Systems Engineering Contracts in England

Systems Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 312 419
Rank change year-on-year -64 +107 +150
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 109 240 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.65% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.75% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 77 105
10th Percentile £424 £346 £463
25th Percentile £506 £488 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +14.77% -2.22% +1.12%
75th Percentile £675 £630 £600
90th Percentile £703 £698 £683
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £565
% change year-on-year +13.64% -2.57% +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 92 55
10th Percentile - £46.91 £49.87
25th Percentile £47.50 £59.38 £55.13
Median hourly rate £63.00 £70.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +13.82% -8.89%
75th Percentile £77.50 £75.16 £66.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £76.86 £81.19
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £70.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -12.14% +13.82% -8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
South West +22 34 £650 +18.18% 135
London +17 20 £650 +13.04% 140
East of England +15 18 £438 +15.51% 80
Midlands +23 16 £475 -13.64% 94
West Midlands +19 15 £475 -13.64% 69
North of England -4 10 £650 +12.75% 106
North West +2 9 £625 +8.41% 75
South East -4 9 £606 +15.48% 178
Yorkshire +8 1 £675 - 27
East Midlands +6 1 £75 -86.67% 20
Systems Engineering
UK

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.42%) Confluence
3 5 (4.59%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.92%) SAS
4 1 (0.92%) WinCC
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Simulink
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.92%) Aligne
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.34%) AWS
2 7 (6.42%) Azure
3 5 (4.59%) GCP
4 3 (2.75%) OpenShift
4 3 (2.75%) PaaS
5 1 (0.92%) Akamai
5 1 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.92%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.92%) GitHub
5 1 (0.92%) IaaS
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) DNS
2 1 (0.92%) BGP
2 1 (0.92%) DHCP
2 1 (0.92%) DWDM
2 1 (0.92%) GLBP
2 1 (0.92%) HTTP
2 1 (0.92%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.92%) IGRP
2 1 (0.92%) Internet
2 1 (0.92%) IPsec
2 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.92%) LAN
2 1 (0.92%) MPLS
2 1 (0.92%) NetScaler
2 1 (0.92%) OSPF
2 1 (0.92%) SMTP
2 1 (0.92%) SNMP
2 1 (0.92%) SSL
2 1 (0.92%) VPN
2 1 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.59%) DB2
3 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (12.84%) JIRA
2 11 (10.09%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (5.50%) Git
3 6 (5.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.75%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (2.75%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.75%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.92%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.92%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.92%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (0.92%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.92%) NetBeans
5 1 (0.92%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.92%) Rational Statemate
General
1 27 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.35%) Finance
3 10 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.26%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.50%) Military
6 5 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.59%) Front Office
7 4 (3.67%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.67%) Automotive
7 4 (3.67%) Banking
7 4 (3.67%) Electronics
7 4 (3.67%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.75%) Law
8 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.83%) Marketing
10 1 (0.92%) Avionics
10 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Local Government
10 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (29.36%) Systems Engineer
2 22 (20.18%) Lead
3 12 (11.01%) Architect
3 12 (11.01%) Principal Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) Tester
5 10 (9.17%) Senior
6 9 (8.26%) Analyst
7 7 (6.42%) Developer
7 7 (6.42%) Systems Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) Project Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Project Leader
9 5 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 3 (2.75%) Information Analyst
11 3 (2.75%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.75%) Solutions Analyst
11 3 (2.75%) Systems Architect
11 3 (2.75%) Technical Leader
11 3 (2.75%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) Kafka
2 7 (6.42%) HTML
3 6 (5.50%) AngularJS
3 6 (5.50%) HTML5
4 5 (4.59%) Middleware
5 4 (3.67%) Node.js
6 3 (2.75%) CSS
6 3 (2.75%) CSS3
6 3 (2.75%) Material-UI
6 3 (2.75%) React
7 1 (0.92%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.92%) POSIX
7 1 (0.92%) REST
7 1 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (31.19%) Management Information System
2 12 (11.01%) SCADA
3 10 (9.17%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (6.42%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.50%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (5.50%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.67%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.67%) Derivative
7 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.75%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (2.75%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.83%) Equities
8 2 (1.83%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.83%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.50%) Windows
2 3 (2.75%) Linux
2 3 (2.75%) Unix
3 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (20.18%) Agile
2 22 (20.18%) Validation
3 16 (14.68%) Collaborative Working
3 16 (14.68%) Verification and Validation
4 14 (12.84%) Business Strategy
4 14 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (11.93%) Contract Negotiation
5 13 (11.93%) Enterprise Architecture
5 13 (11.93%) Target Operating Model
6 11 (10.09%) Roadmaps
7 10 (9.17%) Information Management
7 10 (9.17%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 10 (9.17%) Network Monitoring
7 10 (9.17%) Software Testing
8 9 (8.26%) Analytics
8 9 (8.26%) Integration Testing
8 9 (8.26%) Software Engineering
9 8 (7.34%) CI/CD
9 8 (7.34%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.26%) Java
2 8 (7.34%) Python
3 7 (6.42%) SQL
4 6 (5.50%) C++
4 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.50%) MATLAB
5 4 (3.67%) Scala
5 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.75%) Bash
6 3 (2.75%) Go
7 2 (1.83%) C
7 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.92%) C#
8 1 (0.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (50.46%) Security Cleared
2 50 (45.87%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.01%) Degree
4 7 (6.42%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.59%) RIBA
6 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.75%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.83%) CISM
8 2 (1.83%) CISSP
8 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.83%) HND
8 2 (1.83%) ISSEP
8 2 (1.83%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.92%) CBAP
9 1 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.92%) HNC
9 1 (0.92%) PhD
9 1 (0.92%) PMP
9 1 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.26%) Def Stans
2 5 (4.59%) NIST
3 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.83%) GDPR
4 2 (1.83%) GRC
4 2 (1.83%) NCSC
4 2 (1.83%) QA
5 1 (0.92%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.92%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.92%) MISRA
5 1 (0.92%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.92%) PMO
5 1 (0.92%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (8.26%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.59%) Ansible
1 5 (4.59%) HP ALM
2 4 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.83%) Functional Safety
3 2 (1.83%) SCCM
4 1 (0.92%) Grafana
4 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.92%) Puppet
4 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (8.26%) Oracle
2 8 (7.34%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.34%) VMware
3 5 (4.59%) HP
3 5 (4.59%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.75%) SAP
4 3 (2.75%) Splunk
5 2 (1.83%) Tanium
6 1 (0.92%) Arista
6 1 (0.92%) Blue Coat
6 1 (0.92%) Cisco
6 1 (0.92%) Citrix
6 1 (0.92%) F5
6 1 (0.92%) IBM
6 1 (0.92%) Juniper
6 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.92%) Riverbed
6 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.92%) Siemens
6 1 (0.92%) Zscaler