Systems Engineering Contracts in Plymouth

Systems Engineering
Devon > Plymouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Plymouth 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 12 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Plymouth 2.63% 3.13% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 4.76% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Devon median daily rate £525 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
Devon median hourly rate - £80.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Plymouth

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 Plymouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33 42 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Plymouth 86.84% 65.63% 67.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 26
10th Percentile £153 £57 £121
25th Percentile £214 £141 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £503 £600 £484
90th Percentile £531 £738 £618
Devon median daily rate £425 £425 £473
% change year-on-year - -10.05% +15.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 5
10th Percentile £34.11 £10.42 -
25th Percentile £55.31 £37.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +231.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £79.00
Devon median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +116.67% -45.45% +161.90%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Plymouth.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in Plymouth

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Plymouth

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in Plymouth.

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in Plymouth

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Plymouth

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in Plymouth.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in Plymouth

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Plymouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk