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 28 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 116 151
Rank change year-on-year -6 +35 +42
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 5 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.27% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.26% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £585 £769 £575
25th Percentile £600 £778 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £813 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +18.18%
75th Percentile £700 £853 £681
90th Percentile £715 £866 £685
Central London median daily rate £650 £813 £613
% change year-on-year -20.00% +32.65% +11.36%

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 1,759 1,897 3,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.16% 91.55% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,138 1,289 2,057
10th Percentile £338 £363 £349
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £679 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 15
10th Percentile £17.57 £19.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.50 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.36%
75th Percentile £54.75 £78.75 £52.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -16.67%

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
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 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%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Security Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
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