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 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 123 42
Rank change year-on-year +100 -81 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 306 46 275
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 4.93% 1.54% 4.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.30% 1.70% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 195 33 160
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,309 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.13%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,086 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,500 £79,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.56% +5.20% -4.76%

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 5,772 2,711 5,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 90.85% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,744 1,472 4,386
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £35,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,967 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +7.30% -13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,200 £63,446
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £53,847
% change year-on-year -5.17% +7.71% -11.44%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +61 190 £55,000 -0.58% 14
Essex +7 39 £50,000 +11.11% 5
Cambridgeshire -4 32 £55,000 - 9
Norfolk -2 28 £60,000 +25.83% 4
Bedfordshire +31 17 £50,000 -5.66% 9
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 66 (21.57%) Systems Engineering
2 55 (17.97%) Degree
3 38 (12.42%) Security Cleared
4 19 (6.21%) Microsoft
5 18 (5.88%) Azure
6 17 (5.56%) Validation
7 16 (5.23%) IBM
7 16 (5.23%) Python
7 16 (5.23%) Test Planning
8 15 (4.90%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (4.90%) Power BI
8 15 (4.90%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (4.58%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (4.25%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (4.25%) Rational DOORS
10 13 (4.25%) Wireless
11 12 (3.92%) AI
11 12 (3.92%) Systems Thinking
11 12 (3.92%) Windows
11 12 (3.92%) Windows Server
12 11 (3.59%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (3.27%) ERP
14 9 (2.94%) Active Directory
14 9 (2.94%) Entra ID
14 9 (2.94%) Epicor
14 9 (2.94%) PowerApps
15 8 (2.61%) Allen-Bradley
15 8 (2.61%) C++

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 7 (2.29%) FactoryTalk
2 6 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (5.88%) Azure
2 15 (4.90%) Power Platform
3 14 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (2.94%) Entra ID
4 9 (2.94%) PowerApps
5 7 (2.29%) AWS
5 7 (2.29%) GCP
6 6 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (1.96%) dbt
6 6 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.25%) Wireless
2 7 (2.29%) Ethernet
2 7 (2.29%) Profibus
3 3 (0.98%) Internet
4 1 (0.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.90%) Power BI
2 6 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (1.96%) BigQuery
2 6 (1.96%) Data Lake
2 6 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (1.96%) Looker
2 6 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
2 6 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (4.25%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (1.96%) MLflow
3 3 (0.98%) GitLab
3 3 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.98%) JIRA
General
1 22 (7.19%) Electronics
2 20 (6.54%) Social Skills
3 18 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 14 (4.58%) Finance
5 9 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.29%) Military
7 5 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.31%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.33%) Advertising
9 1 (0.33%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.96%) Kafka
1 6 (1.96%) LangChain
1 6 (1.96%) LlamaIndex
1 6 (1.96%) pgvector
1 6 (1.96%) PyTorch
1 6 (1.96%) scikit-learn
1 6 (1.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.92%) Embedded Systems
1 12 (3.92%) SCADA
2 7 (2.29%) Replication
3 6 (1.96%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.96%) Clustering
3 6 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 2 (0.65%) FMCG
4 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.33%) Analogue Electronics
5 1 (0.33%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (0.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.92%) Windows
1 12 (3.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (21.57%) Systems Engineering
2 17 (5.56%) Validation
3 16 (5.23%) Test Planning
4 15 (4.90%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (4.58%) Technical Leadership
6 13 (4.25%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (3.92%) AI
7 12 (3.92%) Systems Thinking
8 11 (3.59%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (3.27%) ERP
10 7 (2.29%) Data Management
10 7 (2.29%) Machine Learning
10 7 (2.29%) Mentoring
11 6 (1.96%) Analytics
11 6 (1.96%) Data Governance
11 6 (1.96%) Dimensional Modelling
11 6 (1.96%) Knowledge Management
11 6 (1.96%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (1.96%) Predictive Modelling
11 6 (1.96%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.23%) Python
2 8 (2.61%) C++
3 7 (2.29%) C#
4 6 (1.96%) SQL
5 1 (0.33%) C
5 1 (0.33%) Embedded C
5 1 (0.33%) Embedded C++
5 1 (0.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 55 (17.97%) Degree
2 38 (12.42%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.29%) HNC
4 7 (2.29%) HND
5 5 (1.63%) City & Guilds
5 5 (1.63%) NVQ Level 3
5 5 (1.63%) PhD
5 5 (1.63%) Postgraduate
6 3 (0.98%) MOS
7 2 (0.65%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.33%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.29%) Accessibility
1 7 (2.29%) HAZOP
2 6 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (1.96%) GDPR
3 5 (1.63%) COSHH
4 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 9 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (2.29%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 19 (6.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.23%) IBM
3 9 (2.94%) Epicor
4 8 (2.61%) Allen-Bradley
4 8 (2.61%) Rockwell
4 8 (2.61%) Siemens
4 8 (2.61%) Wonderware
5 6 (1.96%) Cloudera
5 6 (1.96%) Databricks
5 6 (1.96%) Dell
6 2 (0.65%) Cisco
6 2 (0.65%) Veeam
6 2 (0.65%) VMware
7 1 (0.33%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.33%) Google