Systems Engineering Contracts in Central London

Systems Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 130 157
Rank change year-on-year +1 +27 +46
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 5 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.24% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.23% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £585 £769 £484
25th Percentile £600 £778 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £813 £613
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +32.65% +11.36%
75th Percentile £700 £853 £678
90th Percentile £715 £866 £684
London median daily rate £638 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +10.87% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,921 2,156 3,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.71% 91.43% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 1,492 2,251
10th Percentile £337 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £713
90th Percentile £775 £797 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 24
10th Percentile £22.08 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.84 £16.33
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.41 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -13.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.75 £53.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.55 £41.50
% change year-on-year -10.58% -19.16% +16.08%

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 21 July 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
City of London +9 5 £650 -20.00% 8
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Data Modeller
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) MCSA
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) QRadar
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Exabeam
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) VMware