Systems Engineer Jobs in England

System Engineer
UK > England

The median System Engineer salary in England is £52,600 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 July 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 89 263
Rank change year-on-year +62 +174 +97
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 3,770 2,394 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.15% 2.77% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.92% 2.92% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,924 1,518 408
10th Percentile £44,605 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £40,000 £41,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,688 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.20% - -

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 47,572 81,888 67,776
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.23% 94.71% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 26,558 58,406 47,330
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,282 £39,576 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £80,518
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.66% -12.42% -

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in England

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in England

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in England

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 Systems Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 July 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 +143 1,491 £50,055 +11.23% 126
North West +114 1,294 £50,055 +0.61% 84
South East +47 891 £62,000 +24.00% 170
Midlands +54 649 £47,683 -2.69% 117
South West +17 365 £52,600 -12.33% 119
West Midlands +52 363 £55,000 +12.24% 69
East Midlands +40 285 £47,683 -1.68% 48
East of England -24 198 £55,000 - 83
Yorkshire +86 182 £47,683 +19.21% 38
London -7 112 £65,000 +8.33% 114
North East +37 15 £57,500 +24.32% 5
Systems Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 2025, 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 2,723 (72.23%) Systems Engineering
2 2,413 (64.01%) BPSS Clearance
3 2,116 (56.13%) Degree
4 856 (22.71%) MATLAB
5 804 (21.33%) SysML
6 757 (20.08%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 741 (19.66%) Rational DOORS
8 668 (17.72%) Electronics
9 662 (17.56%) Aerospace
10 609 (16.15%) Agile
10 609 (16.15%) Social Skills
11 604 (16.02%) IBM
12 578 (15.33%) Technical Leadership
13 563 (14.93%) Mathematics
14 553 (14.67%) Signal Processing
15 533 (14.14%) HND
16 530 (14.06%) HNC
17 527 (13.98%) ISO/IEC 15288
18 524 (13.90%) Algorithms
19 462 (12.25%) Automotive
20 457 (12.12%) UML
21 455 (12.07%) Validation
22 445 (11.80%) Simulink
23 435 (11.54%) Physics
24 429 (11.38%) Mentoring
25 413 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
26 400 (10.61%) Requirements Management
27 379 (10.05%) MODAF
28 359 (9.52%) Coaching
29 341 (9.05%) Microsoft Office

