Systems Engineering Contracts in London

Systems Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Systems Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 350 429
Rank change year-on-year +17 +79 +66
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 20 41 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.26% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 24
10th Percentile £568 £328 £467
25th Percentile £613 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £706 £688 £638
90th Percentile £804 £713 £675
England median daily rate £631 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +14.77% -2.22% +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £45.00
25th Percentile - - £46.99
Median hourly rate - - £53.49
75th Percentile - - £60.76
90th Percentile - - £63.84
England median hourly rate £63.00 £70.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +13.82% -8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in London

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in London

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineering in London

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in London.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in London

Systems Engineering
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineering within the London 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
Central London 0 3 £638 -12.07% 2
South London - 1 - - 1
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
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 (5.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.00%) WinCC
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Aligne
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (15.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (15.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (15.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Front Office
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Automotive
5 1 (5.00%) Electronics
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Angular Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Leader
3 3 (15.00%) UI Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Information Security Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Information Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Data Modeller
5 1 (5.00%) HTML Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (30.00%) HTML
1 6 (30.00%) HTML5
2 4 (20.00%) Node.js
3 3 (15.00%) CSS
3 3 (15.00%) CSS3
3 3 (15.00%) Material-UI
3 3 (15.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) N-Tier
2 4 (20.00%) Derivative
3 3 (15.00%) Equity Derivative
3 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (10.00%) Equities
4 2 (10.00%) Fixed Income
4 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (5.00%) PDA
5 1 (5.00%) PMI
5 1 (5.00%) SCADA
5 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (30.00%) Release Management
3 6 (30.00%) TDD
4 5 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 5 (25.00%) SOA
4 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Microservices
6 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Front End Development
6 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) Scala
3 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.00%) C++
4 3 (15.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) ISSEP
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CBAP
4 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Functional Safety
2 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Siemens