Systems Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Systems Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Systems Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 204 223
Rank change year-on-year +52 +19 -37
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 33 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile - - £485
25th Percentile £539 - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £600 £634
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £614 £625 £700
90th Percentile £619 £640 £725
England median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 9
10th Percentile £38.39 £43.12 £35.35
25th Percentile £46.73 £49.55 £50.06
Median hourly rate £46.91 £55.25 £75.14
Median % change year-on-year -15.10% -26.47% +68.14%
75th Percentile £51.88 £63.21 £96.23
90th Percentile £64.70 £69.30 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £64.54
% change year-on-year +13.82% -4.71% +29.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Systems Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,026 5,268 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.69% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 3,659 4,646
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 257
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.45%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £29.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.07
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the North of England

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in the North of England

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in the North of England

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineering in the North of England

Systems Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
North West +39 24 £577 -3.92% 44
North East - 10 - - 5
Yorkshire +20 1 - - 8
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) AWS
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) RS-422
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Git
1 7 (21.21%) JIRA
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Project Manager
4 6 (18.18%) Lead
4 6 (18.18%) Senior
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) PyTorch
1 7 (21.21%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 7 (21.21%) Agile
2 7 (21.21%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (21.21%) CRM
2 7 (21.21%) Design Patterns
2 7 (21.21%) DevOps
2 7 (21.21%) Digital Engineering
2 7 (21.21%) GitOps
2 7 (21.21%) Machine Learning
2 7 (21.21%) Project Management
2 7 (21.21%) Requirements Gathering
2 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (21.21%) Thought Leadership
2 7 (21.21%) Visualisation
3 6 (18.18%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (3.03%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (3.03%) SDLC
4 1 (3.03%) Systems Thinking
4 1 (3.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) PL/SQL
1 7 (21.21%) Python
1 7 (21.21%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) C
2 1 (3.03%) C#
2 1 (3.03%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.21%) Avaloq
3 1 (3.03%) EMC
3 1 (3.03%) SAP