Systems Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

System Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median System Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £497, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 48 64
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 16 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.82% 1.51% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 1.64% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £301
25th Percentile £488 £400 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £450 £313
Median % change year-on-year +10.33% +44.00% -29.78%
75th Percentile £505 £500 £328
90th Percentile - - £334
England median daily rate £450 £450 £550
% change year-on-year - -18.18% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 809 548 693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 91.95% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 333 491
10th Percentile £180 £228 £200
25th Percentile £352 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £525 £530 £568
90th Percentile £625 £635 £685
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 24 49
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £12.93
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.25 £22.05 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +10.23% +16.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £25.18
90th Percentile £25.29 £33.15 £57.80
England median hourly rate £26.78 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.61% -20.00% +38.46%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Systems Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Systems Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

Systems Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Derbyshire +3 9 - - 2
Leicestershire - 6 - -
Nottinghamshire -7 1 £497 - 4
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Systems Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (25.00%) MATLAB
1 4 (25.00%) Signal Processing
1 4 (25.00%) Simulink
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) High Availability
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) NAS
3 2 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) SAN
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.25%) Apache
4 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.25%) IIS
4 1 (6.25%) Inventory Management
4 1 (6.25%) ISPF
4 1 (6.25%) ITIL
4 1 (6.25%) JCL
4 1 (6.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) REXX

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
1 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) NAS
1 2 (12.50%) SAN
General
1 1 (6.25%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (25.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (12.50%) Replication
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Signal Processing
2 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (12.50%) High Availability
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (6.25%) Inventory Management
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL
3 1 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) MATLAB
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) JCL
4 1 (6.25%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco
1 2 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk