Control Systems Engineer Contracts

Control Systems Engineer
UK

The median Control Systems Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 703 841
Rank change year-on-year +128 +138 -
Contract jobs requiring a Control Systems Engineer 16 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.004% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £233 £379 £388
25th Percentile £425 £384 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -13.16% -
75th Percentile £475 £434 £544
90th Percentile £499 £436 £563
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.51% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £47.50 - -
25th Percentile £49.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - £55.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

Control Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Control Systems Engineer in the UK

Control Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Control Systems Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Control Systems Engineer in the UK

Control Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Control Systems Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Control Systems Engineer in the UK

Control Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Control Systems Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Control Systems Engineer in the UK

Control Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Control Systems Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Control Systems Engineer in the UK

Control Systems Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Control Systems Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +129 16 £450 +9.09% 105
UK excluding London +65 15 £450 +12.50% 106
East of England - 7 £450 - 15
Midlands - 5 - - 26
West Midlands - 5 - - 15
South West +17 3 - - 9
Work from Home - 3 - - 20
London - 1 £515 - 9

Control Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Control 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 featuring Control Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (37.50%) Automotive
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
1 6 (37.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 5 (31.25%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (31.25%) Verification and Validation
2 5 (31.25%) White-Box Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) MISRA C
2 5 (31.25%) MISRA
2 5 (31.25%) Software Audit
2 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Functional Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Bitbucket
2 5 (31.25%) Black-Box Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Line Management
2 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
2 5 (31.25%) ISO 26262
2 5 (31.25%) Integration Testing
2 5 (31.25%) QMS
2 5 (31.25%) Git
2 5 (31.25%) TargetLink
2 5 (31.25%) Validation
2 5 (31.25%) Quality Management
2 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Subversion
2 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
2 5 (31.25%) C
2 5 (31.25%) UML

Control Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Simulink
1 5 (31.25%) Stateflow
1 5 (31.25%) TargetLink
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Bitbucket
1 5 (31.25%) Git
1 5 (31.25%) Subversion
General
1 6 (37.50%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Black-Box Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Functional Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Integration Testing
2 5 (31.25%) Line Management
2 5 (31.25%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Project Management
2 5 (31.25%) QMS
2 5 (31.25%) Quality Management
2 5 (31.25%) Software Audit
2 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
2 5 (31.25%) UML
2 5 (31.25%) Validation
2 5 (31.25%) Verification and Validation
2 5 (31.25%) White-Box Testing
3 1 (6.25%) High Availability
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) C
1 5 (31.25%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) HNC
3 1 (6.25%) HND
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (31.25%) ISO 26262
1 5 (31.25%) MISRA
1 5 (31.25%) MISRA C
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Siemens
2 1 (6.25%) Rockwell