Systems Engineer Contracts in the City of London

System Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median System Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £345, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 120 174
Rank change year-on-year +4 +54 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 3 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.32% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.34% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £278 £429 £465
25th Percentile £300 £434 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year -32.78% -21.15% +18.18%
75th Percentile £382 £603 £675
90th Percentile £401 £654 -
Central London median daily rate £345 £463 £650
% change year-on-year -25.51% -28.85% +18.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the City of London

Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineer in the City of London

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineer in the City of London

Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineer in the City of London

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Systems Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Bloomberg
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) SCOrch
3 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (33.33%) Refinitiv
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Nexthink
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
3 1 (33.33%) Cash Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Cash Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) BitLocker
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
1 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Bloomberg
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Apple
3 1 (33.33%) Nexthink
3 1 (33.33%) Refinitiv
3 1 (33.33%) Remedy
3 1 (33.33%) Reuters
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) Sybase