Systems Engineer Contracts in England

System Engineer
UK > England

The median System Engineer daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 379 523
Rank change year-on-year +154 +144 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 377 274 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.02% 0.57% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 0.61% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 140 175
10th Percentile £313 £358 £308
25th Percentile £363 £440 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% +22.70%
75th Percentile £575 £653 £575
90th Percentile £640 £750 £649
UK median daily rate £450 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 61 35
10th Percentile £39.96 £48.40 £18.60
25th Percentile £46.39 £52.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £59.44 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% +33.33% -2.60%
75th Percentile £71.25 £65.75 £54.30
90th Percentile £76.75 £70.00 £62.10
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £61.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -6.50% +36.67% -5.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,255 45,148 67,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 32,138 48,275
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,311 1,778
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in England

Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Engineer in England

Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Engineer in England

Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Engineer in England

Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Engineer in England

Systems Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +24 87 £500 +5.26% 142
South West +44 86 £650 +48.57% 101
London +74 63 £450 -25.00% 73
North of England +72 60 £430 -10.65% 99
East of England +41 59 £197 -57.46% 69
North West +48 45 - - 53
Midlands +24 19 £450 -12.20% 96
West Midlands +18 16 £450 -30.77% 50
North East - 9 - - 15
Yorkshire +23 6 £430 +244.00% 34
East Midlands +6 3 - - 46
Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 England region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 66 (17.51%) Systems Engineering
3 63 (16.71%) SC Cleared
4 51 (13.53%) Aerospace
5 48 (12.73%) Degree
6 41 (10.88%) Validation
7 34 (9.02%) Social Skills
8 33 (8.75%) Verification and Validation
9 32 (8.49%) Rational DOORS
10 31 (8.22%) Windows
11 28 (7.43%) Military
11 28 (7.43%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (6.90%) Linux
12 26 (6.90%) Agile
13 25 (6.63%) Software Engineering
13 25 (6.63%) DV Cleared
14 24 (6.37%) Customer Requirements
15 22 (5.84%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
16 21 (5.57%) Automotive
16 21 (5.57%) MATLAB
17 20 (5.31%) Python
17 20 (5.31%) Microsoft
18 19 (5.04%) VMware
18 19 (5.04%) Azure
19 18 (4.77%) Master's Degree
19 18 (4.77%) UML
19 18 (4.77%) SysML
20 16 (4.24%) Active Directory
20 16 (4.24%) Finance
20 16 (4.24%) Simulink

