System Engineer
UK

The median System Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 292 427
Rank change year-on-year +192 +135 -105
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 2,684 1,160 1,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.62% 1.19% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.76% 1.30% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,723 447 660
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the UK

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer.

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in the UK

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in the UK

Systems Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +188 2,406 £50,000 - 541
UK excluding London +158 2,324 £50,000 +11.11% 505
South East +142 669 £50,000 -9.09% 123
Work from Home +130 494 £50,000 -16.67% 186
South West +107 480 £55,000 +11.68% 100
Midlands +94 431 £49,000 +10.73% 92
East of England +59 298 £52,500 -4.55% 68
North of England +129 277 £45,000 +2.74% 91
West Midlands +51 261 £50,000 +12.99% 50
London +146 248 £55,000 -15.38% 78
North West +81 180 £50,000 +14.16% 52
East Midlands +97 170 £42,500 - 42
Scotland +9 111 £52,500 -4.55% 46
Yorkshire +128 78 £45,000 +1.12% 31
Wales +37 50 £35,000 -6.67% 11
North East -13 19 £40,000 +10.34% 9
Northern Ireland +25 8 £35,000 -46.15% 3

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Systems Engineer 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 permanent job ads featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 513 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 499 (18.59%) Systems Engineering
3 368 (13.71%) Degree
4 274 (10.21%) Windows
5 267 (9.95%) Microsoft
6 248 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
7 234 (8.72%) Social Skills
8 223 (8.31%) Azure
9 221 (8.23%) VMware
10 207 (7.71%) Manufacturing
10 207 (7.71%) SC Cleared
11 201 (7.49%) Linux
12 188 (7.00%) Aerospace
13 186 (6.93%) Active Directory
14 167 (6.22%) Validation
15 141 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
16 140 (5.22%) Automotive
17 136 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
18 134 (4.99%) Windows Server
19 130 (4.84%) SQL
20 122 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
21 120 (4.47%) Finance
22 116 (4.32%) Customer Service
23 113 (4.21%) Electronics
24 105 (3.91%) Agile
25 95 (3.54%) Firewall
26 93 (3.46%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
26 93 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
27 90 (3.35%) Python
28 89 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance

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:

