The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 June 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Engineer
Rank 247 296 253
Rank change year-on-year
+49 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 1245 1052 1160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 1.126% 0.874% 0.913%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.193% 0.920% 0.970%
Number of salaries quoted 1086 900 997
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £35,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
+8.57% -9.09%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
104395 114295 119568
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.98% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 86968 98064 101411
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%

Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Systems Engineer Salary Trend

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Systems Engineer over the 3 months to 17 June 2013 within the UK.

Systems Engineer Salary Histogram

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +51 1177 £42,500 +13.33% 147
London +67 466 £48,875 +8.61% 42
South East +41 298 £40,000 +14.28% 35
East of England +51 128 £43,000 +17.80% 12
South West +22 95 £36,250 -9.37% 26
City of London -19 75 £52,500 +23.52% 9
Yorkshire +21 70 £38,000 +11.76% 12
Berkshire +8 62 £40,000 - 1
Surrey +32 58 £36,250 -12.65% 12
Oxfordshire -9 57 £45,000 +28.57% 6
West Yorkshire +24 49 £38,000 +1.60% 6
North West -22 48 £29,000 -10.76% 11
Hampshire +14 47 £40,000 +14.28% 12
Reading +33 43 £40,000 -13.04% 1
East Midlands -2 40 £37,500 +21.95% 4
Bedfordshire +13 39 £48,500 +14.11%
West Midlands -40 36 £35,000 +6.06% 3
Bristol +2 33 £35,000 -12.50% 12
Hertfordshire +24 28 £40,000 -8.57%
Suffolk +8 26 £35,000 -12.50% 3
Buckinghamshire -2 26 £40,000 +45.45% 3
Cambridgeshire +15 25 £35,000 - 8
Oxford 0 25 £45,000 +12.50% 1
Leeds -3 24 £32,500 -13.33% 2
Southampton +18 23 £40,000 +14.28% 7
Gloucestershire -1 23 £46,000 +0.54% 1
Scotland -4 23 £35,000 -6.66% 3
Manchester -15 22 £29,000 -10.76% 5
Somerset - 22 £30,000 - 1
Cambridge +3 18 £34,000 -2.85% 6

Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited 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 Systems Engineer in their job title.

1 1259 (55.15%) Windows
2 971 (42.53%) Linux
3 917 (40.17%) VMware
4 643 (28.16%) Microsoft
5 622 (27.24%) Active Directory
6 587 (25.71%) Windows Server 2008
7 503 (22.03%) SAN
8 478 (20.94%) VMware Infrastructure
9 469 (20.54%) Windows Server 2003
10 452 (19.80%) MS Exchange
11 446 (19.54%) Cisco
12 421 (18.44%) TCP/IP
13 403 (17.65%) SQL Server
14 394 (17.26%) MySQL
15 388 (17.00%) SQL
16 378 (16.56%) Citrix
17 367 (16.08%) UNIX
18 349 (15.29%) Firewall
19 339 (14.85%) Apache
20 322 (14.10%) MS Excel
21 315 (13.80%) DNS
22 298 (13.05%) ITIL
23 297 (13.01%) Degree
24 283 (12.40%) Perl
25 274 (12.00%) IIS
26 267 (11.70%) Red Hat
27 257 (11.26%) HP
28 251 (10.99%) Microsoft Certification
29 229 (10.03%) vSphere
30 227 (9.943%) Exchange Server 2010

Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited 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 Systems Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 106 (4.643%) .NET
2 104 (4.555%) LAMP
3 86 (3.767%) Web Services
4 68 (2.979%) XML
5 39 (1.708%) J2EE
6 35 (1.533%) HTML
6 35 (1.533%) .NET Framework
7 31 (1.358%) SOAP
8 26 (1.139%) WCF
9 23 (1.007%) Ruby on Rails
10 20 (0.876%) ASP.NET
11 17 (0.745%) Middleware
11 17 (0.745%) Ajax
11 17 (0.745%) REST
12 14 (0.613%) JMS
13 13 (0.569%) Servlets
13 13 (0.569%) COM
13 13 (0.569%) ASP
13 13 (0.569%) JSON
14 12 (0.526%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 452 (19.80%) MS Exchange
2 339 (14.85%) Apache
3 274 (12.00%) IIS
4 227 (9.943%) Exchange Server 2010
5 187 (8.191%) Exchange Server 2007
6 144 (6.307%) SharePoint
7 93 (4.074%) Exchange Server 2003
8 78 (3.417%) Tomcat
9 51 (2.234%) nginx
10 38 (1.664%) Amazon AWS
11 33 (1.445%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 31 (1.358%) WebLogic
12 31 (1.358%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (1.226%) CMS
13 28 (1.226%) SharePoint 2010
13 28 (1.226%) Lync
14 13 (0.569%) Jetty
15 12 (0.526%) Drupal
16 10 (0.438%) OpenStack
17 9 (0.394%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 322 (14.10%) MS Excel
2 125 (5.475%) MS Office
3 28 (1.226%) Simulink
4 12 (0.526%) Stateflow
5 11 (0.482%) Office 365
6 7 (0.307%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.219%) Google Apps
8 4 (0.175%) MS PowerPoint
9 3 (0.131%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.131%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.044%) Windchill
10 1 (0.044%) MS Project
10 1 (0.044%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 17 (0.745%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.438%) Dynamics AX
3 7 (0.307%) RMDS
4 3 (0.131%) ResourceLink
4 3 (0.131%) Tesseract
5 2 (0.088%) assyst
5 2 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.088%) Maximo
6 1 (0.044%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.044%) Capstone
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.044%) BASE24
6 1 (0.044%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 503 (22.03%) SAN
2 421 (18.44%) TCP/IP
3 349 (15.29%) Firewall
4 315 (13.80%) DNS
5 214 (9.374%) LAN
6 212 (9.286%) WAN
7 191 (8.366%) DHCP
8 157 (6.877%) VPN
9 149 (6.527%) Internet
10 148 (6.483%) iSCSI
11 137 (6.001%) NAS
12 119 (5.212%) VoIP
13 102 (4.468%) HTTP
14 91 (3.986%) Wireless
15 82 (3.592%) Fibre Channel
16 64 (2.803%) VLAN
17 60 (2.628%) PBX
18 54 (2.365%) FTP
19 38 (1.664%) LDAP
20 37 (1.621%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 403 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 394 (17.26%) MySQL
3 110 (4.818%) SQL Server 2008
4 104 (4.555%) SQL Server 2005
5 50 (2.190%) NoSQL
6 30 (1.314%) SQL Server 2000
7 28 (1.226%) RDBMS
7 28 (1.226%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.139%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 20 (0.876%) Oracle 8/8i
10 19 (0.832%) Redis
11 15 (0.657%) Big Data
12 14 (0.613%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (0.569%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.569%) Oracle 11g
14 11 (0.482%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 9 (0.394%) Apache Cassandra
16 8 (0.350%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.263%) MS Access
17 6 (0.263%) DB2
Development Applications
1 52 (2.278%) Jenkins
2 48 (2.102%) Git (software)
3 46 (2.015%) Subversion
4 41 (1.796%) Rational DOORS
5 26 (1.139%) JIRA
6 23 (1.007%) LabVIEW
7 21 (0.920%) Selenium
7 21 (0.920%) Maven
8 13 (0.569%) Visual Studio
9 11 (0.482%) Hudson
10 10 (0.438%) PHPUnit
11 7 (0.307%) Capistrano
11 7 (0.307%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.263%) Mercurial
13 4 (0.175%) RSpec
13 4 (0.175%) Phing
13 4 (0.175%) ClearCase
13 4 (0.175%) MSI
14 3 (0.131%) InstallShield
14 3 (0.131%) Ant
General
1 194 (8.498%) Finance
2 90 (3.942%) Telecoms
3 67 (2.935%) Electronics
4 49 (2.146%) Marketing
5 45 (1.971%) Military
6 42 (1.840%) Manufacturing
7 38 (1.664%) Retail
8 37 (1.621%) Aerospace
9 31 (1.358%) Back Office
9 31 (1.358%) Banking
9 31 (1.358%) Advertising
10 24 (1.051%) Automotive
11 22 (0.964%) Law
12 20 (0.876%) Publishing
12 20 (0.876%) Games
13 14 (0.613%) Legal
14 9 (0.394%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.307%) French Language
16 6 (0.263%) Arabic Language
16 6 (0.263%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 114 (4.993%) Computer Science
2 110 (4.818%) Clustering
3 101 (4.424%) Open Source
4 78 (3.417%) Management Information System
5 66 (2.891%) SaaS
6 57 (2.497%) Replication
7 48 (2.102%) Blackberry
8 41 (1.796%) Cloud Computing
9 37 (1.621%) Embedded Systems
10 34 (1.489%) Handset
11 32 (1.402%) Firmware
12 28 (1.226%) Enterprise Software
13 25 (1.095%) Digital Media
14 23 (1.007%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
15 21 (0.920%) Mathematics
16 20 (0.876%) SCADA
17 18 (0.788%) Physics
17 18 (0.788%) Enterprise Storage
18 17 (0.745%) Social Media
19 16 (0.701%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 1259 (55.15%) Windows
2 971 (42.53%) Linux
3 587 (25.71%) Windows Server 2008
4 469 (20.54%) Windows Server 2003
5 367 (16.08%) UNIX
6 179 (7.841%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 159 (6.965%) Solaris
8 147 (6.439%) CentOS
9 131 (5.738%) Windows 7
10 113 (4.950%) Windows XP
11 82 (3.592%) Debian
12 79 (3.460%) Windows Server 2012
13 76 (3.329%) Ubuntu
14 51 (2.234%) HPUX
15 34 (1.489%) Windows 2000
16 27 (1.183%) Windows 8
17 24 (1.051%) Windows Vista
18 22 (0.964%) Windows 2000 Server
18 22 (0.964%) AIX
19 15 (0.657%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (13.05%) ITIL
2 94 (4.117%) Change Management
3 92 (4.030%) Disaster Recovery
4 81 (3.548%) Configuration Management
4 81 (3.548%) E-Commerce
5 78 (3.417%) Service Delivery
5 78 (3.417%) Capacity Planning
6 63 (2.760%) Problem Management
7 62 (2.716%) Load Balancing
8 56 (2.453%) Project Management
9 50 (2.190%) Business Intelligence
10 49 (2.146%) Service Management
11 45 (1.971%) Migration
12 44 (1.927%) Agile Software Development
13 42 (1.840%) Web Development
14 40 (1.752%) Incident Management
14 40 (1.752%) CRM
15 39 (1.708%) Validation
16 37 (1.621%) Software Engineering
17 33 (1.445%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 388 (17.00%) SQL
2 283 (12.40%) Perl
3 210 (9.198%) Python
4 180 (7.884%) Bash shell
5 171 (7.490%) Java
6 146 (6.395%) PowerShell
7 143 (6.264%) PHP
8 119 (5.212%) C#
9 103 (4.512%) C
10 97 (4.249%) C++
11 71 (3.110%) VBScript
11 71 (3.110%) Shell Script
12 59 (2.584%) Ruby
13 46 (2.015%) JavaScript
14 44 (1.927%) VB
15 39 (1.708%) MATLAB
16 16 (0.701%) T-SQL
17 13 (0.569%) VB.NET
17 13 (0.569%) Assembly Language
18 12 (0.526%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 297 (13.01%) Degree
2 251 (10.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 186 (8.147%) MCSE
4 184 (8.060%) Cisco Certification
5 138 (6.045%) Security Cleared
6 126 (5.519%) CCNA
7 111 (4.862%) MCITP
8 95 (4.161%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 81 (3.548%) SC Cleared
10 74 (3.241%) MCP
11 63 (2.760%) CCNP
12 56 (2.453%) MCSA
13 39 (1.708%) Citrix Certification
14 37 (1.621%) DV Cleared
15 35 (1.533%) MCTS
16 34 (1.489%) CCA
17 27 (1.183%) HND
18 20 (0.876%) CCIE
18 20 (0.876%) ITIL Certification
19 13 (0.569%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (3.986%) SLA
2 44 (1.927%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (1.883%) QA
4 34 (1.489%) PCI DSS
5 15 (0.657%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.307%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.175%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.044%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.044%) DO-178B
System Software
1 622 (27.24%) Active Directory
2 478 (20.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 229 (10.03%) vSphere
4 197 (8.629%) VMware ESX
5 167 (7.315%) Hyper-V
6 147 (6.439%) XenApp
7 66 (2.891%) Xen
8 62 (2.716%) NFS
9 61 (2.672%) VMware ESXi
10 51 (2.234%) XenDesktop
11 36 (1.577%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 35 (1.533%) XenServer
13 24 (1.051%) Varnish
14 22 (0.964%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 13 (0.569%) ISA Server
16 12 (0.526%) DFS Replication
17 11 (0.482%) Sendmail
17 11 (0.482%) Terminal Server
18 10 (0.438%) Samba
18 10 (0.438%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 153 (6.702%) Puppet
2 90 (3.942%) SCCM
3 88 (3.855%) SCOM
4 82 (3.592%) Nagios
5 63 (2.760%) Backup Exec
6 62 (2.716%) NetBackup
7 39 (1.708%) ZABBIX
8 28 (1.226%) WSUS
9 23 (1.007%) Tivoli
10 22 (0.964%) Norton AntiVirus
11 20 (0.876%) Cacti
12 18 (0.788%) CFEngine
13 14 (0.613%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 11 (0.482%) Red Hat Spacewalk
15 10 (0.438%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
15 10 (0.438%) OpenView
15 10 (0.438%) Legato
16 9 (0.394%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
16 9 (0.394%) Zenoss
17 7 (0.307%) Munin
Vendors
1 917 (40.17%) VMware
2 643 (28.16%) Microsoft
3 446 (19.54%) Cisco
4 378 (16.56%) Citrix
5 267 (11.70%) Red Hat
6 257 (11.26%) HP
7 186 (8.147%) Oracle
8 161 (7.052%) NetApp
9 129 (5.650%) EMC
10 116 (5.081%) Dell
11 109 (4.774%) Symantec
12 92 (4.030%) Veritas
13 75 (3.285%) IBM
14 74 (3.241%) JBoss
15 65 (2.847%) Brocade
16 63 (2.760%) Juniper
17 37 (1.621%) CheckPoint
18 33 (1.445%) Intel
19 32 (1.402%) Avaya
20 28 (1.226%) Polycom
London
Windows, Server 2003/2008R2, VMWare, Networking TCP/IP. Senior Systems Engineer / Architect required for large media client based in London. Strong Windows infrastructure background (Server 2003/2008, Exchange,...
iKonnect
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Pension, Medical, Dental
Posted: 5 June 2013
London
Windows, Server 2003/2008R2, VMWare, Networking TCP/IP. Senior Systems Engineer / Architect required for large media client based in London. Strong Windows infrastructure background (Server 2003/2008, Exchange,...
iKonnect
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Pension, Medical, Dental
Posted: 11 June 2013
London
Windows, Server 2003/2008R2, VMWare, Networking TCP/IP. Senior Systems Engineer / Architect required for large media client based in London. Strong Windows infrastructure background (Server 2003/2008, Exchange,...
iKas International
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Pension, Medical, Dental
Posted: 11 June 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
You will be working on multivendor technology implementation across VMWare (Virtualisation, Wintel, Server 2003/2008), Active Directory, Exchange and working on key projects, mentoring more junior engineers, working...
Assured Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £35k - 40k per year
Posted: 11 June 2013
Wigan, Lancashire
Projects will cover technologies such as Active Directory, Exchange 2003 +, Windows 2003, 2008 and VMware you will also have to be able to deal with Linux ,web process...
Assured Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £27k - 33k per year
Posted: 12 June 2013
Surrey, South East
Universe Technology Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £34000 per annum + benefits + car allowance + on-call
Posted: 5 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Cathcart Associates Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Kelway Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £40,000 per annum £40,000 + Good Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Richmond, Surrey
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + Many Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Wootton Bassett, South West
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + £50K Max and Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Wiltshire
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + £50K Max and Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Wiltshire, South West
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Wiltshire
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
West Yorkshire
TRG
Salary: 35000-38000 Per Annum Benefits
Posted: 27 May 2013
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: Up to £32,000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
Sanderson
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Benefits Package
Posted: 11 June 2013
Central London / West End
Araya Partners Ltd
Salary: From £45,000 to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Surrey, West Sussex, Reigate, Crawley, Epsom,...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: to £40,000 + generous bonus + bens
Posted: 20 May 2013
Stanmore, Middlesex
Stanmore College
Salary: From £31,631 to £36,023 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Austin Fraser
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
West London
Ashdown IT
Salary: £35000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley
Salary: £22000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus & Overtime
Posted: 12 June 2013
York, North Yorkshire
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £32,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
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