The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Systems Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the England 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 17 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior System Engineer
Rank 651 768 668
Rank change year-on-year
+117 -100
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 180 95 194
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.178% 0.084% 0.166%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.189% 0.088% 0.176%
Number of salaries quoted 132 89 175
Average salary £45,000 £43,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.44% +2.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £30,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -11.76%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95250 107641 110251
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.45% 94.76% 94.31%
Number of salaries quoted 80210 93021 93605
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Systems Engineer
UK

Senior Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Senior Systems Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
London +66 71 £52,500 -
East of England +34 40 £45,000 +25.87%
South East +11 27 £43,500 -
South West +15 12 £40,000 -8.57%
East Midlands +4 8 £38,000 +33.33%
Yorkshire -12 8 £38,000 +1.87%
North West +3 7 £35,000 +7.69%
West Midlands -16 7 £42,500 +26.86%
Senior Systems Engineer
UK

Senior Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 240 (65.57%) Windows
2 225 (61.48%) VMware
3 153 (41.80%) Active Directory
4 148 (40.44%) Windows Server 2003
5 145 (39.62%) SAN
6 138 (37.70%) Microsoft
7 131 (35.79%) Windows Server 2008
8 127 (34.70%) Linux
9 116 (31.69%) VMware Infrastructure
10 111 (30.33%) SQL Server
11 110 (30.05%) MS Exchange
12 100 (27.32%) Citrix
13 93 (25.41%) HP
14 76 (20.77%) IIS
15 75 (20.49%) VMware ESX
15 75 (20.49%) Firewall
16 72 (19.67%) MS Excel
17 70 (19.13%) EMC
17 70 (19.13%) TCP/IP
18 69 (18.85%) Exchange Server 2010
19 63 (17.21%) vSphere
19 63 (17.21%) SQL
20 62 (16.94%) iSCSI
21 59 (16.12%) UNIX
21 59 (16.12%) Dell
22 57 (15.57%) Exchange Server 2007
23 56 (15.30%) NAS
24 54 (14.75%) XML
24 54 (14.75%) ITIL
25 53 (14.48%) MySQL

Senior Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 54 (14.75%) XML
2 29 (7.923%) Web Services
3 28 (7.650%) .NET
4 26 (7.104%) SOAP
4 26 (7.104%) .NET Framework
4 26 (7.104%) WCF
5 14 (3.825%) LAMP
6 6 (1.639%) Memcached
7 5 (1.366%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 5 (1.366%) STL
7 5 (1.366%) COM
8 3 (0.820%) Ajax
8 3 (0.820%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.546%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (0.546%) MAPI
9 2 (0.546%) Middleware
9 2 (0.546%) ASP
10 1 (0.273%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.273%) Swing
10 1 (0.273%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 110 (30.05%) MS Exchange
2 76 (20.77%) IIS
3 69 (18.85%) Exchange Server 2010
4 57 (15.57%) Exchange Server 2007
5 45 (12.30%) SharePoint
6 29 (7.923%) Exchange Server 2003
7 28 (7.650%) Apache
8 18 (4.918%) SharePoint 2010
9 12 (3.279%) nginx
10 8 (2.186%) BizTalk Server
11 7 (1.913%) Tomcat
11 7 (1.913%) Amazon AWS
12 5 (1.366%) Drupal
13 4 (1.093%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.820%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.820%) Pressflow
14 3 (0.820%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.820%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 3 (0.820%) CMS
14 3 (0.820%) WebLogic
Applications
1 72 (19.67%) MS Excel
2 24 (6.557%) MS Office
3 6 (1.639%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.366%) Office 365
5 3 (0.820%) Acrobat
5 3 (0.820%) Simulink
6 2 (0.546%) Google Apps
7 1 (0.273%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (1.093%) RMDS
2 1 (0.273%) Metrica
2 1 (0.273%) Capstone
Communications & Networking
1 145 (39.62%) SAN
2 75 (20.49%) Firewall
3 70 (19.13%) TCP/IP
4 62 (16.94%) iSCSI
5 56 (15.30%) NAS
6 49 (13.39%) WAN
7 39 (10.66%) LAN
8 38 (10.38%) DNS
9 34 (9.290%) VPN
10 27 (7.377%) Fibre Channel
11 24 (6.557%) VLAN
12 20 (5.464%) Internet
13 18 (4.918%) Wireless
14 13 (3.552%) DHCP
15 9 (2.459%) VoIP
16 8 (2.186%) IPv6
17 6 (1.639%) HTTP
18 5 (1.366%) SMTP
19 4 (1.093%) HTTPS
19 4 (1.093%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (30.33%) SQL Server
2 53 (14.48%) MySQL
3 51 (13.93%) SQL Server 2008
4 50 (13.66%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (2.186%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (2.186%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.913%) SQL Server 2000
7 6 (1.639%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.366%) Oracle 11g
9 4 (1.093%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.820%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.820%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.820%) Oracle 10g
10 3 (0.820%) Big Data
11 2 (0.546%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.546%) MS Access
11 2 (0.546%) OLAP
12 1 (0.273%) Oracle 8/8i
12 1 (0.273%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.273%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 9 (2.459%) Subversion
1 9 (2.459%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (1.639%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.366%) JIRA
4 4 (1.093%) Git (software)
5 3 (0.820%) GitHub
6 2 (0.546%) Talend Open Studio
7 1 (0.273%) Selenium
7 1 (0.273%) MSI
7 1 (0.273%) JMeter
7 1 (0.273%) LabVIEW
General
1 26 (7.104%) Finance
2 12 (3.279%) Advertising
2 12 (3.279%) Marketing
3 8 (2.186%) Electronics
4 6 (1.639%) Telecoms
5 5 (1.366%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.093%) Military
6 4 (1.093%) Aerospace
6 4 (1.093%) Back Office
6 4 (1.093%) Law
7 3 (0.820%) Retail
7 3 (0.820%) Music
8 2 (0.546%) French Language
8 2 (0.546%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.273%) Publishing
9 1 (0.273%) Games
9 1 (0.273%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.011%) Management Information System
2 20 (5.464%) Clustering
3 16 (4.372%) Replication
4 15 (4.098%) Open Source
5 14 (3.825%) Social Media
6 13 (3.552%) Computer Science
7 6 (1.639%) CLARiiON
7 6 (1.639%) Firmware
7 6 (1.639%) Blackberry
8 5 (1.366%) Chip and PIN
8 5 (1.366%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.093%) SaaS
10 3 (0.820%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (0.820%) New Media
10 3 (0.820%) Streaming Music
11 2 (0.546%) Mathematics
11 2 (0.546%) Derivative
11 2 (0.546%) IaaS
12 1 (0.273%) Kindle
12 1 (0.273%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 240 (65.57%) Windows
2 148 (40.44%) Windows Server 2003
3 131 (35.79%) Windows Server 2008
4 127 (34.70%) Linux
5 59 (16.12%) UNIX
6 32 (8.743%) Windows Server 2012
7 24 (6.557%) CentOS
7 24 (6.557%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (4.645%) Windows XP
9 15 (4.098%) Ubuntu
10 13 (3.552%) Windows 7
11 12 (3.279%) Debian
12 9 (2.459%) Solaris
13 4 (1.093%) Windows 2000
13 4 (1.093%) Windows Vista
14 2 (0.546%) Mac OS X Server
14 2 (0.546%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.546%) VMS
14 2 (0.546%) Windows NT
15 1 (0.273%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (14.75%) ITIL
2 32 (8.743%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (4.645%) Capacity Planning
4 16 (4.372%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (4.372%) E-Commerce
4 16 (4.372%) Project Management
4 16 (4.372%) Agile Software Development
5 14 (3.825%) Business Continuity
5 14 (3.825%) B2B
6 13 (3.552%) Information Security
7 12 (3.279%) Performance Management
8 11 (3.005%) ISMS
8 11 (3.005%) Performance Testing
8 11 (3.005%) Migration
8 11 (3.005%) Information Security Management
8 11 (3.005%) Security Management
9 10 (2.732%) Validation
9 10 (2.732%) Service Delivery
9 10 (2.732%) Configuration Management
9 10 (2.732%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 63 (17.21%) SQL
2 52 (14.21%) C#
3 48 (13.11%) PowerShell
4 43 (11.75%) VBScript
5 35 (9.563%) Perl
6 23 (6.284%) Bash shell
7 16 (4.372%) PHP
8 12 (3.279%) Python
9 11 (3.005%) VB
10 8 (2.186%) Ruby
11 7 (1.913%) C
12 6 (1.639%) JavaScript
13 5 (1.366%) C++
13 5 (1.366%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.093%) Java
15 3 (0.820%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.820%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.273%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 43 (11.75%) Microsoft Certification
1 43 (11.75%) Degree
2 38 (10.38%) MCSE
3 23 (6.284%) MCITP
4 21 (5.738%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (4.372%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (4.098%) MCTS
6 15 (4.098%) CCNA
7 12 (3.279%) MCSA
7 12 (3.279%) MCP
8 7 (1.913%) Citrix Certification
9 5 (1.366%) Security Cleared
10 4 (1.093%) NCDA
10 4 (1.093%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.093%) CCNP
11 3 (0.820%) CCA
11 3 (0.820%) CCEE
12 2 (0.546%) CCIA
13 1 (0.273%) NVQ Level 3
13 1 (0.273%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.377%) SLA
2 14 (3.825%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.005%) QA
4 9 (2.459%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.273%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 153 (41.80%) Active Directory
2 116 (31.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (20.49%) VMware ESX
4 63 (17.21%) vSphere
5 45 (12.30%) XenApp
6 30 (8.197%) XenDesktop
6 30 (8.197%) Hyper-V
7 23 (6.284%) NFS
7 23 (6.284%) Xen
8 10 (2.732%) DFS Replication
9 9 (2.459%) XenServer
9 9 (2.459%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (1.639%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (1.093%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 3 (0.820%) VMware Server
12 3 (0.820%) Samba
12 3 (0.820%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.820%) UAG
13 2 (0.546%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.546%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (5.464%) Puppet
2 17 (4.645%) SCOM
3 15 (4.098%) Backup Exec
4 14 (3.825%) NetBackup
5 12 (3.279%) Nagios
5 12 (3.279%) SCCM
6 10 (2.732%) ZABBIX
7 8 (2.186%) Legato
7 8 (2.186%) WSUS
8 5 (1.366%) BladeLogic
8 5 (1.366%) Cacti
9 4 (1.093%) CFEngine
9 4 (1.093%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (1.093%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.546%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 2 (0.546%) Plesk
10 2 (0.546%) OSSEC
11 1 (0.273%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
11 1 (0.273%) Munin
11 1 (0.273%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 225 (61.48%) VMware
2 138 (37.70%) Microsoft
3 100 (27.32%) Citrix
4 93 (25.41%) HP
5 70 (19.13%) EMC
6 59 (16.12%) Dell
7 53 (14.48%) Cisco
8 49 (13.39%) NetApp
9 36 (9.836%) Red Hat
10 32 (8.743%) Brocade
11 17 (4.645%) Veritas
12 11 (3.005%) NetSuite
13 10 (2.732%) Oracle
13 10 (2.732%) CommVault
14 9 (2.459%) JBoss
14 9 (2.459%) CheckPoint
14 9 (2.459%) Symantec
14 9 (2.459%) Postini
15 8 (2.186%) IBM
16 6 (1.639%) Juniper
London
Required Skills: -Active Directory Server 2008 (admin and design) -Exchange 2010 (admin and design) -VMWare vSphere and VMWare SRM -Citrix Xen 6.5 -Enterprise SAN (HP P400 series) -...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
This client specialises in Cloud, datacenter, connectivity and unified comms across SME to corporate sized business... The role is to operate in the data centre division; you will...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
York, North Yorkshire
Duties include the management of a diverse IT infrastructure mainly built on Microsoft technologies including Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server and Hyper-V. Server virtualisation is also provided...
Ampleforth Abbey and College
Salary: To be discussed at interview
Posted: 10 May 2013
London
Linux / Unix Web Senior Infrastructure EngineerSenior Unix & Linux Engineer required in the West End of London for a global Media Company. You should have experience of managing Web...
bluemonday recruitment
Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 per year
Posted: 13 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
The ideal candidate will have Citrix experience of the highest calibre, demonstrated by accreditations, such as CCA XenDesktop, CCA XenServer or CCEE. In addition, they would ideally also...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Pontefract, West Yorkshire
Proven knowledge and use of the following technologies: - VMWare vSphere v4, Windows 2003/2008 Server, Microsoft clustering technologies, Citrix Presentation Server, Microsoft Active Directory, SAN Technologies, Microsoft Systems...
MAPP Ltd - IT & Business Management Recruitment Specialists
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum Upto to £38K basic + bonus (average
Posted: 14 May 2013
West Sussex, South East
Working with a range of customers you will be responsible for the design and implementation of networks along with diagnosing problems with existing networks including Windows Server 2008 /...
Fulcrum Telecom
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + car allowance + benefits
Posted: 30 April 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
East London
The successful Senior Systems Engineer must have a degree or equivalent relevant, extensive industry experience with knowledge of TCP/IP, File sharing - CIFS and NFS, Storage sharing - NAS...
Experis IT
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Halifax, Yorkshire
They are looking for a dynamic individual who is strong technically and business savvy who will be able to drive the organisation forward with the Infrastucture and technical...
IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £41000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Manchester, North West
You'll have experience of Microsoft Exchange and Server Virtualisation - Hyper - V/ VMWare. You'll have experience with one or more of the following - Citrix VDI, XenServer, XenApp...
JAM
Salary: £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 8 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
Good working knowledge of Matlab/Simulink - Supporting hazard and safety analysis based on IS026262 - Familiar with Canalyser (INCA OR CANape), CANoe, data loggers If you have 2 or...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
Good working knowledge of Matlab/Simulink - Supporting hazard and safety analysis based on IS026262 - Familiar with Canalyser (INCA OR CANape), CANoe, data loggers If you have 2 or...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
Windows XP/7. Microsoft Active Directory. Group Policy configuration & Deployment, Microsoft IIS 6/7, VBScript, TCP/IP, Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008... HP/Dell Server Hardware. HP/...
MAPP Ltd - IT & Business Management Recruitment Specialists
Salary: Up to £38,000 per annum + excellent benefits - see below
Posted: 15 May 2013
Warwick, West Midlands
They will also have strong knowledge and experience of working with Microsoft technologies in the Server/ Pc and application arenas.Knowledge of the following technologies is required: Windows...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £38000.00 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013
Leicester, East Midlands
They will also have strong knowledge and experience of working with Microsoft technologies in the Server/ Pc and application arenas.Knowledge of the following technologies is required: Windows...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £38000.00 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013
Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside,...
SKILLS Implementation experience of some of the following technologies: - Microsoft Server 2003 / 2008 / (2012) - Storage (Dell, EMC etc) - Citrix (VDI, Xenserver, Xenapp etc) - Virtualisation - VMWare, Hyper-V - Current...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30,000 - £44,000 per year
Posted: 14 May 2013
Barnet, South East
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Sovereign Business Resource
Salary: £38000 - £42000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
Middlesex
Reporting directly to the Systems and Design group leader you will have the responsibility of ensuring that consistent and compliant System Solutions are delivered to customer. Your role...
Roc Search
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Hampshire
Citrix - VMware - Microsoft - HP LAN Support - Cisco WAN Support - Firewalls - Storage - SQL / MySQL Woodrow Mercer Associates seeks a client facing and professional Senior Systems Engineer for this established...
Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Salary: From £28,000 to £40,000 per annum Excellent Benefits - Car or Allowanc
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Key Skills: -Linux / LAMP (RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu) -Puppet, Zabbix, Cacti, Nagios -Cloud / Virtualisation - VMware, AWS, RackSpace (including migrations) -Agile -iSCSI, NFS, Zoning -Scripting -Design & Architecture experience If...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £50000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
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Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Burnley, Lancashire
Expertise in the following areas: Excellent experience of installation, configuration and maintenance of CentOS and FreeBSD Excellent Linux Systems admin skills - troubleshooting, grep, top, ps, permissions, etc Excellent...
NES Global Talent
Salary: £25k to £35k + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
The successful Senior Systems Engineer (Java, Puppet, Chef, BDD, Unix) will have: - Great Systems Engineer/ Application Support experience - Good Java (J2EE, JSEE) skills and experience with open source...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + Bonus and Great Package
Posted: 15 May 2013
Central London / West End
The successful Senior Systems Engineer (Java, Puppet, Chef, BDD, Unix) will have: - Great Systems Engineer/ Application Support experience - Good Java (J2EE, JSEE) skills and experience with open source...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + Bonus and Great Package
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Yorkshire
Software Test, QA, Video, Audio, Broadcast, VOD, MPEG, IPTV, DVB, DTV, PSI, RF... The purpose of the role is to provide technical leadership and to contribute towards the...
Creative Personnel
Salary: £36000 to £40000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013