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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 111 33
Rank change year-on-year +74 -78 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 233 62 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 3.67% 1.97% 4.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.91% 2.11% 5.10%
Number of salaries quoted 160 41 193
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,683 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,086 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,793 £52,000
% change year-on-year +0.38% +5.37% +1.96%

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 5,953 2,936 6,315
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 93.41% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,074 1,589 4,799
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £31,792
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,800 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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
Hertfordshire +33 105 £55,000 - 10
Bedfordshire +33 37 £60,000 -14.29% 14
Essex +2 31 £50,000 +11.11% 5
Norfolk -5 31 £60,000 +25.83% 3
Cambridgeshire -3 29 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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 52 (22.32%) Degree
2 46 (19.74%) Systems Engineering
3 23 (9.87%) Microsoft
4 20 (8.58%) Azure
5 19 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (6.87%) IBM
7 16 (6.87%) Python
7 16 (6.87%) Security Cleared
7 16 (6.87%) Test Planning
8 15 (6.44%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (6.44%) Power BI
8 15 (6.44%) Power Platform
8 15 (6.44%) Windows
8 15 (6.44%) Windows Server
8 15 (6.44%) Wireless
9 14 (6.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (6.01%) Rational DOORS
10 12 (5.15%) Active Directory
10 12 (5.15%) AI
10 12 (5.15%) Allen-Bradley
10 12 (5.15%) Entra ID
10 12 (5.15%) Rockwell
10 12 (5.15%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (5.15%) Wonderware
11 11 (4.72%) Validation
12 10 (4.29%) Accessibility
12 10 (4.29%) ERP
12 10 (4.29%) Ethernet

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 (4.29%) FactoryTalk
2 6 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.58%) Azure
2 18 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (6.44%) Power Platform
4 12 (5.15%) Entra ID
5 9 (3.86%) PowerApps
6 7 (3.00%) AWS
6 7 (3.00%) GCP
7 6 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (2.58%) dbt
7 6 (2.58%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.44%) Wireless
2 10 (4.29%) Ethernet
2 10 (4.29%) Profibus
3 3 (1.29%) Firewall
3 3 (1.29%) Internet
4 2 (0.86%) DHCP
4 2 (0.86%) DNS
4 2 (0.86%) LAN
4 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.86%) VLAN
4 2 (0.86%) VPN
4 2 (0.86%) WAN
5 1 (0.43%) Broadband
5 1 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.44%) Power BI
2 6 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (2.58%) BigQuery
2 6 (2.58%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.58%) Looker
2 6 (2.58%) Snowflake Schema
2 6 (2.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (6.01%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (2.58%) MLflow
3 3 (1.29%) GitLab
3 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.29%) JIRA
4 1 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 30 (12.88%) Electronics
2 23 (9.87%) Manufacturing
2 23 (9.87%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.01%) Aerospace
4 12 (5.15%) Finance
5 10 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.86%) Automotive
7 2 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.43%) Advertising
8 1 (0.43%) Aviation
8 1 (0.43%) Marketing
8 1 (0.43%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.58%) Kafka
1 6 (2.58%) LangChain
1 6 (2.58%) LlamaIndex
1 6 (2.58%) pgvector
1 6 (2.58%) PyTorch
1 6 (2.58%) scikit-learn
1 6 (2.58%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.87%) Embedded Systems
2 14 (6.01%) SCADA
3 10 (4.29%) Replication
4 6 (2.58%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.58%) Clustering
4 6 (2.58%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.72%) FMCG
6 2 (0.86%) Analogue Electronics
6 2 (0.86%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.43%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.44%) Windows
1 15 (6.44%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (19.74%) Systems Engineering
2 19 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (6.87%) Test Planning
4 15 (6.44%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (5.15%) AI
6 12 (5.15%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (4.72%) Validation
8 10 (4.29%) ERP
9 7 (3.00%) Data Management
9 7 (3.00%) Machine Learning
9 7 (3.00%) Project Delivery
9 7 (3.00%) Use Case
10 6 (2.58%) Data Engineering
10 6 (2.58%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (2.58%) Feature Engineering
10 6 (2.58%) Prompt Engineering
10 6 (2.58%) RBAC
10 6 (2.58%) Synthetic Environment
10 6 (2.58%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.87%) Python
2 8 (3.43%) C++
3 7 (3.00%) C#
3 7 (3.00%) SQL
4 3 (1.29%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.43%) C
5 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
5 1 (0.43%) Embedded C++
5 1 (0.43%) Java
5 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 52 (22.32%) Degree
2 16 (6.87%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.29%) HNC
4 10 (4.29%) HND
5 5 (2.15%) PhD
6 2 (0.86%) CCNA
6 2 (0.86%) CCNP
6 2 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.86%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.29%) Accessibility
1 10 (4.29%) HAZOP
2 6 (2.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (2.58%) GDPR
3 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 1 (0.43%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 12 (5.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.29%) Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (4.29%) Wonderware InTouch
2 1 (0.43%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 23 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.87%) IBM
3 12 (5.15%) Allen-Bradley
3 12 (5.15%) Rockwell
3 12 (5.15%) Wonderware
4 9 (3.86%) Epicor
5 6 (2.58%) Cloudera
5 6 (2.58%) Databricks
5 6 (2.58%) Dell
6 4 (1.72%) Siemens
7 2 (0.86%) AVEVA
7 2 (0.86%) Cisco
7 2 (0.86%) Veeam
7 2 (0.86%) VMware
8 1 (0.43%) EMC
8 1 (0.43%) Google