Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Senior System Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Senior System Engineer salary in Bristol is £52,600 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 147 157
Rank change year-on-year +114 +10 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 84 20 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 6.66% 0.64% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.01% 0.66% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 65 14 8
10th Percentile - £55,000 £41,250
25th Percentile - £56,250 £44,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £60,000 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +8.60% -18.15%
75th Percentile - - £71,063
90th Percentile £61,250 - £71,250
South West median annual salary £52,600 £60,000 £55,250
% change year-on-year -12.33% +8.60% -18.15%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,198 3,009 2,463
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 97.03% 92.70%
Number of salaries quoted 812 2,254 1,548
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,905
Median % change year-on-year - -0.70% +9.02%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £73,776
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,125 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in Bristol

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in Bristol

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, 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 Bristol region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 80 (95.24%) Degree
2 73 (86.90%) Systems Engineering
3 44 (52.38%) Line Management
4 23 (27.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (26.19%) Aerospace
6 21 (25.00%) Mathematics
7 15 (17.86%) Physics
7 15 (17.86%) Coaching
8 14 (16.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 14 (16.67%) HNC
8 14 (16.67%) HND
9 8 (9.52%) Automotive
9 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
9 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
9 8 (9.52%) MATLAB
9 8 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 8 (9.52%) Requirements Management
9 8 (9.52%) ANSYS
9 8 (9.52%) Performance Management
9 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
9 8 (9.52%) PLM
9 8 (9.52%) Teamcenter
9 8 (9.52%) Aeronautics
9 8 (9.52%) Cost Control
10 7 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
10 7 (8.33%) IEC 61508
10 7 (8.33%) DO-254
10 7 (8.33%) ARP4754
10 7 (8.33%) Chartered Engineer
10 7 (8.33%) Use Case

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (3.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Teamcenter
Development Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 22 (26.19%) Aerospace
2 8 (9.52%) Aeronautics
2 8 (9.52%) Automotive
3 6 (7.14%) Military
4 3 (3.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) OpenCL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.57%) CUDA
1 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
1 3 (3.57%) Device Driver
1 3 (3.57%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Linux
1 3 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (86.90%) Systems Engineering
2 44 (52.38%) Line Management
3 21 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 15 (17.86%) Coaching
4 15 (17.86%) Physics
5 14 (16.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 8 (9.52%) Cost Control
6 8 (9.52%) Performance Management
6 8 (9.52%) PLM
6 8 (9.52%) Requirements Management
7 7 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (8.33%) Use Case
8 6 (7.14%) Business Case
8 6 (7.14%) OO
8 6 (7.14%) Project Delivery
9 3 (3.57%) Agile
9 3 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (3.57%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (3.57%) Scrum
9 3 (3.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.52%) MATLAB
2 3 (3.57%) C
2 3 (3.57%) C++
2 3 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 80 (95.24%) Degree
2 23 (27.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (16.67%) HNC
3 14 (16.67%) HND
4 7 (8.33%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) ARP4754
1 7 (8.33%) DO-254
1 7 (8.33%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 3 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (9.52%) ANSYS
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.57%) Graphcore