Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior System Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior System Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £53,750 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 211 232 270
Rank change year-on-year +21 +38 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 42 33 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.57% 0.52% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.57% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 26 8 4
10th Percentile - £63,325 £31,625
25th Percentile £51,250 - £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £64,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% +50.59% -32.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £76,188 £53,438
90th Percentile £73,125 £79,300 £59,625
England median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.67% -11.11% +8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,937 5,767 6,890
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 90.25% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,217 3,278 4,740
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +48 25 £52,500 -17.97% 3
Birmingham 0 8 £68,000 -5.88% 2
Worcestershire - 5 £52,500 - 1
Coventry +29 1 £55,000 - 2
Senior Systems Engineer
England

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 9 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 15 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (28.57%) Azure
3 12 (28.57%) REST
3 12 (28.57%) High Availability
3 12 (28.57%) WebRTC
3 12 (28.57%) Validation
3 12 (28.57%) VMware
3 12 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 12 (28.57%) Firewall
3 12 (28.57%) Clustering
3 12 (28.57%) SQL
3 12 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 12 (28.57%) IIS
3 12 (28.57%) WAN
3 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 12 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 8 (19.05%) Automotive
5 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
6 3 (7.14%) Degree
6 3 (7.14%) Military
6 3 (7.14%) Electronics
6 3 (7.14%) QinetiQ
7 2 (4.76%) Automotive SPICE
7 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (4.76%) Architectural Design
7 2 (4.76%) Budgeting

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 12 (28.57%) IIS
2 1 (2.38%) JBoss
2 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.38%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) Firewall
1 12 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (4.76%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (19.05%) Automotive
2 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Electronics
3 3 (7.14%) Military
4 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (28.57%) REST
1 12 (28.57%) WebRTC
2 1 (2.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Clustering
2 2 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
1 2 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (28.57%) High Availability
2 12 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 12 (28.57%) Validation
3 2 (4.76%) Architectural Design
3 2 (4.76%) Budgeting
3 2 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (4.76%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (4.76%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (4.76%) Storage Virtualisation
3 2 (4.76%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (4.76%) Time Management
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Security
4 1 (2.38%) Configuration Management
4 1 (2.38%) Problem Management
4 1 (2.38%) Security Patching
4 1 (2.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (4.76%) C
2 2 (4.76%) C++
3 1 (2.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 15 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 12 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.76%) NFS
3 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Ansible
1 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) CheckPoint
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 12 (28.57%) VMware
2 3 (7.14%) QinetiQ
3 2 (4.76%) Brocade
3 2 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) EMC