grafana
5 3 (1.20%) IBM BigFix
5 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.20%) Puppet
5 3 (1.20%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.80%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.80%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.40%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.40%) Kibana
7 1 (0.40%) logstash
7 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (5.20%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.80%) VMware
3 11 (4.40%) IBM
3 11 (4.40%) Sparx
4 9 (3.60%) SAP
5 8 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.80%) Adobe
6 7 (2.80%) Avaloq
6 7 (2.80%) New Relic
6 7 (2.80%) PagerDuty
6 7 (2.80%) Splunk
6 7 (2.80%) Veeam
7 6 (2.40%) Oracle
8 5 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.20%) EMC
9 3 (1.20%) Remedy
9 3 (1.20%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.80%) Siemens