Principal Systems Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Principal Systems Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

As of 31 May 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Principal Systems Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 432 509
Rank change year-on-year +98 +77 -64
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Systems Engineer 65 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.026% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.028% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £800 -
UK median daily rate - £800 £520
% change year-on-year - +53.85% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 3 2
10th Percentile £52.50 £53.96 £52.57
25th Percentile £56.25 £58.10 £56.33
Median hourly rate £67.27 £65.00 £63.23
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +2.81% +34.52%
75th Percentile £75.16 - £69.50
90th Percentile £76.86 - £72.88
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £65.00 £63.23
% change year-on-year +0.77% +2.81% +5.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,202 21,479 29,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.24% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 14,946 20,475
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,077 1,407
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.02
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.06
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Principal Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Principal Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Principal Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal Systems Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Principal Systems Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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 East +29 21 - - 16
East of England - 14 - - 7
South West +19 11 - - 9
North West - 8 - - 5
North of England - 8 - - 7
Scotland - 6 - - 1
Midlands - 5 - - 6
West Midlands - 5 - -
Principal Systems Engineer
UK

Principal Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Principal 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Principal Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (44.62%) Systems Engineering
2 21 (32.31%) Verification and Validation
2 21 (32.31%) Validation
3 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.92%) Security Cleared
4 9 (13.85%) Degree
4 9 (13.85%) MATLAB
4 9 (13.85%) Algorithms
5 7 (10.77%) Aerospace
6 5 (7.69%) Automotive
6 5 (7.69%) Quality Management
6 5 (7.69%) Management Information System
6 5 (7.69%) Agile
6 5 (7.69%) Subversion
6 5 (7.69%) Simulink
6 5 (7.69%) Stateflow
6 5 (7.69%) Project Management
6 5 (7.69%) C
6 5 (7.69%) UML
6 5 (7.69%) Integration Testing
6 5 (7.69%) QMS
6 5 (7.69%) Software Engineering
6 5 (7.69%) Git
6 5 (7.69%) Azure
6 5 (7.69%) Requirements Engineering
6 5 (7.69%) TargetLink
6 5 (7.69%) Functional Testing
6 5 (7.69%) Bitbucket
6 5 (7.69%) Black-Box Testing
6 5 (7.69%) DevOps

Principal Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Simulink
1 5 (7.69%) Stateflow
1 5 (7.69%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.69%) Azure
1 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 5 (7.69%) Git
1 5 (7.69%) Subversion
2 1 (1.54%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (10.77%) Aerospace
2 5 (7.69%) Automotive
3 1 (1.54%) Advertising
3 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.15%) Clustering
4 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (44.62%) Systems Engineering
2 21 (32.31%) Validation
2 21 (32.31%) Verification and Validation
3 5 (7.69%) Agile
3 5 (7.69%) Black-Box Testing
3 5 (7.69%) DevOps
3 5 (7.69%) Functional Testing
3 5 (7.69%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 5 (7.69%) Integration Testing
3 5 (7.69%) Line Management
3 5 (7.69%) Product Backlog
3 5 (7.69%) Project Management
3 5 (7.69%) QMS
3 5 (7.69%) Quality Management
3 5 (7.69%) Requirements Engineering
3 5 (7.69%) Software Engineering
3 5 (7.69%) Software Testing
3 5 (7.69%) Sprint Review
3 5 (7.69%) UML
3 5 (7.69%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.85%) MATLAB
2 5 (7.69%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
1 11 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.85%) Degree
3 5 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (7.69%) ISO 26262
1 5 (7.69%) MISRA
1 5 (7.69%) MISRA C
Vendors
1 1 (1.54%) IBM