Systems Engineer Jobs in the South East

System Engineer
England > South East

The median System Engineer salary in the South East is £50,000 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 70 210 231
Rank change year-on-year +140 +21 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 589 233 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.55% 1.55% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.78% 1.71% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 402 65 171
10th Percentile £34,000 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £62,250 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,000 £73,863
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

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 15,586 13,661 19,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 90.60% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 11,295 8,549 12,610
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 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the South East

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in the South East

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in the South East

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 Systems Engineer within the South East 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
Thames Valley +146 319 £50,000 -4.76% 33
Hampshire +65 161 £55,000 +5.26% 40
Berkshire +115 154 £50,000 +2.35% 15
Oxfordshire +82 110 £50,000 +17.65% 14
Kent +14 65 £48,500 +34.72% 4
Buckinghamshire +11 55 £42,500 -19.05% 4
West Sussex +57 22 £45,000 -5.26% 10
Surrey -25 10 £57,500 +4.55% 8
East Sussex +11 7 £37,500 -52.38% 2
Sussex - 3 £30,000 -
Middlesex - 2 £35,000 -
Systems Engineer
England

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

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 South East region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 118 (20.03%) Security Cleared
2 111 (18.85%) Systems Engineering
3 98 (16.64%) Microsoft
4 85 (14.43%) Windows
5 83 (14.09%) Degree
6 72 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (10.87%) Azure
7 64 (10.87%) Active Directory
8 55 (9.34%) Windows Server
9 54 (9.17%) Validation
10 51 (8.66%) VMware
11 50 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
11 50 (8.49%) Customer Requirements
11 50 (8.49%) Social Skills
12 48 (8.15%) DV Cleared
13 44 (7.47%) Electronics
14 43 (7.30%) Manufacturing
14 43 (7.30%) SC Cleared
14 43 (7.30%) Cybersecurity
15 39 (6.62%) SQL
16 38 (6.45%) Configuration Management
17 36 (6.11%) Linux
18 35 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 34 (5.77%) Agile
20 32 (5.43%) DNS
21 31 (5.26%) Cisco
21 31 (5.26%) Automotive
21 31 (5.26%) Firewall
22 28 (4.75%) Hyper-V
22 28 (4.75%) Management Information System

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 15 (2.55%) IIS
2 14 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.02%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.51%) Kinematics
5 3 (0.51%) WinCC
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Confluence
6 1 (0.17%) JBoss
6 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (3.57%) Simulink
2 17 (2.89%) Stateflow
3 13 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 64 (10.87%) Azure
2 50 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (2.55%) Entra ID
4 10 (1.70%) AWS
5 9 (1.53%) SaaS
6 7 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.02%) Azure App Service
7 6 (1.02%) OneDrive
8 5 (0.85%) PaaS
9 3 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.51%) Google Sheets
10 2 (0.34%) IaaS
11 1 (0.17%) CloudBees
11 1 (0.17%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.17%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.43%) DNS
2 31 (5.26%) Firewall
3 21 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 19 (3.23%) DHCP
5 17 (2.89%) WAN
6 15 (2.55%) SNMP
7 11 (1.87%) 4G
7 11 (1.87%) 5G
8 9 (1.53%) MPLS
8 9 (1.53%) SMTP
9 8 (1.36%) HTTP
9 8 (1.36%) LAN
10 7 (1.19%) J1939
11 6 (1.02%) VPN
11 6 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.85%) Modbus
12 5 (0.85%) Profibus
12 5 (0.85%) VLAN
13 4 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (1.02%) InfluxDB
1 6 (1.02%) MariaDB
1 6 (1.02%) MySQL
1 6 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (0.68%) Big Data
2 4 (0.68%) Relational Database
3 3 (0.51%) RDBMS
3 3 (0.51%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.17%) OLTP
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.17%) Power BI
4 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (2.38%) JIRA
1 14 (2.38%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (1.70%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.02%) Git
4 4 (0.68%) GitLab
5 3 (0.51%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.34%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.34%) LabVIEW
General
1 50 (8.49%) Social Skills
2 44 (7.47%) Electronics
3 43 (7.30%) Manufacturing
4 31 (5.26%) Automotive
5 26 (4.41%) Aerospace
6 23 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (2.89%) Games
7 17 (2.89%) Legal
8 11 (1.87%) Retail
9 8 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.19%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.02%) Marketing
12 5 (0.85%) Advertising
12 5 (0.85%) Finance
12 5 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.68%) Military
14 3 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.53%) Web Services
2 4 (0.68%) JSON
2 4 (0.68%) Keycloak
2 4 (0.68%) Middleware
3 2 (0.34%) .NET
3 2 (0.34%) WPF
4 1 (0.17%) JSP
4 1 (0.17%) LDAP
4 1 (0.17%) WSH
4 1 (0.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.75%) Management Information System
2 26 (4.41%) CMDB
3 23 (3.90%) Embedded Systems
4 20 (3.40%) Algorithms
5 19 (3.23%) Driving Licence
6 16 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.55%) IoT
8 14 (2.38%) NHS
9 13 (2.21%) SCADA
10 9 (1.53%) ARM Cortex
10 9 (1.53%) PKI
11 7 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.85%) Robotics
12 5 (0.85%) Solar Energy
13 4 (0.68%) Acoustics
13 4 (0.68%) CCTV
13 4 (0.68%) Clustering
13 4 (0.68%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.68%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 85 (14.43%) Windows
2 55 (9.34%) Windows Server
3 36 (6.11%) Linux
4 21 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 19 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
6 18 (3.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (1.87%) Windows 7
8 7 (1.19%) VMS
9 6 (1.02%) CentOS
9 6 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.68%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.51%) Android
11 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (18.85%) Systems Engineering
2 72 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (9.17%) Validation
4 50 (8.49%) Customer Requirements
5 43 (7.30%) Cybersecurity
6 38 (6.45%) Configuration Management
7 35 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 34 (5.77%) Agile
9 28 (4.75%) Verification and Validation
10 23 (3.90%) Decision-Making
11 21 (3.57%) Software Engineering
12 18 (3.06%) ITIL
12 18 (3.06%) Systems Thinking
13 17 (2.89%) Project Management
14 16 (2.72%) Time Management
15 15 (2.55%) Waterfall
16 14 (2.38%) Collaborative Working
16 14 (2.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 14 (2.38%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
16 14 (2.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (6.62%) SQL
2 27 (4.58%) PowerShell
3 23 (3.90%) MATLAB
4 20 (3.40%) C
5 15 (2.55%) Python
6 6 (1.02%) Bash
6 6 (1.02%) Embedded C
7 5 (0.85%) Ladder Logic
7 5 (0.85%) Perl
8 4 (0.68%) C#
8 4 (0.68%) C++
8 4 (0.68%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.51%) Java
10 2 (0.34%) XAML
11 1 (0.17%) COBOL
11 1 (0.17%) HLASM
11 1 (0.17%) REXX
11 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 118 (20.03%) Security Cleared
2 83 (14.09%) Degree
3 48 (8.15%) DV Cleared
4 43 (7.30%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.06%) HNC
6 13 (2.21%) DBS Check
7 12 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.70%) CTC Cleared
9 9 (1.53%) HND
10 7 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.68%) CESG Certified Professional
11 4 (0.68%) PhD
12 2 (0.34%) CCNA
12 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.34%) NVQ Level 4
13 1 (0.17%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.17%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.87%) Automotive SPICE
1 11 (1.87%) GDPR
1 11 (1.87%) ISO 26262
2 10 (1.70%) COSHH
3 9 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (1.36%) ISO 9001
4 8 (1.36%) QA
5 7 (1.19%) ISO 14001
6 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (0.34%) PMO
8 1 (0.17%) ECSS
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 64 (10.87%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.75%) Hyper-V
3 23 (3.90%) Firmware
4 22 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (1.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.51%) XenApp
8 3 (0.51%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.17%) NFS
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (3.06%) Functional Safety
2 16 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (2.55%) SCOM
4 14 (2.38%) SCCM
5 10 (1.70%) FortiGate
6 9 (1.53%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.02%) Terraform
8 5 (0.85%) Ansible
8 5 (0.85%) Puppet
8 5 (0.85%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 4 (0.68%) Autotask
9 4 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.51%) Backup Exec
10 3 (0.51%) Wonderware InTouch
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 98 (16.64%) Microsoft
2 51 (8.66%) VMware
3 31 (5.26%) Cisco
4 17 (2.89%) Citrix
5 15 (2.55%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.87%) Fortinet
7 10 (1.70%) Thales
8 9 (1.53%) Darktrace
8 9 (1.53%) HP
8 9 (1.53%) Mitel
8 9 (1.53%) NEC
8 9 (1.53%) Ribbon
9 8 (1.36%) Wonderware
10 7 (1.19%) Draytek
10 7 (1.19%) Juniper
11 5 (0.85%) Allen-Bradley
11 5 (0.85%) Aruba
11 5 (0.85%) EMC
12 4 (0.68%) Datto
12 4 (0.68%) Meraki