Systems Engineer Contracts in Hampshire

System Engineer
South East > Hampshire

The median System Engineer daily rate in Hampshire is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 61 82
Rank change year-on-year +2 +21 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 10 34 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.34% 2.11% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 2.34% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 9
10th Percentile £476 £182 £473
25th Percentile £497 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - -
75th Percentile £572 £635 -
90th Percentile £589 £637 £605
South East median daily rate £700 £525 £463
% change year-on-year +33.33% +13.51% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 3
10th Percentile £66.00 £59.00 £38.25
25th Percentile £67.50 £59.44 £41.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +36.84% +59.80%
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £49.38
90th Percentile £74.00 - £49.75
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £66.74 £55.40
% change year-on-year -2.61% +20.47% +51.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 712 1,451 1,323
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 90.12% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 824 865
10th Percentile £280 £363 £232
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £620
90th Percentile £661 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 173 106
10th Percentile £20.03 £13.40 £18.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £33.75 £22.51
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +9.24% +141.38%
75th Percentile £71.25 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in Hampshire

Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineer in Hampshire

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineer in Hampshire

Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineer in Hampshire

Systems Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire 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
Portsmouth +2 3 - - 21
Basingstoke +25 1 - - 9
Southampton -2 1 £475 -2.56% 9
Farnborough - 1 £600 - 7
Andover - 1 - - 1
Systems Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Hampshire region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) UML
1 4 (40.00%) SysML
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Requirements Management
2 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (20.00%) HND
3 2 (20.00%) Remedy
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (10.00%) Qt
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Confluence
4 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) GNSS
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) VMS
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) SysML
1 4 (40.00%) UML
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (30.00%) Requirements Management
2 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Inertial Navigation
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Def Stans
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Remedy
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Dell