The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the East of England 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 131 180 142
Rank change year-on-year
+49 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 142 93 147
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 1.733% 1.066% 1.516%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.818% 1.103% 1.600%
Number of salaries quoted 113 86 134
Average salary £44,500 £36,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.91% -12.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,200 £32,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £46,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+8.57% -6.66%
All Job Titles
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7811 8433 9185
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 95.35% 96.65% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6806 7055 7869
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Systems Engineer Salary Trend

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

East of England 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 East of England 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
Bedfordshire +13 40 £48,500 +14.11%
Hertfordshire +26 39 £40,000 -12.08%
Suffolk +9 31 £35,000 -
Cambridgeshire 0 23 £41,000 +17.14%
Essex +21 10 £43,000 +1.17%
Norfolk -11 2 £28,000 -13.84%
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

1 156 (57.35%) Linux
2 122 (44.85%) Windows
3 113 (41.54%) VMware
4 82 (30.15%) MySQL
5 79 (29.04%) Apache
6 76 (27.94%) TCP/IP
7 75 (27.57%) SAN
8 67 (24.63%) ITIL
9 66 (24.26%) Cisco
10 57 (20.96%) VMware ESX
11 55 (20.22%) Microsoft
12 54 (19.85%) Degree
13 52 (19.12%) Active Directory
14 51 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
15 50 (18.38%) vSphere
16 44 (16.18%) MS Exchange
17 42 (15.44%) IIS
17 42 (15.44%) Red Hat
18 38 (13.97%) SQL
18 38 (13.97%) SaaS
18 38 (13.97%) iSCSI
19 32 (11.76%) Firewall
20 31 (11.40%) Problem Management
21 30 (11.03%) Change Management
21 30 (11.03%) C#
21 30 (11.03%) SQL Server
22 29 (10.66%) Citrix
22 29 (10.66%) Web Services
22 29 (10.66%) Fibre Channel
23 28 (10.29%) Service Management

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 29 (10.66%) Web Services
2 26 (9.559%) .NET Framework
2 26 (9.559%) XML
2 26 (9.559%) .NET
2 26 (9.559%) SOAP
2 26 (9.559%) WCF
3 4 (1.471%) LAMP
4 3 (1.103%) Swing
5 2 (0.735%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (0.735%) COM
5 2 (0.735%) STL
6 1 (0.368%) FastCGI
Application Platforms
1 79 (29.04%) Apache
2 44 (16.18%) MS Exchange
3 42 (15.44%) IIS
4 27 (9.926%) Exchange Server 2003
5 26 (9.559%) Exchange Server 2010
6 22 (8.088%) Exchange Server 2007
7 14 (5.147%) SharePoint
8 8 (2.941%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (1.838%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.735%) WinCC
10 2 (0.735%) nginx
10 2 (0.735%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.735%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.368%) Documentum
Applications
1 25 (9.191%) MS Excel
2 8 (2.941%) Simulink
2 8 (2.941%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.368%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 76 (27.94%) TCP/IP
2 75 (27.57%) SAN
3 38 (13.97%) iSCSI
4 32 (11.76%) Firewall
5 29 (10.66%) Fibre Channel
6 25 (9.191%) VPN
7 24 (8.824%) DNS
8 19 (6.985%) VoIP
9 18 (6.618%) DHCP
10 13 (4.779%) SNMP
10 13 (4.779%) Internet
11 11 (4.044%) NAS
12 10 (3.676%) Wireless
12 10 (3.676%) SSL
13 8 (2.941%) HTTP
13 8 (2.941%) LAN
14 7 (2.574%) IPsec
14 7 (2.574%) VLAN
15 6 (2.206%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (2.206%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (30.15%) MySQL
2 30 (11.03%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.103%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.103%) Text Mining
3 3 (1.103%) Big Data
4 2 (0.735%) Redis
4 2 (0.735%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.735%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.368%) MS Access
5 1 (0.368%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 17 (6.250%) LabVIEW
2 11 (4.044%) Selenium
3 4 (1.471%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.103%) Subversion
5 2 (0.735%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.735%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.368%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.368%) MSI
General
1 25 (9.191%) Finance
2 8 (2.941%) Marketing
2 8 (2.941%) Aerospace
3 4 (1.471%) Retail
3 4 (1.471%) Law
3 4 (1.471%) Military
4 3 (1.103%) Electronics
4 3 (1.103%) French Language
4 3 (1.103%) Italian Language
5 2 (0.735%) Automotive
5 2 (0.735%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.368%) Advertising
6 1 (0.368%) Legal
6 1 (0.368%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.97%) SaaS
2 21 (7.721%) Computer Science
3 11 (4.044%) Embedded Systems
4 9 (3.309%) Open Source
5 7 (2.574%) Replication
5 7 (2.574%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.206%) VHDL
7 4 (1.471%) SCADA
8 3 (1.103%) EPoS
8 3 (1.103%) Clustering
8 3 (1.103%) Mechatronics
8 3 (1.103%) Wiki
9 2 (0.735%) CAN bus
9 2 (0.735%) Visualisation
9 2 (0.735%) Mathematics
9 2 (0.735%) Physics
9 2 (0.735%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.368%) Biometrics
10 1 (0.368%) Equities
10 1 (0.368%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 156 (57.35%) Linux
2 122 (44.85%) Windows
3 25 (9.191%) UNIX
4 24 (8.824%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (8.456%) Windows Server 2008
6 17 (6.250%) Debian
7 12 (4.412%) Windows Server 2003
8 10 (3.676%) CentOS
9 7 (2.574%) Solaris
9 7 (2.574%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.838%) Windows 7
11 4 (1.471%) Windows 2000
12 3 (1.103%) Windows XP
12 3 (1.103%) VMS
13 2 (0.735%) AIX
14 1 (0.368%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (24.63%) ITIL
2 31 (11.40%) Problem Management
3 30 (11.03%) Change Management
4 28 (10.29%) Service Management
5 17 (6.250%) Supplier Management
6 13 (4.779%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (2.941%) Incident Management
7 8 (2.941%) Validation
7 8 (2.941%) UML
8 7 (2.574%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (2.206%) Load Balancing
9 6 (2.206%) Software Engineering
9 6 (2.206%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (2.206%) CRM
10 5 (1.838%) E-Commerce
10 5 (1.838%) MODAF
10 5 (1.838%) Release Management
10 5 (1.838%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (1.471%) Data Protection
11 4 (1.471%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.97%) SQL
2 30 (11.03%) C#
3 28 (10.29%) C
4 25 (9.191%) Perl
5 20 (7.353%) C++
6 19 (6.985%) Python
7 15 (5.515%) PHP
7 15 (5.515%) VB
8 14 (5.147%) Bash shell
9 13 (4.779%) Java
10 11 (4.044%) Tcl
11 10 (3.676%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.941%) MATLAB
13 5 (1.838%) Delphi
13 5 (1.838%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.103%) Assembly Language
15 2 (0.735%) Ruby
15 2 (0.735%) Fortran
16 1 (0.368%) VBScript
16 1 (0.368%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 54 (19.85%) Degree
2 17 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (4.779%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.044%) CCNA
5 9 (3.309%) MCITP
5 9 (3.309%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.941%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.941%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (1.838%) Postgraduate
7 5 (1.838%) MCSE
7 5 (1.838%) JNCIA
8 4 (1.471%) NCDA
8 4 (1.471%) JNCIS
8 4 (1.471%) JNCIP
8 4 (1.471%) JNCIE
8 4 (1.471%) CISSP
8 4 (1.471%) CCIE
9 3 (1.103%) CCNP
9 3 (1.103%) CCA
9 3 (1.103%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.147%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.103%) SLA
2 3 (1.103%) QA
3 1 (0.368%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.368%) DO-178B
System Software
1 57 (20.96%) VMware ESX
2 52 (19.12%) Active Directory
3 51 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 50 (18.38%) vSphere
5 22 (8.088%) Xen
6 8 (2.941%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.838%) XenApp
8 3 (1.103%) NFS
8 3 (1.103%) Samba
9 2 (0.735%) XenServer
9 2 (0.735%) Postfix
9 2 (0.735%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.368%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.368%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.368%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (4.044%) Backup Exec
2 10 (3.676%) NetBackup
3 3 (1.103%) SCCM
3 3 (1.103%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.735%) CFEngine
4 2 (0.735%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 2 (0.735%) Puppet
4 2 (0.735%) ZABBIX
4 2 (0.735%) SCOM
4 2 (0.735%) Tivoli
4 2 (0.735%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 2 (0.735%) Netcool
4 2 (0.735%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (0.368%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 113 (41.54%) VMware
2 66 (24.26%) Cisco
3 55 (20.22%) Microsoft
4 42 (15.44%) Red Hat
5 29 (10.66%) Citrix
6 23 (8.456%) NetApp
7 22 (8.088%) Oracle
8 11 (4.044%) HP
9 10 (3.676%) CommVault
10 9 (3.309%) EMC
10 9 (3.309%) Postini
11 8 (2.941%) Symantec
12 5 (1.838%) JBoss
13 4 (1.471%) Allen-Bradley
13 4 (1.471%) Siemens
14 3 (1.103%) Juniper
14 3 (1.103%) Dell
14 3 (1.103%) Apple
15 2 (0.735%) Riverbed
15 2 (0.735%) SonicWALL
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
450M+ IT Solutions Company is recruiting for a suitably experienced. 3rd Line IT Systems Support Engineer. for their financial services client in Cambridgeshire. This is a great role...
Kelway Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £40,000 per annum £40,000 + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Luton, Bedfordshire
Ideally commercial data-centre experience working with Apache and MySQL. * Exposure to and knowledge of Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Cisco networking elements... * Experience of working within ITIL...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £49000 per annum + bonus, pension, health
Posted: 19 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The right Red Hat Specialist / Linux Systems Engineer will have solid datacenter experience, working with Linux server (including Apache & MySQL), SAN (including FC & iSCSI switching) and TCP/IP...
Gregory James
Salary: £50000 to £55000 per annum - excellent benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Maintenance of the organisation's web-based infrastructure (including SharePoint)... You will be holding significant experience of working in a similar position and it is absolutely essential that...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35k - 45k per year
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The right Linux Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer will have solid datacenter experience, working with Linux server (including Apache & MySQL), SAN (including FC & iSCSI switching) and TCP/IP networking.
Gregory James
Salary: £45000 to £52000 per annum - 10% annual bonus, pension, healthcare
Posted: 17 May 2013
Essex
Server Virtualisation and consolidation experience using Citrix XenServer/Metaframe and VMWare (ESX) technologies. At least two formal IT industry accreditation (Microsoft, CompTIA, Citrix, VMWare etc). Familiarisation of Citrix...
Capital IT Resourcing LTD
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum & Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Hertfordshire
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator (CCEA), VMWare Certified Professional (VCP) - Linux understanding / capability - A second European language - Degree level...
EURO CONSULTING LTD
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Summary: Linux & Windows, networking protocols & security, Python / Scripting experience, Cambridge, to £40k + benefits... Python, bash, or other language; - Understanding of installation/management/backup of fileservers and databases, e...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £40k + benefits
Posted: 23 April 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
A leading software company based in Cambridge require a Systems Administrator with Linux experience and solid networking knowledge... Experience required The ideal candidate will have a broad experience...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: Excellent salary and Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Suffolk, East Anglia
You will have the ability to investigate new technologies and continually improve methods within the team with a particular focus on framework and product improvement The ideal candidate...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Requirements: - Strong academic background, including a 1st / 2.1 bachelor's degree in electronic engineering or similar... - Broad and deep understanding of power electronics such as: control theory...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £Excellent
Posted: 7 May 2013
Hertfordshire
Embedded Systems, Electronics etc. Required Experience: *C/C++ *Embedded Systems/Firmware *Full Development *Regulatory Standards (IEC61508, IEC62304, DO178B, ISO) This is a fantastic opportunity for an Embedded Systems...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Harlow, Essex
Knowledge of security aspects and solutions - JSP440. Knowledge of safety aspects - JSP480. Experienced in presenting at all levels within an organisation. Holder of current Developed Vetting security clearance...
Verelogic IT Recruitment
Salary: £65000 - £70000 per annum + Car + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
The role: To work as part of the product development team with the specific responsibility for defining the next generation architecture of the Electronics components which form part...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £50k
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Qualification, Skills and Experience: 1st or 2.1 Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering... Gigabit Ethernet, PCI, PCIe... - Programmable devices i.e FPGA, CPLD, microcontroller’s, CPU’s. -...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £50k
Posted: 20 May 2013