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The table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT jobs within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 System Engineer
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank193215
Rank change on same period last yearUp+22
Matching permanent IT job ads17141977
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.992 %0.851 %
As % of the category below1.161 %0.974 %
Salaries quoted14331542
Average minimum salary£35,235£35,049
Average salary£38,534£37,640
% change on same period last year+2.37 %
Average maximum salary£41,834£40,231
UK excluding London average salary£36,530£36,236
% change on same period last year+0.81 %
England IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
England
Matching permanent IT job ads147664202900
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled85.48 %87.31 %
Salaries quoted124179163979
Average minimum salary£39,004£40,365
Average salary£42,652£44,143
% change on same period last year-3.37 %
Average maximum salary£46,300£47,921
UK excluding London average salary£38,208£39,261
% change on same period last year-2.68 %
Systems Engineer UKSystems Engineer
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Systems Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Systems Engineer Demand Trend

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the England region.

England Systems Engineer Salary Trend

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonUp+46564£42,615+4.10 %
South EastDown-9521£38,483+0.01 %
East of EnglandUp+51181£36,804+5.14 %
South WestUp+33181£35,611+2.27 %
West MidlandsUp+5987£32,539-0.05 %
North WestDown-3472£31,465+5.01 %
YorkshireDown-1856£30,235+6.83 %
East MidlandsUp+1047£37,500+24.39 %
North EastUp+217£29,625-21.59 %
MidlandsUp+83£42,500-18.61 %
South CoastDown-21--
Systems Engineer UKSystems Engineer
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Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the 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.

11583 (45.23 %)Windows
2978 (27.94 %)Windows Server 2003
3951 (27.17 %)Active Directory
4853 (24.37 %)Microsoft
5756 (21.60 %)Linux
6690 (19.71 %)Microsoft Certification
7628 (17.94 %)MS Exchange
8620 (17.71 %)TCP/IP
9603 (17.23 %)MCSE
10591 (16.89 %)UNIX
11527 (15.06 %)Cisco
12515 (14.71 %)VMware
13511 (14.60 %)MS Excel
14499 (14.26 %)SQL
15442 (12.63 %)Degree
16391 (11.17 %)Citrix
16391 (11.17 %)Exchange Server 2003
17387 (11.06 %)SQL Server
18382 (10.91 %)DNS
19371 (10.60 %)SAN
20348 (9.943 %)Firewall
21337 (9.629 %)Oracle
22317 (9.057 %)WAN
23307 (8.771 %)Windows 2000
24297 (8.486 %)Solaris
25274 (7.829 %)LAN
26273 (7.800 %)Cisco Certification
27264 (7.543 %)Windows 2000 Server
28259 (7.400 %)IIS
29243 (6.943 %)Finance

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the 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.

England IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1129 (3.686 %).NET
283 (2.371 %)WebServices
380 (2.286 %)WebSphere
475 (2.143 %)J2EE
559 (1.686 %)HTML
658 (1.657 %)XML
736 (1.029 %)Middleware
828 (0.800 %)ASP.NET
927 (0.771 %)ASP
1025 (0.714 %)MFC
1121 (0.600 %)JNDI
1121 (0.600 %)JMS
1219 (0.543 %)LAMP
1219 (0.543 %)CSS
1315 (0.429 %)ODBC
1315 (0.429 %).NET Framework
1411 (0.314 %)ADO
158 (0.229 %)Struts
158 (0.229 %)EDI
167 (0.200 %)STL
England IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1628 (17.94 %)MS Exchange
2391 (11.17 %)Exchange Server 2003
3259 (7.400 %)IIS
4197 (5.629 %)SharePoint
5167 (4.771 %)Exchange Server 2007
6164 (4.686 %)Apache
7122 (3.486 %)Exchange Server 2000
892 (2.629 %)Tomcat
947 (1.343 %)Office Communications Server
1036 (1.029 %)WebSphere Application Server
1134 (0.971 %)WebLogic
1229 (0.829 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1325 (0.714 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1418 (0.514 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1516 (0.457 %)JBoss
1613 (0.371 %)Lotus Notes
1711 (0.314 %)Oracle Application Server
188 (0.229 %)iFIX
188 (0.229 %)MQSeries
188 (0.229 %)BizTalk Server
England IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1511 (14.60 %)MS Excel
2183 (5.229 %)MS Office
369 (1.971 %)MATLAB
448 (1.371 %)Simulink
533 (0.943 %)MS PowerPoint
622 (0.629 %)MS Visio
75 (0.143 %)MS Project
75 (0.143 %)AutoCAD
84 (0.114 %)RoboHelp
84 (0.114 %)CATIA
91 (0.029 %)Windchill
91 (0.029 %)Stateflow
England IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
117 (0.486 %)RMDS
26 (0.171 %)SalesLogix
34 (0.114 %)Navision
34 (0.114 %)SoftGrid
43 (0.086 %)Capstone
43 (0.086 %)Microsoft CRM
52 (0.057 %)Oracle Applications
61 (0.029 %)Dynamics CRM
61 (0.029 %)Nortel Periphonics
61 (0.029 %)BPCS
61 (0.029 %)Pegasus Opera
61 (0.029 %)WebTrends
61 (0.029 %)Oracle ERP
England IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1620 (17.71 %)TCP/IP
2382 (10.91 %)DNS
3371 (10.60 %)SAN
4348 (9.943 %)Firewall
5317 (9.057 %)WAN
6274 (7.829 %)LAN
7218 (6.229 %)Internet
8207 (5.914 %)DHCP
9200 (5.714 %)VPN
10114 (3.257 %)VoIP
11105 (3.000 %)Wireless
1271 (2.029 %)Network Security
1360 (1.714 %)Cisco PIX
1459 (1.686 %)LDAP
1553 (1.514 %)FTP
1652 (1.486 %)SMTP
1742 (1.200 %)Ethernet
1841 (1.171 %)UMTS
1940 (1.143 %)HTTP
2038 (1.086 %)GSM
England IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1387 (11.06 %)SQL Server
2166 (4.743 %)MySQL
382 (2.343 %)SQL Server 2005
468 (1.943 %)DB2
560 (1.714 %)RDBMS
654 (1.543 %)SQL Server 2000
728 (0.800 %)Oracle 8/8i
814 (0.400 %)Informix
912 (0.343 %)GIS
912 (0.343 %)Datawarehouse
1011 (0.314 %)Oracle 10g
1110 (0.286 %)Oracle 9i
129 (0.257 %)Cognos Powerplay
129 (0.257 %)UniData
137 (0.200 %)Data Mining
145 (0.143 %)PostgreSQL
154 (0.114 %)Crystal Reports
154 (0.114 %)MSDE
162 (0.057 %)SQL Server Integration Services
162 (0.057 %)Oracle Reports
England IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
128 (0.800 %)Visual Studio
216 (0.457 %)Ant
216 (0.457 %)MSI
313 (0.371 %)Subversion
49 (0.257 %)Eclipse
58 (0.229 %)ClearCase
65 (0.143 %)TestDirector
73 (0.086 %)JIRA
73 (0.086 %)RequisitePro
73 (0.086 %)InstallShield
73 (0.086 %)ClearQuest
82 (0.057 %)Selenium
82 (0.057 %)LabVIEW
82 (0.057 %)ARTiSAN
82 (0.057 %)QuickTest Pro
82 (0.057 %)VSS/SourceSafe
91 (0.029 %)LoadRunner
91 (0.029 %)Dreamweaver
91 (0.029 %)QADirector
91 (0.029 %)Bugzilla
England IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1243 (6.943 %)Finance
2195 (5.571 %)Telecoms
3181 (5.171 %)Pensions
4150 (4.286 %)Aerospace
5146 (4.171 %)Health
6141 (4.029 %)Electronics
7131 (3.743 %)Education
8123 (3.514 %)Banking
9114 (3.257 %)Government
10105 (3.000 %)Manufacturing
11103 (2.943 %)Military
1286 (2.457 %)Electric
1367 (1.914 %)Retail
1465 (1.857 %)Avionics
1564 (1.829 %)Insurance
1663 (1.800 %)Investment Banking
1740 (1.143 %)Marketing
1839 (1.114 %)Back Office
1938 (1.086 %)Automotive
2019 (0.543 %)Construction
England IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1127 (3.629 %)Clustering
281 (2.314 %)Computer Science
357 (1.629 %)Blackberry
446 (1.314 %)Management Information System
545 (1.286 %)Physics
643 (1.229 %)SCADA
742 (1.200 %)Mathematics
839 (1.114 %)MPEG
937 (1.057 %)VHDL
1031 (0.886 %)Data Protection Act
1031 (0.886 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
1123 (0.657 %)AS400
1221 (0.600 %)Human Factors
