Systems Engineer Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

System Engineer
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The median System Engineer daily rate in Stevenage is £452, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 21 40
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 26 12 5
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 8.55% 8.70% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 9.15% 8.89% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £451 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 - £475
75th Percentile £453 - £488
90th Percentile £454 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £454 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -47.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 0
10th Percentile £44.58 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £44.94 £68.13 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile £74.63 £71.25 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Stevenage

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Stevenage. 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 Stevenage with a recognized job title 284 135 218
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.42% 97.83% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 26 38
10th Percentile £183 £283 £217
25th Percentile £378 £311 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £478 £448
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% +6.76% -3.76%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £519
90th Percentile £705 - £650
Hertfordshire median daily rate £526 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +10.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 136
10th Percentile £41.88 £35.00 £38.43
25th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £95.00 £90.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +5.65%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Systems Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage.

Systems Engineer job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in Stevenage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in Stevenage

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in Stevenage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in Stevenage

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Stevenage

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineer in Stevenage over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineer in Stevenage

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, Systems Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Stevenage region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) System Testing
3 3 (11.54%) Linux
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) Data Acquisition
5 1 (3.85%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.85%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (3.85%) Process Improvement
5 1 (3.85%) Python
5 1 (3.85%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.85%) Service Management
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) SpaceWire
5 1 (3.85%) SSL
5 1 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (3.85%) Tcl
5 1 (3.85%) TestOps
5 1 (3.85%) Unix
5 1 (3.85%) VBA
5 1 (3.85%) Workload Management

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) SpaceWire
1 1 (3.85%) SSL
General
1 15 (57.69%) Aerospace
2 10 (38.46%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.85%) Military
3 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) System Testing
2 1 (3.85%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (3.85%) Incident Management
2 1 (3.85%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (3.85%) Process Improvement
2 1 (3.85%) Service Delivery
2 1 (3.85%) Service Management
2 1 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (3.85%) TestOps
2 1 (3.85%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Bash
1 1 (3.85%) C
1 1 (3.85%) Java
1 1 (3.85%) Python
1 1 (3.85%) Tcl
1 1 (3.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow