Hybrid/Remote Systems Engineering Contract Job Trends

Systems Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 289 297
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +154
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 33 28 84
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 0.24% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.27% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 49
10th Percentile £362 £538 £457
25th Percentile £450 £583 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £659 £560
Median % change year-on-year -24.13% +17.68% -3.28%
75th Percentile £575 £842 £674
90th Percentile £651 £952 £900
UK median daily rate £488 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -15.22% +0.44% +0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 8
10th Percentile £54.90 £54.09 £52.63
25th Percentile £65.75 £60.00 £60.31
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £93.75 £75.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £119.00 £78.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £72.25 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +15.60% +0.81% +3.33%

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 9,307 10,398 15,211
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.96% 89.03% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,155 6,534 10,383
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 212 370
10th Percentile £15.27 £17.58 £19.91
25th Percentile £20.47 £22.00 £27.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -30.84% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £71.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Systems Engineering and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Systems Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Systems Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Systems Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Systems Engineering hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

Systems Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Primavera
2 1 (3.03%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 2 (6.06%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.06%) GitHub
3 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) InfiniBand
2 1 (3.03%) DHCP
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.03%) MySQL
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (6.06%) GitLab
2 2 (6.06%) Maven
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) NeoLoad
General
1 13 (39.39%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (33.33%) Electronics
3 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Telecoms
5 5 (15.15%) Finance
6 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
7 2 (6.06%) Legal
7 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.06%) Marketing
8 1 (3.03%) Advertising
8 1 (3.03%) Banking
8 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Embedded Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) System Design Authority
5 3 (9.09%) Ada Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Ada Software Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Project Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Project Leader
6 2 (6.06%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (6.06%) Kafka
1 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (6.06%) CUDA
2 2 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) SCADA
3 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (24.24%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Ubuntu
3 3 (9.09%) Windows
4 1 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Software Engineering
2 13 (39.39%) Validation
3 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
3 7 (21.21%) Customer Requirements
3 7 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (18.18%) API Integration
4 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 6 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
4 6 (18.18%) Machine Learning
4 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (15.15%) DevOps
5 5 (15.15%) DevSecOps
6 4 (12.12%) API Design
6 4 (12.12%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
6 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
6 4 (12.12%) OCR
6 4 (12.12%) Patch Management
6 4 (12.12%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) C
2 4 (12.12%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) Ada
3 3 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) Bash
5 1 (3.03%) Go
5 1 (3.03%) MATLAB
5 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) CFCE
4 1 (3.03%) CISSP
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) GCFA
4 1 (3.03%) GCIA
4 1 (3.03%) GCIH
4 1 (3.03%) GIAC
4 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) Def Stans
2 6 (18.18%) DO-178B
2 6 (18.18%) MISRA
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) NIST
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Firmware
2 3 (9.09%) Docker
3 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.06%) Ceph
3 2 (6.06%) Lustre
3 2 (6.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) SCOM
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.03%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) Cilium
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.03%) Podman
4 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) NVIDIA
2 3 (9.09%) VMware
3 2 (6.06%) Dell
3 2 (6.06%) Mellanox
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
3 2 (6.06%) Supermicro
4 1 (3.03%) ArcSight
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.03%) DIgSILENT
4 1 (3.03%) LogRhythm
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) Splunk