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 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 108 90
Rank change year-on-year +72 -18 +54
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 192 75 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 4.57% 2.08% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.11% 2.32% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 88 44 21
10th Percentile £45,875 £33,199 £32,500
25th Percentile - £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,315 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £51,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% -1.85% -2.86%

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 3,760 3,229 2,032
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.46% 89.69% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,265 1,496 1,494
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £26,288
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,625 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +49 150 £55,000 +10.00% 57
Cambridgeshire +19 20 £60,000 +50.00% 6
Essex -1 15 £75,900 +116.86% 7
Norfolk +5 5 - - 1
Bedfordshire +28 2 £46,250 +2.78% 3
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, 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 31 (16.15%) Security Cleared
1 31 (16.15%) Systems Engineering
2 19 (9.90%) Degree
3 18 (9.38%) VMware
4 17 (8.85%) Active Directory
4 17 (8.85%) Microsoft
5 16 (8.33%) DHCP
5 16 (8.33%) DNS
5 16 (8.33%) vSphere
5 16 (8.33%) Windows
5 16 (8.33%) Windows Server
6 12 (6.25%) Validation
7 10 (5.21%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (4.69%) Mentoring
8 9 (4.69%) Signal Processing
9 8 (4.17%) Systems Thinking
10 7 (3.65%) Wireless
11 6 (3.13%) Siemens
12 5 (2.60%) City & Guilds
12 5 (2.60%) COSHH
12 5 (2.60%) Design for Manufacturing
12 5 (2.60%) Design-to-Cost
12 5 (2.60%) FMEA
12 5 (2.60%) Inventory Management
12 5 (2.60%) MOS
12 5 (2.60%) NVQ Level 3
12 5 (2.60%) Postgraduate
12 5 (2.60%) Preventative Maintenance
12 5 (2.60%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (2.08%) SC Cleared

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:

Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.52%) Azure
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.33%) DHCP
1 16 (8.33%) DNS
2 7 (3.65%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (2.60%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (1.56%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 11 (5.73%) Finance
2 9 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (4.17%) Electronics
4 7 (3.65%) Military
5 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.52%) Aviation
5 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.52%) Marketing
5 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.52%) Retail
5 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
2 2 (1.04%) SCADA
3 1 (0.52%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.33%) Windows
1 16 (8.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.04%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (16.15%) Systems Engineering
2 12 (6.25%) Validation
3 10 (5.21%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (4.69%) Mentoring
4 9 (4.69%) Signal Processing
5 8 (4.17%) Systems Thinking
6 5 (2.60%) Design for Manufacturing
6 5 (2.60%) Design-to-Cost
6 5 (2.60%) FMEA
6 5 (2.60%) Inventory Management
6 5 (2.60%) Preventative Maintenance
7 3 (1.56%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (1.56%) Digital Signal Processing
7 3 (1.56%) Mathematics
7 3 (1.56%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 3 (1.56%) Physics
7 3 (1.56%) Software Engineering
7 3 (1.56%) SysML
7 3 (1.56%) Verification and Validation
7 3 (1.56%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.56%) MATLAB
2 1 (0.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 19 (9.90%) Degree
3 5 (2.60%) City & Guilds
3 5 (2.60%) MOS
3 5 (2.60%) NVQ Level 3
3 5 (2.60%) Postgraduate
4 4 (2.08%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.60%) COSHH
2 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 17 (8.85%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.33%) vSphere
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 18 (9.38%) VMware
2 17 (8.85%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.13%) Siemens
4 2 (1.04%) IBM
5 1 (0.52%) SAP