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 £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 104 27
Rank change year-on-year +50 -77 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 199 76 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.79% 2.20% 5.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.98% 2.37% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 126 44 133
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,291 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,086 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,875 £64,571
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - +3.77% +0.95%

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 6,680 3,213 4,413
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 93.02% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,625 1,829 3,030
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +31 62 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Hertfordshire -16 47 £55,000 - 13
Norfolk +2 35 £53,750 +22.46% 4
Cambridgeshire 0 31 £55,000 -6.38% 14
Essex -4 24 £50,000 +11.11% 16
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 August 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 43 (21.61%) Degree
2 30 (15.08%) Systems Engineering
3 23 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (11.06%) Microsoft
5 18 (9.05%) Azure
5 18 (9.05%) Wireless
6 17 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (7.54%) Python
8 14 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (7.04%) Windows
8 14 (7.04%) Windows Server
9 13 (6.53%) Accessibility
10 12 (6.03%) AI
10 12 (6.03%) Allen-Bradley
10 12 (6.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (6.03%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (6.03%) Power BI
10 12 (6.03%) Power Platform
10 12 (6.03%) Rockwell
10 12 (6.03%) Wonderware
11 11 (5.53%) Active Directory
11 11 (5.53%) C++
11 11 (5.53%) Entra ID
11 11 (5.53%) Rational DOORS
12 10 (5.03%) Decision-Making
12 10 (5.03%) Ethernet
12 10 (5.03%) FactoryTalk
12 10 (5.03%) HAZOP
12 10 (5.03%) HNC

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 (5.03%) FactoryTalk
2 6 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.01%) Simulink
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (9.05%) Azure
2 17 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (6.03%) Power Platform
4 11 (5.53%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.52%) AWS
5 7 (3.52%) GCP
6 6 (3.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (3.02%) dbt
6 6 (3.02%) PowerApps
6 6 (3.02%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.51%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.05%) Wireless
2 10 (5.03%) Ethernet
2 10 (5.03%) Profibus
3 5 (2.51%) Firewall
4 3 (1.51%) DHCP
4 3 (1.51%) DNS
4 3 (1.51%) Internet
4 3 (1.51%) LAN
4 3 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.51%) VLAN
4 3 (1.51%) VPN
4 3 (1.51%) WAN
5 1 (0.50%) Broadband
5 1 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.03%) Power BI
2 6 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (3.02%) BigQuery
2 6 (3.02%) Data Lake
2 6 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (3.02%) Looker
2 6 (3.02%) Snowflake Schema
2 6 (3.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.53%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (3.02%) MLflow
3 1 (0.50%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 33 (16.58%) Electronics
2 26 (13.07%) Aerospace
3 22 (11.06%) Manufacturing
3 22 (11.06%) Social Skills
4 16 (8.04%) Finance
5 10 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.51%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.50%) Automotive
8 1 (0.50%) Aviation
8 1 (0.50%) Marketing
8 1 (0.50%) Military
8 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.02%) Kafka
1 6 (3.02%) LangChain
1 6 (3.02%) LlamaIndex
1 6 (3.02%) pgvector
1 6 (3.02%) PyTorch
1 6 (3.02%) scikit-learn
1 6 (3.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.07%) Embedded Systems
2 14 (7.04%) SCADA
3 10 (5.03%) Replication
4 6 (3.02%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.02%) Clustering
4 6 (3.02%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.51%) FMCG
5 5 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.51%) CCTV
6 3 (1.51%) Robotics
7 2 (1.01%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.01%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.50%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.04%) Windows
1 14 (7.04%) Windows Server
2 5 (2.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (15.08%) Systems Engineering
2 23 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
4 12 (6.03%) AI
4 12 (6.03%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (5.03%) Decision-Making
6 8 (4.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (4.02%) Reverse Engineering
7 7 (3.52%) Data Management
7 7 (3.52%) ERP
7 7 (3.52%) Machine Learning
7 7 (3.52%) Test Planning
7 7 (3.52%) Use Case
7 7 (3.52%) Validation
8 6 (3.02%) Analytics
8 6 (3.02%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (3.02%) Data Engineering
8 6 (3.02%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (3.02%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.54%) Python
2 11 (5.53%) C++
3 8 (4.02%) SQL
4 7 (3.52%) C#
5 5 (2.51%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.01%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.50%) C
7 1 (0.50%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.50%) Embedded C++
7 1 (0.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 43 (21.61%) Degree
2 12 (6.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (5.03%) HNC
3 10 (5.03%) HND
4 5 (2.51%) PhD
4 5 (2.51%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.01%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.51%) CCNA
6 3 (1.51%) CCNP
6 3 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.53%) Accessibility
2 10 (5.03%) HAZOP
3 6 (3.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (3.02%) GDPR
4 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.50%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 11 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.51%) Firmware
3 2 (1.01%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (5.03%) Wonderware InTouch
2 2 (1.01%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 22 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.03%) Allen-Bradley
2 12 (6.03%) Rockwell
2 12 (6.03%) Wonderware
3 7 (3.52%) IBM
4 6 (3.02%) Cloudera
4 6 (3.02%) Databricks
4 6 (3.02%) Dell
4 6 (3.02%) Epicor
5 3 (1.51%) Siemens
6 2 (1.01%) AVEVA
6 2 (1.01%) Cisco
6 2 (1.01%) Veeam
6 2 (1.01%) VMware
7 1 (0.50%) EMC
7 1 (0.50%) Google