Systems Engineering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Systems Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 277 273 374
Rank change year-on-year -4 +101 +167
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 27 72 103
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.47% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.53% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 31 45
10th Percentile £433 £413 £468
25th Percentile £475 £488 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £579
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -9.33% +2.93%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £623
90th Percentile - £627 £690
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £565
% change year-on-year +13.64% -2.57% +0.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 31 23
10th Percentile £61.20 £62.50 £47.50
25th Percentile £63.00 £67.50 £52.93
Median hourly rate £66.00 £70.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +6.06% -31.25%
75th Percentile £78.00 £75.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.20 £75.25 £84.96
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £70.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -12.14% +13.82% -8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Systems Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Systems Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Systems Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Systems Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Systems Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Systems Engineering hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Systems Engineering
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 2 (7.41%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) AWS
1 2 (7.41%) Azure
1 2 (7.41%) PaaS
2 1 (3.70%) Akamai
2 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Stack
2 1 (3.70%) GCP
2 1 (3.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) BGP
1 1 (3.70%) Converged Networks
1 1 (3.70%) DHCP
1 1 (3.70%) DMVPN
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) DWDM
1 1 (3.70%) GLBP
1 1 (3.70%) HTTP
1 1 (3.70%) IGRP
1 1 (3.70%) IPsec
1 1 (3.70%) LAN
1 1 (3.70%) MPLS
1 1 (3.70%) Multicast
1 1 (3.70%) NetScaler
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
1 1 (3.70%) OSPF
1 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.70%) SNMP
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
1 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.41%) DB2
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Axure RP
2 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Military
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Automotive
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Tester
2 6 (22.22%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Chief Systems Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Security Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Angular Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) GCP Architect
5 1 (3.70%) HTML CSS Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Human Factors Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Information Systems Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Information Systems Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Java Scala Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Remote Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Scala Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Web UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.41%) HTML
2 2 (7.41%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.70%) Bootstrap
3 1 (3.70%) CSS
3 1 (3.70%) CSS3
3 1 (3.70%) HTML5
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) SCADA
2 6 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (18.52%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.41%) Operational Technology
4 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.70%) CMDB
5 1 (3.70%) Derivative
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (3.70%) FMCG
5 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.70%) N-Tier
5 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Agile
1 7 (25.93%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (22.22%) Functional Testing
2 6 (22.22%) Performance Testing
3 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (18.52%) Roadmaps
4 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
4 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (11.11%) Scrum
5 3 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (7.41%) Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) Architectural Design
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Security
6 2 (7.41%) Data Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (7.41%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
6 2 (7.41%) Test Assurance
6 2 (7.41%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
1 2 (7.41%) Python
1 2 (7.41%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) Bash
2 1 (3.70%) C++
2 1 (3.70%) Java
2 1 (3.70%) Scala
2 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
4 2 (7.41%) CISM
4 2 (7.41%) CISSP
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CCDP
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Def Stans
2 2 (7.41%) GRC
2 2 (7.41%) NCSC
2 2 (7.41%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Ansible
1 2 (7.41%) HP ALM
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle
1 3 (11.11%) VMware
2 2 (7.41%) HP
2 2 (7.41%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.70%) Arista
3 1 (3.70%) Blue Coat
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco
3 1 (3.70%) Citrix
3 1 (3.70%) Dell
3 1 (3.70%) F5
3 1 (3.70%) Juniper
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) Riverbed
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) Zscaler