Systems Engineer Jobs in the City of London

System Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median System Engineer salary in the City of London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 223 236
Rank change year-on-year +51 +13 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 6 10 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.18% 0.21% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 33
10th Percentile £40,750 £42,000 £50,500
25th Percentile £43,313 £48,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £60,938 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £66,875 - £85,000
Central London median annual salary £52,500 £63,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% -8.93% -9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,219 4,624 6,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 96.53% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,579 3,901 5,616
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,193 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the City of London

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in the City of London

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in the City of London

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 City of London region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (16.67%) Application Security
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (16.67%) NCSC
4 1 (16.67%) NIST
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (16.67%) Debian
4 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (16.67%) Solaris
4 1 (16.67%) Unix
4 1 (16.67%) VMS
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Application Security
2 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (16.67%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SANS
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Aruba
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) ProCurve
2 1 (16.67%) Synology
2 1 (16.67%) Veeam
2 1 (16.67%) Zerto