Systems Engineering Job Trends in the East of England

Systems Engineering
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 154 125
Rank change year-on-year +32 -29 +74
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 35 26 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.85% 0.74% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.85% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 32 7 15
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,125 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -22.81%
75th Percentile - £83,688 £61,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £110,000 £71,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.60% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Systems Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,069 3,066 2,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.40% 87.23% 86.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 1,192 1,583
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,700 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Systems Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend in the East of England

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Systems Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in the East of England

Systems Engineering
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 Engineering within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 January 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 +24 21 £55,000 +10.00% 35
Cambridgeshire - 8 £55,000 - 7
Essex +1 6 £50,000 - 6
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
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 (8.57%) Simulink
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.86%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Rational DOORS
1 3 (8.57%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (97.14%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Lead
2 9 (25.71%) Lead Systems Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) RF Engineer
3 8 (22.86%) Control Systems Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) Embedded Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Design Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) Hugging Face
1 1 (2.86%) LangChain
1 1 (2.86%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (5.71%) SCADA
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (8.57%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (8.57%) Digital Signal Processing
2 3 (8.57%) Mathematics
2 3 (8.57%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 3 (8.57%) Physics
2 3 (8.57%) Signal Processing
2 3 (8.57%) Software Engineering
2 3 (8.57%) SysML
2 3 (8.57%) Validation
2 3 (8.57%) Verification and Validation
2 3 (8.57%) V-Model
3 1 (2.86%) Agile
3 1 (2.86%) AI
3 1 (2.86%) Data Science
3 1 (2.86%) ETL
3 1 (2.86%) Generative AI
3 1 (2.86%) Machine Learning
3 1 (2.86%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (2.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) MATLAB
2 1 (2.86%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Siemens