Systems Engineer Contracts in England

System Engineer
UK > England

The median System Engineer daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 395 522
Rank change year-on-year +135 +127 -69
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 316 291 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.58% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.61% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 153 166
10th Percentile £308 £361 £309
25th Percentile £378 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £483
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +7.77% +16.97%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £575
90th Percentile £660 £725 £680
UK median daily rate £459 £513 £483
% change year-on-year -10.44% +6.22% +13.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 67 41
10th Percentile £39.83 £47.54 £17.64
25th Percentile £45.90 £53.34 £35.00
Median hourly rate £58.25 £60.70 £44.69
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +35.82% -4.91%
75th Percentile £71.25 £65.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £70.00 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £61.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -6.50% +44.71% -10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,448 47,601 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,861 33,797 48,247
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,402 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.95 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in England

Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineer in England

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineer in England

Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineer in England

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineer in England

Systems Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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 +43 78 £600 +37.14% 96
South East +16 74 £513 +10.81% 131
London +68 59 £459 -23.50% 86
East of England +32 44 £350 -24.32% 63
North of England +59 42 £430 -17.11% 57
North West +48 32 - - 38
Midlands +15 16 £450 -6.01% 98
West Midlands +22 14 £543 -13.20% 61
Yorkshire +31 6 £430 -18.10% 16
North East - 4 - - 5
East Midlands +10 2 £300 -32.58% 37
Systems Engineer
UK

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Systems Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 65 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 60 (18.99%) Systems Engineering
3 55 (17.41%) SC Cleared
4 47 (14.87%) Degree
5 43 (13.61%) Aerospace
6 42 (13.29%) Validation
7 36 (11.39%) Windows
8 34 (10.76%) Verification and Validation
9 30 (9.49%) Social Skills
10 29 (9.18%) Military
11 27 (8.54%) Rational DOORS
12 25 (7.91%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (7.28%) Customer Requirements
13 23 (7.28%) Software Engineering
14 22 (6.96%) Linux
14 22 (6.96%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
15 21 (6.65%) MATLAB
15 21 (6.65%) DV Cleared
16 20 (6.33%) Microsoft
17 19 (6.01%) Python
17 19 (6.01%) Automotive
17 19 (6.01%) Azure
18 18 (5.70%) VMware
18 18 (5.70%) UML
19 17 (5.38%) Simulink
19 17 (5.38%) SysML
19 17 (5.38%) Agile
20 15 (4.75%) ITIL
20 15 (4.75%) Active Directory
20 15 (4.75%) Master's Degree

