Systems Engineering Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Systems Engineering
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 75 130
Rank change year-on-year -19 +55 -42
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.12% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,750 £63,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £67,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% - -
75th Percentile £65,250 £71,250 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Systems Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 686 1,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 77.08% 93.97% 87.54%
Number of salaries quoted 834 357 1,059
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,950
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +18.15% -6.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £75,250
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Systems Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Systems Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineering within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
Milton Keynes - 1 £63,500 - 1
Systems Engineering
South East

Systems Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Domain Models
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) NIST 800