The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 112 123 114
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 14 11 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.785% 0.549% 0.358%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.820% 0.575% 0.380%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 6
Average salary £25,000 £35,000 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% +12.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+8.57% -6.66%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1708 1914 1578
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 95.74% 95.60% 94.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1355 1680 1344
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Engineer
North West

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Cheshire Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Systems Engineer Salary Trend

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cheshire Systems Engineer Salary Histogram

Systems Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warrington - 10 £36,000 -
Runcorn +3 3 £25,000 -23.07%
Northwich - 3 £25,000 -
Systems Engineer
North West

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Systems Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Systems Engineer in their job title.

1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (39.13%) MS Exchange
2 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 9 (39.13%) SAN
3 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 8 (34.78%) MS Excel
4 7 (30.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (26.09%) IBM
5 6 (26.09%) VMware
5 6 (26.09%) J2EE
6 5 (21.74%) Banking
6 5 (21.74%) Brocade
6 5 (21.74%) NAS
7 4 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2003
7 4 (17.39%) Celerra
7 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (17.39%) NetBackup
7 4 (17.39%) CLARiiON
7 4 (17.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (17.39%) Oracle
7 4 (17.39%) .NET
7 4 (17.39%) JDBC
7 4 (17.39%) JSP
7 4 (17.39%) Sun
7 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
7 4 (17.39%) JMS
7 4 (17.39%) Cisco
7 4 (17.39%) EMC
7 4 (17.39%) Citrix
8 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region that cited Systems Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Systems Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (26.09%) J2EE
2 4 (17.39%) .NET
2 4 (17.39%) JDBC
2 4 (17.39%) JSP
2 4 (17.39%) JMS
3 3 (13.04%) JNDI
4 2 (8.696%) WebSphere
4 2 (8.696%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.696%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 9 (39.13%) MS Exchange
2 4 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (8.696%) WebLogic
4 1 (4.348%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (34.78%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) SAN
2 5 (21.74%) NAS
3 3 (13.04%) LAN
3 3 (13.04%) VoIP
3 3 (13.04%) WAN
3 3 (13.04%) DHCP
3 3 (13.04%) DNS
4 2 (8.696%) ATM
5 1 (4.348%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.348%) DB2
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Banking
3 2 (8.696%) Retail Banking
3 2 (8.696%) Retail
3 2 (8.696%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Celerra
1 4 (17.39%) CLARiiON
2 2 (8.696%) EMV
3 1 (4.348%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.348%) Tandem
3 1 (4.348%) iPad
3 1 (4.348%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.348%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.04%) Project Management
1 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (13.04%) Time Management
1 3 (13.04%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (8.696%) Incident Management
3 1 (4.348%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.696%) C++
1 2 (8.696%) Java
2 1 (4.348%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.348%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (13.04%) MCSE
1 3 (13.04%) MCSA
1 3 (13.04%) MCITP
2 1 (4.348%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.696%) XenApp
3 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.348%) vSphere
4 1 (4.348%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) NetBackup
1 4 (17.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (4.348%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.348%) SCCM
2 1 (4.348%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) IBM
2 6 (26.09%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) Brocade
4 4 (17.39%) Oracle
4 4 (17.39%) Sun
4 4 (17.39%) Cisco
4 4 (17.39%) EMC
4 4 (17.39%) Citrix
5 2 (8.696%) JBoss
5 2 (8.696%) HP
6 1 (4.348%) NetApp
6 1 (4.348%) 3PAR
Cheshire
The successful Senior Systems Engineer (Mainframe, Cobol, CICS, ITIL) will have: - Extensive application support experience (Unix, Linux, Websphere, Java, MQ Messaging, Connect Direct, SQL) - Experience with IBM Mainframe,...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Market-Leading Package
Posted: 22 May 2013