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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 444 602
Rank change year-on-year +115 +158 -37
Contract jobs citing Systems Engineering 247 255 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.45% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.50% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 110 134
10th Percentile £338 £461 £431
25th Percentile £488 £511 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -1.83% +5.50%
75th Percentile £629 £624 £637
90th Percentile £684 £700 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.57% -1.83% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 59 24
10th Percentile £46.91 £45.00 £41.98
25th Percentile £55.63 £52.50 £49.57
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £66.02
Median % change year-on-year +13.82% -6.85% +32.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £76.42
90th Percentile £76.86 £78.00 £96.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £61.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +13.82% -8.89% +35.00%

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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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 +114 234 £550 - 401
UK excluding London +75 201 £550 -2.57% 364
Work from Home +91 72 £538 -7.17% 171
South West -10 57 £575 +3.37% 86
South East +50 55 £525 -4.55% 108
London +75 40 £575 - 67
North of England +52 34 £577 -3.92% 49
East of England +25 33 £300 - 58
North West +31 24 £577 -3.92% 40
Midlands +20 14 £550 +4.76% 51
North East - 11 - - 4
West Midlands +19 10 £550 +2.33% 33
Scotland +45 9 £590 +32.47% 27
East Midlands +15 4 £563 +7.14% 18
Yorkshire +15 1 - - 6

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 (0.81%) Apache
1 2 (0.81%) Apache Solr
1 2 (0.81%) Confluence
1 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Simulink
2 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.40%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 7 (2.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.02%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.81%) Primavera
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.29%) AWS
2 15 (6.07%) Azure
3 6 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.81%) Akamai
5 2 (0.81%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.40%) Asana
6 1 (0.40%) IaaS
6 1 (0.40%) Miro
6 1 (0.40%) PaaS
6 1 (0.40%) SaaS
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) Serverless
6 1 (0.40%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.07%) Ethernet
2 10 (4.05%) DNS
3 9 (3.64%) DHCP
4 7 (2.83%) 4G
4 7 (2.83%) 5G
4 7 (2.83%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.43%) Network Security
6 4 (1.62%) Firewall
6 4 (1.62%) Internet
6 4 (1.62%) VoIP
6 4 (1.62%) WAN
7 2 (0.81%) 3G
7 2 (0.81%) GPRS
8 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.40%) LAN
8 1 (0.40%) RS-485
8 1 (0.40%) SCCP
8 1 (0.40%) SNMP
8 1 (0.40%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.81%) MySQL
3 2 (0.81%) Redis
4 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.40%) Power BI
4 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (14.57%) Rational DOORS
2 23 (9.31%) JIRA
3 10 (4.05%) Rational Rhapsody
4 9 (3.64%) Git
4 9 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.40%) CMake
7 1 (0.40%) GitLab
7 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 41 (16.60%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.55%) Electronics
3 27 (10.93%) Telecoms
4 24 (9.72%) Aerospace
5 23 (9.31%) Finance
6 13 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.64%) Military
7 9 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.24%) Marketing
9 6 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Front Office
10 3 (1.21%) Law
11 2 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Automotive
11 2 (0.81%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.40%) Aviation
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 69 (27.94%) Systems Engineer
2 45 (18.22%) Lead
3 42 (17.00%) Architect
4 34 (13.77%) Principal Engineer
4 34 (13.77%) Senior
5 31 (12.55%) Systems Architect
6 29 (11.74%) Network Architect
6 29 (11.74%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 21 (8.50%) Lead Architect
8 20 (8.10%) Software Engineer
9 17 (6.88%) Consultant
10 16 (6.48%) Integration Engineer
11 15 (6.07%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 13 (5.26%) Site Engineer
12 13 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (4.05%) Ada Engineer
13 10 (4.05%) Ada Software Engineer
13 10 (4.05%) Project Manager
13 10 (4.05%) Validation Engineer
14 9 (3.64%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (2.83%) PyTorch
1 7 (2.83%) TensorFlow
2 3 (1.21%) Kafka
2 3 (1.21%) Web Services
3 2 (0.81%) LDAP
3 2 (0.81%) Middleware
4 1 (0.40%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.40%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.93%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (6.07%) Analogue Electronics
2 15 (6.07%) Robotics
3 9 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (3.24%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.83%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.43%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.62%) Clustering
8 4 (1.62%) FPGA
9 3 (1.21%) VHDL
10 2 (0.81%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.81%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.81%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.81%) Smart Meter
11 1 (0.40%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.40%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.77%) Windows
2 20 (8.10%) Linux
3 19 (7.69%) Unix
4 14 (5.67%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.40%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (20.65%) Validation
2 42 (17.00%) Software Engineering
3 34 (13.77%) UML
4 32 (12.96%) DevOps
4 32 (12.96%) Requirements Management
5 31 (12.55%) Agile
6 30 (12.15%) Network Management
7 29 (11.74%) Verification and Validation
8 26 (10.53%) Customer Requirements
9 23 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (8.50%) Strategic Thinking
11 20 (8.10%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (7.69%) SysML
13 18 (7.29%) Design for Manufacturing
14 17 (6.88%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
14 17 (6.88%) Project Management
15 16 (6.48%) Cybersecurity
15 16 (6.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 15 (6.07%) Prototyping
16 15 (6.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.50%) Python
2 20 (8.10%) Java
3 18 (7.29%) C#
4 17 (6.88%) SQL
5 13 (5.26%) C
6 10 (4.05%) Ada
6 10 (4.05%) MATLAB
7 8 (3.24%) Go
8 7 (2.83%) C++
8 7 (2.83%) F#
8 7 (2.83%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.81%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.81%) Ruby
10 1 (0.40%) Bash
10 1 (0.40%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.40%) Perl
10 1 (0.40%) Rust
10 1 (0.40%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 96 (38.87%) Security Cleared
2 82 (33.20%) SC Cleared
3 65 (26.32%) Degree
4 17 (6.88%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.64%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.24%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.21%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (0.81%) CISSP
8 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.81%) HNC
8 2 (0.81%) HND
8 2 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.40%) CLAS
9 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.40%) PhD
9 1 (0.40%) PMP
9 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.07%) QA
2 8 (3.24%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.83%) NIST
4 6 (2.43%) NCSC
5 4 (1.62%) SLA
6 2 (0.81%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.40%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.40%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 8 (3.24%) Firmware
1 8 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (2.83%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.62%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.81%) Docker
5 2 (0.81%) vSphere
6 1 (0.40%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.05%) SCCM
3 7 (2.83%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.43%) Opsgenie
4 6 (2.43%) Terraform
5 4 (1.62%) Ansible
6 3 (1.21%) IBM BigFix
6 3 (1.21%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.81%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.81%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.81%) Grafana
7 2 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.81%) Puppet
8 1 (0.40%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.40%) Kibana
8 1 (0.40%) logstash
8 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (4.86%) IBM
1 12 (4.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.45%) VMware
3 9 (3.64%) SAP
4 8 (3.24%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.24%) Splunk
5 7 (2.83%) Adobe
5 7 (2.83%) Avaloq
5 7 (2.83%) New Relic
5 7 (2.83%) PagerDuty
5 7 (2.83%) Sparx
5 7 (2.83%) Veeam
6 6 (2.43%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.43%) Oracle
7 5 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.62%) EMC
9 3 (1.21%) Remedy
9 3 (1.21%) Xilinx
10 2 (0.81%) Apple
10 2 (0.81%) Red Hat