The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Systems Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lead Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead System Engineer
Rank 839 895 826
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Systems Engineer 23 4 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.021% 0.003% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.003% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 15 4 16
Average salary £45,000 £44,000 £43,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.27% +1.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,700 £37,400 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £63,000 £52,000 £63,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £43,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +22.85%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Lead Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Lead Systems Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Lead Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Lead Systems Engineer within the UK.

Lead Systems Engineer Salary Trend

Lead Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lead Systems Engineer over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Lead Systems Engineer Salary Histogram

Lead Systems Engineer
Top 21 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Systems Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +45 22 £46,250 +2.77%
North West - 7 £40,000 -
London +56 5 £60,000 +9.09%
Cheshire - 5 £40,000 -
Warrington - 5 £40,000 -
Leeds - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 - -
West Yorkshire - 4 - -
South East - 2 £47,500 -
East Midlands - 2 £29,500 -
Derbyshire - 2 £29,500 -
Alfreton - 2 £29,500 -
Edinburgh +6 1 £32,500 -27.77%
East of England +3 1 £65,000 +85.71%
Scotland +1 1 £32,500 -26.13%
Oxfordshire - 1 £50,000 -
Hampshire - 1 £45,000 -
Essex - 1 £65,000 -
Oxford - 1 £50,000 -
Harlow - 1 £65,000 -
Basingstoke - 1 £45,000 -

Lead Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Lead Systems Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Lead Systems Engineer in their job title.

1 9 (30.00%) SAN
1 9 (30.00%) Java
1 9 (30.00%) .NET
1 9 (30.00%) Automated Testing
1 9 (30.00%) QA
1 9 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (23.33%) NAS
2 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 7 (23.33%) EMC
2 7 (23.33%) CLARiiON
3 6 (20.00%) LAMP
3 6 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 6 (20.00%) IBM
3 6 (20.00%) Sun
3 6 (20.00%) Oracle
3 6 (20.00%) Celerra
3 6 (20.00%) Brocade
3 6 (20.00%) NetBackup
4 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 5 (16.67%) Puppet
4 5 (16.67%) Linux
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (16.67%) VMware
5 4 (13.33%) Project Management
5 4 (13.33%) MCSE
5 4 (13.33%) MySQL
5 4 (13.33%) PHP
5 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
6 3 (10.00%) Citrix
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft

Lead Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Lead Systems Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Lead Systems Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (30.00%) .NET
2 6 (20.00%) LAMP
3 3 (10.00%) DOM
3 3 (10.00%) Ajax
3 3 (10.00%) JSON
3 3 (10.00%) Lucene
4 1 (3.333%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) CMS
1 3 (10.00%) WordPress
1 3 (10.00%) Drupal
2 1 (3.333%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.333%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.333%) Lync
2 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.333%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) SAN
2 7 (23.33%) NAS
3 2 (6.667%) IP Telephony
4 1 (3.333%) LAN
4 1 (3.333%) WAN
4 1 (3.333%) Firewall
4 1 (3.333%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) MySQL
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) PHPUnit
1 3 (10.00%) Selenium
2 2 (6.667%) Subversion
2 2 (6.667%) Git (software)
2 2 (6.667%) Mercurial
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) CLARiiON
2 6 (20.00%) Celerra
3 1 (3.333%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.333%) SaaS
3 1 (3.333%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.333%) Derivative
3 1 (3.333%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.667%) UNIX
5 1 (3.333%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.333%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Automated Testing
1 9 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 4 (13.33%) Project Management
4 3 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (10.00%) OO
4 3 (10.00%) Scrum
4 3 (10.00%) MVC
4 3 (10.00%) Content Management
4 3 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (6.667%) Information Security
5 2 (6.667%) Configuration Management
5 2 (6.667%) ITIL
6 1 (3.333%) CRM
6 1 (3.333%) E-Commerce
6 1 (3.333%) Change Management
6 1 (3.333%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.333%) Validation
6 1 (3.333%) High Availability
6 1 (3.333%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Java
2 4 (13.33%) PHP
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) Bash shell
4 2 (6.667%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.333%) Perl
5 1 (3.333%) VBScript
5 1 (3.333%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (13.33%) MCSE
3 2 (6.667%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.667%) CCNA
3 2 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.333%) MCP
4 1 (3.333%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) QA
2 3 (10.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.667%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.333%) SLA
4 1 (3.333%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.667%) XenApp
3 1 (3.333%) vSphere
3 1 (3.333%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 6 (20.00%) NetBackup
2 5 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (3.333%) Tivoli
3 1 (3.333%) SCCM
3 1 (3.333%) SCOM
3 1 (3.333%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) EMC
2 6 (20.00%) IBM
2 6 (20.00%) Sun
2 6 (20.00%) Oracle
2 6 (20.00%) Brocade
3 5 (16.67%) VMware
4 3 (10.00%) Citrix
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco
4 3 (10.00%) Zend
5 2 (6.667%) Juniper
6 1 (3.333%) Dell
6 1 (3.333%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.333%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (3.333%) Veeam
Harlow, Essex
Knowledge of security aspects and solutions - JSP440. Knowledge of safety aspects - JSP480. Experienced in presenting at all levels within an organisation. Holder of current Developed Vetting security clearance...
Verelogic IT Recruitment
Salary: £65000 - £70000 per annum + Car + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
This is an excellent opportunity for a Windows Team Lead to join a global company based just outside of Oxford. The Windows Team Lead will perform a key...
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
UK
Virtualisation Technologies (Hyper-V, Vmware) Windows Enterprise Domain Environments... AD, SCCM, DPM, WDS, WSUS... Experience of the following would be advantageous: EMC Clarion. Microsoft Lync. OSX server/client...
Experis IT
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Car - Home Based
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
The successful Lead PHP Developer/ System Engineer will be responsible for managing, leading, and mentoring the development team, setting up and maintaining LAMP servers as well as developing...
bridgenoble
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 8 May 2013