Systems Engineer Jobs in Central London

System Engineer
London > Central London

The median System Engineer salary in Central London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 226 235
Rank change year-on-year +38 +9 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 7 16 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.19% 0.30% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.32% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 57
10th Percentile £40,900 £44,700 £47,800
25th Percentile £45,125 £53,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -3.57% -7.89%
75th Percentile £55,000 £110,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £58,750 - £85,000
London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -0.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

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

Permanent vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 3,598 5,042 7,714
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.21% 96.06% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,818 4,204 6,465
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in Central London

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in Central London

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in Central London

Systems Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
City of London +49 5 £52,500 -12.50% 7
Systems Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 across the Central London region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Firmware
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 2 (28.57%) Law
4 2 (28.57%) Legal
4 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
4 2 (28.57%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Post-Production
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
5 1 (14.29%) Service Catalogue
5 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
5 1 (14.29%) CISM
5 1 (14.29%) NCSC
5 1 (14.29%) NIST
5 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (14.29%) IIS
3 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 1 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Law
1 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
1 2 (28.57%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 1 (14.29%) Debian
4 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
4 1 (14.29%) Solaris
4 1 (14.29%) Unix
4 1 (14.29%) VMS
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Post-Production
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Application Security
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) High Availability
2 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) CEH
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CISM
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Firmware
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Aruba
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) ProCurve
2 1 (14.29%) Synology
2 1 (14.29%) Veeam
2 1 (14.29%) Zerto