Systems Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

System Engineer
England > Midlands

The median System Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £543 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 140 185
Rank change year-on-year +20 +45 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 15 25 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.56% 0.77% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.81% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile - £434 £348
25th Percentile £425 £445 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £479 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.32% +12.65% +5.59%
75th Percentile £635 £669 £513
90th Percentile - £689 £600
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £43.75 £22.15 -
25th Percentile £45.63 £22.87 £15.62
Median hourly rate £57.50 £24.08 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +138.84% +48.20% +32.77%
75th Percentile £58.75 £25.28 £16.87
90th Percentile - £26.00 -
England median hourly rate £58.25 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -2.92% +33.33% -2.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,487 3,086 4,793
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 94.58% 95.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,169 3,491
10th Percentile £213 £223 £213
25th Percentile £325 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 116 165
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.25 £10.93
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.88 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.16 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +15.20% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £52.45 £61.25 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the Midlands

Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineer in the Midlands

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineer in the Midlands

Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineer in the Midlands

Systems Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +22 14 £543 -16.54% 50
East Midlands +6 1 - - 42
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) Degree
2 8 (53.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (46.67%) Validation
3 7 (46.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Verification and Validation
4 6 (40.00%) Algorithms
4 6 (40.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 6 (40.00%) ISO 26262
4 6 (40.00%) Automotive
4 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (40.00%) MATLAB
4 6 (40.00%) Simulink
4 6 (40.00%) Project Management
5 5 (33.33%) Stateflow
5 5 (33.33%) C
5 5 (33.33%) UML
5 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Subversion
5 5 (33.33%) Quality Management
5 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket
5 5 (33.33%) Black-Box Testing
5 5 (33.33%) Line Management
5 5 (33.33%) MISRA C
5 5 (33.33%) MISRA
5 5 (33.33%) Software Audit
5 5 (33.33%) Integration Testing
5 5 (33.33%) QMS
5 5 (33.33%) Git
5 5 (33.33%) TargetLink

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Simulink
2 5 (33.33%) Stateflow
2 5 (33.33%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 6 (40.00%) Automotive
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Electronics
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Management Information System
2 6 (40.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (13.33%) SCADA
3 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 7 (46.67%) Validation
1 7 (46.67%) Verification and Validation
2 6 (40.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 6 (40.00%) Project Management
2 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Black-Box Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Line Management
3 5 (33.33%) QMS
3 5 (33.33%) Quality Management
3 5 (33.33%) Software Audit
3 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 5 (33.33%) UML
3 5 (33.33%) White-Box Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) MATLAB
2 5 (33.33%) C
3 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (13.33%) CISSP
3 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) ISO 26262
2 5 (33.33%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (33.33%) MISRA
2 5 (33.33%) MISRA C
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) BMC
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) SAP