Systems Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Systems Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 119 157
Rank change year-on-year +3 +38 +29
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 3 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.35% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £574 - £575
25th Percentile £591 £638 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £691 £788 £675
90th Percentile £711 - -
Central London median daily rate £638 £725 £613
% change year-on-year -12.07% +18.37% +6.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the City of London

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in the City of London

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineering in the City of London

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in the City of London

Systems Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Angular Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modeller
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS3
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) ArchiMate
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform