Systems Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Systems Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 152 208
Rank change year-on-year -4 +56 +10
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 10 33 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.69% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.81% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £619 - -
25th Percentile £628 £539 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £577 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -3.92% -5.36%
75th Percentile £666 £614 £625
90th Percentile £671 £619 £640
England median daily rate £631 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +14.77% -2.22% +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 5
10th Percentile £43.64 £38.39 £43.54
25th Percentile £46.84 £46.73 £52.35
Median hourly rate £56.04 £46.91 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.46% -15.10% -35.43%
75th Percentile £66.83 £51.88 £60.41
90th Percentile £70.98 £64.70 £63.76
England median hourly rate £63.00 £70.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +13.82% -8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +2 9 £625 +8.41% 93
Yorkshire +8 1 £675 - 34
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 (10.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA Agile
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Automotive
2 2 (20.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Avionics
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Validation
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (20.00%) Application Packaging
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) SIEM
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GRC
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Tanium
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) SAP