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 £430 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 203 208
Rank change year-on-year +63 +5 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 42 15 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.89% 0.25% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.27% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 31
10th Percentile £383 £454 £213
25th Percentile £413 £459 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £519 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.11% +15.28% +28.57%
75th Percentile - £550 £549
90th Percentile - £573 £575
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +24.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 5 7
10th Percentile - £51.90 £16.39
25th Percentile £39.96 £52.13 £18.70
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.25 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +39.87% -4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.25 £42.21
90th Percentile £76.75 £63.71 £42.43
England median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.17% +41.18% -9.99%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,401 5,652 7,007
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 95.14% 97.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 4,004 5,184
10th Percentile £256 £275 £200
25th Percentile £380 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.38% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 177 300
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.16 £11.15
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.58 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.75 £30.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.75% +66.16% +3.35%
75th Percentile £45.87 £49.40 £29.31
90th Percentile £57.75 £66.00 £50.08
England median hourly rate £34.21 £43.63 £22.29
% change year-on-year -21.59% +95.74% -0.58%

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
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 16 April 2024.

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 16 April 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
North West +54 32 £375 -26.83% 42
Yorkshire +25 6 £430 -18.10% 22
North East - 4 - - 7
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 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 North of England region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (21.43%) Systems Engineering
2 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Time Sharing Option
4 5 (11.90%) ISPF
4 5 (11.90%) Mainframe
4 5 (11.90%) Risk Management
4 5 (11.90%) Windows
4 5 (11.90%) IBM
4 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
4 5 (11.90%) Active Directory
4 5 (11.90%) zOS
4 5 (11.90%) JCL
5 4 (9.52%) REXX
5 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 4 (9.52%) LPAR
5 4 (9.52%) WAAS
5 4 (9.52%) Change Control
5 4 (9.52%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 4 (9.52%) Windows 10
5 4 (9.52%) SCCM
5 4 (9.52%) Digital Signage
5 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.52%) Microcode
6 3 (7.14%) CLIST
6 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
6 3 (7.14%) Thales
6 3 (7.14%) Software Engineering
6 3 (7.14%) VMware

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 1 (2.38%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (2.38%) AWS
2 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
2 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.38%) IaaS
2 1 (2.38%) PaaS
2 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) WAAS
2 3 (7.14%) DWDM
2 3 (7.14%) SAN
3 1 (2.38%) DHCP
3 1 (2.38%) DNS
3 1 (2.38%) NaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Git
General
1 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) ISPF
2 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Mainframe
2 4 (9.52%) Digital Signage
2 4 (9.52%) LPAR
3 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
1 5 (11.90%) zOS
2 4 (9.52%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.43%) Systems Engineering
2 5 (11.90%) Risk Management
3 4 (9.52%) Change Control
4 3 (7.14%) Software Engineering
5 1 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (2.38%) Data Security
5 1 (2.38%) DevOps
5 1 (2.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (2.38%) Ergonomics
5 1 (2.38%) GitOps
5 1 (2.38%) Human Factors
5 1 (2.38%) Information Assurance
5 1 (2.38%) Machine Learning
5 1 (2.38%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (2.38%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (2.38%) Software Testing
5 1 (2.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (2.38%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (2.38%) Validation
5 1 (2.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) JCL
2 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.52%) REXX
3 3 (7.14%) CLIST
4 1 (2.38%) Assembly Language
4 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Active Directory
1 5 (11.90%) Time Sharing Option
2 4 (9.52%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 4 (9.52%) Microcode
3 2 (4.76%) Firmware
3 2 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.38%) ACF2
4 1 (2.38%) RACF
4 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) SCCM
2 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.76%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.38%) Ansible
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.38%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) IBM
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) Thales
2 3 (7.14%) VMware
3 2 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (2.38%) 3PAR
4 1 (2.38%) Broadcom
4 1 (2.38%) EMC
4 1 (2.38%) Remedy
4 1 (2.38%) Splunk