Systems Engineer Contracts in the North of England

System Engineer
England > North of England

The median System Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £422, 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 136 142 207
Rank change year-on-year +6 +65 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 30 43 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.91% 0.90% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.97% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile £313 - £454
25th Percentile £407 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £430 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -17.11% +15.28%
75th Percentile £475 - £550
90th Percentile - - £573
England median daily rate £475 £488 £520
% change year-on-year -2.56% -6.25% +7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 23 5
10th Percentile £43.84 - £51.90
25th Percentile £47.68 £39.96 £52.13
Median hourly rate £55.65 £50.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.29% -9.50% +39.48%
75th Percentile £69.91 £60.00 £59.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £76.75 £63.71
England median hourly rate £55.00 £58.25 £60.35
% change year-on-year -5.58% -3.48% +35.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the North of England

Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineer in the North of England

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineer in the North of England

Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineer in the North of England

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineer in the North of England

Systems Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +10 26 £424 - 81
North East -1 3 £325 - 14
Yorkshire +3 1 - - 55
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) Windows
3 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
4 6 (20.00%) SCCM
5 5 (16.67%) Application Packaging
5 5 (16.67%) Kondor
5 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 5 (16.67%) Bloomberg
5 5 (16.67%) SharePoint
5 5 (16.67%) Sybase
5 5 (16.67%) SQL
5 5 (16.67%) Unix
5 5 (16.67%) Cash Management
5 5 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (16.67%) Tanium
5 5 (16.67%) Refinitiv
6 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (13.33%) IaaS
6 4 (13.33%) PaaS
6 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (13.33%) CCNA
6 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Kondor
2 1 (3.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) IaaS
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (13.33%) PaaS
3 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) SaaS
4 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub
5 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
1 3 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) DHCP
3 1 (3.33%) Network Security
3 1 (3.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
1 2 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA Agile
2 1 (3.33%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Local Government
2 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Automotive
4 1 (3.33%) Avionics
4 1 (3.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) AWS Amplify
1 1 (3.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.33%) Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Unix
3 2 (6.67%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (16.67%) Application Packaging
3 5 (16.67%) Cash Management
3 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 5 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (10.00%) User Experience
5 3 (10.00%) Validation
6 2 (6.67%) Agile
6 2 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (6.67%) High Availability
6 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (6.67%) Patch Management
6 2 (6.67%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (6.67%) Requirements Management
6 2 (6.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (6.67%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) Bash
2 2 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) MATLAB
3 1 (3.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) CCNA
1 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.33%) MCP
4 1 (3.33%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) IEC 61508
2 1 (3.33%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Functional Safety
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 5 (16.67%) Refinitiv
2 5 (16.67%) Sybase
2 5 (16.67%) Tanium
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Meraki
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) Veeam