The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the London 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 19 June 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 258 319 340
Rank change year-on-year
+61 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 459 378 345
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 1.037% 0.711% 0.576%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.110% 0.754% 0.616%
Number of salaries quoted 412 341 288
Average salary £48,875 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.61% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £35,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
+8.57% -9.09%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
41358 50112 55964
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.45% 94.20% 93.44%
Number of salaries quoted 34786 43619 47333
Average salary £51,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Systems Engineer Salary Trend

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -32 72 £52,500 +23.52% 5
Docklands, London +11 10 £47,500 -20.83%
Sidcup - 7 £48,875 -
Uxbridge - 6 £45,000 -
Surbiton - 3 £42,500 -
Osterley - 3 - -
Canary Wharf - 2 £49,000 -
Croydon - 2 £55,000 -
Hounslow -5 1 £33,500 -29.47%
Harrow - 1 £22,500 -
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London 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.

1 497 (60.24%) Windows
2 431 (52.24%) Linux
3 378 (45.82%) VMware
4 270 (32.73%) Active Directory
5 251 (30.42%) Windows Server 2008
6 222 (26.91%) Windows Server 2003
7 211 (25.58%) Microsoft
8 201 (24.36%) MySQL
9 196 (23.76%) VMware Infrastructure
10 186 (22.55%) SAN
11 173 (20.97%) UNIX
12 172 (20.85%) SQL Server
13 166 (20.12%) Firewall
14 164 (19.88%) Red Hat
15 153 (18.55%) Citrix
15 153 (18.55%) MS Exchange
16 151 (18.30%) Perl
16 151 (18.30%) Apache
17 148 (17.94%) Cisco
18 147 (17.82%) SQL
19 135 (16.36%) DNS
20 132 (16.00%) HP
21 127 (15.39%) TCP/IP
22 125 (15.15%) Finance
23 122 (14.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
24 117 (14.18%) Puppet
25 114 (13.82%) Bash shell
26 110 (13.33%) IIS
27 107 (12.97%) CentOS
28 101 (12.24%) Exchange Server 2010

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 74 (8.970%) LAMP
2 40 (4.848%) Web Services
3 34 (4.121%) .NET
4 18 (2.182%) XML
5 15 (1.818%) REST
6 14 (1.697%) Ajax
7 13 (1.576%) Servlets
8 12 (1.455%) HTML
8 12 (1.455%) JMS
8 12 (1.455%) JSON
9 11 (1.333%) Ruby on Rails
10 10 (1.212%) Software Packaging
11 8 (0.970%) ASP
11 8 (0.970%) ASP.NET
12 6 (0.727%) Middleware
12 6 (0.727%) J2EE
12 6 (0.727%) DOM
12 6 (0.727%) Lucene
13 5 (0.606%) CSS
14 4 (0.485%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 153 (18.55%) MS Exchange
2 151 (18.30%) Apache
3 110 (13.33%) IIS
4 101 (12.24%) Exchange Server 2010
5 88 (10.67%) Exchange Server 2007
6 55 (6.667%) Tomcat
7 39 (4.727%) SharePoint
8 35 (4.242%) Amazon AWS
9 27 (3.273%) nginx
10 26 (3.152%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (3.030%) CMS
12 20 (2.424%) Exchange Server 2003
12 20 (2.424%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 12 (1.455%) Jetty
14 10 (1.212%) OpenStack
14 10 (1.212%) Drupal
15 7 (0.848%) Lync
16 6 (0.727%) Apache Solr
16 6 (0.727%) WordPress
16 6 (0.727%) Escenic
Applications
1 100 (12.12%) MS Excel
2 38 (4.606%) MS Office
3 3 (0.364%) Google Apps
4 2 (0.242%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.121%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.121%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 7 (0.848%) RMDS
2 3 (0.364%) Tesseract
3 1 (0.121%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.121%) Capstone
3 1 (0.121%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.121%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 186 (22.55%) SAN
2 166 (20.12%) Firewall
3 135 (16.36%) DNS
4 127 (15.39%) TCP/IP
5 78 (9.455%) WAN
5 78 (9.455%) Internet
6 67 (8.121%) VPN
7 65 (7.879%) LAN
8 61 (7.394%) iSCSI
9 59 (7.152%) NAS
10 55 (6.667%) DHCP
11 43 (5.212%) Wireless
12 30 (3.636%) VLAN
13 27 (3.273%) LDAP
14 24 (2.909%) VoIP
15 19 (2.303%) PBX
15 19 (2.303%) HTTP
16 18 (2.182%) Fibre Channel
17 17 (2.061%) 802.11
18 14 (1.697%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (24.36%) MySQL
2 172 (20.85%) SQL Server
3 49 (5.939%) SQL Server 2005
4 37 (4.485%) NoSQL
4 37 (4.485%) SQL Server 2008
5 25 (3.030%) MongoDB
6 19 (2.303%) RDBMS
7 9 (1.091%) Redis
8 7 (0.848%) Big Data
8 7 (0.848%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (0.848%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.606%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.485%) Oracle 11g
11 3 (0.364%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.364%) MS Access
11 3 (0.364%) Oracle 8/8i
12 2 (0.242%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.242%) Riak
12 2 (0.242%) HBase
12 2 (0.242%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 43 (5.212%) Jenkins
2 36 (4.364%) Git (software)
3 25 (3.030%) Subversion
4 19 (2.303%) JIRA
4 19 (2.303%) Maven
5 10 (1.212%) Selenium
6 8 (0.970%) Hudson
7 7 (0.848%) LabVIEW
8 6 (0.727%) PHPUnit
9 4 (0.485%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.364%) Capistrano
10 3 (0.364%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.242%) Talend Open Studio
11 2 (0.242%) Mercurial
11 2 (0.242%) GitHub
11 2 (0.242%) Ant
12 1 (0.121%) Firebug
12 1 (0.121%) CruiseControl
12 1 (0.121%) MSI
12 1 (0.121%) InstallShield
General
1 125 (15.15%) Finance
2 24 (2.909%) Telecoms
2 24 (2.909%) Banking
3 23 (2.788%) Back Office
4 18 (2.182%) Games
4 18 (2.182%) Publishing
5 17 (2.061%) Law
5 17 (2.061%) Retail
6 16 (1.939%) Marketing
7 11 (1.333%) Electronics
8 10 (1.212%) Manufacturing
9 8 (0.970%) Advertising
9 8 (0.970%) Investment Banking
10 7 (0.848%) Aerospace
11 6 (0.727%) Legal
12 5 (0.606%) Arabic Language
12 5 (0.606%) Japanese Language
12 5 (0.606%) Russian Language
12 5 (0.606%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.364%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.545%) Open Source
2 38 (4.606%) Computer Science
3 34 (4.121%) Clustering
4 28 (3.394%) Blackberry
5 26 (3.152%) Replication
6 24 (2.909%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.909%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.939%) Digital Media
7 16 (1.939%) Social Media
8 15 (1.818%) New Media
9 12 (1.455%) Hedge funds
10 10 (1.212%) EqualLogic
11 8 (0.970%) FMCG
11 8 (0.970%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.848%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
12 7 (0.848%) Streaming Music
12 7 (0.848%) VHDL
13 6 (0.727%) SaaS
13 6 (0.727%) Equities
14 5 (0.606%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 497 (60.24%) Windows
2 431 (52.24%) Linux
3 251 (30.42%) Windows Server 2008
4 222 (26.91%) Windows Server 2003
5 173 (20.97%) UNIX
6 122 (14.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 107 (12.97%) CentOS
8 94 (11.39%) Solaris
9 51 (6.182%) Windows 7
10 45 (5.455%) Windows XP
11 42 (5.091%) Ubuntu
11 42 (5.091%) Debian
12 29 (3.515%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (1.212%) Windows 8
13 10 (1.212%) VMS
14 6 (0.727%) Mac OS X
14 6 (0.727%) Fedora
15 5 (0.606%) Windows Vista
15 5 (0.606%) OpenVMS
15 5 (0.606%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (11.03%) ITIL
2 71 (8.606%) E-Commerce
3 40 (4.848%) Configuration Management
4 33 (4.000%) Change Management
5 30 (3.636%) Disaster Recovery
5 30 (3.636%) Capacity Planning
6 23 (2.788%) Project Management
7 22 (2.667%) Content Management
8 21 (2.545%) Agile Software Development
9 20 (2.424%) Infrastructure Management
9 20 (2.424%) Load Balancing
10 19 (2.303%) Service Delivery
10 19 (2.303%) PRINCE2
11 15 (1.818%) Problem Management
11 15 (1.818%) Migration
12 14 (1.697%) SOA
12 14 (1.697%) Scrum
13 12 (1.455%) Change Control
13 12 (1.455%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 12 (1.455%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 151 (18.30%) Perl
2 147 (17.82%) SQL
3 114 (13.82%) Bash shell
4 101 (12.24%) Python
5 85 (10.30%) PowerShell
6 76 (9.212%) Java
7 74 (8.970%) PHP
8 40 (4.848%) Ruby
9 36 (4.364%) VBScript
10 31 (3.758%) Shell Script
10 31 (3.758%) C#
11 28 (3.394%) JavaScript
12 12 (1.455%) ActionScript
13 11 (1.333%) C++
14 8 (0.970%) C
14 8 (0.970%) VB
15 7 (0.848%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.606%) VB.NET
17 3 (0.364%) Groovy
18 2 (0.242%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 94 (11.39%) Degree
2 76 (9.212%) Microsoft Certification
3 74 (8.970%) Cisco Certification
4 59 (7.152%) MCSE
5 56 (6.788%) CCNA
6 54 (6.545%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 36 (4.364%) MCITP
7 36 (4.364%) CCNP
8 17 (2.061%) MCSA
9 13 (1.576%) CCIE
9 13 (1.576%) MCP
10 11 (1.333%) Server+ Certification
11 10 (1.212%) Security Cleared
11 10 (1.212%) RHCE
12 9 (1.091%) HND
13 8 (0.970%) CCA
13 8 (0.970%) Citrix Certification
14 7 (0.848%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.848%) SC Cleared
15 5 (0.606%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.606%) SLA
2 13 (1.576%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 10 (1.212%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.606%) QA
5 1 (0.121%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.121%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 270 (32.73%) Active Directory
2 196 (23.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 93 (11.27%) VMware ESX
4 83 (10.06%) vSphere
5 57 (6.909%) XenApp
6 38 (4.606%) Xen
7 37 (4.485%) Hyper-V
8 35 (4.242%) NFS
9 29 (3.515%) VMware ESXi
10 26 (3.152%) XenDesktop
11 11 (1.333%) XenServer
12 9 (1.091%) UAG
12 9 (1.091%) Varnish
13 8 (0.970%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 8 (0.970%) MetaFrame
14 7 (0.848%) Citrix Presentation Server
14 7 (0.848%) Postfix
14 7 (0.848%) DFS Replication
15 6 (0.727%) Sendmail
15 6 (0.727%) Samba
Systems Management
1 117 (14.18%) Puppet
2 60 (7.273%) Nagios
3 46 (5.576%) SCCM
4 29 (3.515%) ZABBIX
4 29 (3.515%) SCOM
5 23 (2.788%) Backup Exec
6 19 (2.303%) Cacti
7 16 (1.939%) CFEngine
8 13 (1.576%) NetBackup
9 10 (1.212%) Norton AntiVirus
9 10 (1.212%) OpenView
10 9 (1.091%) Tivoli
10 9 (1.091%) Red Hat Spacewalk
10 9 (1.091%) Zenoss
11 8 (0.970%) WSUS
12 4 (0.485%) Munin
12 4 (0.485%) Plesk
12 4 (0.485%) YUM
12 4 (0.485%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.485%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 378 (45.82%) VMware
2 211 (25.58%) Microsoft
3 164 (19.88%) Red Hat
4 153 (18.55%) Citrix
5 148 (17.94%) Cisco
6 132 (16.00%) HP
7 68 (8.242%) Oracle
8 61 (7.394%) EMC
9 57 (6.909%) Dell
10 50 (6.061%) NetApp
11 41 (4.970%) Symantec
12 33 (4.000%) JBoss
13 32 (3.879%) Juniper
14 22 (2.667%) Veritas
15 18 (2.182%) Brocade
16 17 (2.061%) Avaya
17 15 (1.818%) IBM
17 15 (1.818%) CheckPoint
18 14 (1.697%) Intel
19 13 (1.576%) Sun
London
Windows, Server 2003/2008R2, VMWare, Networking TCP/IP. Senior Systems Engineer / Architect required for large media client based in London. Strong Windows infrastructure background (Server 2003/2008, Exchange,...
iKonnect
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Pension, Medical, Dental
Posted: 5 June 2013
London
Windows, Server 2003/2008R2, VMWare, Networking TCP/IP. Senior Systems Engineer / Architect required for large media client based in London. Strong Windows infrastructure background (Server 2003/2008, Exchange,...
iKonnect
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Pension, Medical, Dental
Posted: 11 June 2013
Stanmore, Middlesex
Applicants will have strong Windows server administration skills services including firewalls, Hyper-V, MDT, SCCM, Exchange 2007 administration and multi-domain Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy administration...
Stanmore College
Salary: From £31,631 to £36,023 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Edgware, South East
Windows server administration skills including firewalls, Hyper-V, MDT, SCCM. Exchange 2007 administration. multi-domain Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy administration are essential. A full MCSE 2003...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £36000 per annum
Posted: 19 June 2013
London
Key Skills: - VMware to version 5.0 - Windows Server 2008 - Dell EqualLogic SAN or equivalent - Linux (beneficial) - Networking (beneficial) - Certified to VCP 5 and MCITP level is highly...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
South West London
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Austin Fraser
Salary: £40000.00 - £50000.00 per annum + Final Salary Pension
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bens
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Vertical IT
Salary: £70000 - £100000 per annum
Posted: 15 June 2013
London
iKonnect
Salary: £30000 - £75000 per annum + package
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
iKonnect
Salary: £30000 - £75000 per annum + generous package
Posted: 24 May 2013
Central London / West End
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + EX BENS
Posted: 13 June 2013
West London
Ashdown IT
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + 25 days holiday & benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 5 June 2013
City of London
harringtonstarr
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
City, London
Harrington Starr
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
London
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £60,000 to £65,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
West London
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £Excellent + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Ampersand Consulting
Salary: £33000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus, Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
thetrainline.com
Salary: From £24,000 to £30,000 per annum £24,000-£30,000 (depending on experi
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
ITHR
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + Car Allowance + Bonus
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013
City, London
Cornucopia IT Resourcing
Salary: £300000 - £330000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Gregory James
Salary: £50000 to £60000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £45000 - £57000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013