Systems Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sunderland

System Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The median System Engineer daily rate in Sunderland is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sunderland 29.41% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 38.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £265 - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £350 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sunderland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sunderland. 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 Sunderland with a recognized job title 13 8 9
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 76.47% 100.00% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 3
10th Percentile £223 - £393
25th Percentile £275 £188 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £323 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -43.91% +27.78%
75th Percentile £375 £474 £663
90th Percentile - £523 £708
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.50 - -
75th Percentile £39.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £14.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +364.45% -72.01% +104.08%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

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 Sunderland.

Systems Engineer job vacancy trend in Sunderland

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Sunderland

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

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

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Sunderland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in Sunderland over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineer in Sunderland

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland

For the 6 months to 19 August 2026, 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 Sunderland region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Okta
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Server Migrations
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) CRM
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Server Migrations
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Okta
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam
2 1 (20.00%) VMware