Senior Systems Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior System Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior System Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 327 453
Rank change year-on-year +28 +126 +165
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 5 18 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.12% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.13% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 9
10th Percentile - - £483
25th Percentile £457 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £472 £563 £575
90th Percentile - - £600
UK median daily rate £470 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.52% -4.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - - £61.38
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.96 £62.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £42.91 £65.85
Median % change year-on-year +57.31% -34.83% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £45.87 £68.75
90th Percentile - £51.25 -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £47.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +52.63% -29.63% +54.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Systems Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Systems Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Systems Engineer.

Senior Systems Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Senior Systems Engineer.

Senior Systems Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) PTC
1 1 (20.00%) SSH
1 1 (20.00%) MagicDraw
1 1 (20.00%) SysML
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) High Availability
1 1 (20.00%) Rational Rhapsody
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (20.00%) Coaching
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) SDLC
1 1 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (20.00%) PTC Integrity
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (20.00%) Sparx
1 1 (20.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Containerisation

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) SSH
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MagicDraw
1 1 (20.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Coaching
1 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) High Availability
1 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
1 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (20.00%) SDLC
1 1 (20.00%) SysML
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) PTC Integrity
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) PTC
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Sparx