Application Platforms
1 72 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (2.27%) IIS
3 48 (1.79%) SharePoint
4 18 (0.67%) Confluence
5 13 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.26%) WinCC
7 6 (0.22%) Kinematics
8 4 (0.15%) Apache
8 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.075%) JBoss
9 2 (0.075%) nginx
9 2 (0.075%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.037%) SAS
10 1 (0.037%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.037%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.037%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (1.79%) Simulink
2 46 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.67%) AutoCAD
4 17 (0.63%) Stateflow
5 14 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
6 6 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.15%) Revit
8 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.075%) CATIA
9 2 (0.075%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.037%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.037%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.037%) Solid Edge
10 1 (0.037%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.19%) C-CURE
3 4 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.075%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.075%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.037%) iTrent
5 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.037%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 223 (8.31%) Azure
2 141 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
3 80 (2.98%) AWS
4 59 (2.20%) Entra ID
5 29 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
6 18 (0.67%) OneDrive
7 17 (0.63%) SaaS
8 9 (0.34%) IaaS
8 9 (0.34%) Mimecast
8 9 (0.34%) PaaS
9 8 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (0.30%) GCP
10 6 (0.22%) Azure App Service
11 5 (0.19%) GitHub
12 4 (0.15%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (0.15%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.15%) WhatsApp
13 3 (0.11%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 95 (3.54%) Firewall
2 74 (2.76%) DNS
3 65 (2.42%) WAN
4 53 (1.97%) DHCP
5 38 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.38%) Software-Defined Radio
7 30 (1.12%) VPN
8 29 (1.08%) Wireless
9 26 (0.97%) LAN
10 25 (0.93%) Internet
10 25 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.89%) VLAN
12 17 (0.63%) Network Security
12 17 (0.63%) SAN
12 17 (0.63%) VSAN
13 14 (0.52%) 4G
13 14 (0.52%) 5G
14 13 (0.48%) Ethernet
15 12 (0.45%) SNMP
16 11 (0.41%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (2.46%) SQL Server
2 39 (1.45%) MySQL
3 26 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 19 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 13 (0.48%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.37%) Big Data
8 6 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.19%) InfluxDB
9 5 (0.19%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.19%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.11%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.075%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.075%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.075%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.075%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.075%) QlikView
11 2 (0.075%) Redis
12 1 (0.037%) Power BI
12 1 (0.037%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 75 (2.79%) Rational DOORS
2 42 (1.56%) JIRA
3 31 (1.15%) LabVIEW
4 20 (0.75%) Rational Rhapsody
5 19 (0.71%) Jenkins
6 18 (0.67%) Git
7 12 (0.45%) Rational Team Concert
8 11 (0.41%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.15%) GitLab
10 3 (0.11%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.11%) Subversion
10 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.075%) Apache Continuum
11 2 (0.075%) git-flow
11 2 (0.075%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.037%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 234 (8.72%) Social Skills
2 207 (7.71%) Manufacturing
3 188 (7.00%) Aerospace
4 140 (5.22%) Automotive
5 120 (4.47%) Finance
6 113 (4.21%) Electronics
7 81 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
8 67 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 46 (1.71%) Military
10 44 (1.64%) Retail
11 42 (1.56%) Legal
12 32 (1.19%) Games
13 26 (0.97%) Public Sector
14 24 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (0.75%) Law
16 19 (0.71%) Marketing
17 17 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
19 13 (0.48%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (0.52%) REST
1 14 (0.52%) WebRTC
2 11 (0.41%) .NET
3 9 (0.34%) Web Services
4 7 (0.26%) LAMP
4 7 (0.26%) Middleware
5 6 (0.22%) LEMP Stack
6 5 (0.19%) WPF
7 4 (0.15%) JSON
7 4 (0.15%) Keycloak
7 4 (0.15%) LDAP
7 4 (0.15%) XMPP
8 2 (0.075%) COM
8 2 (0.075%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.075%) HTML
8 2 (0.075%) HTML5
8 2 (0.075%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.075%) WebCenter
8 2 (0.075%) WSE
9 1 (0.037%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 71 (2.65%) Management Information System
2 69 (2.57%) Embedded Systems
3 62 (2.31%) SCADA
4 57 (2.12%) Algorithms
5 56 (2.09%) Data Centre
6 43 (1.60%) Clustering
7 37 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 36 (1.34%) CCTV
9 33 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (1.19%) IoT
11 29 (1.08%) Robotics
12 27 (1.01%) FPGA
13 26 (0.97%) Driving Licence
14 22 (0.82%) CMDB
15 21 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
16 18 (0.67%) AS400
16 18 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
17 17 (0.63%) NHS
18 16 (0.60%) Mainframe
18 16 (0.60%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 274 (10.21%) Windows
2 201 (7.49%) Linux
3 134 (4.99%) Windows Server
4 38 (1.42%) Windows 10
5 29 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.82%) Debian
9 20 (0.75%) Mac OS
10 19 (0.71%) Unix
11 18 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
12 14 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 12 (0.45%) CentOS
14 11 (0.41%) Windows 7
15 8 (0.30%) Android
15 8 (0.30%) VMS
16 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
16 5 (0.19%) SUSE
16 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (18.59%) Systems Engineering
2 248 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
3 167 (6.22%) Validation
4 122 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
5 116 (4.32%) Customer Service
6 105 (3.91%) Agile
7 93 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 93 (3.46%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 87 (3.24%) Software Engineering
9 85 (3.17%) Verification and Validation
10 84 (3.13%) Computer Science
10 84 (3.13%) Configuration Management
10 84 (3.13%) Project Management
11 79 (2.94%) Customer Requirements
12 76 (2.83%) Project Delivery
13 63 (2.35%) Software Testing
14 61 (2.27%) Mathematics
15 58 (2.16%) High Availability
16 57 (2.12%) Mentoring
17 51 (1.90%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 130 (4.84%) SQL
2 90 (3.35%) Python
3 82 (3.06%) C
4 77 (2.87%) PowerShell
5 64 (2.38%) MATLAB
6 62 (2.31%) Bash
7 59 (2.20%) C#
8 37 (1.38%) Java
9 32 (1.19%) C++
10 12 (0.45%) Perl
11 11 (0.41%) JavaScript
11 11 (0.41%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.34%) VB
13 7 (0.26%) Ladder Logic
14 6 (0.22%) Embedded C
14 6 (0.22%) RPG
15 5 (0.19%) PHP
15 5 (0.19%) R
15 5 (0.19%) XAML
16 3 (0.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 513 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 368 (13.71%) Degree
3 207 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 89 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 77 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 65 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 48 (1.79%) Chartered Engineer
8 42 (1.56%) HNC
9 34 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.15%) HND
11 29 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 23 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.78%) CCNA
14 18 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
15 15 (0.56%) Azure Certification
16 10 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
16 10 (0.37%) MCSE
17 8 (0.30%) PMI Certification
18 6 (0.22%) PhD
18 6 (0.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (1.15%) QA
2 22 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 19 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 19 (0.71%) ISO 9001
4 16 (0.60%) GDPR
4 16 (0.60%) PMO
5 14 (0.52%) ISO 26262
6 12 (0.45%) Automotive SPICE
6 12 (0.45%) IEC 61508
7 10 (0.37%) COSHH
8 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.26%) Def Stans
9 7 (0.26%) ISO 14001
9 7 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 6 (0.22%) GMP
11 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.15%) SLA
12 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.11%) ECSS
12 3 (0.11%) JSP 440
System Software
1 186 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 136 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 70 (2.61%) Firmware
5 30 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 25 (0.93%) vSphere
7 16 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
8 13 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
9 12 (0.45%) Docker
10 9 (0.34%) Forefront TMG
10 9 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
11 7 (0.26%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.15%) NFS
14 3 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.11%) VMware Server
14 3 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 51 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (1.23%) Ansible
2 33 (1.23%) SCCM
3 29 (1.08%) Puppet
4 28 (1.04%) Functional Safety
4 28 (1.04%) SCOM
5 27 (1.01%) Kubernetes
6 21 (0.78%) Terraform
6 21 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 12 (0.45%) WSUS
8 11 (0.41%) ZABBIX
9 10 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.34%) Backup Exec
11 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 5 (0.19%) Wonderware InTouch
14 4 (0.15%) Autotask
Vendors
1 267 (9.95%) Microsoft
2 221 (8.23%) VMware
3 63 (2.35%) EMC
4 56 (2.09%) Cisco
5 52 (1.94%) IBM
6 36 (1.34%) Citrix
7 28 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 26 (0.97%) Veeam
9 24 (0.89%) Dell
10 22 (0.82%) HP
11 21 (0.78%) Siemens
12 18 (0.67%) NetApp
12 18 (0.67%) Oracle
12 18 (0.67%) Thales
13 15 (0.56%) Meraki
14 14 (0.52%) Palo Alto
14 14 (0.52%) Rockwell
15 13 (0.48%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.48%) Fortinet
15 13 (0.48%) QinetiQ