Systems Engineer Skill Set
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 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.58%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.95%) Confluence
3 3 (0.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.32%) MTS
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
4 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (5.38%) Simulink
2 5 (1.58%) Stateflow
2 5 (1.58%) TargetLink
3 3 (0.95%) InVision
3 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.95%) Sketch
4 1 (0.32%) CATIA
4 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (6.01%) Azure
2 9 (2.85%) AWS
2 9 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (1.27%) IaaS
5 3 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (0.95%) PaaS
6 2 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (0.63%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.63%) SaaS
7 1 (0.32%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.32%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.32%) Figma
7 1 (0.32%) GCP
7 1 (0.32%) GitHub
7 1 (0.32%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.32%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.80%) Firewall
2 9 (2.85%) VoIP
3 8 (2.53%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.22%) LAN
4 7 (2.22%) WAN
5 6 (1.90%) Network Security
5 6 (1.90%) SAN
6 5 (1.58%) Asterisk PBX
6 5 (1.58%) DHCP
6 5 (1.58%) DNS
6 5 (1.58%) VPN
7 4 (1.27%) Internet
7 4 (1.27%) VLAN
7 4 (1.27%) WAAS
8 3 (0.95%) 4G
8 3 (0.95%) BGP
8 3 (0.95%) DWDM
8 3 (0.95%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.95%) SSL
8 3 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
1 1 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.32%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 27 (8.54%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (2.22%) Git
3 6 (1.90%) JIRA
4 5 (1.58%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.58%) Subversion
5 3 (0.95%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.63%) TestRail
7 1 (0.32%) GitLab
7 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (13.61%) Aerospace
2 30 (9.49%) Social Skills
3 29 (9.18%) Military
4 19 (6.01%) Automotive
5 13 (4.11%) Finance
5 13 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (3.48%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.85%) Marketing
8 8 (2.53%) Electronics
8 8 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.95%) Aviation
10 3 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.63%) French Language
11 2 (0.63%) Law
11 2 (0.63%) Portuguese Language
11 2 (0.63%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.58%) ISPF
2 4 (1.27%) React
3 3 (0.95%) Middleware
3 3 (0.95%) Next.js
4 2 (0.63%) .NET
5 1 (0.32%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.32%) CSS
5 1 (0.32%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.32%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.32%) LDAP
5 1 (0.32%) Node.js
5 1 (0.32%) OAuth
5 1 (0.32%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.32%) OpenID
5 1 (0.32%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.32%) SAML
5 1 (0.32%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.48%) Algorithms
2 10 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 6 (1.90%) Data Centre
3 6 (1.90%) Mainframe
3 6 (1.90%) SCADA
4 5 (1.58%) Clustering
4 5 (1.58%) Digital Signage
5 4 (1.27%) LPAR
5 4 (1.27%) Product Ownership
6 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.63%) Life Science
7 2 (0.63%) PKI
7 2 (0.63%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.63%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.32%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.32%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.39%) Windows
2 22 (6.96%) Linux
3 14 (4.43%) Unix
4 10 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.16%) zOS
5 5 (1.58%) CentOS
5 5 (1.58%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.63%) Android
6 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.63%) Debian
6 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.32%) VMS
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (18.99%) Systems Engineering
2 42 (13.29%) Validation
3 34 (10.76%) Verification and Validation
4 25 (7.91%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (7.28%) Customer Requirements
5 23 (7.28%) Software Engineering
6 22 (6.96%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 18 (5.70%) UML
8 17 (5.38%) Agile
8 17 (5.38%) SysML
9 15 (4.75%) ITIL
10 14 (4.43%) Requirements Management
10 14 (4.43%) Risk Management
10 14 (4.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (3.80%) Customer Engagement
12 11 (3.48%) Mentoring
12 11 (3.48%) Requirements Analysis
12 11 (3.48%) Software Testing
12 11 (3.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (3.16%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (6.65%) MATLAB
2 19 (6.01%) Python
3 14 (4.43%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.48%) C
5 5 (1.58%) JCL
6 4 (1.27%) REXX
6 4 (1.27%) SQL
6 4 (1.27%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.95%) Bash
7 3 (0.95%) C++
7 3 (0.95%) CLIST
7 3 (0.95%) Java
7 3 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.63%) Perl
9 1 (0.32%) Assembly Language
9 1 (0.32%) Korn
9 1 (0.32%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 65 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.41%) SC Cleared
3 47 (14.87%) Degree
4 21 (6.65%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.75%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.95%) HNC
11 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.63%) CCNA
11 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.63%) CISSP
11 2 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.63%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.63%) MCSE
11 2 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.53%) PCI DSS
2 6 (1.90%) ISO 26262
3 5 (1.58%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (1.58%) MISRA
3 5 (1.58%) MISRA C
4 3 (0.95%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.63%) QA
5 2 (0.63%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.32%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (4.75%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.16%) Firmware
4 7 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.90%) vSphere
6 5 (1.58%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (1.27%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 4 (1.27%) Microcode
8 2 (0.63%) NFS
8 2 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.32%) ACF2
9 1 (0.32%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.32%) RACF
9 1 (0.32%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.32%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (2.53%) SCCM
2 5 (1.58%) Nagios
3 4 (1.27%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.95%) Ansible
4 3 (0.95%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.63%) SCOM
5 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.63%) Terraform
5 2 (0.63%) WSUS
6 1 (0.32%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.32%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.32%) Nessus
6 1 (0.32%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (0.32%) Puppet
6 1 (0.32%) systemd
Vendors
1 20 (6.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.70%) VMware
3 11 (3.48%) Cisco
4 8 (2.53%) IBM
4 8 (2.53%) Sparx
5 6 (1.90%) HP
6 5 (1.58%) Citrix
7 4 (1.27%) EMC
7 4 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.27%) Supermicro
8 3 (0.95%) Dell
8 3 (0.95%) F5
8 3 (0.95%) Remedy
8 3 (0.95%) Siemens
8 3 (0.95%) Splunk
8 3 (0.95%) Thales
9 2 (0.63%) Apple
9 2 (0.63%) BMC
9 2 (0.63%) Oracle
9 2 (0.63%) SAP