Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in England

Senior System Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior System Engineer salary in England is £52,600 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 468 637
Rank change year-on-year +354 +169 +269
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 1,320 411 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.68% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.96% 0.51% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 773 292 77
10th Percentile £47,863 £45,000 £36,356
25th Percentile £48,869 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £59,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.60% -0.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £58,943 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £62,000 £74,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £54,793 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% -8.33% -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in England

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
North of England +297 645 £50,055 +0.11% 18
North West +225 611 £50,055 -4.66% 12
South East +159 284 £62,000 +12.73% 83
Midlands +143 176 £52,500 - 20
South West +168 160 £52,600 -12.33% 22
West Midlands +108 98 £50,000 -6.98% 11
East Midlands +79 78 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Yorkshire +92 34 £57,560 +27.61% 5
East of England +51 31 £85,000 +41.67% 15
London +73 21 £76,000 +16.92% 48
Senior Systems Engineer
UK

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Senior Systems Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 1,118 (84.70%) Systems Engineering
2 932 (70.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 893 (67.65%) Degree
4 450 (34.09%) Aerospace
5 378 (28.64%) Coaching
6 337 (25.53%) Mathematics
7 331 (25.08%) Physics
8 290 (21.97%) Requirements Management
9 252 (19.09%) HND
10 241 (18.26%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 235 (17.80%) Customer Requirements
12 227 (17.20%) Automotive
13 215 (16.29%) Avionics
14 195 (14.77%) Acceptance Criteria
15 187 (14.17%) HNC
16 174 (13.18%) Technical Leadership
17 162 (12.27%) Social Skills
18 154 (11.67%) Rational DOORS
18 154 (11.67%) Aeronautics
19 153 (11.59%) Electronics
20 137 (10.38%) Business Case
21 136 (10.30%) Agile
22 132 (10.00%) IBM
22 132 (10.00%) Signal Processing
22 132 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
22 132 (10.00%) Algorithms
23 131 (9.92%) SDLC
23 131 (9.92%) Feasibility Study
23 131 (9.92%) Hazard Analysis
24 128 (9.70%) MATLAB

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (0.98%) SharePoint
2 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 104 (7.88%) Simulink
2 78 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 64 (4.85%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 18 (1.36%) Azure
2 17 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
3 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
4 10 (0.76%) OneDrive
5 4 (0.30%) AWS
5 4 (0.30%) Entra ID
6 3 (0.23%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (0.15%) SaaS
8 1 (0.076%) Azure App Service
8 1 (0.076%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.076%) GCP
8 1 (0.076%) IaaS
8 1 (0.076%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.23%) SD-WAN
1 3 (0.23%) WAN
2 2 (0.15%) ATM
2 2 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (0.15%) Network Security
2 2 (0.15%) SAN
3 1 (0.076%) DNS
3 1 (0.076%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.076%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.076%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 154 (11.67%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.076%) JIRA
2 1 (0.076%) LabVIEW
General
1 450 (34.09%) Aerospace
2 227 (17.20%) Automotive
3 215 (16.29%) Avionics
4 162 (12.27%) Social Skills
5 154 (11.67%) Aeronautics
6 153 (11.59%) Electronics
7 64 (4.85%) Telecoms
8 61 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (1.74%) Military
10 19 (1.44%) Aviation
11 16 (1.21%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (0.91%) Law
13 10 (0.76%) Legal
13 10 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.30%) Finance
15 3 (0.23%) Banking
15 3 (0.23%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.15%) Local Government
16 2 (0.15%) Marketing
16 2 (0.15%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.23%) OpenCL
2 1 (0.076%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 132 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 17 (1.29%) Management Information System
3 5 (0.38%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (0.30%) Device Driver
5 3 (0.23%) CUDA
5 3 (0.23%) Data Centre
5 3 (0.23%) Driving Licence
5 3 (0.23%) PCIe
6 2 (0.15%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.15%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.15%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.076%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.076%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.076%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.076%) Optoelectronics
7 1 (0.076%) PKI
7 1 (0.076%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.06%) Linux
2 12 (0.91%) Windows
3 4 (0.30%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.076%) Debian
5 1 (0.076%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,118 (84.70%) Systems Engineering
2 378 (28.64%) Coaching
3 337 (25.53%) Mathematics
4 331 (25.08%) Physics
5 290 (21.97%) Requirements Management
6 241 (18.26%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 235 (17.80%) Customer Requirements
8 195 (14.77%) Acceptance Criteria
9 174 (13.18%) Technical Leadership
10 137 (10.38%) Business Case
11 136 (10.30%) Agile
12 132 (10.00%) Signal Processing
13 131 (9.92%) Feasibility Study
13 131 (9.92%) Hazard Analysis
13 131 (9.92%) SDLC
14 117 (8.86%) Mentoring
15 110 (8.33%) Project Planning
16 102 (7.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 100 (7.58%) Use Case
18 98 (7.42%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (9.70%) MATLAB
2 101 (7.65%) R
3 12 (0.91%) PowerShell
4 11 (0.83%) Python
5 8 (0.61%) C
6 5 (0.38%) Bash
7 4 (0.30%) C++
8 2 (0.15%) Embedded C
8 2 (0.15%) Go
8 2 (0.15%) Rust
8 2 (0.15%) SQL
9 1 (0.076%) C#
9 1 (0.076%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.076%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 932 (70.61%) BPSS Clearance
2 893 (67.65%) Degree
3 252 (19.09%) HND
4 187 (14.17%) HNC
5 99 (7.50%) Chartered Engineer
6 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.15%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.076%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.076%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.076%) CCNA
9 1 (0.076%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.076%) MCSE
9 1 (0.076%) PhD
9 1 (0.076%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.076%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 105 (7.95%) ARP4754
2 105 (7.95%) DO-254
2 105 (7.95%) IEC 61508
3 4 (0.30%) GDPR
4 2 (0.15%) QA
5 1 (0.076%) NIST
5 1 (0.076%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (0.30%) Active Directory
1 4 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.23%) Firmware
3 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.076%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (0.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.30%) SCCM
2 4 (0.30%) SCOM
2 4 (0.30%) SCOrch
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.15%) SmoothWall
3 2 (0.15%) Terraform
4 1 (0.076%) Ansible
4 1 (0.076%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.076%) Puppet
Vendors
1 132 (10.00%) IBM
2 101 (7.65%) Microsoft
3 64 (4.85%) ANSYS
4 50 (3.79%) MathWorks
5 16 (1.21%) Siemens
6 6 (0.45%) VMware
7 5 (0.38%) Cisco
8 3 (0.23%) Aruba
8 3 (0.23%) Graphcore
8 3 (0.23%) Juniper
9 2 (0.15%) EMC
9 2 (0.15%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.15%) Veeam
10 1 (0.076%) Barracuda Networks
10 1 (0.076%) Citrix
10 1 (0.076%) Dell
10 1 (0.076%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.076%) Oracle
10 1 (0.076%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.076%) Veritas