Systems Engineering Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Systems Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 53 58
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +34
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 2 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% 0.17% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.19% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £553
25th Percentile - - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £575
75th Percentile - - £781
90th Percentile - - £898
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 745 517 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.18% 86.60% 83.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 317 426
10th Percentile £188 £256 £213
25th Percentile £355 £341 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £436 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% -8.32% +1.06%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £630 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 22 47
10th Percentile £16.11 £15.29 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +2.46% +27.84%
75th Percentile £25.12 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £59.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Systems Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Systems Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Systems Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
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 Engineering within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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 +2 2 - -
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) PLM
1 2 (100.00%) Statistics
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Siemens