Systems Engineering Jobs in England

Systems Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Systems Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 264 393
Rank change year-on-year +253 +129 +95
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 5,025 883 761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.91% 1.04% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.65% 1.21% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,928 495 196
10th Percentile £45,628 £36,250 £43,375
25th Percentile £47,683 £48,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £59,081 £70,125 £93,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £52,600 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.33% -7.69% +2.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,121 73,145 88,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.64% 85.85% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23,789 53,950 52,293
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in England

Systems Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands +198 1,664 £47,683 -13.30% 94
North of England +320 1,501 £50,055 -1.85% 105
North West +252 1,316 £50,055 -16.58% 74
West Midlands +165 999 £35,000 -36.36% 70
South East +189 960 £62,000 -2.36% 176
East Midlands +151 665 £47,683 -4.63% 19
South West +108 658 £52,600 -4.36% 134
East of England +58 183 £47,683 -13.30% 79
Yorkshire +159 182 £47,683 -6.50% 26
London +47 58 £80,000 +6.67% 135
North East +51 3 £60,000 -11.11% 7
Systems Engineering
UK

Systems Engineering
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 35 (0.70%) Confluence
2 4 (0.080%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.060%) WinCC
4 2 (0.040%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 639 (12.72%) Simulink
2 216 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
3 170 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 152 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 113 (2.25%) Mathcad
6 41 (0.82%) Mathematica
7 14 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.28%) Trello
8 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.020%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.020%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 289 (5.75%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.040%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (1.03%) AWS
2 15 (0.30%) Google Workspace
3 10 (0.20%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (0.20%) Pulumi
4 8 (0.16%) Azure
5 7 (0.14%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (0.14%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (0.14%) Amazon S3
6 6 (0.12%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (0.12%) Slack
6 6 (0.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (0.100%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (0.100%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (0.100%) GitHub
7 5 (0.100%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.040%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.040%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.020%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.020%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (0.46%) Wireshark
2 18 (0.36%) DHCP
2 18 (0.36%) DNS
2 18 (0.36%) TCP/IP
3 17 (0.34%) Firewall
3 17 (0.34%) WLAN
4 16 (0.32%) VLAN
4 16 (0.32%) VoIP
5 15 (0.30%) BGP
5 15 (0.30%) OSPF
6 10 (0.20%) WAN
7 5 (0.100%) Network Security
7 5 (0.100%) Wireless
8 4 (0.080%) 4G
8 4 (0.080%) 5G
8 4 (0.080%) LAN
8 4 (0.080%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.040%) ATM
9 2 (0.040%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.040%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (0.68%) MySQL
2 28 (0.56%) Relational Database
3 18 (0.36%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.080%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.040%) Big Data
5 2 (0.040%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.040%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.040%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.020%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.020%) GIS
Development Applications
1 772 (15.36%) Rational DOORS
2 124 (2.47%) JIRA
3 37 (0.74%) Git
4 28 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 12 (0.24%) GitLab
6 2 (0.040%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.020%) LabVIEW
General
1 840 (16.72%) Aerospace
2 789 (15.70%) Automotive
3 673 (13.39%) Social Skills
4 607 (12.08%) Electronics
5 315 (6.27%) Presentation Skills
