Systems Engineering Contracts in the Thames Valley

Systems Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Systems Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 115 145
Rank change year-on-year +21 +30 +11
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 5 21 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.34% 0.80% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.92% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £338 -
25th Percentile £538 £350 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £372 £625
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -40.56% +19.05%
75th Percentile £719 £524 £638
90th Percentile £783 £614 -
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £80.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £73.59 £65.00
% change year-on-year -25.26% +13.21% -0.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,351 2,275 2,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.20% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 1,262 1,764
10th Percentile £300 £213 £315
25th Percentile £402 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £604
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £502
% change year-on-year -0.05% -0.25% +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 167 64
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.28 £19.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% -11.85% +200.29%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.85 £66.21
90th Percentile £76.68 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £25.82 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -45.65% -5.00% +132.56%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the Thames Valley

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in the Thames Valley

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineering in the Thames Valley

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in the Thames Valley

Systems Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 May 2025. 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
Berkshire +15 4 £575 +54.78% 50
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 30
Systems Engineering
South East

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Teamcenter
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Management
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) HNC
4 1 (20.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ARP4754
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM