Systems Engineering Contracts in England

Systems Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Systems Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 427 574
Rank change year-on-year +115 +147 -48
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 234 230 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.48% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.53% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 98 107
10th Percentile £329 £463 £431
25th Percentile £488 £510 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -3.26% +6.48%
75th Percentile £630 £605 £644
90th Percentile £693 £688 £768
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.57% -1.83% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 54 24
10th Percentile £46.91 £45.00 £41.98
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.83 £49.57
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £66.02
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -6.85% +32.04%
75th Percentile £75.16 £69.00 £76.42
90th Percentile £76.86 £79.25 £96.16
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £66.02
% change year-on-year +13.82% -6.85% +32.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Systems Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,491 43,355 63,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.40% 90.10% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,435 45,445
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,535 1,743
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineering in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 17 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
South West -14 57 £575 +3.37% 90
South East +32 55 £525 -4.55% 97
London +61 40 £575 - 63
North of England +47 34 £577 -3.92% 52
East of England +31 33 £300 - 53
North West +28 24 £577 -3.92% 42
Midlands +27 14 £550 +4.76% 48
North East - 11 - - 4
West Midlands +21 10 £550 +2.33% 29
East Midlands +14 4 £563 +7.14% 19
Yorkshire +13 1 - - 7
Systems Engineering
UK

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (0.85%) Apache
1 2 (0.85%) Apache Solr
1 2 (0.85%) Confluence
1 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Simulink
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 7 (2.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.14%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.85%) Primavera
4 1 (0.43%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.69%) AWS
2 15 (6.41%) Azure
3 6 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.85%) Akamai
5 2 (0.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.43%) Asana
6 1 (0.43%) IaaS
6 1 (0.43%) Miro
6 1 (0.43%) PaaS
6 1 (0.43%) SaaS
6 1 (0.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.43%) Serverless
6 1 (0.43%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.41%) Ethernet
2 10 (4.27%) DNS
3 9 (3.85%) DHCP
4 7 (2.99%) 4G
4 7 (2.99%) 5G
4 7 (2.99%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.14%) Network Security
6 4 (1.71%) Firewall
6 4 (1.71%) Internet
6 4 (1.71%) VoIP
6 4 (1.71%) WAN
7 2 (0.85%) 3G
7 2 (0.85%) GPRS
8 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.43%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.43%) LAN
8 1 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.43%) SNMP
8 1 (0.43%) VoWiFi
8 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.85%) MySQL
3 2 (0.85%) Redis
4 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.43%) Power BI
4 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (15.38%) Rational DOORS
2 21 (8.97%) JIRA
3 10 (4.27%) Rational Rhapsody
4 8 (3.42%) Git
4 8 (3.42%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.85%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.43%) CMake
7 1 (0.43%) GitLab
7 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 40 (17.09%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.25%) Electronics
3 27 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 22 (9.40%) Finance
5 18 (7.69%) Aerospace
6 11 (4.70%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.42%) Marketing
8 8 (3.42%) Military
9 6 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.28%) Front Office
11 2 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Retail
12 1 (0.43%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.43%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Automotive
12 1 (0.43%) Aviation
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (26.50%) Systems Engineer
2 45 (19.23%) Lead
3 42 (17.95%) Architect
4 34 (14.53%) Principal Engineer
5 33 (14.10%) Senior
6 31 (13.25%) Systems Architect
7 29 (12.39%) Network Architect
7 29 (12.39%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 21 (8.97%) Lead Architect
9 20 (8.55%) Software Engineer
10 17 (7.26%) Consultant
11 16 (6.84%) Integration Engineer
12 15 (6.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 12 (5.13%) Site Engineer
13 12 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 10 (4.27%) Ada Engineer
14 10 (4.27%) Ada Software Engineer
14 10 (4.27%) Validation Engineer
15 9 (3.85%) Project Manager
15 9 (3.85%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (2.99%) PyTorch
1 7 (2.99%) TensorFlow
2 3 (1.28%) Kafka
2 3 (1.28%) Web Services
3 2 (0.85%) LDAP
3 2 (0.85%) Middleware
4 1 (0.43%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.43%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (6.41%) Analogue Electronics
2 15 (6.41%) Robotics
3 8 (3.42%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (2.14%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.71%) Clustering
7 4 (1.71%) FPGA
8 3 (1.28%) VHDL
9 2 (0.85%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.85%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.85%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.85%) Smart Meter
10 1 (0.43%) GNSS
10 1 (0.43%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.10%) Windows
2 19 (8.12%) Linux
2 19 (8.12%) Unix
3 14 (5.98%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (21.37%) Validation
2 42 (17.95%) Software Engineering
3 34 (14.53%) UML
4 32 (13.68%) Requirements Management
5 31 (13.25%) DevOps
6 30 (12.82%) Network Management
7 29 (12.39%) Agile
8 28 (11.97%) Verification and Validation
9 26 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
10 21 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (8.97%) Strategic Thinking
11 19 (8.12%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (8.12%) SysML
12 18 (7.69%) Design for Manufacturing
13 17 (7.26%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
14 16 (6.84%) Project Management
15 15 (6.41%) ITIL
15 15 (6.41%) Prototyping
15 15 (6.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 14 (5.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.55%) Java
1 20 (8.55%) Python
2 17 (7.26%) C#
3 16 (6.84%) SQL
4 13 (5.56%) C
5 10 (4.27%) Ada
5 10 (4.27%) MATLAB
6 8 (3.42%) Go
7 7 (2.99%) C++
7 7 (2.99%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.56%) F#
9 2 (0.85%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.85%) Ruby
10 1 (0.43%) Bash
10 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.43%) Perl
10 1 (0.43%) Rust
10 1 (0.43%) Scala
10 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 76 (32.48%) SC Cleared
3 64 (27.35%) Degree
4 17 (7.26%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.85%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.28%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.85%) HNC
8 2 (0.85%) HND
9 1 (0.43%) EMC Certification
9 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.43%) PhD
9 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.43%) PMP
9 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.56%) QA
2 8 (3.42%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.99%) NIST
4 6 (2.56%) NCSC
5 4 (1.71%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.43%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 8 (3.42%) Firmware
1 8 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (2.99%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.85%) Docker
5 2 (0.85%) vSphere
6 1 (0.43%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.27%) SCCM
3 7 (2.99%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.56%) Opsgenie
4 6 (2.56%) Terraform
5 4 (1.71%) Ansible
6 3 (1.28%) IBM BigFix
6 3 (1.28%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.85%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.85%) Grafana
7 2 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.85%) Puppet
8 1 (0.43%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.43%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.43%) Kibana
8 1 (0.43%) logstash
8 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (5.13%) IBM
1 12 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.70%) VMware
3 9 (3.85%) SAP
4 8 (3.42%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.42%) Splunk
5 7 (2.99%) Adobe
5 7 (2.99%) Avaloq
5 7 (2.99%) New Relic
5 7 (2.99%) PagerDuty
5 7 (2.99%) Sparx
5 7 (2.99%) Veeam
6 6 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.56%) Oracle
7 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.71%) EMC
9 3 (1.28%) Remedy
9 3 (1.28%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.85%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.85%) Red Hat