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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 448 582
Rank change year-on-year +106 +134 -8
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 247 247 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.44% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.49% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 110 149
10th Percentile £350 £450 £431
25th Percentile £488 £510 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% -1.14% +5.56%
75th Percentile £629 £622 £634
90th Percentile £675 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £564 £570
% change year-on-year -2.40% -1.14% +10.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 57 25
10th Percentile £46.91 £45.71 £44.64
25th Percentile £53.75 £52.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £64.54
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -4.71% +29.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.14
90th Percentile £76.86 £78.50 £96.14
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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +102 235 £550 - 356
UK excluding London +71 206 £550 -2.40% 330
Work from Home +99 72 £550 -5.01% 149
South East +32 56 £525 -4.55% 88
South West -12 56 £600 +9.09% 82
North of England +47 38 £577 -3.92% 43
London +63 35 £575 - 56
East of England +28 35 £300 - 57
North West +32 24 £577 -3.92% 30
North East +26 15 - - 6
Midlands +23 13 £550 +4.76% 51
West Midlands +15 11 £550 +2.33% 35
Scotland +39 8 £590 +32.47% 25
East Midlands +11 2 - - 16
Yorkshire +18 1 - - 8

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 2 (0.81%) Confluence
1 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.40%) Apache
2 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Simulink
2 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) CATIA
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.02%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.81%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.29%) AWS
2 16 (6.48%) Azure
3 6 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.81%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.40%) Akamai
6 1 (0.40%) Serverless
6 1 (0.40%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.07%) Ethernet
2 9 (3.64%) DNS
3 8 (3.24%) DHCP
4 7 (2.83%) 4G
4 7 (2.83%) 5G
4 7 (2.83%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.43%) Network Security
6 4 (1.62%) Firewall
6 4 (1.62%) VoIP
6 4 (1.62%) WAN
7 3 (1.21%) Internet
8 2 (0.81%) 3G
8 2 (0.81%) GPRS
9 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.40%) SCCP
9 1 (0.40%) SNMP
9 1 (0.40%) VoLTE
9 1 (0.40%) VoWiFi
9 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.40%) MySQL
4 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.40%) Power BI
4 1 (0.40%) Redis
4 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (14.57%) Rational DOORS
2 22 (8.91%) JIRA
3 10 (4.05%) Rational Rhapsody
4 9 (3.64%) Git
5 8 (3.24%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.81%) 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 38 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.74%) Electronics
3 26 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 24 (9.72%) Aerospace
4 24 (9.72%) Finance
5 12 (4.86%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.64%) Military
6 9 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.83%) Marketing
8 5 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.21%) Law
10 2 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.81%) Automotive
10 2 (0.81%) Front Office
10 2 (0.81%) Legal
10 2 (0.81%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.40%) Aviation
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (29.15%) Systems Engineer
2 46 (18.62%) Lead
3 40 (16.19%) Architect
4 35 (14.17%) Principal Engineer
5 34 (13.77%) Senior
6 30 (12.15%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 30 (12.15%) Systems Architect
7 28 (11.34%) Network Architect
8 21 (8.50%) Lead Architect
9 20 (8.10%) Software Engineer
10 17 (6.88%) Consultant
11 15 (6.07%) Integration Engineer
12 14 (5.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 13 (5.26%) Site Engineer
13 13 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (4.45%) Project Manager
15 10 (4.05%) Ada Engineer
15 10 (4.05%) Ada Software Engineer
16 9 (3.64%) Embedded Engineer
17 8 (3.24%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.24%) PyTorch
1 8 (3.24%) TensorFlow
2 7 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.81%) Kafka
3 2 (0.81%) Middleware
3 2 (0.81%) Web Services
4 1 (0.40%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.40%) LDAP
4 1 (0.40%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.74%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (6.88%) Robotics
3 15 (6.07%) Analogue Electronics
4 7 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.43%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.62%) Clustering
7 4 (1.62%) FPGA
8 3 (1.21%) VHDL
9 2 (0.81%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.81%) Smart Meter
10 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.40%) GNSS
10 1 (0.40%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.40%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.96%) Windows
2 18 (7.29%) Linux
2 18 (7.29%) Unix
3 14 (5.67%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (19.03%) Validation
2 39 (15.79%) Software Engineering
3 33 (13.36%) UML
4 31 (12.55%) DevOps
4 31 (12.55%) Requirements Management
5 29 (11.74%) Agile
5 29 (11.74%) Network Management
6 26 (10.53%) Verification and Validation
7 25 (10.12%) Customer Requirements
8 22 (8.91%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (8.50%) Strategic Thinking
10 19 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (7.69%) SysML
11 18 (7.29%) Design for Manufacturing
11 18 (7.29%) Project Management
12 17 (6.88%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
13 16 (6.48%) Artificial Intelligence
13 16 (6.48%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (6.48%) Machine Learning
13 16 (6.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.10%) Python
2 18 (7.29%) Java
3 17 (6.88%) C#
4 16 (6.48%) SQL
5 13 (5.26%) C
6 10 (4.05%) Ada
6 10 (4.05%) MATLAB
7 7 (2.83%) C++
7 7 (2.83%) F#
7 7 (2.83%) Go
7 7 (2.83%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.81%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.40%) Bash
9 1 (0.40%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.40%) Perl
9 1 (0.40%) Ruby
9 1 (0.40%) Rust
9 1 (0.40%) Scala
9 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 97 (39.27%) Security Cleared
2 86 (34.82%) SC Cleared
3 60 (24.29%) Degree
4 14 (5.67%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.05%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.83%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.81%) CISSP
8 2 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.40%) EMC Certification
9 1 (0.40%) HNC
9 1 (0.40%) HND
9 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.40%) PhD
9 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PMP
9 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.07%) QA
2 7 (2.83%) NIST
2 7 (2.83%) PCI DSS
3 6 (2.43%) NCSC
4 4 (1.62%) SLA
5 2 (0.81%) HAZOP
5 2 (0.81%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 8 (3.24%) Firmware
2 7 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.83%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.62%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.81%) Docker
5 2 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.05%) SCCM
3 7 (2.83%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.43%) Opsgenie
4 6 (2.43%) Terraform
5 3 (1.21%) Ansible
5 3 (1.21%) IBM BigFix
5 3 (1.21%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.81%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.81%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.40%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.40%) Grafana
7 1 (0.40%) Kibana
7 1 (0.40%) logstash
7 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (5.26%) IBM
1 13 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.05%) VMware
3 8 (3.24%) SAP
3 8 (3.24%) Splunk
4 7 (2.83%) Avaloq
4 7 (2.83%) Salesforce
4 7 (2.83%) Sparx
4 7 (2.83%) Veeam
5 6 (2.43%) Adobe
5 6 (2.43%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.43%) New Relic
5 6 (2.43%) Oracle
5 6 (2.43%) PagerDuty
6 5 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.62%) EMC
8 3 (1.21%) Remedy
8 3 (1.21%) Xilinx
9 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.81%) Red Hat