Systems Engineer Contracts in the South East

System Engineer
England > South East

The median System Engineer daily rate in the South East is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 134 232
Rank change year-on-year +8 +98 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 76 78 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.38% 1.37% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.45% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 46 15
10th Percentile £275 £300 £223
25th Percentile £356 £400 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £435
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +6.32% +28.89%
75th Percentile £594 £519 £484
90th Percentile £635 £600 £605
England median daily rate £481 £513 £483
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.22% +15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 7
10th Percentile £59.04 £43.75 £17.08
25th Percentile £60.83 £48.40 £22.50
Median hourly rate £66.74 £55.40 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.47% +38.49% -8.57%
75th Percentile £76.43 £62.55 £50.63
90th Percentile £76.86 £63.78 £60.00
England median hourly rate £59.00 £60.70 £45.00
% change year-on-year -2.80% +34.89% -2.60%

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 5,089 5,391 7,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 94.75% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,062 3,766 4,994
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £619 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 241 330
10th Percentile £12.78 £16.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +140.40% -18.37%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £77.45 £75.00 £58.42
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +18 37 £600 - 41
Surrey +17 18 £525 +5.00% 6
Thames Valley -11 18 £375 -6.25% 36
Oxfordshire +4 12 £375 -6.25% 18
Berkshire -17 6 - - 13
Kent +7 2 - - 7
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 8 May 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 18 (23.68%) Validation
2 16 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.05%) Verification and Validation
3 14 (18.42%) Windows
4 12 (15.79%) Degree
4 12 (15.79%) Systems Engineering
5 11 (14.47%) Unix
5 11 (14.47%) SC Cleared
6 10 (13.16%) Military
6 10 (13.16%) Customer Requirements
7 9 (11.84%) Master's Degree
7 9 (11.84%) Python
7 9 (11.84%) DV Cleared
8 8 (10.53%) Software Engineering
8 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
8 8 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (9.21%) Risk Management
9 7 (9.21%) Finance
9 7 (9.21%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (9.21%) UML
9 7 (9.21%) ITIL
9 7 (9.21%) Customer Engagement
9 7 (9.21%) PCI DSS
9 7 (9.21%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (9.21%) Requirements Management
9 7 (9.21%) Requirements Analysis
9 7 (9.21%) Marketing
9 7 (9.21%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (9.21%) Budgeting

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 (3.95%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.63%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.32%) MTS
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Simulink
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (2.63%) Azure
3 1 (1.32%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.26%) VLAN
3 3 (3.95%) Firewall
3 3 (3.95%) LAN
3 3 (3.95%) WAN
4 2 (2.63%) DHCP
4 2 (2.63%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (2.63%) iSCSI
4 2 (2.63%) NAS
4 2 (2.63%) RS-232
4 2 (2.63%) SAN
4 2 (2.63%) SSL
4 2 (2.63%) VoIP
4 2 (2.63%) VPN
4 2 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.32%) DSL
5 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.32%) LTE
5 1 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.32%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (3.95%) LabVIEW
3 2 (2.63%) JIRA
3 2 (2.63%) TestRail
4 1 (1.32%) GitLab
4 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (13.16%) Military
2 7 (9.21%) Finance
2 7 (9.21%) Marketing
2 7 (9.21%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Automotive
4 4 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.63%) French Language
5 2 (2.63%) Portuguese Language
5 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.63%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.32%) Electronics
6 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.32%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.95%) SCADA
2 2 (2.63%) Life Science
3 1 (1.32%) CCTV
3 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.32%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.42%) Windows
2 11 (14.47%) Unix
3 5 (6.58%) Linux
4 2 (2.63%) Android
4 2 (2.63%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.32%) Debian
5 1 (1.32%) VMS
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.68%) Validation
2 16 (21.05%) Verification and Validation
3 12 (15.79%) Systems Engineering
4 10 (13.16%) Customer Requirements
5 8 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 8 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (9.21%) Budgeting
6 7 (9.21%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (9.21%) Customer Engagement
6 7 (9.21%) ITIL
6 7 (9.21%) Process Improvement
6 7 (9.21%) Requirements Analysis
6 7 (9.21%) Requirements Management
6 7 (9.21%) Risk Management
6 7 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (9.21%) Test Strategy
6 7 (9.21%) UML
7 4 (5.26%) Change Management
8 3 (3.95%) Scrum
8 3 (3.95%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.84%) Python
2 5 (6.58%) C
2 5 (6.58%) MATLAB
3 3 (3.95%) Java
4 2 (2.63%) C++
4 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.63%) SQL
5 1 (1.32%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.79%) Degree
3 11 (14.47%) SC Cleared
4 9 (11.84%) DV Cleared
4 9 (11.84%) Master's Degree
5 7 (9.21%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.63%) CCNA
6 2 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.63%) HNC
6 2 (2.63%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.63%) MCSE
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.63%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.63%) Firmware
2 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.63%) vSphere
3 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (1.32%) SCCM
1 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.95%) VMware
3 2 (2.63%) Apple
3 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.32%) FireEye
4 1 (1.32%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.32%) Tanium