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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 58 63 53
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 3 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.620% 0.176% 0.800%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.659% 0.187% 0.826%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 3
Average salary £30,000 £27,500 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.09% +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+8.57% -6.66%
All Job Titles
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
455 535 363
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 94.01% 94.36% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 407 485 305
Average salary £32,500 £31,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £21,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Systems Engineer
North West

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire Systems Engineer Salary Trend

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 Lancashire 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
Blackburn - 1 £30,000 -
Blackpool - 1 £22,000 -
Burnley - 1 £30,000 -
Systems Engineer
North West

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) SLA
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) Nagios
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (20.00%) Handset
3 1 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Military
3 1 (20.00%) Clustering
3 1 (20.00%) Tripwire
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Munin
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (20.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (20.00%) Openswan
3 1 (20.00%) NetCrunch

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 Development
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XPages
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Lotus Domino
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (20.00%) Openswan
3 1 (20.00%) ADSL
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) PBX
3 1 (20.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Handset
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) FreeBSD
1 1 (20.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) PHP
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) Munin
1 1 (20.00%) NetCrunch
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Tripwire
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
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