Systems Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

System Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median System Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 141 135
Rank change year-on-year +57 -6 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 24 8 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.58% 0.38% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 0.40% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 11
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,800 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% +25.56% +39.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile - - £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £42,750 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -22.27% +22.22% +18.42%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,458 2,003 2,318
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.80% 95.20% 98.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 1,187 1,463
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,150 £33,488
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +10.53%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in Edinburgh

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in Edinburgh

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 Edinburgh region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (54.17%) VMware
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (33.33%) Veeam
3 8 (33.33%) NetScaler
3 8 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 8 (33.33%) Citrix
3 8 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 8 (33.33%) Onboarding
4 7 (29.17%) Windows
4 7 (29.17%) Algorithms
5 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 5 (20.83%) HP
6 5 (20.83%) Dell
6 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
6 5 (20.83%) Information Security
6 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
6 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
6 5 (20.83%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
7 4 (16.67%) iManage
7 4 (16.67%) Mimecast
7 4 (16.67%) SCCM
7 4 (16.67%) Validation
7 4 (16.67%) Prototyping
7 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (16.67%) Aderant
7 4 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (12.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Simulink
1 3 (12.50%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
3 4 (16.67%) Mimecast
4 2 (8.33%) WhatsApp
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) NetScaler
2 1 (4.17%) SNMP
2 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 3 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 8 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 7 (29.17%) Algorithms
3 3 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (4.17%) Device Driver
4 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
3 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.17%) Android
4 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.17%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (4.17%) Linux
4 1 (4.17%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
2 5 (20.83%) Information Security
2 5 (20.83%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 4 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (16.67%) Prototyping
3 4 (16.67%) Validation
4 3 (12.50%) Change Management
4 3 (12.50%) Commercialisation
4 3 (12.50%) Decarbonisation
4 3 (12.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 3 (12.50%) Rapid Prototyping
4 3 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
5 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.17%) Agile
6 1 (4.17%) Coaching
6 1 (4.17%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) MATLAB
2 1 (4.17%) Assembly Language
2 1 (4.17%) Bash
2 1 (4.17%) C
2 1 (4.17%) C++
2 1 (4.17%) Perl
2 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (8.33%) MCSE
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.33%) XenDesktop
5 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (16.67%) SCCM
3 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) VMware
2 8 (33.33%) Citrix
2 8 (33.33%) Veeam
3 5 (20.83%) Dell
3 5 (20.83%) HP
4 4 (16.67%) Aderant
4 4 (16.67%) iManage
5 2 (8.33%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (4.17%) Darktrace
6 1 (4.17%) Keysight
6 1 (4.17%) NetApp