1319 (0.543 %)Japanese Language
1418 (0.514 %)Client/Server
1517 (0.486 %)EPoS
1517 (0.486 %)CCTV
1616 (0.457 %)Device Driver
1715 (0.429 %)Thin Client
1715 (0.429 %)Fat Client
England IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11583 (45.23 %)Windows
2978 (27.94 %)Windows Server 2003
3756 (21.60 %)Linux
4591 (16.89 %)UNIX
5307 (8.771 %)Windows 2000
6297 (8.486 %)Solaris
7264 (7.543 %)Windows 2000 Server
8202 (5.771 %)Windows XP
9172 (4.914 %)Red Hat Linux
10142 (4.057 %)Windows Server 2008
1190 (2.571 %)AIX
1287 (2.486 %)Windows Vista
1357 (1.629 %)Windows NT
1446 (1.314 %)HPUX
1537 (1.057 %)VxWorks
1537 (1.057 %)Debian
1634 (0.971 %)CentOS
1731 (0.886 %)Fedora
1829 (0.829 %)VMS
1925 (0.714 %)OpenVMS
England IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1218 (6.229 %)Security Cleared
2156 (4.457 %)ITIL
3133 (3.800 %)UML
4127 (3.629 %)Project Management
595 (2.714 %)MODAF
691 (2.600 %)Validation
776 (2.171 %)Requirements Management
872 (2.057 %)Change Management
963 (1.800 %)Configuration Management
1059 (1.686 %)Disaster Recovery
1156 (1.600 %)CMMI
1254 (1.543 %)Requirements Analysis
1352 (1.486 %)SC Cleared
1352 (1.486 %)E-Commerce
1352 (1.486 %)Migration
1451 (1.457 %)Load Balancing
1549 (1.400 %)Software Engineering
1647 (1.343 %)DoDAF
1647 (1.343 %)Problem Management
1746 (1.314 %)Data Management
England IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1499 (14.26 %)SQL
2225 (6.429 %)C++
3222 (6.343 %)C
4218 (6.229 %)Perl
5154 (4.400 %)Java
6113 (3.229 %)Shell Script
787 (2.486 %)PHP
881 (2.314 %)C#
976 (2.171 %)VB
1063 (1.800 %)Python
1132 (0.914 %)JavaScript
1225 (0.714 %)VB6
1322 (0.629 %)VBScript
1421 (0.600 %)VBA
1518 (0.514 %)Embedded C
1617 (0.486 %)VC++
1617 (0.486 %)VB.NET
1716 (0.457 %)Assembly Language
1813 (0.371 %)Embedded C++
1910 (0.286 %)Tcl
England IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1690 (19.71 %)Microsoft Certification
2603 (17.23 %)MCSE
3442 (12.63 %)Degree
4273 (7.800 %)Cisco Certification
5241 (6.886 %)CCNA
6176 (5.029 %)MCP
797 (2.771 %)MCSA
867 (1.914 %)CCNP
946 (1.314 %)HNC
1044 (1.257 %)Citrix Certification
1140 (1.143 %)HND
1234 (0.971 %)CCA
1331 (0.886 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1428 (0.800 %)CCIE
1527 (0.771 %)MCTS
1622 (0.629 %)RHCE
1721 (0.600 %)CCEA
1820 (0.571 %)MCITP
1820 (0.571 %)RHCT
1919 (0.543 %)HP ASE
England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
167 (1.914 %)SLA
230 (0.857 %)QA
324 (0.686 %)ISO9001
414 (0.400 %)TickIT
512 (0.343 %)ISO9000
64 (0.114 %)PCI DSS
73 (0.086 %)JSP 440
82 (0.057 %)ISO27001
91 (0.029 %)COBIT
91 (0.029 %)GxP
91 (0.029 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
England IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1951 (27.17 %)Active Directory
2210 (6.000 %)VMware Infrastructure
3119 (3.400 %)VMware ESX
481 (2.314 %)Terminal Services
575 (2.143 %)ISA Server
664 (1.829 %)Backup Exec
763 (1.800 %)Citrix Presentation Server
843 (1.229 %)NetBackup
921 (0.600 %)NFS
1017 (0.486 %)MetaFrame
1017 (0.486 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1112 (0.343 %)Oracle RAC
1112 (0.343 %)Squid
128 (0.229 %)VMware Server
136 (0.171 %)Terminal Server
142 (0.057 %)Xen
151 (0.029 %)AquaLogic
151 (0.029 %)Samba
151 (0.029 %)VMware Workstation
England IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
154 (1.543 %)Tivoli
239 (1.114 %)MOM
336 (1.029 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
432 (0.914 %)Nagios
518 (0.514 %)Norton AntiVirus
612 (0.343 %)OpenView
612 (0.343 %)WSUS
710 (0.286 %)AutoSys
89 (0.257 %)BMC PATROL
89 (0.257 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
97 (0.200 %)ARCserve
97 (0.200 %)HP Data Protector
106 (0.171 %)SCOM
106 (0.171 %)Legato
115 (0.143 %)EMC NetWorker
115 (0.143 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
124 (0.114 %)CONTROL-M
124 (0.114 %)BMC Performance Manager
133 (0.086 %)SCCM
133 (0.086 %)Unicenter
England IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1853 (24.37 %)Microsoft
2527 (15.06 %)Cisco
3515 (14.71 %)VMware
4391 (11.17 %)Citrix
5337 (9.629 %)Oracle
6226 (6.457 %)HP
7179 (5.114 %)Red Hat
8102 (2.914 %)EMC
998 (2.800 %)NetApp
1097 (2.771 %)Sun
1194 (2.686 %)VERITAS
1283 (2.371 %)IBM
1366 (1.886 %)Dell
1447 (1.343 %)Altiris
1544 (1.257 %)Symantec
1544 (1.257 %)Avaya
1544 (1.257 %)Juniper
1641 (1.171 %)McAfee Security
1740 (1.143 %)WatchGuard
1835 (1.000 %)SonicWALL