Senior Systems Engineer Contracts in London

Senior System Engineer
England > London

The median Senior System Engineer daily rate in London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 463 582
Rank change year-on-year +70 +119 -101
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 7 21 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.083% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.088% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 19 6
10th Percentile - £523 £431
25th Percentile £425 £525 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -13.73% +54.55%
75th Percentile £475 £663 £694
90th Percentile - £724 £793
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +35.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,438 23,913 36,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 95.07% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 17,448 27,145
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 279 411
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.57 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +6.54%
75th Percentile £46.68 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £80.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in London

Senior Systems Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Systems Engineer in London

Senior Systems Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Systems Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Senior 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 London region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
2 2 (28.57%) Cohesity
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Nutanix
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) TOWER Software
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Cohesity
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (28.57%) Nutanix
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Change Management
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
1 1 (14.29%) ERP
1 1 (14.29%) Information Security
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
1 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) MCSA
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Nessus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 1 (14.29%) TOWER Software