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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 360 412
Rank change year-on-year +33 +52 +87
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 14 36 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 27
10th Percentile £613 £250 £458
25th Percentile £617 £489 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £706 £694 £675
90th Percentile £751 £713 £693
England median daily rate £625 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £44.38
25th Percentile - £52.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £51.49
Median % change year-on-year - +6.83% +5.96%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £60.76
90th Percentile - - £63.84
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +3.57% +13.82% -4.71%

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 11,178 15,459 23,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.48% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,507 11,105 16,762
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 316 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 +4 2 £700 +3.70% 6
South London - 1 - - 5
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 (7.14%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.14%) WinCC
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Aligne
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
1 3 (21.43%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Front Office
4 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Electronics
5 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.14%) Marketing
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
1 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Technical Leader
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Information Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Information Systems Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Control Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) ETRM Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Portfolio Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Material-UI
1 3 (21.43%) React
2 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Derivative
2 2 (14.29%) Equities
2 2 (14.29%) Equity Derivative
2 2 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) N-Tier
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) PDA
3 1 (7.14%) PMI
3 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
1 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
1 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
1 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
3 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Front End Development
3 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
3 3 (21.43%) Open Source
3 3 (21.43%) System Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Information Security
4 2 (14.29%) Security Management
4 2 (14.29%) SOA
4 2 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) C++
3 3 (21.43%) Go
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) ISSEP
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CBAP
4 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Functional Safety
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Siemens