Systems Engineering Contracts in the West Midlands

Systems Engineering
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 101 122
Rank change year-on-year +19 +21 +42
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 15 10 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.12% 0.51% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.61% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £453 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -29.03%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £688
90th Percentile - - £830
England median daily rate £631 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +14.77% -2.22% +1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £70.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +13.82% -8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the West Midlands

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in the West Midlands

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in the West Midlands

Systems Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire +13 11 £475 - 18
Staffordshire 0 2 - - 18
Birmingham - 1 - - 8
Solihull - 1 - - 1
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (6.67%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Converged Networks
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) LabVIEW
2 1 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.67%) Automotive
2 1 (6.67%) Electronics
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Tester
2 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Design Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Design Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) SCADA
2 6 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Functional Testing
2 6 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 5 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Scrum
3 5 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Test Assurance
3 5 (33.33%) Test Management
3 5 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 5 (33.33%) User Stories
4 4 (26.67%) Change Management
4 4 (26.67%) Validation
5 3 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
6 2 (13.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 1 (6.67%) Business Case
7 1 (6.67%) Energy Management
7 1 (6.67%) Model Validation
7 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) C++
1 1 (6.67%) Java
1 1 (6.67%) MATLAB
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) AUTOSAR
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) HP
1 5 (33.33%) MuleSoft
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle