Systems Engineering Contracts in Scotland

Systems Engineering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 114 120 157
Rank change year-on-year +6 +37 0
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 2 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.41% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.46% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £429 £566 £337
25th Percentile £434 £572 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £590 £445
Median % change year-on-year -21.80% +32.47% -6.32%
75th Percentile £481 £601 £514
90th Percentile £482 £604 £549
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £565
% change year-on-year +13.64% -2.57% +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £70.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -12.14% +13.82% -8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in Scotland

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in Scotland

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in Scotland

Systems Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Fife - 1 £472 - 2
Systems Engineering
UK

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (50.00%) Industry 4.0
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Contract Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
1 1 (50.00%) Smart Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware