Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Senior System Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior System Engineer salary in Scotland is £52,500 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 268 222 245
Rank change year-on-year -46 +23 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 19 5 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 4
10th Percentile £50,927 - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -1.89% -
75th Percentile £53,750 - £75,625
90th Percentile £63,875 - £79,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,492 4,293 5,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.85% 90.28% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,331 2,944
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,058
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in Scotland

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in Scotland

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in Scotland

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow -94 11 £52,500 -19.23% 1
Edinburgh +38 3 £65,000 - 1
Stirling - 2 - -
Fife - 2 - - 1
West Lothian - 1 - -
Senior Systems Engineer
UK

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

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 Scotland region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (73.68%) Validation
1 14 (73.68%) Prototyping
2 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) VMware
3 8 (42.11%) Clustering
3 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
3 8 (42.11%) IIS
3 8 (42.11%) WAN
3 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (42.11%) Load Balancing
3 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
3 8 (42.11%) REST
3 8 (42.11%) High Availability
3 8 (42.11%) WebRTC
3 8 (42.11%) VMware NSX
3 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (31.58%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (31.58%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 6 (31.58%) Commercialisation
4 6 (31.58%) Verification and Validation
4 6 (31.58%) Decarbonisation
4 6 (31.58%) Algorithms
4 6 (31.58%) Rapid Prototyping
4 6 (31.58%) Change Management
4 6 (31.58%) MATLAB
4 6 (31.58%) Simulink
4 6 (31.58%) Stateflow

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (42.11%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Simulink
1 6 (31.58%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) WAN
2 1 (5.26%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) REST
1 8 (42.11%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Clustering
2 6 (31.58%) Algorithms
2 6 (31.58%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Prototyping
1 14 (73.68%) Validation
2 8 (42.11%) High Availability
2 8 (42.11%) Load Balancing
2 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Change Management
3 6 (31.58%) Commercialisation
3 6 (31.58%) Decarbonisation
3 6 (31.58%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 6 (31.58%) Rapid Prototyping
3 6 (31.58%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (5.26%) Client Onboarding
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) MCSE
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (42.11%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) VMware
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Citrix
3 1 (5.26%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (5.26%) Veeam