Systems Engineering Contracts in London

Systems Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 430 499
Rank change year-on-year +75 +69 -71
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 40 64 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.25% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.27% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 55
10th Percentile £265 £456 £431
25th Percentile £478 £500 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £700 £663 £625
90th Percentile £713 £681 £798
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £44.38 £46.47
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.00 £47.03
Median hourly rate £55.00 £51.49 £48.59
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +5.96% +27.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.76 £49.53
90th Percentile - £63.84 £49.72
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £66.02
% change year-on-year +13.82% -6.85% +32.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,492 23,515 35,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.89% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,111 16,974 26,028
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 266 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.25 £17.18
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.43 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.17 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% +0.46% +13.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.38 £67.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in London

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in London

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineering in London

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in London

Systems Engineering
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London +43 7 £725 +11.54% 3
West London +22 4 £450 - 10
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) CATIA
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Primavera
1 1 (2.50%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (2.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) AWS
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.00%) Akamai
3 2 (5.00%) Azure
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.50%) Asana
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) IaaS
4 1 (2.50%) Miro
4 1 (2.50%) PaaS
4 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
4 1 (2.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Serverless
4 1 (2.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) DHCP
1 2 (5.00%) DNS
1 2 (5.00%) Internet
2 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.00%) MySQL
3 2 (5.00%) Redis
4 1 (2.50%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) JIRA
2 7 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.50%) CMake
4 1 (2.50%) Git
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Aerospace
3 3 (7.50%) Front Office
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Military
4 2 (5.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.50%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Automotive
5 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Senior
2 7 (17.50%) Lead
2 7 (17.50%) Site Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Technical Leader
5 3 (7.50%) Desktop Support
5 3 (7.50%) Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Support
7 1 (2.50%) C# Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Deskside Support
7 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Hardware Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (7.50%) Kafka
2 3 (7.50%) Web Services
3 2 (5.00%) LDAP
3 2 (5.00%) Middleware
4 1 (2.50%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (15.00%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.00%) Hedge funds
5 2 (5.00%) Market Risk
5 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.00%) Smart Meter
6 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.50%) SCADA
6 1 (2.50%) Solar Panel
6 1 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) CentOS
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Agile
2 9 (22.50%) DevOps
2 9 (22.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 8 (20.00%) Observability
3 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 5 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 5 (12.50%) Data Science
5 5 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 5 (12.50%) Open Source
5 5 (12.50%) OSINT
5 5 (12.50%) SysML
5 5 (12.50%) UML
6 4 (10.00%) Information Security
6 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (10.00%) Technical Debt
6 4 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 4 (10.00%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) Java
2 11 (27.50%) Python
3 8 (20.00%) Go
4 4 (10.00%) SQL
5 3 (7.50%) C#
6 2 (5.00%) C
6 2 (5.00%) C++
6 2 (5.00%) Ruby
7 1 (2.50%) Bash
7 1 (2.50%) F#
7 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.50%) Perl
7 1 (2.50%) Scala
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.00%) HNC
3 2 (5.00%) HND
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) EMC Certification
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Firmware
2 1 (2.50%) NFS
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Opsgenie
1 6 (15.00%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) AirWatch
3 2 (5.00%) Grafana
3 2 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.00%) Puppet
3 2 (5.00%) SCCM
4 1 (2.50%) Kibana
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.50%) logstash
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Adobe
1 7 (17.50%) New Relic
1 7 (17.50%) PagerDuty
1 7 (17.50%) Salesforce
1 7 (17.50%) SAP
1 7 (17.50%) Splunk
2 6 (15.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.00%) Apple
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Amdocs
4 1 (2.50%) Citrix
4 1 (2.50%) EMC
4 1 (2.50%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.50%) QNX
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) Rockwell
4 1 (2.50%) Siemens
4 1 (2.50%) VMware