Systems Engineer Jobs in Scotland

System Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median System Engineer salary in Scotland is £44,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 188 208
Rank change year-on-year +26 +20 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 129 33 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.92% 0.70% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 0.77% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 63 15 20
10th Percentile £31,250 £43,800 £36,125
25th Percentile £35,125 £49,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +22.22% +16.88%
75th Percentile £61,875 £62,500 £56,875
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £74,375
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

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 6,502 4,276 5,494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 90.27% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,326 2,955
10th Percentile £27,825 £31,785 £28,500
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 £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in Scotland

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in Scotland

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in Scotland

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 Systems Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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 -62 45 £40,000 -27.27% 11
Edinburgh +59 25 £62,500 +10.62% 7
Stirling - 14 - -
Aberdeenshire +8 11 - - 1
Aberdeen -5 10 £40,000 -33.33% 1
Fife - 10 - - 1
Highlands - 5 - - 1
East Lothian - 4 £77,500 -
Falkirk - 4 - -
West Lothian -2 1 - -
Argyll and Bute - 1 £44,000 -
Dundee - 1 £38,000 -
Angus - 1 £40,000 -
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (39.53%) Prototyping
2 41 (31.78%) Validation
2 41 (31.78%) Azure
3 40 (31.01%) VMware
4 33 (25.58%) Algorithms
4 33 (25.58%) Renewable Energy
5 32 (24.81%) Verification and Validation
6 30 (23.26%) Security Cleared
7 29 (22.48%) Rapid Prototyping
7 29 (22.48%) Change Management
7 29 (22.48%) MATLAB
7 29 (22.48%) Simulink
7 29 (22.48%) Stateflow
7 29 (22.48%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 29 (22.48%) Commercialisation
7 29 (22.48%) Decarbonisation
8 28 (21.71%) Microsoft
9 26 (20.16%) SQL Server
10 23 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (17.83%) VMware Infrastructure
11 22 (17.05%) WAN
12 21 (16.28%) IIS
12 21 (16.28%) SQL
12 21 (16.28%) Clustering
12 21 (16.28%) Public Cloud
12 21 (16.28%) High Availability
12 21 (16.28%) VMware NSX
13 16 (12.40%) Windows
13 16 (12.40%) SC Cleared
14 14 (10.85%) Windows Server

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 21 (16.28%) IIS
2 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 29 (22.48%) Simulink
1 29 (22.48%) Stateflow
2 6 (4.65%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 41 (31.78%) Azure
2 13 (10.08%) AWS
2 13 (10.08%) Cloud Computing
3 11 (8.53%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.10%) Mimecast
6 2 (1.55%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.05%) WAN
2 8 (6.20%) NetScaler
3 3 (2.33%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (1.55%) Wireless
5 1 (0.78%) LAN
5 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.78%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.16%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Git
1 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 9 (6.98%) Finance
2 4 (3.10%) Agriculture
2 4 (3.10%) Social Skills
3 3 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (2.33%) Legal
4 2 (1.55%) Law
4 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.78%) Electronics
5 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.20%) REST
1 8 (6.20%) WebRTC
2 1 (0.78%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.58%) Algorithms
1 33 (25.58%) Renewable Energy
2 21 (16.28%) Clustering
2 21 (16.28%) Public Cloud
3 13 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.78%) CCTV
5 1 (0.78%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.40%) Windows
2 14 (10.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.33%) Linux
5 1 (0.78%) Android
5 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.78%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (39.53%) Prototyping
2 41 (31.78%) Validation
3 32 (24.81%) Verification and Validation
4 29 (22.48%) Change Management
4 29 (22.48%) Commercialisation
4 29 (22.48%) Decarbonisation
4 29 (22.48%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 29 (22.48%) Rapid Prototyping
5 23 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (16.28%) High Availability
7 13 (10.08%) API Design
7 13 (10.08%) API Development
7 13 (10.08%) Capacity Planning
7 13 (10.08%) CI/CD
7 13 (10.08%) Continuous Delivery
7 13 (10.08%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (10.08%) Performance Analysis
7 13 (10.08%) Software Testing
7 13 (10.08%) TDD
8 10 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (22.48%) MATLAB
2 21 (16.28%) SQL
3 13 (10.08%) Java
4 2 (1.55%) Python
5 1 (0.78%) Assembly Language
5 1 (0.78%) Bash
5 1 (0.78%) C
5 1 (0.78%) C++
5 1 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.40%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.55%) DBS Check
3 2 (1.55%) Degree
3 2 (1.55%) HNC
3 2 (1.55%) MCSE
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.78%) NVQ Level 3
4 1 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.88%) QA
2 3 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 2 (1.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (17.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (16.28%) VMware NSX
3 12 (9.30%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.88%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.55%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.78%) Firmware
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (4.65%) SCCM
2 2 (1.55%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.78%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 40 (31.01%) VMware
2 28 (21.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.20%) Citrix
3 8 (6.20%) Veeam
4 6 (4.65%) EMC
4 6 (4.65%) Sophos
5 5 (3.88%) Dell
5 5 (3.88%) HP
5 5 (3.88%) iManage
6 4 (3.10%) Aderant
7 2 (1.55%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.78%) Aruba
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco
8 1 (0.78%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.78%) Keysight
8 1 (0.78%) NetApp
8 1 (0.78%) Thales