Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Senior System Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior System Engineer salary in the City of London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 179 221
Rank change year-on-year +35 +42 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 4 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.19% 0.030% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.031% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £93,600 - £41,600
25th Percentile £96,000 £65,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £70,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +45.83% -43.53%
75th Percentile £116,250 £75,000 £60,875
90th Percentile £126,000 - £68,600
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £70,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +42.86% -30.00% +31.15%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,922 3,219 4,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 95.86% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,471 2,556 3,735
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,372
% change year-on-year - -2.52% +2.58%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the City of London

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the City of London

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in the City of London

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 11 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 City of London region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 3 (75.00%) Copilot Studio
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Law
2 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) Financial Institution
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) High-Frequency Trading

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (75.00%) Copilot Studio
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Financial Institution
2 3 (75.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Advertising
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (75.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) High-Frequency Trading
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Trading
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft