Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in England

Senior System Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior System Engineer salary in England is £57,495 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 702 892
Rank change year-on-year +222 +190 -145
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 395 228 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.27% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 283 73 147
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,356 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,775 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,495 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £72,250 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,536 84,581 127,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,273 53,585 75,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,595 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,820 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +108 144 £55,000 - 25
Midlands +45 70 £52,500 -17.97% 21
South West +8 58 £60,000 +18.81% 17
London +141 54 £64,250 -4.81% 20
North of England +61 47 £55,000 +10.00% 11
West Midlands +40 45 £52,500 -17.97% 11
North West +29 37 £55,000 +30.78% 8
East Midlands +7 25 £50,000 - 10
East of England +2 22 £59,500 +52.13% 9
Yorkshire +93 10 £45,107 -4.03% 2
Senior Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (21.27%) Security Cleared
2 72 (18.23%) Microsoft
3 68 (17.22%) Azure
4 67 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (16.20%) Windows
6 63 (15.95%) Degree
7 59 (14.94%) VMware
8 57 (14.43%) Systems Engineering
9 49 (12.41%) Active Directory
10 40 (10.13%) SC Cleared
11 39 (9.87%) VMware Infrastructure
12 37 (9.37%) Social Skills
13 36 (9.11%) Linux
13 36 (9.11%) Validation
14 35 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
15 32 (8.10%) Windows Server
15 32 (8.10%) Manufacturing
16 31 (7.85%) SQL
17 28 (7.09%) Firewall
17 28 (7.09%) PowerShell
18 23 (5.82%) Aerospace
18 23 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
19 22 (5.57%) Embedded Systems
20 21 (5.32%) Automotive
21 20 (5.06%) WAN
21 20 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 20 (5.06%) Decision-Making
22 19 (4.81%) Cisco
22 19 (4.81%) IIS
22 19 (4.81%) HNC

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 19 (4.81%) IIS
2 10 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.01%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.51%) JBoss
5 2 (0.51%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) Confluence
6 1 (0.25%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (3.54%) Simulink
2 10 (2.53%) Stateflow
3 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.27%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.76%) Revit
6 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.25%) Solid Edge
6 1 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.25%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 68 (17.22%) Azure
2 23 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (4.81%) AWS
4 9 (2.28%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.52%) Azure App Service
5 6 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.52%) OneDrive
6 3 (0.76%) PaaS
7 2 (0.51%) Nutanix
7 2 (0.51%) SaaS
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.25%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.25%) GCP
8 1 (0.25%) IaaS
8 1 (0.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.09%) Firewall
2 20 (5.06%) WAN
3 17 (4.30%) DNS
4 15 (3.80%) DHCP
5 14 (3.54%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.04%) Wireless
7 7 (1.77%) J1939
7 7 (1.77%) VLAN
8 6 (1.52%) Modbus
9 5 (1.27%) 4G
9 5 (1.27%) 5G
9 5 (1.27%) Profibus
10 4 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (1.01%) MPLS
10 4 (1.01%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.76%) SAN
12 2 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
12 2 (0.51%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.30%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.51%) Big Data
3 2 (0.51%) MySQL
4 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.03%) Git
1 8 (2.03%) JIRA
2 6 (1.52%) LabVIEW
3 4 (1.01%) GitLab
3 4 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 37 (9.37%) Social Skills
2 32 (8.10%) Manufacturing
3 23 (5.82%) Aerospace
4 21 (5.32%) Automotive
5 13 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.78%) Electronics
7 10 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.28%) Finance
8 9 (2.28%) Law
9 7 (1.77%) Legal
9 7 (1.77%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.52%) Marketing
10 6 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.27%) Military
12 3 (0.76%) Retail
13 2 (0.51%) Avionics
14 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.54%) REST
1 14 (3.54%) WebRTC
2 5 (1.27%) Keycloak
3 3 (0.76%) Middleware
4 2 (0.51%) .NET
5 1 (0.25%) CSS
5 1 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.25%) Keras
5 1 (0.25%) Node-RED
5 1 (0.25%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.57%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (3.80%) Algorithms
3 14 (3.54%) Clustering
4 12 (3.04%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.53%) NHS
6 9 (2.28%) IoT
7 8 (2.03%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.03%) SCADA
8 6 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.52%) Robotics
9 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.27%) Solar Energy
10 4 (1.01%) ARM Cortex
10 4 (1.01%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.01%) Educational Technology
10 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.76%) PKI
12 2 (0.51%) 3D Printing
12 2 (0.51%) CAN bus
12 2 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 64 (16.20%) Windows
2 36 (9.11%) Linux
3 32 (8.10%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.04%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (2.78%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.78%) Windows 7
5 11 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.52%) Unix
6 6 (1.52%) VMS
7 3 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.51%) CentOS
8 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (14.43%) Systems Engineering
3 36 (9.11%) Validation
4 35 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (5.06%) Decision-Making
5 20 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (4.30%) Mentoring
6 17 (4.30%) Software Engineering
7 16 (4.05%) High Availability
8 15 (3.80%) ITIL
8 15 (3.80%) Systems Thinking
9 14 (3.54%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 14 (3.54%) Load Balancing
10 13 (3.29%) Customer Requirements
10 13 (3.29%) DevOps
10 13 (3.29%) Problem Management
11 12 (3.04%) Cloud Security
11 12 (3.04%) Configuration Management
11 12 (3.04%) Roadmaps
12 11 (2.78%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (7.85%) SQL
2 28 (7.09%) PowerShell
3 19 (4.81%) MATLAB
4 18 (4.56%) Python
5 17 (4.30%) C
6 13 (3.29%) Bash
7 10 (2.53%) C#
8 7 (1.77%) Ladder Logic
9 6 (1.52%) Java
10 3 (0.76%) C++
11 1 (0.25%) Go
11 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.25%) Korn
11 1 (0.25%) Perl
11 1 (0.25%) PHP
11 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.25%) tcsh
11 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (21.27%) Security Cleared
2 63 (15.95%) Degree
3 40 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.81%) HNC
5 13 (3.29%) HND
5 13 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.53%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.27%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.01%) CESG Certified Professional
10 4 (1.01%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.76%) RIBA
12 2 (0.51%) CCNA
12 2 (0.51%) NVQ Level 4
13 1 (0.25%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.29%) Automotive SPICE
2 11 (2.78%) ISO 26262
3 4 (1.01%) COSHH
3 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.01%) GDPR
4 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.51%) QA
5 1 (0.25%) ECSS
5 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (12.41%) Active Directory
2 39 (9.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.54%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.77%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (1.77%) Firmware
5 6 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.27%) Docker
6 5 (1.27%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.76%) Forefront TMG
7 3 (0.76%) NFS
7 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.76%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (0.76%) XenApp
8 2 (0.51%) KVM
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.05%) SCCM
3 15 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (3.04%) Functional Safety
5 5 (1.27%) Ansible
5 5 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (1.01%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.01%) Grafana
6 4 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.01%) Puppet
6 4 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.76%) SCOM
7 3 (0.76%) WSUS
8 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.51%) Terraform
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.25%) Sysdig
9 1 (0.25%) systemd
9 1 (0.25%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 72 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 59 (14.94%) VMware
3 19 (4.81%) Cisco
4 14 (3.54%) CheckPoint
5 12 (3.04%) Citrix
6 9 (2.28%) NetApp
7 8 (2.03%) Apple
8 7 (1.77%) Allen-Bradley
8 7 (1.77%) HP
9 6 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.52%) Wonderware
10 4 (1.01%) Darktrace
10 4 (1.01%) Mitel
10 4 (1.01%) NEC
10 4 (1.01%) Ribbon
11 3 (0.76%) Facebook
11 3 (0.76%) Instagram
11 3 (0.76%) QinetiQ
12 2 (0.51%) Brocade
12 2 (0.51%) Dell