Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in London

Senior System Engineer
England > London

The median Senior System Engineer salary in London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 605 778
Rank change year-on-year +147 +173 -200
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 51 30 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.083% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.088% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 41 24 62
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,400 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -8.62% +3.57%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £86,125
England median annual salary £57,495 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.18% -11.11% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,169 34,255 62,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.07% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,697 25,036 34,819
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in London

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in London

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in London

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Central London +47 2 £61,250 -38.75% 1
North London - 2 £63,500 - 1
South London - 2 £55,000 - 3
West London - 1 £60,000 -
Senior Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 London region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (52.94%) Windows
2 22 (43.14%) Azure
3 21 (41.18%) Windows Server
4 17 (33.33%) VMware
5 14 (27.45%) Cisco
6 13 (25.49%) Active Directory
7 11 (21.57%) Linux
7 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (19.61%) SQL
8 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
8 10 (19.61%) DNS
8 10 (19.61%) AWS
8 10 (19.61%) PowerShell
9 9 (17.65%) NetApp
9 9 (17.65%) Python
9 9 (17.65%) Law
9 9 (17.65%) Firewall
9 9 (17.65%) IT Strategy
9 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
10 8 (15.69%) DHCP
10 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
10 8 (15.69%) Hyper-V
11 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
11 7 (13.73%) Degree
11 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
12 6 (11.76%) Bash
12 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (11.76%) Marketing
12 6 (11.76%) TCP/IP
12 6 (11.76%) Finance

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.88%) IIS
2 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.92%) AutoCAD
2 2 (3.92%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.96%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) Azure
2 10 (19.61%) AWS
3 5 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.92%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.96%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) DNS
2 9 (17.65%) Firewall
3 8 (15.69%) DHCP
4 6 (11.76%) TCP/IP
5 5 (9.80%) VLAN
5 5 (9.80%) Wireless
6 4 (7.84%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (3.92%) RS-232
7 2 (3.92%) RS-485
8 1 (1.96%) PBX
8 1 (1.96%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) MySQL
2 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.96%) Git
1 1 (1.96%) JIRA
1 1 (1.96%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (17.65%) Law
1 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Finance
2 6 (11.76%) Marketing
3 4 (7.84%) Aerospace
3 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Electronics
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Military
5 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) CSS
1 1 (1.96%) Keras
1 1 (1.96%) PyTorch
1 1 (1.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Educational Technology
2 2 (3.92%) CAN bus
3 1 (1.96%) CUDA
3 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (52.94%) Windows
2 21 (41.18%) Windows Server
3 11 (21.57%) Linux
4 2 (3.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (17.65%) IT Strategy
3 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
4 6 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (7.84%) Data Governance
5 4 (7.84%) DevOps
5 4 (7.84%) Digital Forensics
5 4 (7.84%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (7.84%) Migration
5 4 (7.84%) Server Management
5 4 (7.84%) SIEM
6 3 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (5.88%) Requirements Management
7 2 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (3.92%) CI/CD
7 2 (3.92%) Machine Learning
7 2 (3.92%) Project Planning
7 2 (3.92%) Security Management
7 2 (3.92%) Workflow
8 1 (1.96%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.61%) PowerShell
1 10 (19.61%) SQL
2 9 (17.65%) Python
3 6 (11.76%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) Go
4 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.96%) Korn
4 1 (1.96%) PHP
4 1 (1.96%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Degree
1 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.84%) DBS Check
3 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) CCNA
4 2 (3.92%) RIBA
5 1 (1.96%) CCNP
5 1 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) Active Directory
2 8 (15.69%) Hyper-V
2 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.88%) Forefront TMG
3 3 (5.88%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.96%) Docker
4 1 (1.96%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (7.84%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.84%) SCCM
3 3 (5.88%) Grafana
3 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.88%) SCOM
3 3 (5.88%) WSUS
4 1 (1.96%) Ansible
4 1 (1.96%) Puppet
4 1 (1.96%) systemd
4 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) VMware
2 14 (27.45%) Cisco
3 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
4 9 (17.65%) NetApp
5 4 (7.84%) Apple
6 2 (3.92%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.92%) SAP
7 1 (1.96%) Citrix
7 1 (1.96%) Juniper
7 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.96%) Zscaler