Systems Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Systems Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 388 509
Rank change year-on-year +94 +121 -86
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 949 878 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.84% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.88% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 523 218 462
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,824 £35,125
25th Percentile £48,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.36% +5.83%
75th Percentile £70,250 £88,563 £78,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £111,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Systems Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in the UK

Systems Engineering
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineering within the UK 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
England +106 880 £60,000 -11.11% 324
UK excluding London +44 792 £55,000 -12.00% 310
Work from Home +131 435 £55,000 -9.84% 145
South East +43 220 £63,500 +15.45% 83
South West +16 210 £55,000 -18.52% 69
East of England +92 136 £55,000 -15.38% 45
Midlands -50 123 £55,000 - 57
London +102 120 £75,000 -25.00% 36
West Midlands -60 82 £55,000 - 37
North of England +89 65 £51,000 -27.14% 43
East Midlands +18 41 £50,000 - 20
Yorkshire +120 33 £51,000 - 6
North West +22 30 £60,000 -14.29% 35
Wales +12 16 £40,000 -42.86% 4
Scotland -69 16 £60,000 +43.71% 26
Northern Ireland - 6 - - 1
North East -1 2 £67,500 - 2

Systems Engineering
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 46 (4.85%) WebLogic
2 38 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.95%) IIS
5 8 (0.84%) Confluence
6 2 (0.21%) WinCC
Applications
1 60 (6.32%) Microsoft Project
2 56 (5.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (3.37%) Simulink
4 27 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.74%) Stateflow
6 2 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) CATIA
7 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 54 (5.69%) Primavera
2 49 (5.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.11%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 133 (14.01%) Azure
2 93 (9.80%) AWS
3 48 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
5 21 (2.21%) Entra ID
6 16 (1.69%) SaaS
7 12 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (0.95%) Power Platform
9 7 (0.74%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.42%) IaaS
10 4 (0.42%) PaaS
11 3 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.32%) GCP
11 3 (0.32%) Google Sheets
12 2 (0.21%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.21%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (0.21%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.21%) Google Docs
12 2 (0.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 64 (6.74%) TCP/IP
2 50 (5.27%) DNS
3 49 (5.16%) BGP
4 46 (4.85%) SSL
5 19 (2.00%) Firewall
5 19 (2.00%) WAN
6 17 (1.79%) Wireless
7 11 (1.16%) LAN
7 11 (1.16%) WLAN
8 10 (1.05%) SAN
8 10 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.84%) NGN
9 8 (0.84%) TACACS
10 7 (0.74%) Ethernet
10 7 (0.74%) Intranet
11 6 (0.63%) 4G
11 6 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (0.63%) Network Security
12 5 (0.53%) VoIP
13 4 (0.42%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (6.43%) Relational Database
2 49 (5.16%) RDBMS
3 46 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (4.85%) Oracle Database
4 8 (0.84%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.63%) MySQL
5 6 (0.63%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (0.53%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.32%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.21%) Big Data
8 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.21%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.21%) Power BI
9 1 (0.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 83 (8.75%) Rational DOORS
2 41 (4.32%) JIRA
3 31 (3.27%) Rational Rhapsody
4 16 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.58%) Git
6 12 (1.26%) Rational Team Concert
7 9 (0.95%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.74%) GitLab
8 7 (0.74%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.42%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.42%) JMeter
9 4 (0.42%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.21%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.21%) Gatling
10 2 (0.21%) JUnit
10 2 (0.21%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.21%) Subversion
11 1 (0.11%) MSTest
General
1 264 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 122 (12.86%) Aerospace
3 81 (8.54%) Finance
4 75 (7.90%) Manufacturing
5 68 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (6.43%) Electronics
7 58 (6.11%) Automotive
8 54 (5.69%) Military
9 48 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (3.79%) Marketing
12 30 (3.16%) Public Sector
13 21 (2.21%) Games
13 21 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 19 (2.00%) Retail
15 17 (1.79%) Legal
16 15 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (1.05%) Aviation
19 9 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 415 (43.73%) Systems Engineer
2 132 (13.91%) Lead
3 122 (12.86%) Senior
4 121 (12.75%) Architect
5 104 (10.96%) Principal Engineer
6 98 (10.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 82 (8.64%) Solutions Architect
8 64 (6.74%) Software Engineer
9 60 (6.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 53 (5.58%) Lead Architect
10 53 (5.58%) Project Controller
11 48 (5.06%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 30 (3.16%) Consultant
13 27 (2.85%) Project Manager
14 25 (2.63%) Senior Architect
15 22 (2.32%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
16 19 (2.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 19 (2.00%) Systems Architect
17 18 (1.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 18 (1.90%) SCADA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (4.85%) Spring Boot
2 34 (3.58%) HTML
3 9 (0.95%) XML
4 5 (0.53%) .NET
5 4 (0.42%) 802.1X
5 4 (0.42%) Keycloak
5 4 (0.42%) LDAP
5 4 (0.42%) WPF
6 3 (0.32%) CSS
6 3 (0.32%) HTML5
6 3 (0.32%) JSON
6 3 (0.32%) Keras
6 3 (0.32%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.32%) Svelte
6 3 (0.32%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.32%) Web Services
7 2 (0.21%) Node.js
7 2 (0.21%) REST
7 2 (0.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
3 46 (4.85%) Public Cloud
4 36 (3.79%) Algorithms
5 33 (3.48%) SCADA
6 29 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (2.85%) IoT
7 27 (2.85%) Operational Technology
8 25 (2.63%) Clustering
9 22 (2.32%) Robotics
10 20 (2.11%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
12 16 (1.69%) Cyberattack
13 15 (1.58%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
15 8 (0.84%) Reinsurance
16 7 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
16 7 (0.74%) Biopharmaceutical
16 7 (0.74%) Client/Server
16 7 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 107 (11.28%) Linux
2 80 (8.43%) Windows
3 50 (5.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (4.64%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.42%) Unix
5 4 (0.42%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.11%) Android
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (22.44%) Agile
2 159 (16.75%) Validation
3 122 (12.86%) Software Engineering
4 118 (12.43%) Project Management
5 115 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
6 106 (11.17%) Verification and Validation
7 94 (9.91%) Risk Management
8 91 (9.59%) Collaborative Working
9 85 (8.96%) Customer Requirements
9 85 (8.96%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 83 (8.75%) Mentoring
11 77 (8.11%) Actionable Insight
12 73 (7.69%) Performance Management
13 71 (7.48%) Cybersecurity
14 67 (7.06%) Programme Management
15 66 (6.95%) SDLC
16 65 (6.85%) Requirements Management
17 62 (6.53%) Project Delivery
18 60 (6.32%) Scrum
19 58 (6.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 79 (8.32%) Python
2 49 (5.16%) JavaScript
3 47 (4.95%) MATLAB
4 37 (3.90%) C
5 35 (3.69%) Java
6 31 (3.27%) PowerShell
7 29 (3.06%) C#
8 22 (2.32%) SQL
9 21 (2.21%) Bash
10 13 (1.37%) C++
11 8 (0.84%) Ada
12 7 (0.74%) Go
13 6 (0.63%) Perl
14 5 (0.53%) VB
15 4 (0.42%) Scala
16 3 (0.32%) VBScript
17 2 (0.21%) Groovy
17 2 (0.21%) PHP
17 2 (0.21%) Ruby
18 1 (0.11%) R
Qualifications
1 425 (44.78%) Security Cleared
2 275 (28.98%) Degree
3 153 (16.12%) SC Cleared
4 124 (13.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 79 (8.32%) DV Cleared
6 53 (5.58%) Azure Certification
7 50 (5.27%) Master's Degree
8 46 (4.85%) AWS Certification
8 46 (4.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 45 (4.74%) Chartered Engineer
10 22 (2.32%) DBS Check
11 21 (2.21%) CISSP
12 20 (2.11%) HNC
13 18 (1.90%) HND
14 12 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.74%) CISM
17 5 (0.53%) PhD
18 3 (0.32%) GIAC
19 2 (0.21%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (2.21%) Def Stans
1 21 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 7 (0.74%) QA
3 6 (0.63%) IEC 61508
4 4 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
4 4 (0.42%) ISO 26262
5 3 (0.32%) ECSS
5 3 (0.32%) JSP 440
5 3 (0.32%) JTAG
5 3 (0.32%) NCSC
5 3 (0.32%) PMO
6 2 (0.21%) GRC
6 2 (0.21%) NIST
7 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.11%) GDPR
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (4.64%) Active Directory
2 41 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (3.16%) Hyper-V
4 21 (2.21%) Firmware
5 20 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.95%) Forefront TMG
6 9 (0.95%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (2.42%) Microsoft Clustering
4 20 (2.11%) vCenter Server
5 18 (1.90%) Kubernetes
6 17 (1.79%) Functional Safety
7 14 (1.48%) Ansible
8 9 (0.95%) SCOM
8 9 (0.95%) WSUS
9 5 (0.53%) SELinux
10 3 (0.32%) Istio
10 3 (0.32%) SCCM
10 3 (0.32%) Terraform
11 2 (0.21%) CASB
11 2 (0.21%) Grafana
11 2 (0.21%) Wonderware InTouch
11 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.11%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.11%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 113 (11.91%) Microsoft
2 79 (8.32%) VMware
3 58 (6.11%) Oracle
4 49 (5.16%) Sparx
5 41 (4.32%) EMC
6 34 (3.58%) IBM
7 31 (3.27%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.42%) Thales
9 21 (2.21%) IFS
10 20 (2.11%) Commvault
10 20 (2.11%) Sun
11 18 (1.90%) Workday
12 11 (1.16%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.16%) Veeam
13 10 (1.05%) Citrix
13 10 (1.05%) HP
13 10 (1.05%) Sophos
14 8 (0.84%) Aruba
14 8 (0.84%) Cisco
14 8 (0.84%) Informatica