Systems Engineer Skill Set
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 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.06%) Confluence
4 3 (0.80%) IIS
5 1 (0.27%) MTS
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
5 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (4.24%) Simulink
2 5 (1.33%) Stateflow
2 5 (1.33%) TargetLink
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.53%) InVision
4 2 (0.53%) Sketch
5 1 (0.27%) CATIA
5 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (5.04%) Azure
2 9 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (2.12%) AWS
4 6 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.06%) IaaS
6 3 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (0.80%) PaaS
7 2 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.53%) Cohesity
7 2 (0.53%) GCP
7 2 (0.53%) GitHub
7 2 (0.53%) Nutanix
7 2 (0.53%) SaaS
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.27%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.27%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.27%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.27%) OCI
8 1 (0.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.71%) Firewall
2 10 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.39%) VoIP
4 7 (1.86%) LAN
4 7 (1.86%) WAN
5 6 (1.59%) Network Security
5 6 (1.59%) SAN
5 6 (1.59%) VPN
6 5 (1.33%) Asterisk PBX
6 5 (1.33%) DHCP
6 5 (1.33%) VLAN
7 4 (1.06%) DNS
7 4 (1.06%) Internet
7 4 (1.06%) WAAS
8 3 (0.80%) 4G
8 3 (0.80%) 5G
8 3 (0.80%) DWDM
8 3 (0.80%) NAS
8 3 (0.80%) SSL
8 3 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.53%) Data Mining
1 2 (0.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.27%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (0.27%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 32 (8.49%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (1.86%) Git
3 6 (1.59%) JIRA
4 5 (1.33%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.33%) Subversion
5 4 (1.06%) TestRail
6 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.53%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.27%) GitLab
7 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (13.53%) Aerospace
2 34 (9.02%) Social Skills
3 28 (7.43%) Military
4 21 (5.57%) Automotive
5 16 (4.24%) Finance
6 13 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.65%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.39%) Electronics
9 8 (2.12%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.12%) Marketing
10 6 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Aviation
11 3 (0.80%) Avionics
11 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Advertising
12 2 (0.53%) Banking
12 2 (0.53%) French Language
12 2 (0.53%) Portuguese Language
12 2 (0.53%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.33%) ISPF
2 4 (1.06%) React
3 3 (0.80%) Middleware
3 3 (0.80%) Next.js
4 2 (0.53%) .NET
5 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.27%) eBPF
5 1 (0.27%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.27%) LDAP
5 1 (0.27%) Node.js
5 1 (0.27%) OAuth
5 1 (0.27%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.27%) OpenID
5 1 (0.27%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.27%) REST
5 1 (0.27%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.27%) SAML
5 1 (0.27%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (2.92%) Algorithms
1 11 (2.92%) Data Centre
1 11 (2.92%) Management Information System
2 8 (2.12%) Mainframe
3 5 (1.33%) Clustering
3 5 (1.33%) Digital Signage
3 5 (1.33%) SCADA
4 4 (1.06%) LPAR
4 4 (1.06%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.53%) CCTV
6 2 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (0.53%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.53%) FPGA
6 2 (0.53%) Life Science
6 2 (0.53%) PKI
6 2 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.22%) Windows
2 26 (6.90%) Linux
3 15 (3.98%) Unix
4 10 (2.65%) zOS
5 7 (1.86%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.33%) CentOS
6 5 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.80%) Android
8 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.53%) Debian
8 2 (0.53%) VMS
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (17.51%) Systems Engineering
2 41 (10.88%) Validation
3 33 (8.75%) Verification and Validation
4 28 (7.43%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (6.90%) Agile
6 25 (6.63%) Software Engineering
7 24 (6.37%) Customer Requirements
8 22 (5.84%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 18 (4.77%) SysML
9 18 (4.77%) UML
10 14 (3.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (3.45%) Requirements Management
12 12 (3.18%) Risk Management
13 11 (2.92%) Customer Engagement
13 11 (2.92%) Functional Testing
13 11 (2.92%) ITIL
14 10 (2.65%) Project Management
14 10 (2.65%) Requirements Analysis
14 10 (2.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (2.65%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (5.57%) MATLAB
2 20 (5.31%) Python
3 14 (3.71%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.65%) C
5 6 (1.59%) SQL
6 5 (1.33%) JCL
6 5 (1.33%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.06%) Java
7 4 (1.06%) REXX
7 4 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.80%) CLIST
8 3 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.80%) Perl
9 2 (0.53%) Bash
9 2 (0.53%) C#
9 2 (0.53%) C++
9 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.53%) Rust
10 1 (0.27%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 78 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 63 (16.71%) SC Cleared
3 48 (12.73%) Degree
4 25 (6.63%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.77%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.06%) HNC
9 4 (1.06%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.53%) CCNA
10 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.53%) CISSP
10 2 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.53%) MCSE
10 2 (0.53%) PhD
10 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.86%) PCI DSS
2 6 (1.59%) DO-160
2 6 (1.59%) ISO 26262
3 5 (1.33%) AUTOSAR
3 5 (1.33%) MISRA
3 5 (1.33%) MISRA C
3 5 (1.33%) QA
4 3 (0.80%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.53%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) ARP4754
6 1 (0.27%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.27%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (4.24%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.92%) Firmware
3 9 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.59%) vSphere
5 5 (1.33%) Time Sharing Option
6 4 (1.06%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 4 (1.06%) Microcode
7 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.27%) ACF2
8 1 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.27%) RACF
8 1 (0.27%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.27%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (2.39%) Nagios
2 8 (2.12%) SCCM
3 5 (1.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.33%) SCOM
3 5 (1.33%) vCenter Server
4 4 (1.06%) Ansible
4 4 (1.06%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (0.80%) Terraform
6 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Check_MK
7 1 (0.27%) Cilium
7 1 (0.27%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.27%) Nessus
7 1 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (5.31%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.04%) VMware
3 12 (3.18%) Cisco
4 9 (2.39%) IBM
5 8 (2.12%) Dell
5 8 (2.12%) Sparx
6 6 (1.59%) HP
7 5 (1.33%) Citrix
8 4 (1.06%) Supermicro
9 3 (0.80%) Apple
9 3 (0.80%) EMC
9 3 (0.80%) F5
9 3 (0.80%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.80%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.80%) Remedy
9 3 (0.80%) Siemens
9 3 (0.80%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.80%) Splunk
9 3 (0.80%) Thales
10 2 (0.53%) CheckPoint