Systems Engineering Contracts in Central London

Systems Engineering
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 158 198
Rank change year-on-year +29 +40 -44
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 7 17 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.29% 0.45% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.49% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile - £495 -
25th Percentile £638 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +13.04% -20.69%
75th Percentile £788 £675 £625
90th Percentile - £683 £640
London median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,196 3,473 4,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.59% 91.23% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,564 2,356 3,186
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +13.85%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in Central London

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in Central London

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in Central London

Systems Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
City of London +34 7 £725 +11.54% 3
Systems Engineering
London

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Akamai
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Front Office
3 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Pricing Developer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Java Pricing Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Scala Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Pricing Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Scala Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Strategy Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Hedge funds
1 2 (28.57%) Market Risk
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Information Security
2 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Test Assurance
3 1 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Ruby
4 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Opsgenie
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe
1 2 (28.57%) New Relic
1 2 (28.57%) PagerDuty
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk