Systems Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

System Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 243 278
Rank change year-on-year +157 +35 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 2,117 859 897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.99% 1.43% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.15% 1.60% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,378 289 398
10th Percentile £32,125 £31,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,250 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £69,125 £71,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,217 53,628 67,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,585 30,477 42,470
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in the UK excluding London

Systems Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
South East +120 621 £50,000 -9.09% 118
South West +88 421 £55,000 +15.79% 91
Midlands +78 387 £48,500 +10.54% 99
East of England +72 274 £52,500 -8.70% 62
North of England +166 260 £45,000 +2.74% 66
West Midlands +47 241 £50,000 +12.99% 58
North West +98 163 £50,000 +14.16% 41
East Midlands +90 146 £42,500 - 41
Scotland -3 102 £40,750 -25.91% 24
Yorkshire +146 77 £45,000 +1.12% 19
Wales +32 44 £37,500 - 9
North East -5 20 £40,000 +13.48% 8
Northern Ireland +31 8 £35,000 -36.36% 3
Systems Engineer
UK

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 443 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 402 (18.99%) Systems Engineering
3 320 (15.12%) Degree
4 234 (11.05%) Microsoft
5 220 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
6 200 (9.45%) Manufacturing
7 193 (9.12%) Social Skills
8 187 (8.83%) Azure
9 181 (8.55%) Windows
10 178 (8.41%) VMware
10 178 (8.41%) SC Cleared
11 158 (7.46%) Validation
12 155 (7.32%) Aerospace
13 146 (6.90%) Linux
14 141 (6.66%) Active Directory
15 133 (6.28%) Automotive
16 121 (5.72%) SQL
17 116 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
18 109 (5.15%) Customer Service
19 108 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
20 106 (5.01%) Electronics
21 103 (4.87%) Windows Server
22 102 (4.82%) Cybersecurity
23 96 (4.53%) Agile
24 89 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
25 82 (3.87%) C
26 79 (3.73%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
27 78 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
28 74 (3.50%) WAN
28 74 (3.50%) Configuration Management

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 64 (3.02%) IIS
2 52 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (1.51%) SharePoint
4 13 (0.61%) OpenStack
5 6 (0.28%) Kinematics
6 5 (0.24%) Confluence
7 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.19%) WinCC
8 2 (0.094%) Apache
8 2 (0.094%) JBoss
8 2 (0.094%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.047%) SAS
9 1 (0.047%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.047%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 46 (2.17%) Simulink
2 36 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.80%) Stateflow
4 14 (0.66%) AutoCAD
5 12 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.094%) InfoPath
8 2 (0.094%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.047%) CATIA
9 1 (0.047%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.047%) Solid Edge
9 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.24%) C-CURE
3 4 (0.19%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.094%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.094%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.047%) iTrent
5 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.047%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 187 (8.83%) Azure
2 116 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (3.02%) AWS
4 49 (2.31%) Entra ID
5 30 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
6 17 (0.80%) OneDrive
6 17 (0.80%) SaaS
7 10 (0.47%) Mimecast
8 7 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (0.33%) GCP
9 6 (0.28%) Azure App Service
10 5 (0.24%) PaaS
11 4 (0.19%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.14%) Dropbox
12 3 (0.14%) Google Drive
12 3 (0.14%) Google Sheets
12 3 (0.14%) IaaS
13 2 (0.094%) Nutanix
14 1 (0.047%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.047%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.50%) WAN
2 63 (2.98%) Firewall
3 52 (2.46%) DNS
4 38 (1.79%) DHCP
5 33 (1.56%) Software-Defined Radio
6 26 (1.23%) LAN
6 26 (1.23%) TCP/IP
7 25 (1.18%) VPN
8 23 (1.09%) Internet
9 20 (0.94%) Wireless
10 19 (0.90%) VLAN
10 19 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.80%) VSAN
12 14 (0.66%) 4G
12 14 (0.66%) 5G
12 14 (0.66%) SAN
12 14 (0.66%) SNMP
13 10 (0.47%) Ethernet
13 10 (0.47%) HTTP
14 9 (0.43%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (2.93%) SQL Server
2 28 (1.32%) NoSQL
3 22 (1.04%) MySQL
4 14 (0.66%) MongoDB
5 10 (0.47%) Big Data
6 6 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.28%) InfluxDB
6 6 (0.28%) MariaDB
6 6 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.19%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.14%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.094%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.094%) QlikView
10 1 (0.047%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.047%) Power BI
10 1 (0.047%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 71 (3.35%) Rational DOORS
2 31 (1.46%) LabVIEW
3 22 (1.04%) JIRA
4 20 (0.94%) Rational Rhapsody
5 15 (0.71%) Git
6 12 (0.57%) Rational Team Concert
7 9 (0.43%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.24%) GitLab
9 3 (0.14%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.094%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.094%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.047%) Subversion
General
1 200 (9.45%) Manufacturing
2 193 (9.12%) Social Skills
3 155 (7.32%) Aerospace
4 133 (6.28%) Automotive
5 106 (5.01%) Electronics
6 71 (3.35%) Finance
7 63 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
8 47 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 40 (1.89%) Retail
10 29 (1.37%) Games
11 28 (1.32%) Military
12 27 (1.28%) Legal
13 18 (0.85%) Public Sector
14 17 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.71%) Marketing
16 14 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
19 10 (0.47%) Avionics
20 9 (0.43%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (0.85%) REST
1 18 (0.85%) WebRTC
2 9 (0.43%) Web Services
3 8 (0.38%) .NET
4 6 (0.28%) Middleware
5 5 (0.24%) WPF
6 4 (0.19%) JSON
6 4 (0.19%) Keycloak
6 4 (0.19%) LAMP
6 4 (0.19%) LDAP
6 4 (0.19%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (0.19%) XMPP
7 2 (0.094%) COM
7 2 (0.094%) HTML
7 2 (0.094%) HTML5
7 2 (0.094%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.094%) WebCenter
7 2 (0.094%) WSE
8 1 (0.047%) ISPF
8 1 (0.047%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 62 (2.93%) Management Information System
2 57 (2.69%) Algorithms
2 57 (2.69%) Embedded Systems
3 49 (2.31%) Clustering
4 45 (2.13%) SCADA
5 41 (1.94%) Public Cloud
6 38 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 33 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (1.37%) Robotics
9 27 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (1.28%) FPGA
10 25 (1.18%) IoT
11 24 (1.13%) CMDB
12 22 (1.04%) CCTV
13 21 (0.99%) Driving Licence
14 17 (0.80%) NHS
15 16 (0.76%) Mainframe
15 16 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
15 16 (0.76%) Verilog
15 16 (0.76%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 181 (8.55%) Windows
2 146 (6.90%) Linux
3 103 (4.87%) Windows Server
4 28 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 26 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (0.99%) Ubuntu
8 19 (0.90%) Debian
8 19 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.57%) CentOS
11 11 (0.52%) Windows 7
12 10 (0.47%) Unix
13 7 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.33%) VMS
14 5 (0.24%) Android
14 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
15 4 (0.19%) SUSE
16 2 (0.094%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (18.99%) Systems Engineering
2 220 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
3 158 (7.46%) Validation
4 109 (5.15%) Customer Service
5 102 (4.82%) Cybersecurity
6 96 (4.53%) Agile
7 79 (3.73%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 78 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 74 (3.50%) Configuration Management
10 73 (3.45%) Customer Requirements
11 72 (3.40%) Verification and Validation
12 70 (3.31%) Software Engineering
13 69 (3.26%) Project Management
14 67 (3.16%) Project Delivery
15 66 (3.12%) Computer Science
16 62 (2.93%) Software Testing
17 56 (2.65%) High Availability
18 52 (2.46%) Mathematics
19 49 (2.31%) Physics
20 48 (2.27%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 121 (5.72%) SQL
2 82 (3.87%) C
3 66 (3.12%) Python
4 62 (2.93%) MATLAB
5 50 (2.36%) C#
6 48 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 42 (1.98%) Java
8 40 (1.89%) Bash
9 31 (1.46%) C++
10 9 (0.43%) Perl
11 8 (0.38%) JavaScript
12 7 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
12 7 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.28%) Embedded C
14 5 (0.24%) R
14 5 (0.24%) VB
14 5 (0.24%) XAML
15 3 (0.14%) PHP
16 2 (0.094%) Assembly Language
17 1 (0.047%) REXX
Qualifications
1 443 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 320 (15.12%) Degree
3 178 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 89 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (3.12%) DV Cleared
6 60 (2.83%) Master's Degree
7 47 (2.22%) Chartered Engineer
8 35 (1.65%) HNC
9 31 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (1.13%) DBS Check
10 24 (1.13%) HND
11 13 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (0.52%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
14 9 (0.43%) CCNA
14 9 (0.43%) MCSE
15 8 (0.38%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.28%) PhD
16 6 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (1.13%) QA
2 22 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 19 (0.90%) ISO 9001
4 17 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (0.76%) PMO
6 15 (0.71%) GDPR
7 14 (0.66%) ISO 26262
8 13 (0.61%) Automotive SPICE
9 11 (0.52%) IEC 61508
10 10 (0.47%) COSHH
11 7 (0.33%) ISO 14001
11 7 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 6 (0.28%) Def Stans
13 5 (0.24%) SLA
14 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 3 (0.14%) ECSS
15 3 (0.14%) GMP
15 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.094%) PCI DSS
17 1 (0.047%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 141 (6.66%) Active Directory
2 108 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (3.35%) Hyper-V
4 58 (2.74%) Firmware
5 32 (1.51%) VMware NSX
6 19 (0.90%) vSphere
7 15 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
8 12 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (0.47%) Docker
10 8 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 6 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.14%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (0.14%) NFS
13 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.14%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.28%) Functional Safety
3 26 (1.23%) Ansible
4 25 (1.18%) Puppet
5 24 (1.13%) SCCM
6 20 (0.94%) Kubernetes
6 20 (0.94%) vCenter Server
7 16 (0.76%) SCOM
8 10 (0.47%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.38%) Terraform
10 7 (0.33%) Backup Exec
11 6 (0.28%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
12 5 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.24%) WSUS
13 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.19%) Autotask
13 4 (0.19%) Podman
13 4 (0.19%) Wonderware InTouch
14 2 (0.094%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 234 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 178 (8.41%) VMware
3 58 (2.74%) EMC
4 44 (2.08%) IBM
5 42 (1.98%) Cisco
6 29 (1.37%) Citrix
7 23 (1.09%) HP
7 23 (1.09%) Red Hat
8 18 (0.85%) Siemens
8 18 (0.85%) Thales
9 17 (0.80%) Veeam
10 15 (0.71%) Meraki
11 14 (0.66%) Fortinet
11 14 (0.66%) Oracle
12 13 (0.61%) Dynatrace
13 12 (0.57%) CheckPoint
13 12 (0.57%) Dell
14 11 (0.52%) Sophos
15 10 (0.47%) Allen-Bradley
15 10 (0.47%) Juniper