Systems Engineering Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Systems Engineering
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £365 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 603 387 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.87% 89.79% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 203 240
10th Percentile £313 £250 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% -11.48% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £663
90th Percentile £637 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £518 £587
% change year-on-year -7.25% -11.91% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £13.14 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 - £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Systems Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Systems Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (50.00%) CICS
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) VMware