Lead Systems Engineer Contracts in London

Lead System Engineer
England > London

The median Lead System Engineer daily rate in London is £550, 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 351 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Systems Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £531 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Lead Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Systems Engineer in London

Lead Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Systems Engineer in London

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

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

1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Classic ASP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Plesk
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Server Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation

Lead Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (50.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Classic ASP
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
1 1 (50.00%) Server Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Plesk
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet