The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Systems Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior System Engineer
Rank 305 316 309
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 15 12 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.129% 0.092% 0.115%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.139% 0.099% 0.123%
Number of salaries quoted 15 12 17
Average salary £55,000 £53,750 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.32% -6.52%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -11.76%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10773 12165 14632
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.88% 93.10% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 9280 11060 13186
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Systems Engineer
London

Senior Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Senior Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

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

City of London Senior Systems Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

City of London Senior Systems Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Systems Engineer in their job title.

1 32 (86.49%) VMware
1 32 (86.49%) Windows
2 29 (78.38%) Active Directory
2 29 (78.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 26 (70.27%) Windows Server 2003
4 25 (67.57%) Firewall
5 20 (54.05%) Linux
6 19 (51.35%) Citrix
6 19 (51.35%) XenApp
7 18 (48.65%) MySQL
8 17 (45.95%) SAN
8 17 (45.95%) NetApp
8 17 (45.95%) VMware ESX
8 17 (45.95%) NAS
9 16 (43.24%) XenDesktop
9 16 (43.24%) SQL Server
9 16 (43.24%) WAN
9 16 (43.24%) HP
9 16 (43.24%) Dell
9 16 (43.24%) EMC
10 15 (40.54%) VPN
11 14 (37.84%) Finance
11 14 (37.84%) Social Media
12 10 (27.03%) Hyper-V
12 10 (27.03%) Degree
13 5 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
13 5 (13.51%) Exchange Server 2007
13 5 (13.51%) Exchange Server 2010
13 5 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Certification

Senior Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Systems Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (8.108%) LAMP
2 2 (5.405%) Memcached
3 1 (2.703%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.51%) Exchange Server 2007
1 5 (13.51%) Exchange Server 2010
1 5 (13.51%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.405%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (5.405%) CMS
2 2 (5.405%) Apache
3 1 (2.703%) Pressflow
3 1 (2.703%) Drupal
3 1 (2.703%) nginx
3 1 (2.703%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (2.703%) Capstone
Communications & Networking
1 25 (67.57%) Firewall
2 17 (45.95%) SAN
2 17 (45.95%) NAS
3 16 (43.24%) WAN
4 15 (40.54%) VPN
5 2 (5.405%) LAN
5 2 (5.405%) DNS
6 1 (2.703%) Internet
6 1 (2.703%) SNMP
6 1 (2.703%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.703%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.703%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (48.65%) MySQL
2 16 (43.24%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.405%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.703%) Big Data
4 1 (2.703%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.703%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (5.405%) JIRA
2 1 (2.703%) GitHub
General
1 14 (37.84%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 14 (37.84%) Social Media
2 1 (2.703%) Replication
2 1 (2.703%) Digital Media
2 1 (2.703%) New Media
2 1 (2.703%) Derivative
2 1 (2.703%) Open Source
2 1 (2.703%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 32 (86.49%) Windows
2 29 (78.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 26 (70.27%) Windows Server 2003
4 20 (54.05%) Linux
5 3 (8.108%) UNIX
5 3 (8.108%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.405%) Debian
7 1 (2.703%) OpenBSD
7 1 (2.703%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.703%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.703%) Solaris
7 1 (2.703%) CentOS
7 1 (2.703%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (5.405%) Performance Management
1 2 (5.405%) Workforce Management Optimization
1 2 (5.405%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (5.405%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.405%) Service Delivery
1 2 (5.405%) Project Management
2 1 (2.703%) Migration
2 1 (2.703%) Analytics
2 1 (2.703%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.405%) Perl
1 2 (5.405%) PHP
2 1 (2.703%) Ruby
2 1 (2.703%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.703%) Python
2 1 (2.703%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Degree
2 5 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (13.51%) MCSE
3 4 (10.81%) CCNA
4 3 (8.108%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.703%) CCNP
5 1 (2.703%) CCA
5 1 (2.703%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (2.703%) CCEA
5 1 (2.703%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.405%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (78.38%) Active Directory
2 19 (51.35%) XenApp
3 17 (45.95%) VMware ESX
4 16 (43.24%) XenDesktop
5 10 (27.03%) Hyper-V
6 5 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (5.405%) vSphere
8 1 (2.703%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.703%) Nagios
2 1 (2.703%) CFEngine
2 1 (2.703%) Puppet
2 1 (2.703%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (86.49%) VMware
2 19 (51.35%) Citrix
3 17 (45.95%) NetApp
4 16 (43.24%) HP
4 16 (43.24%) Dell
4 16 (43.24%) EMC
5 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
6 3 (8.108%) Juniper
6 3 (8.108%) Cisco
7 2 (5.405%) Verint
7 2 (5.405%) Microsoft
7 2 (5.405%) Avaya
8 1 (2.703%) Percona
8 1 (2.703%) Joyent
8 1 (2.703%) Rackspace