Systems Engineering Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Systems Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.40% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £319 - -
25th Percentile £326 - £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 - £560
75th Percentile £355 - £580
90th Percentile £357 - -
Scotland median daily rate £358 £472 £454
% change year-on-year -24.15% +4.08% -17.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 656 677 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.89% 89.67% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 441 538
10th Percentile £299 £306 £348
25th Percentile £381 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 17
10th Percentile £15.16 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.18 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +10.55% -40.38%
75th Percentile £47.45 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Systems Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Systems Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Proactive Maintenance
2 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Pega