Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in the South East

Senior System Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior System Engineer salary in the South East is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 362 429
Rank change year-on-year +114 +67 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 142 44 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.85% 0.29% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.32% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 103 14 34
10th Percentile £43,239 £45,775 £46,625
25th Percentile £48,825 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £62,971
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,375 £70,000
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
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 15,600 13,575 19,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 90.54% 96.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,294 8,525 12,666
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the South East

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the South East

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in the South East

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Thames Valley +100 84 £60,000 +22.82% 9
Berkshire +78 49 £58,748 +20.26% 4
Hampshire +6 27 £50,000 -13.04% 8
Oxfordshire - 24 £60,000 - 3
Kent +3 22 £62,500 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 11 £65,000 - 2
East Sussex - 3 £35,000 -
West Sussex - 3 £65,000 - 2
Sussex - 2 £30,000 -
Surrey -4 1 £65,000 +18.18% 1
Senior Systems Engineer
England

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 28 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 South East region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 36 (25.35%) Microsoft
3 34 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (23.24%) Degree
5 32 (22.54%) Active Directory
5 32 (22.54%) Systems Engineering
6 26 (18.31%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (15.49%) VMware
8 21 (14.79%) Validation
8 21 (14.79%) Azure
9 20 (14.08%) Windows
10 19 (13.38%) Decision-Making
11 18 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (11.97%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (11.27%) HNC
14 15 (10.56%) Social Skills
15 14 (9.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 14 (9.86%) MATLAB
15 14 (9.86%) Simulink
16 13 (9.15%) Customer Requirements
17 12 (8.45%) Systems Thinking
17 12 (8.45%) Windows Server 2016
17 12 (8.45%) ITIL
17 12 (8.45%) Windows Server 2012
17 12 (8.45%) PowerShell
18 11 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
18 11 (7.75%) SCCM
18 11 (7.75%) Problem Management
18 11 (7.75%) Windows 7
18 11 (7.75%) ISO 26262

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.70%) Kinematics
Applications
1 14 (9.86%) Simulink
2 10 (7.04%) Stateflow
3 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.79%) Azure
2 17 (11.97%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (6.34%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.23%) Azure App Service
4 6 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.23%) OneDrive
5 4 (2.82%) AWS
6 3 (2.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.93%) J1939
2 5 (3.52%) Firewall
2 5 (3.52%) Modbus
2 5 (3.52%) Profibus
2 5 (3.52%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.52%) WAN
3 4 (2.82%) 4G
3 4 (2.82%) 5G
3 4 (2.82%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (2.82%) MPLS
3 4 (2.82%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (2.11%) DHCP
4 3 (2.11%) DNS
5 1 (0.70%) LAN
5 1 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.93%) JIRA
2 4 (2.82%) GitLab
2 4 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.11%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (10.56%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.75%) Automotive
3 10 (7.04%) Manufacturing
4 7 (4.93%) Legal
5 5 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.82%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (0.70%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.82%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.04%) Algorithms
1 10 (7.04%) Embedded Systems
1 10 (7.04%) NHS
2 9 (6.34%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.63%) IoT
4 7 (4.93%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.52%) SCADA
5 5 (3.52%) Solar Energy
6 4 (2.82%) ARM Cortex
6 4 (2.82%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.11%) PKI
8 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.70%) FPGA
9 1 (0.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.08%) Windows
2 12 (8.45%) Windows Server 2012
2 12 (8.45%) Windows Server 2016
3 11 (7.75%) Windows 10
3 11 (7.75%) Windows 7
3 11 (7.75%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (6.34%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.23%) VMS
6 1 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (22.54%) Systems Engineering
3 26 (18.31%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (14.79%) Validation
5 19 (13.38%) Decision-Making
6 18 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (9.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 13 (9.15%) Customer Requirements
9 12 (8.45%) ITIL
9 12 (8.45%) Systems Thinking
10 11 (7.75%) Change Management
10 11 (7.75%) Problem Management
10 11 (7.75%) Roadmaps
11 9 (6.34%) Verification and Validation
12 8 (5.63%) Knowledge Transfer
12 8 (5.63%) Project Delivery
12 8 (5.63%) Service Design
13 7 (4.93%) FMEA
13 7 (4.93%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
13 7 (4.93%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.86%) MATLAB
2 12 (8.45%) PowerShell
3 8 (5.63%) C
4 6 (4.23%) SQL
5 5 (3.52%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (0.70%) C++
6 1 (0.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 38 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.24%) Degree
3 16 (11.27%) HNC
4 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.93%) HND
5 7 (4.93%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.23%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.23%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.82%) CESG Certified Professional
7 4 (2.82%) CTC Cleared
7 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.41%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.75%) Automotive SPICE
1 11 (7.75%) ISO 26262
2 4 (2.82%) COSHH
2 4 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.82%) GDPR
3 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 32 (22.54%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.82%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.11%) XenApp
4 3 (2.11%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (7.75%) Functional Safety
1 11 (7.75%) SCCM
2 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.93%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.82%) FortiGate
4 4 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (25.35%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.49%) VMware
3 9 (6.34%) Citrix
4 5 (3.52%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (3.52%) Cisco
4 5 (3.52%) Wonderware
5 4 (2.82%) Darktrace
5 4 (2.82%) HP
5 4 (2.82%) Mitel
5 4 (2.82%) NEC
5 4 (2.82%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.82%) Ribbon
6 3 (2.11%) Facebook
6 3 (2.11%) Instagram
7 1 (0.70%) Dell
7 1 (0.70%) Fortinet