Systems Engineering Contracts

Systems Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 451 581
Rank change year-on-year +93 +130 -2
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 252 252 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.45% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.51% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 115 163
10th Percentile £313 £455 £431
25th Percentile £488 £513 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% +4.59%
75th Percentile £629 £623 £633
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 58 25
10th Percentile £46.91 £45.83 £44.64
25th Percentile £56.88 £52.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -1.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.14
90th Percentile £76.86 £80.60 £96.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £64.54
% change year-on-year +13.82% -4.71% +29.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +109 241 £550 -2.57% 383
UK excluding London +71 215 £550 -4.35% 367
Work from Home +95 71 £550 -5.01% 164
South East +38 59 £525 -8.70% 87
South West -13 55 £600 +6.67% 90
North of England +51 41 £577 -3.92% 64
East of England +29 37 £300 - 54
London +56 32 £600 +4.35% 45
North West +24 25 £577 -3.92% 45
North East +30 18 - - 8
Midlands +25 15 £550 +4.76% 52
West Midlands +15 11 £550 +2.33% 35
Scotland +42 8 £590 +32.47% 34
East Midlands +13 4 - - 17
Yorkshire +12 1 - - 12

Systems Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.79%) Confluence
1 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Simulink
2 2 (0.79%) EPLAN
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) CATIA
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.59%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.79%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.14%) AWS
1 18 (7.14%) Azure
2 6 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.40%) Serverless
5 1 (0.40%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.95%) Ethernet
2 9 (3.57%) DNS
3 8 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.78%) DHCP
5 5 (1.98%) 4G
5 5 (1.98%) 5G
5 5 (1.98%) Network Security
5 5 (1.98%) WAN
6 4 (1.59%) Firewall
7 3 (1.19%) VoIP
8 2 (0.79%) 3G
8 2 (0.79%) GPRS
8 2 (0.79%) Internet
9 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.40%) LAN
9 1 (0.40%) RS-485
9 1 (0.40%) SCCP
9 1 (0.40%) VoLTE
9 1 (0.40%) VoWiFi
9 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.97%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.40%) Power BI
3 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (15.48%) Rational DOORS
2 20 (7.94%) JIRA
3 12 (4.76%) Rational Rhapsody
4 10 (3.97%) Git
5 8 (3.17%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.79%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.40%) CMake
8 1 (0.40%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 38 (15.08%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.51%) Electronics
3 26 (10.32%) Telecoms
4 24 (9.52%) Aerospace
4 24 (9.52%) Finance
5 11 (4.37%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.57%) Military
6 9 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.78%) Marketing
8 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Legal
10 2 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Automotive
10 2 (0.79%) Front Office
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.40%) Aviation
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 78 (30.95%) Systems Engineer
2 45 (17.86%) Lead
3 40 (15.87%) Architect
4 37 (14.68%) Principal Engineer
5 32 (12.70%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 32 (12.70%) Senior
6 29 (11.51%) Systems Architect
7 28 (11.11%) Network Architect
8 21 (8.33%) Lead Architect
9 19 (7.54%) Software Engineer
10 17 (6.75%) Consultant
11 14 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
11 14 (5.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 12 (4.76%) Site Engineer
12 12 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (3.97%) Ada Engineer
13 10 (3.97%) Ada Software Engineer
13 10 (3.97%) Project Manager
14 9 (3.57%) Embedded Engineer
15 8 (3.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.57%) PyTorch
1 9 (3.57%) TensorFlow
2 7 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.79%) Middleware
3 2 (0.79%) Web Services
4 1 (0.40%) Kafka
4 1 (0.40%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.40%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.40%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.51%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (7.94%) Robotics
3 15 (5.95%) Analogue Electronics
4 7 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.98%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.59%) Clustering
8 3 (1.19%) FPGA
9 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.79%) Smart Meter
9 2 (0.79%) VHDL
10 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.40%) GNSS
10 1 (0.40%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.40%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.30%) Windows
2 18 (7.14%) Unix
3 17 (6.75%) Linux
4 13 (5.16%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.40%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (19.05%) Validation
2 39 (15.48%) Software Engineering
3 35 (13.89%) UML
4 32 (12.70%) Requirements Management
5 31 (12.30%) DevOps
6 28 (11.11%) Agile
6 28 (11.11%) Network Management
7 27 (10.71%) Verification and Validation
8 25 (9.92%) Customer Requirements
9 22 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
11 20 (7.94%) Project Management
11 20 (7.94%) SysML
12 18 (7.14%) Design for Manufacturing
12 18 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (6.75%) Cybersecurity
13 17 (6.75%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
14 16 (6.35%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (6.35%) Visualisation
15 15 (5.95%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.94%) Python
2 17 (6.75%) Java
3 16 (6.35%) C#
3 16 (6.35%) SQL
4 12 (4.76%) C
5 11 (4.37%) MATLAB
6 10 (3.97%) Ada
7 7 (2.78%) C++
7 7 (2.78%) F#
7 7 (2.78%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.38%) Go
9 2 (0.79%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.40%) Perl
10 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.40%) Rust
10 1 (0.40%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 97 (38.49%) Security Cleared
2 87 (34.52%) SC Cleared
3 64 (25.40%) Degree
4 16 (6.35%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.16%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.79%) CISSP
7 2 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.40%) CLAS
8 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.40%) EMC Certification
8 1 (0.40%) HNC
8 1 (0.40%) HND
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.40%) PMP
8 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.56%) QA
2 7 (2.78%) NIST
2 7 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.98%) NCSC
4 4 (1.59%) SLA
5 2 (0.79%) HAZOP
5 2 (0.79%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 8 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.78%) Firmware
2 7 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (2.78%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.79%) Docker
5 2 (0.79%) vSphere
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 14 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.97%) SCCM
3 7 (2.78%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.38%) Opsgenie
4 6 (2.38%) Terraform
5 3 (1.19%) IBM BigFix
5 3 (1.19%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.79%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.79%) Ansible
6 2 (0.79%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.40%) Grafana
7 1 (0.40%) Kibana
7 1 (0.40%) logstash
7 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (5.95%) IBM
2 13 (5.16%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.37%) VMware
4 7 (2.78%) Avaloq
4 7 (2.78%) Splunk
4 7 (2.78%) Veeam
5 6 (2.38%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.38%) New Relic
5 6 (2.38%) Oracle
5 6 (2.38%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.38%) SAP
5 6 (2.38%) Sparx
6 5 (1.98%) Adobe
6 5 (1.98%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.59%) EMC
8 3 (1.19%) Remedy
9 2 (0.79%) Apple
9 2 (0.79%) Citrix
9 2 (0.79%) Red Hat