Systems Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

System Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median System Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 123 146
Rank change year-on-year +51 +23 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 239 162 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.29% 2.47% 2.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.50% 2.74% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 131 24 61
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,938 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,500 £36,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% +23.81% -2.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,875 £51,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

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 6,830 5,921 6,909
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 90.12% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,165 3,354 4,789
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,974 £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 £63,250 £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%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in the West Midlands

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in the West Midlands

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in the West Midlands

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 Systems Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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 +25 98 £50,000 -21.88% 10
Staffordshire +26 60 £40,000 +3.23% 11
Birmingham +14 26 £55,500 -18.98% 10
Herefordshire +19 24 £80,000 +90.48% 4
Worcestershire -8 8 £45,000 - 6
Wolverhampton +15 4 - - 1
Coventry +33 3 £58,750 - 7
Solihull - 2 £35,000 - 1
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (28.45%) Automotive
2 43 (17.99%) Security Cleared
3 36 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (13.81%) Azure
4 33 (13.81%) VMware
5 32 (13.39%) Microsoft
6 31 (12.97%) SQL
6 31 (12.97%) SQL Server
7 30 (12.55%) Systems Engineering
8 29 (12.13%) WAN
9 26 (10.88%) IIS
9 26 (10.88%) Clustering
9 26 (10.88%) High Availability
10 23 (9.62%) Manufacturing
11 21 (8.79%) Validation
12 20 (8.37%) Software Testing
12 20 (8.37%) VMware Infrastructure
12 20 (8.37%) SC Cleared
13 19 (7.95%) Degree
13 19 (7.95%) Firewall
14 18 (7.53%) Social Skills
15 17 (7.11%) Capacity Planning
16 16 (6.69%) CI/CD
16 16 (6.69%) Java
17 15 (6.28%) Active Directory
17 15 (6.28%) Windows
17 15 (6.28%) Continuous Delivery
18 13 (5.44%) Public Cloud
18 13 (5.44%) Performance Analysis
18 13 (5.44%) WebRTC

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 26 (10.88%) IIS
2 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.84%) JBoss
3 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.84%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Simulink
2 1 (0.42%) CATIA
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 33 (13.81%) Azure
2 13 (5.44%) AWS
2 13 (5.44%) Cloud Computing
3 11 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.26%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.42%) Google Workspace
5 1 (0.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.13%) WAN
2 19 (7.95%) Firewall
3 9 (3.77%) VPN
4 4 (1.67%) DHCP
4 4 (1.67%) DNS
5 3 (1.26%) FlexRay
5 3 (1.26%) Internet
5 3 (1.26%) LAN
5 3 (1.26%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.84%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.84%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.84%) SAN
7 1 (0.42%) BGP
7 1 (0.42%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.42%) MQTT
7 1 (0.42%) OSPF
7 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.42%) VLAN
7 1 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.97%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.44%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.84%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.93%) LabVIEW
2 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 68 (28.45%) Automotive
2 23 (9.62%) Manufacturing
3 18 (7.53%) Social Skills
4 7 (2.93%) Finance
5 6 (2.51%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.51%) Electronics
5 6 (2.51%) Military
6 5 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.09%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.67%) Aviation
8 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.42%) Legal
9 1 (0.42%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.44%) REST
1 13 (5.44%) WebRTC
2 2 (0.84%) Middleware
3 1 (0.42%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.88%) Clustering
2 13 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (5.44%) Public Cloud
3 10 (4.18%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.26%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.26%) IoT
5 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.84%) State Machine
7 1 (0.42%) Robotics
7 1 (0.42%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.28%) Windows
2 12 (5.02%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.60%) Linux
4 3 (1.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (12.55%) Systems Engineering
3 26 (10.88%) High Availability
4 21 (8.79%) Validation
5 20 (8.37%) Software Testing
6 17 (7.11%) Capacity Planning
7 16 (6.69%) CI/CD
8 15 (6.28%) Continuous Delivery
9 13 (5.44%) API Design
9 13 (5.44%) API Development
9 13 (5.44%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (5.44%) Load Balancing
9 13 (5.44%) Performance Analysis
9 13 (5.44%) Project Management
9 13 (5.44%) Prototyping
9 13 (5.44%) TDD
10 12 (5.02%) CAD
11 11 (4.60%) Software Engineering
12 10 (4.18%) Test Automation
13 7 (2.93%) Data Acquisition
Programming Languages
1 31 (12.97%) SQL
2 16 (6.69%) Java
3 5 (2.09%) C
3 5 (2.09%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.67%) C++
4 4 (1.67%) MATLAB
5 3 (1.26%) Python
5 3 (1.26%) R
6 2 (0.84%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.42%) C#
Qualifications
1 43 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.37%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.95%) Degree
4 6 (2.51%) MCSE
4 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.09%) CCNA
5 5 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.09%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.42%) HNC
7 1 (0.42%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.09%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (1.26%) JSP 440
3 2 (0.84%) Automotive SPICE
3 2 (0.84%) GDPR
3 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 20 (8.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (6.28%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.44%) VMware NSX
4 9 (3.77%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.84%) NFS
6 1 (0.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.09%) Functional Safety
2 3 (1.26%) Backup Exec
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.42%) Ansible
3 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (13.81%) VMware
2 32 (13.39%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.44%) CheckPoint
4 7 (2.93%) Siemens
5 3 (1.26%) Dell
5 3 (1.26%) EMC
5 3 (1.26%) HP
5 3 (1.26%) QinetiQ
5 3 (1.26%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.26%) Ruckus Wireless
5 3 (1.26%) Veeam
6 2 (0.84%) Brocade
6 2 (0.84%) IBM
6 2 (0.84%) SonicWALL
7 1 (0.42%) Apple
7 1 (0.42%) Cisco
7 1 (0.42%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle
7 1 (0.42%) SAP
7 1 (0.42%) Ubiquiti