Systems Engineer Job Trends in the East of England

System Engineer
England > East of England

The median System Engineer salary in the East of England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 111 37
Rank change year-on-year +66 -74 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 230 69 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.83% 2.03% 4.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 2.20% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 146 35 119
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 - -
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £62,914
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,714
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.52% +9.43%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 7,548 3,138 4,251
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 92.54% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,326 1,754 2,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,117
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Systems Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Systems Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in the East of England

Systems Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Bedfordshire +33 73 £75,000 -11.76% 31
Hertfordshire -32 49 £55,000 - 23
Cambridgeshire +4 42 £55,000 +10.00% 50
Essex +4 35 £70,000 +55.56% 19
Norfolk 0 31 £60,000 +25.83% 4
Systems Engineer
England

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 19 September 2026, Systems Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East of England region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (14.35%) Degree
2 28 (12.17%) Validation
3 25 (10.87%) Systems Engineering
4 23 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (9.13%) Microsoft
5 21 (9.13%) Security Cleared
6 20 (8.70%) SC Cleared
7 19 (8.26%) Verification and Validation
8 17 (7.39%) Wireless
9 16 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (6.52%) Accessibility
10 15 (6.52%) Azure
11 14 (6.09%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (5.65%) Windows
12 13 (5.65%) Windows Server
13 12 (5.22%) Allen-Bradley
13 12 (5.22%) Rockwell
13 12 (5.22%) Wonderware
14 11 (4.78%) Active Directory
15 10 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
15 10 (4.35%) Ethernet
15 10 (4.35%) FactoryTalk
15 10 (4.35%) HAZOP
15 10 (4.35%) HNC
15 10 (4.35%) HND
15 10 (4.35%) Profibus
15 10 (4.35%) Wonderware InTouch
16 9 (3.91%) Decision-Making
16 9 (3.91%) Entra ID
16 9 (3.91%) Python

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.35%) FactoryTalk
2 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.30%) Simulink
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (6.52%) Azure
3 9 (3.91%) Entra ID
4 7 (3.04%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.74%) AWS
5 4 (1.74%) GCP
5 4 (1.74%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (1.30%) dbt
6 3 (1.30%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.30%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.43%) GitHub
7 1 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.39%) Wireless
2 10 (4.35%) Ethernet
2 10 (4.35%) Profibus
3 7 (3.04%) Firewall
4 4 (1.74%) LAN
4 4 (1.74%) WAN
5 3 (1.30%) DHCP
5 3 (1.30%) DNS
5 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.30%) VLAN
5 3 (1.30%) VPN
6 2 (0.87%) Internet
6 2 (0.87%) Network Security
7 1 (0.43%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.43%) VoIP
7 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.04%) Power BI
2 4 (1.74%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.30%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.30%) Looker
3 3 (1.30%) Milvus
3 3 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (1.30%) Tableau
4 1 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.43%) Redis
4 1 (0.43%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (3.04%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (1.30%) MLflow
3 1 (0.43%) Git
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 33 (14.35%) Aerospace
2 30 (13.04%) Electronics
3 27 (11.74%) Manufacturing
4 17 (7.39%) Finance
5 15 (6.52%) Social Skills
6 7 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.17%) Military
8 5 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) Aviation
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.30%) Kafka
1 3 (1.30%) LangChain
1 3 (1.30%) LlamaIndex
1 3 (1.30%) pgvector
1 3 (1.30%) PyTorch
1 3 (1.30%) scikit-learn
1 3 (1.30%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.43%) FastAPI
2 1 (0.43%) Flask
2 1 (0.43%) Middleware
2 1 (0.43%) PostGIS
2 1 (0.43%) RESTful
2 1 (0.43%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.13%) Embedded Systems
2 14 (6.09%) SCADA
3 10 (4.35%) Replication
4 4 (1.74%) FMCG
5 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.30%) CCTV
5 3 (1.30%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.30%) Clustering
5 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.30%) Robotics
5 3 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.43%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.65%) Windows
1 13 (5.65%) Windows Server
2 5 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (12.17%) Validation
2 25 (10.87%) Systems Engineering
3 23 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (8.26%) Verification and Validation
5 14 (6.09%) Technical Leadership
6 10 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (3.91%) Decision-Making
8 8 (3.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (3.48%) Reverse Engineering
9 7 (3.04%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (2.61%) AI
10 6 (2.61%) Customer Requirements
11 5 (2.17%) ERP
11 5 (2.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (2.17%) Mentoring
11 5 (2.17%) Project Delivery
12 4 (1.74%) Data Management
12 4 (1.74%) Machine Learning
12 4 (1.74%) Root Cause Analysis
12 4 (1.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.91%) Python
2 6 (2.61%) C++
2 6 (2.61%) MATLAB
3 5 (2.17%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.17%) SQL
4 3 (1.30%) C#
Qualifications
1 33 (14.35%) Degree
2 21 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 20 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.35%) HNC
4 10 (4.35%) HND
5 8 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.17%) CCNP
6 5 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.17%) PhD
7 3 (1.30%) CCNA
7 3 (1.30%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.52%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.35%) HAZOP
3 3 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 11 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.17%) Firmware
3 3 (1.30%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) Docker
4 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (4.35%) Wonderware InTouch
2 2 (0.87%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 21 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.22%) Allen-Bradley
2 12 (5.22%) Rockwell
2 12 (5.22%) Wonderware
3 4 (1.74%) Cisco
3 4 (1.74%) Epicor
4 3 (1.30%) Cloudera
4 3 (1.30%) Databricks
4 3 (1.30%) Dell
5 2 (0.87%) AVEVA
5 2 (0.87%) EMC
5 2 (0.87%) Siemens
5 2 (0.87%) Veeam
5 2 (0.87%) VMware
6 1 (0.43%) IBM