Systems Engineering Contracts in Berkshire

Systems Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Systems Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 108 102
Rank change year-on-year +13 -6 +22
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 4 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.33% 0.23% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.27% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £468 - £400
25th Percentile £494 - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £560
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.61%
75th Percentile £613 - £638
90th Percentile - - £640
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £641
% change year-on-year +2.56% -23.98% +6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
South East median hourly rate £68.00 £76.86 £61.63
% change year-on-year -11.53% +24.71% +24.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Systems Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,105 1,485 1,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.24% 85.89% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 788 991
10th Percentile £350 £315 £313
25th Percentile £420 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £633
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £518
% change year-on-year -3.39% -0.09% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 81 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.00 £17.17
25th Percentile £16.66 £41.25 £32.38
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +3.75% +97.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £87.64 £87.46 £75.89
South East median hourly rate £21.50 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.51% +14.70% +100.00%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in Berkshire

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in Berkshire

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in Berkshire

Systems Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. 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
Reading +22 4 £575 - 9
Systems Engineering
South East

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Junior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) CFCE
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) GCFA
3 1 (25.00%) GCIA
3 1 (25.00%) GCIH
3 1 (25.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk