Senior Systems Engineer Jobs

Senior System Engineer
UK

The median Senior System Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 698 962
Rank change year-on-year +179 +264 -206
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 427 302 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.30% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.33% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 306 79 168
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,356 £46,025
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,775 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,625 £82,500 £83,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £61,043
% change year-on-year - -9.90% +1.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the UK

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the UK

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in the UK

Senior Systems Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +178 397 £59,000 -1.67% 103
UK excluding London +90 364 £55,000 - 86
South East +101 146 £55,000 - 24
Work from Home +105 72 £50,000 -23.08% 37
Midlands +30 67 £52,500 -17.97% 19
South West -2 61 £60,000 +8.60% 19
London +135 53 £64,250 -4.81% 17
North of England +44 48 £52,500 +10.53% 11
West Midlands +26 42 £53,750 -16.02% 9
North West +30 38 £55,000 +30.78% 8
East Midlands +4 25 £50,000 - 10
East of England -1 22 £59,500 +52.13% 9
Scotland -60 11 £52,500 -19.23% 5
Yorkshire +75 10 £45,107 -4.03% 2
Wales +17 9 £36,476 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 91 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 86 (20.14%) Microsoft
3 83 (19.44%) Azure
4 74 (17.33%) VMware
5 72 (16.86%) Windows
6 70 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (15.22%) Degree
8 62 (14.52%) Systems Engineering
9 56 (13.11%) Active Directory
10 52 (12.18%) VMware Infrastructure
11 46 (10.77%) SC Cleared
12 40 (9.37%) Validation
13 37 (8.67%) SQL
13 37 (8.67%) Social Skills
13 37 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
13 37 (8.67%) Windows Server
14 33 (7.73%) Linux
15 32 (7.49%) Manufacturing
16 31 (7.26%) PowerShell
17 26 (6.09%) Firewall
18 25 (5.85%) IIS
19 24 (5.62%) WAN
20 23 (5.39%) Aerospace
20 23 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
21 22 (5.15%) Embedded Systems
21 22 (5.15%) DNS
22 21 (4.92%) SQL Server
22 21 (4.92%) Automotive
22 21 (4.92%) SCCM
23 20 (4.68%) AWS

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (5.85%) IIS
2 15 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.70%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) JBoss
5 1 (0.23%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (3.28%) Simulink
2 10 (2.34%) Stateflow
3 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.17%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.70%) Revit
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.23%) Solid Edge
6 1 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.23%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 83 (19.44%) Azure
2 23 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (4.68%) AWS
4 12 (2.81%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (1.41%) Azure App Service
6 6 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.41%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (0.94%) SaaS
9 3 (0.70%) PaaS
10 2 (0.47%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.23%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.23%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.23%) GCP
11 1 (0.23%) IaaS
11 1 (0.23%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.09%) Firewall
2 24 (5.62%) WAN
3 22 (5.15%) DNS
4 15 (3.51%) DHCP
5 14 (3.28%) TCP/IP
6 12 (2.81%) Wireless
7 8 (1.87%) SAN
8 7 (1.64%) J1939
8 7 (1.64%) VLAN
9 6 (1.41%) Modbus
10 5 (1.17%) 4G
10 5 (1.17%) 5G
10 5 (1.17%) Extranet
10 5 (1.17%) Internet
10 5 (1.17%) Profibus
10 5 (1.17%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.94%) MPLS
11 4 (0.94%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.47%) Big Data
4 1 (0.23%) MySQL
4 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (1.87%) Git
1 8 (1.87%) JIRA
2 7 (1.64%) LabVIEW
3 4 (0.94%) GitLab
3 4 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 37 (8.67%) Social Skills
2 32 (7.49%) Manufacturing
3 23 (5.39%) Aerospace
4 21 (4.92%) Automotive
5 12 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.58%) Electronics
7 10 (2.34%) Finance
7 10 (2.34%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.11%) Law
9 7 (1.64%) Legal
9 7 (1.64%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.41%) Police
10 6 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.17%) Local Government
11 5 (1.17%) Marketing
11 5 (1.17%) Military
12 3 (0.70%) Retail
13 2 (0.47%) Avionics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.22%) REST
1 18 (4.22%) WebRTC
2 5 (1.17%) Keycloak
3 2 (0.47%) .NET
3 2 (0.47%) Middleware
4 1 (0.23%) CSS
4 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.23%) Keras
4 1 (0.23%) Node-RED
4 1 (0.23%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.15%) Embedded Systems
2 18 (4.22%) Clustering
3 15 (3.51%) Algorithms
4 14 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.34%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.34%) NHS
6 9 (2.11%) IoT
6 9 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.87%) SCADA
8 6 (1.41%) Robotics
9 5 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.17%) Solar Energy
10 4 (0.94%) ARM Cortex
10 4 (0.94%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.94%) Educational Technology
10 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.70%) PKI
12 2 (0.47%) 3D Printing
12 2 (0.47%) CAN bus
12 2 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 72 (16.86%) Windows
2 37 (8.67%) Windows Server
3 33 (7.73%) Linux
4 12 (2.81%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (2.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (2.58%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.58%) Windows 7
5 11 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.41%) Unix
6 6 (1.41%) VMS
7 3 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.47%) CentOS
8 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.23%) Debian
9 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (14.52%) Systems Engineering
3 40 (9.37%) Validation
4 37 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (4.68%) Decision-Making
5 20 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (4.45%) High Availability
7 18 (4.22%) Load Balancing
7 18 (4.22%) Software Engineering
8 16 (3.75%) Mentoring
9 15 (3.51%) ITIL
9 15 (3.51%) Systems Thinking
10 14 (3.28%) Change Management
10 14 (3.28%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 13 (3.04%) Customer Requirements
11 13 (3.04%) DevOps
12 12 (2.81%) Configuration Management
12 12 (2.81%) Problem Management
12 12 (2.81%) Roadmaps
13 11 (2.58%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (8.67%) SQL
2 31 (7.26%) PowerShell
3 19 (4.45%) MATLAB
4 18 (4.22%) Python
5 17 (3.98%) C
6 13 (3.04%) Bash
7 10 (2.34%) C#
8 7 (1.64%) Ladder Logic
9 5 (1.17%) Java
10 3 (0.70%) C++
11 1 (0.23%) Go
11 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.23%) Korn
11 1 (0.23%) Perl
11 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.23%) tcsh
11 1 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 91 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 65 (15.22%) Degree
3 46 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.45%) HNC
5 14 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (3.04%) HND
7 12 (2.81%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.64%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.17%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
10 4 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.70%) RIBA
12 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.47%) NVQ Level 4
13 1 (0.23%) CCNA
13 1 (0.23%) CCNP
13 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.04%) Automotive SPICE
2 11 (2.58%) ISO 26262
3 7 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.94%) COSHH
4 4 (0.94%) GDPR
5 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.47%) QA
7 1 (0.23%) ECSS
7 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (13.11%) Active Directory
2 52 (12.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.45%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.64%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (1.64%) Firmware
5 6 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (1.41%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.41%) XenDesktop
6 5 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.94%) Docker
8 3 (0.70%) Forefront TMG
8 3 (0.70%) NFS
8 3 (0.70%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (0.70%) XenApp
9 2 (0.47%) KVM
9 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (4.92%) SCCM
2 20 (4.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (3.75%) Kubernetes
4 12 (2.81%) Functional Safety
5 8 (1.87%) SCOM
6 5 (1.17%) Ansible
6 5 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.94%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.94%) Grafana
7 4 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.94%) Puppet
7 4 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.70%) WSUS
9 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.47%) Terraform
9 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (0.23%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 86 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 74 (17.33%) VMware
3 19 (4.45%) Cisco
4 18 (4.22%) Citrix
5 14 (3.28%) NetApp
6 12 (2.81%) CheckPoint
6 12 (2.81%) HP
7 8 (1.87%) Apple
8 7 (1.64%) Allen-Bradley
9 6 (1.41%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.41%) Wonderware
10 4 (0.94%) Darktrace
10 4 (0.94%) Mitel
10 4 (0.94%) NEC
10 4 (0.94%) Ribbon
11 3 (0.70%) Facebook
11 3 (0.70%) Instagram
11 3 (0.70%) QinetiQ
12 2 (0.47%) Dell
12 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto