Systems Engineering Contracts in the East of England

Systems Engineering
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 77 108
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 +27
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 18 33 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.84% 1.75% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.05% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £246 - -
25th Percentile £316 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% - -
75th Percentile £566 - -
90th Percentile £639 - -
England median daily rate £625 £550 £556
% change year-on-year +13.64% -1.12% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 28 10
10th Percentile £57.30 £52.50 £55.88
25th Percentile £64.88 £59.38 £58.13
Median hourly rate £72.50 £65.50 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.69% +6.50% -8.89%
75th Percentile £76.88 £71.31 £69.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £75.25 £71.48
England median hourly rate £63.00 £70.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +13.82% -6.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 883 1,608 1,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 90.19% 85.08% 87.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 669 998
10th Percentile £229 £205 £205
25th Percentile £400 £325 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £677 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 610 332
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +81.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.03 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the East of England

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in the East of England

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineering in the East of England

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in the East of England

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineering in the East of England

Systems Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Hertfordshire +18 10 £675 +125.00% 42
Bedfordshire +1 7 - - 32
Norfolk - 1 £200 - 2
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (33.33%) Confluence
1 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (22.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Akamai
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) BGP
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DMVPN
2 1 (5.56%) DWDM
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.56%) IGRP
2 1 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (5.56%) IPsec
2 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) MPLS
2 1 (5.56%) NetScaler
2 1 (5.56%) OSPF
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) SNMP
2 1 (5.56%) SSL
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Rational Statemate
General
1 6 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 2 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Electronics
3 1 (5.56%) Local Government
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Information Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Information Systems Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Electrical Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Information Systems Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Test Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
1 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Management Information System
2 6 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) FMCG
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (38.89%) Validation
3 6 (33.33%) Data Management
3 6 (33.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) PDM
3 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 5 (27.78%) Information Management
4 5 (27.78%) Verification and Validation
5 3 (16.67%) Document Management
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (11.11%) Business Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Business Case
6 2 (11.11%) Cryptography
6 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Project Management
6 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) MATLAB
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) CCDP
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Arista
2 1 (5.56%) Blue Coat
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) Citrix
2 1 (5.56%) F5
2 1 (5.56%) Juniper
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Riverbed
2 1 (5.56%) Zscaler