Senior Systems Engineer Contracts in Hertfordshire

Senior System Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Senior System Engineer daily rate in Hertfordshire is £675, 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 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.62% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £675 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £73.75 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 297 750 744
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 89.93% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 309 406
10th Percentile £330 £235 £210
25th Percentile £425 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £763
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 285 148
10th Percentile £27.96 £37.91 £20.31
25th Percentile £50.31 £43.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -20.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £79.82 £65.00 £66.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £74.95
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
% change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in Hertfordshire

Senior Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Systems Engineer in Hertfordshire

Senior Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Systems Engineer in Hertfordshire

Senior Systems Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage - 1 - - 5
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £675 -
Senior Systems Engineer
East of England

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

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

1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Sparx
2 1 (50.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) PTC
2 1 (50.00%) MagicDraw
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) SysML
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Rational Rhapsody

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MagicDraw
1 1 (50.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) BCP
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) SysML
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) PTC Integrity
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) PTC
1 1 (50.00%) Sparx