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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 114 148
Rank change year-on-year -3 +34 +17
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.17% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.24% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £419 £566 £316
25th Percentile £420 £572 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £590 £336
Median % change year-on-year -24.72% +75.45% -41.57%
75th Percentile £470 £601 £345
90th Percentile £473 £604 £346
UK median daily rate £613 £550 £579
% change year-on-year +11.36% -5.01% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +13.82% +2.50%

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 1,591 1,653 2,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.86% 87.00% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 886 1,016 1,615
10th Percentile £263 £208 £249
25th Percentile £375 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £540 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 59 55
10th Percentile £16.59 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.25 £13.16
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -29.50%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £56.25
90th Percentile £28.19 £54.00 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

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 4 August 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
Glasgow -18 1 - - 2
Dundee - 1 £438 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Firmware Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Device Driver
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (33.33%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Server Management
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) Pega
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) VMware