Systems Engineer Contracts in the South East

System Engineer
England > South East

The median System Engineer daily rate in the South East is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 146 227
Rank change year-on-year +22 +81 -59
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 78 80 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.39% 1.35% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 1.43% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 47 18
10th Percentile £335 £300 £239
25th Percentile £410 £400 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% +41.18%
75th Percentile £563 £522 £625
90th Percentile £634 £600 £630
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +24.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 9
10th Percentile £59.00 £39.25 £17.36
25th Percentile £59.44 £46.25 £27.36
Median hourly rate £66.74 £54.56 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% +49.48% -11.52%
75th Percentile £76.86 £62.55 £43.75
90th Percentile - £63.53 £58.75
England median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £43.60
% change year-on-year -4.17% +37.63% -7.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 5,204 5,592 7,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.30% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,123 3,891 5,110
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £601 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 238 336
10th Percentile £12.80 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the South East

Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineer in the South East

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineer in the South East

Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineer in the South East

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineer in the South East

Systems Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +21 33 £600 - 34
Surrey +23 28 £525 +5.00% 7
Thames Valley -15 14 £350 -12.50% 32
Oxfordshire 0 9 £350 -12.50% 13
Berkshire -16 5 - - 15
Kent +7 2 - - 4
Sussex - 1 £427 -
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Systems Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.36%) Validation
2 19 (24.36%) Systems Engineering
3 17 (21.79%) Verification and Validation
4 15 (19.23%) SC Cleared
5 14 (17.95%) Requirements Management
5 14 (17.95%) Windows
5 14 (17.95%) UML
6 13 (16.67%) Degree
7 12 (15.38%) Unix
8 10 (12.82%) Military
8 10 (12.82%) Master's Degree
8 10 (12.82%) Customer Requirements
9 9 (11.54%) Rational DOORS
9 9 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (11.54%) Change Management
9 9 (11.54%) Python
9 9 (11.54%) Software Engineering
9 9 (11.54%) DV Cleared
10 8 (10.26%) Customer Engagement
10 8 (10.26%) Requirements Analysis
10 8 (10.26%) Marketing
10 8 (10.26%) ITIL
10 8 (10.26%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (10.26%) Risk Management
10 8 (10.26%) Finance
10 8 (10.26%) Test Strategy
10 8 (10.26%) Process Improvement
10 8 (10.26%) PCI DSS
10 8 (10.26%) Collaborative Working

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.56%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.28%) MTS
Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Simulink
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.85%) Azure
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.28%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.13%) VLAN
3 3 (3.85%) Firewall
3 3 (3.85%) LAN
3 3 (3.85%) WAN
4 2 (2.56%) DHCP
4 2 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (2.56%) iSCSI
4 2 (2.56%) NAS
4 2 (2.56%) RS-232
4 2 (2.56%) SAN
4 2 (2.56%) SSL
4 2 (2.56%) VoIP
4 2 (2.56%) VPN
4 2 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.28%) DSL
5 1 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.28%) LTE
5 1 (1.28%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.28%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 9 (11.54%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (3.85%) LabVIEW
3 2 (2.56%) JIRA
3 2 (2.56%) TestRail
4 1 (1.28%) GitLab
4 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (12.82%) Military
2 8 (10.26%) Finance
2 8 (10.26%) Marketing
2 8 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.41%) Social Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Aerospace
5 4 (5.13%) Automotive
5 4 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.56%) French Language
6 2 (2.56%) Portuguese Language
6 2 (2.56%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.28%) Electronics
7 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.28%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.13%) SCADA
2 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.28%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.28%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.95%) Windows
2 12 (15.38%) Unix
3 5 (6.41%) Linux
4 2 (2.56%) Android
4 2 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.36%) Systems Engineering
1 19 (24.36%) Validation
2 17 (21.79%) Verification and Validation
3 14 (17.95%) Requirements Management
3 14 (17.95%) UML
4 10 (12.82%) Customer Requirements
5 9 (11.54%) Change Management
5 9 (11.54%) Software Engineering
5 9 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (10.26%) Budgeting
6 8 (10.26%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (10.26%) Customer Engagement
6 8 (10.26%) ITIL
6 8 (10.26%) Process Improvement
6 8 (10.26%) Requirements Analysis
6 8 (10.26%) Risk Management
6 8 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (10.26%) Test Strategy
7 6 (7.69%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 6 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.54%) Python
2 5 (6.41%) C
2 5 (6.41%) MATLAB
3 3 (3.85%) Java
4 2 (2.56%) C++
4 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.56%) SQL
5 1 (1.28%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 13 (16.67%) Degree
4 10 (12.82%) Master's Degree
5 9 (11.54%) DV Cleared
6 8 (10.26%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.56%) CCNA
7 2 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.56%) HNC
7 2 (2.56%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (2.56%) MCSE
7 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) PCI DSS
2 6 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 2 (2.56%) QA
3 2 (2.56%) SLA
4 1 (1.28%) HAZOP
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.56%) Firmware
2 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.56%) vSphere
3 1 (1.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (2.56%) SCCM
1 2 (2.56%) WSUS
2 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 6 (7.69%) Sparx
2 3 (3.85%) VMware
3 2 (2.56%) Apple
3 2 (2.56%) Red Hat