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 24 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (0.42%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.21%) WinCC
4 4 (0.11%) Confluence
5 3 (0.080%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.027%) CMS
6 1 (0.027%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 445 (11.80%) Simulink
2 341 (9.05%) Microsoft Office
3 120 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 118 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.11%) CATIA
6 3 (0.080%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.080%) EPLAN
6 3 (0.080%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.053%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.027%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.027%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.027%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 291 (7.72%) Teamcenter
2 95 (2.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.19%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.053%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.027%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 53 (1.41%) Azure
2 52 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (0.69%) AWS
4 21 (0.56%) Entra ID
5 15 (0.40%) SaaS
6 12 (0.32%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (0.21%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (0.16%) Azure Storage
8 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (0.13%) Google Workspace
9 5 (0.13%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.11%) GCP
11 3 (0.080%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (0.080%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.053%) Serverless
13 1 (0.027%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.027%) Azure Functions
13 1 (0.027%) Nutanix
13 1 (0.027%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.027%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 151 (4.01%) Broadband
2 82 (2.18%) Ethernet
3 55 (1.46%) RS-422
4 36 (0.95%) DNS
5 34 (0.90%) DHCP
6 28 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
7 25 (0.66%) Modbus
8 21 (0.56%) Profibus
8 21 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.50%) Firewall
10 11 (0.29%) VLAN
11 10 (0.27%) Wireless
12 8 (0.21%) SAN
12 8 (0.21%) WAN
13 7 (0.19%) MQTT
14 6 (0.16%) SMTP
14 6 (0.16%) Wireless Security
15 5 (0.13%) LAN
15 5 (0.13%) VoIP
15 5 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.27%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.19%) MongoDB
3 4 (0.11%) MySQL
4 3 (0.080%) Power BI
5 2 (0.053%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.053%) GIS
6 1 (0.027%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.027%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.027%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 741 (19.66%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (0.34%) Git
3 10 (0.27%) JIRA
4 8 (0.21%) ClearCase
5 5 (0.13%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.027%) ClearQuest
6 1 (0.027%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.027%) MagicDraw
6 1 (0.027%) Maven
6 1 (0.027%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 668 (17.72%) Electronics
2 662 (17.56%) Aerospace
3 609 (16.15%) Social Skills
4 462 (12.25%) Automotive
5 297 (7.88%) Presentation Skills
6 161 (4.27%) Avionics
7 154 (4.08%) Telecoms
8 143 (3.79%) Aeronautics
9 137 (3.63%) Finance
10 130 (3.45%) Manufacturing
11 58 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
12 45 (1.19%) Law
13 32 (0.85%) Aviation
14 29 (0.77%) Military
15 16 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.37%) Legal
17 13 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (0.34%) Public Sector
17 13 (0.34%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (0.37%) XML
2 7 (0.19%) Kafka
2 7 (0.19%) XSD
3 5 (0.13%) Flash
4 4 (0.11%) CSS
4 4 (0.11%) HTML
5 3 (0.080%) Node.js
5 3 (0.080%) OpenCL
6 2 (0.053%) .NET
6 2 (0.053%) LDAP
6 2 (0.053%) Node-RED
7 1 (0.027%) Django
7 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.027%) Middleware
7 1 (0.027%) React
7 1 (0.027%) REST
7 1 (0.027%) SPFx
7 1 (0.027%) Web Services
7 1 (0.027%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 524 (13.90%) Algorithms
2 143 (3.79%) Management Information System
3 83 (2.20%) FMCG
4 82 (2.18%) Operational Technology
5 75 (1.99%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 66 (1.75%) SCADA
7 65 (1.72%) Product Ownership
8 47 (1.25%) e-Learning
9 38 (1.01%) Data Centre
10 31 (0.82%) FPGA
11 16 (0.42%) Driving Licence
12 13 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (0.29%) CCTV
13 11 (0.29%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.27%) Industry 4.0
15 9 (0.24%) IoT
16 8 (0.21%) Embedded Systems
17 7 (0.19%) Biopharmaceutical
17 7 (0.19%) Reference Data
18 5 (0.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 69 (1.83%) Windows
2 63 (1.67%) VMS
3 48 (1.27%) Linux
4 44 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.21%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.11%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.053%) CentOS
10 2 (0.053%) Debian
10 2 (0.053%) Unix
11 1 (0.027%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.027%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.027%) Solaris
11 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,723 (72.23%) Systems Engineering
2 804 (21.33%) SysML
3 757 (20.08%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 609 (16.15%) Agile
5 578 (15.33%) Technical Leadership
6 563 (14.93%) Mathematics
7 553 (14.67%) Signal Processing
8 457 (12.12%) UML
9 455 (12.07%) Validation
10 435 (11.54%) Physics
11 429 (11.38%) Mentoring
12 413 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
13 400 (10.61%) Requirements Management
14 379 (10.05%) MODAF
15 359 (9.52%) Coaching
16 312 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
17 302 (8.01%) Test Planning
18 244 (6.47%) Computer Science
19 229 (6.07%) PLM
20 225 (5.97%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 856 (22.71%) MATLAB
2 70 (1.86%) R
3 52 (1.38%) PowerShell
4 27 (0.72%) SQL
5 26 (0.69%) C
5 26 (0.69%) Python
6 17 (0.45%) Java
7 13 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
8 12 (0.32%) C++
9 9 (0.24%) Bash
10 7 (0.19%) C#
10 7 (0.19%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.13%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.11%) JavaScript
12 4 (0.11%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.080%) Perl
13 3 (0.080%) VB
14 2 (0.053%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.053%) Go
14 2 (0.053%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,413 (64.01%) BPSS Clearance
2 2,116 (56.13%) Degree
3 533 (14.14%) HND
4 530 (14.06%) HNC
5 164 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 131 (3.47%) Security Cleared
7 114 (3.02%) SC Cleared
8 66 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 24 (0.64%) DV Cleared
11 15 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
13 12 (0.32%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.16%) MCSE
15 5 (0.13%) Azure Certification
16 3 (0.080%) MCSA
16 3 (0.080%) PhD
17 2 (0.053%) AWS Certification
18 1 (0.027%) CREST Certified
18 1 (0.027%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 527 (13.98%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 105 (2.79%) ARP4754
2 105 (2.79%) DO-254
2 105 (2.79%) IEC 61508
3 14 (0.37%) Def Stans
4 12 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.19%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.19%) GDPR
6 6 (0.16%) QA
7 5 (0.13%) SLA
8 4 (0.11%) IEC 61131
8 4 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.080%) WCAG
10 2 (0.053%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.053%) GAMP
10 2 (0.053%) GxP
10 2 (0.053%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.027%) ECSS
11 1 (0.027%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.027%) PMO
System Software
1 51 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 33 (0.88%) Firmware
3 28 (0.74%) Embedded Firmware
4 25 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.24%) Docker
7 9 (0.24%) vSphere
8 5 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.053%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.027%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.027%) Postfix
10 1 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.27%) Functional Safety
2 10 (0.27%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.16%) WSUS
4 5 (0.13%) Ansible
4 5 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.11%) SCCM
6 3 (0.080%) SmoothWall
7 2 (0.053%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.053%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.053%) Puppet
7 2 (0.053%) SCOM
7 2 (0.053%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.053%) Terraform
7 2 (0.053%) Wonderware InTouch
8 1 (0.027%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.027%) Nessus
8 1 (0.027%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.027%) VxRail
Vendors
1 604 (16.02%) IBM
2 265 (7.03%) Microsoft
3 151 (4.01%) ANSYS
4 122 (3.24%) Siemens
5 102 (2.71%) Rockwell
6 95 (2.52%) Sparx
7 55 (1.46%) VMware
8 51 (1.35%) MathWorks
9 20 (0.53%) Allen-Bradley
10 15 (0.40%) Cisco
11 13 (0.34%) EMC
12 10 (0.27%) AVEVA
13 9 (0.24%) Dell
14 8 (0.21%) Google
14 8 (0.21%) Oracle
15 7 (0.19%) Citrix
15 7 (0.19%) Sophos
16 5 (0.13%) Red Hat
16 5 (0.13%) Ubiquiti
16 5 (0.13%) Veeam