Principal Systems Engineer Contracts

Principal Systems Engineer
UK

As of 16 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.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 676 836
Rank change year-on-year +168 +160 -163
Contract jobs requiring a Principal Systems Engineer 68 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.014% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.015% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - £622 £519
25th Percentile - £624 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £725 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +39.42% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £800 £656
90th Percentile - - £665
UK excluding London median daily rate - £800 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 3 2
10th Percentile £50.00 £53.96 £52.57
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.10 £56.33
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.00 £63.23
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +2.81% +5.38%
75th Percentile £75.16 - £69.50
90th Percentile £76.86 - £72.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.27 £65.00 £63.23
% change year-on-year +3.48% +2.81% +34.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Principal Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Systems Engineer in the UK

Principal Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Principal Systems Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Principal Systems Engineer in the UK

Principal Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Principal Systems Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Principal Systems Engineer in the UK

Principal Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Principal Systems Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Principal Systems Engineer in the UK

Principal Systems Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
England +164 56 - - 57
UK excluding London +104 56 - - 46
South East +31 21 - - 16
South West +19 11 - - 12
East of England - 9 - - 8
Work from Home - 7 - - 17
London +108 6 - - 13
Scotland - 6 - - 1
West Midlands - 5 - -
Midlands - 5 - - 3
North West - 4 - - 9
North of England - 4 - - 10

Principal Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 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 featuring Principal Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (42.65%) Systems Engineering
2 20 (29.41%) Verification and Validation
2 20 (29.41%) Validation
3 10 (14.71%) Aerospace
3 10 (14.71%) Degree
4 9 (13.24%) MATLAB
4 9 (13.24%) Algorithms
5 7 (10.29%) Security Cleared
6 6 (8.82%) Agile
6 6 (8.82%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 5 (7.35%) MISRA C
7 5 (7.35%) MISRA
7 5 (7.35%) Software Audit
7 5 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.35%) Functional Testing
7 5 (7.35%) Bitbucket
7 5 (7.35%) Black-Box Testing
7 5 (7.35%) DevOps
7 5 (7.35%) Line Management
7 5 (7.35%) Sprint Review
7 5 (7.35%) White-Box Testing
7 5 (7.35%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (7.35%) Master's Degree
7 5 (7.35%) ISO 26262
7 5 (7.35%) Product Backlog
7 5 (7.35%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 5 (7.35%) AUTOSAR
7 5 (7.35%) Subversion
7 5 (7.35%) Automotive
7 5 (7.35%) Quality Management

Principal Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.35%) Simulink
1 5 (7.35%) Stateflow
1 5 (7.35%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.35%) Azure
1 5 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Bitbucket
1 5 (7.35%) Git
1 5 (7.35%) Subversion
General
1 10 (14.71%) Aerospace
2 5 (7.35%) Automotive
3 1 (1.47%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.88%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) Systems Engineering
2 20 (29.41%) Validation
2 20 (29.41%) Verification and Validation
3 6 (8.82%) Agile
3 6 (8.82%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 5 (7.35%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (7.35%) Functional Testing
4 5 (7.35%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 5 (7.35%) Integration Testing
4 5 (7.35%) Product Backlog
4 5 (7.35%) Project Management
4 5 (7.35%) QMS
4 5 (7.35%) Quality Management
4 5 (7.35%) Requirements Engineering
4 5 (7.35%) Software Audit
4 5 (7.35%) Software Engineering
4 5 (7.35%) Software Testing
4 5 (7.35%) Sprint Review
4 5 (7.35%) UML
4 5 (7.35%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) MATLAB
2 5 (7.35%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (14.71%) Degree
2 7 (10.29%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) Master's Degree
3 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (7.35%) ISO 26262
1 5 (7.35%) MISRA
1 5 (7.35%) MISRA C