Systems Engineering Contracts in the West Midlands

Systems Engineering
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 123 164
Rank change year-on-year +21 +41 -42
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 10 17 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.71% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.80% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £775
Median % change year-on-year - -29.03% +129.63%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £800
90th Percentile - £830 £808
England median daily rate £550 £563 £556
% change year-on-year -2.22% +1.12% +4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43.75 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +13.82% -8.89% +35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,632 2,114 3,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.08% 88.67% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,452 2,354
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +16.42%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the West Midlands

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in the West Midlands

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in the West Midlands

Systems Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Worcestershire +11 5 £550 -8.33% 1
Staffordshire - 4 - - 7
Warwickshire -8 1 - - 7
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (10.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DHCP
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 3 (30.00%) Lead Systems Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Grid Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Unix
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (50.00%) Information Management
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 5 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 5 (50.00%) SIEM
1 5 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
1 5 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Validation
2 2 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Coaching
3 1 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (10.00%) FMEA
3 1 (10.00%) Logistics
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) HAZOP
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 26262
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) SCCM
1 5 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (10.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Veeam
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) SAP