Systems Engineering Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Systems Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 68 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.41% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £365 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -25.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £40.44 £78.19
% change year-on-year - -48.28% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 652 620 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.19% 85.64% 84.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 415 427
10th Percentile £249 £198 £281
25th Percentile £380 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 19
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +205.56%
75th Percentile £21.44 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.06 £56.25 £67.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -8.24% -11.40% +38.98%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Systems Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Systems Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Systems Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Line Management
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle