Systems Engineering Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Systems Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 151 164
Rank change year-on-year -52 +13 +55
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 8 11 22
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.31% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.35% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £375 £576 -
25th Percentile £389 £593 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £633 £183
Median % change year-on-year -33.60% +246.58% -66.82%
75th Percentile £457 £660 £191
90th Percentile £475 £669 -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 21
10th Percentile - £43.37 -
25th Percentile £38.63 - -
Median hourly rate £41.71 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% - -30.03%
75th Percentile £44.78 - -
90th Percentile - £49.97 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £61.63
% change year-on-year +13.60% +1.41% +2.72%

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 4,189 3,114 4,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.62% 86.69% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 1,775 2,737
10th Percentile £215 £263 £290
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 157 191
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.36 £17.25 £17.74
Median hourly rate £28.96 £27.50 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -3.31% +27.82%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £66.45 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Systems Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Systems Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Systems Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Systems Engineering

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 19 December 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 -31 4 £475 -19.49% 13
Yorkshire -38 4 £365 -45.93% 3
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CICS
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Security Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Security Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Security Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Solaris
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
1 3 (37.50%) Secrets Management
1 3 (37.50%) Use Case
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Line Management
3 1 (12.50%) Model Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) IEC 61508
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 26262
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) KVM
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) EMC
3 1 (12.50%) F5
3 1 (12.50%) NetApp
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) VMware