The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich 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 24 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 Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 51 40 49
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 4 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 1.223% 2.273% 0.685%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.266% 2.290% 0.722%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 2
Average salary £40,000 £33,750 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.51% -2.17%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -6.66%
All Job Titles
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
316 262 277
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 96.64% 99.24% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 297 234 251
Average salary £40,000 £36,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.58% +4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £53,700 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Engineer
Suffolk

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich Systems Engineer Salary Trend

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 15 (75.00%) Windows
2 14 (70.00%) VMware
3 13 (65.00%) Linux
4 11 (55.00%) VoIP
4 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
4 11 (55.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (45.00%) ITIL
6 8 (40.00%) MS Exchange
6 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
6 8 (40.00%) Degree
6 8 (40.00%) SAN
7 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
7 7 (35.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
8 6 (30.00%) IIS
8 6 (30.00%) MySQL
8 6 (30.00%) Cisco
8 6 (30.00%) DNS
8 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
8 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (30.00%) VMware ESX
8 6 (30.00%) Firewall
9 5 (25.00%) EMC
9 5 (25.00%) UNIX
9 5 (25.00%) Solaris
10 3 (15.00%) Windows 2000
10 3 (15.00%) JBoss
10 3 (15.00%) MS Excel
10 3 (15.00%) SharePoint

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 Platforms
1 8 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 6 (30.00%) IIS
3 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) VoIP
2 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (40.00%) SAN
3 6 (30.00%) DNS
3 6 (30.00%) Firewall
4 3 (15.00%) SSL
4 3 (15.00%) VPN
4 3 (15.00%) SMTP
4 3 (15.00%) DHCP
4 3 (15.00%) MPLS
5 2 (10.00%) LAN
5 2 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (30.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (15.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (75.00%) Windows
2 13 (65.00%) Linux
3 7 (35.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (25.00%) UNIX
4 5 (25.00%) Solaris
5 3 (15.00%) Windows 2000
5 3 (15.00%) VMS
5 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (10.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) ITIL
2 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (15.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (5.000%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Perl
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
1 3 (15.00%) VB
1 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.000%) C
2 1 (5.000%) C#
2 1 (5.000%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (15.00%) CCA
3 3 (15.00%) Citrix Certification
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (15.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
1 11 (55.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (30.00%) VMware ESX
3 3 (15.00%) XenApp
3 3 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) VMware
2 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (35.00%) Red Hat
4 6 (30.00%) Cisco
5 5 (25.00%) EMC
6 3 (15.00%) JBoss
6 3 (15.00%) Citrix
7 2 (10.00%) NetApp
8 1 (5.000%) Borland