5 315 (6.27%) Telecoms
6 192 (3.82%) Law
7 176 (3.50%) Avionics
8 134 (2.67%) Aeronautics
9 91 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
10 66 (1.31%) Military
11 40 (0.80%) Aviation
12 38 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
13 32 (0.64%) Finance
14 28 (0.56%) Legal
15 26 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
16 22 (0.44%) Public Sector
17 21 (0.42%) Retail
18 15 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 14 (0.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2,363 (47.02%) Systems Engineer
2 1,898 (37.77%) Principal Engineer
3 1,718 (34.19%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 1,498 (29.81%) Senior
5 998 (19.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 323 (6.43%) Engineering Manager
7 315 (6.27%) Integration Engineer
8 314 (6.25%) Systems Integration Engineer
9 280 (5.57%) Lead
10 246 (4.90%) Validation Engineer
11 239 (4.76%) System Verification Engineer
12 216 (4.30%) Lead Systems Engineer
13 184 (3.66%) Requirements Engineer
14 137 (2.73%) Software Assurance Engineer
15 136 (2.71%) Requirements Manager
16 135 (2.69%) Software Engineer
17 121 (2.41%) Team Leader
18 113 (2.25%) Junior
19 103 (2.05%) Junior Systems Engineer
20 99 (1.97%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (0.56%) .NET
2 12 (0.24%) Kafka
3 6 (0.12%) Django
3 6 (0.12%) Flask
3 6 (0.12%) Lambda Expressions
3 6 (0.12%) React
4 2 (0.040%) gRPC
4 2 (0.040%) Middleware
4 2 (0.040%) RESTful
4 2 (0.040%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.020%) boto
5 1 (0.020%) Flash
5 1 (0.020%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 254 (5.05%) Algorithms
2 153 (3.04%) Management Information System
3 15 (0.30%) Smartphone
4 14 (0.28%) SCADA
4 14 (0.28%) Social Media
5 11 (0.22%) Data Centre
5 11 (0.22%) Public Cloud
6 9 (0.18%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (0.16%) Operational Technology
7 8 (0.16%) Product Ownership
8 6 (0.12%) IoT
8 6 (0.12%) Molecular Biology
9 5 (0.100%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.100%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (0.080%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.080%) FMCG
10 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Licensing
10 4 (0.080%) NHS
10 4 (0.080%) PKI
11 3 (0.060%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 88 (1.75%) Linux
2 76 (1.51%) Windows
3 21 (0.42%) Windows Server
4 15 (0.30%) Mac OS X
4 15 (0.30%) Ubuntu
4 15 (0.30%) Windows 10
4 15 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,542 (30.69%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 1,356 (26.99%) Validation
3 1,115 (22.19%) Mathematics
4 1,034 (20.58%) SysML
5 955 (19.00%) Verification and Validation
6 808 (16.08%) Physics
7 736 (14.65%) Agile
8 723 (14.39%) Requirements Management
9 514 (10.23%) Coaching
9 514 (10.23%) Software Engineering
10 485 (9.65%) Collaborative Working
11 458 (9.11%) UML
12 407 (8.10%) Project Planning
13 358 (7.12%) Cybersecurity
14 342 (6.81%) Problem-Solving
15 310 (6.17%) MODAF
16 305 (6.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 292 (5.81%) PLM
18 284 (5.65%) Technical Leadership
19 265 (5.27%) FMEA
Programming Languages
1 1,108 (22.05%) MATLAB
2 102 (2.03%) Python
2 102 (2.03%) R
3 37 (0.74%) C
4 35 (0.70%) C#
5 22 (0.44%) Java
6 21 (0.42%) SQL
7 19 (0.38%) PowerShell
8 18 (0.36%) C++
9 11 (0.22%) Ruby
10 10 (0.20%) Bicep
10 10 (0.20%) Go
11 6 (0.12%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.12%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.100%) Embedded C
12 5 (0.100%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.080%) VB
14 2 (0.040%) Ada
14 2 (0.040%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.040%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3,946 (78.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 3,341 (66.49%) Degree
3 612 (12.18%) HND
4 583 (11.60%) HNC
5 477 (9.49%) Chartered Engineer
6 150 (2.99%) ISTQB
7 147 (2.93%) Master's Degree
8 45 (0.90%) Security Cleared
9 39 (0.78%) SC Cleared
10 24 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
11 22 (0.44%) CEH
12 19 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
14 15 (0.30%) MCSE
15 14 (0.28%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.28%) PMI Certification
15 14 (0.28%) PMP
16 4 (0.080%) CISSP
16 4 (0.080%) TOGAF Certification
17 2 (0.040%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 529 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 405 (8.06%) IEC 61508
3 275 (5.47%) Def Stans
4 143 (2.85%) DO-254
5 121 (2.41%) ARP4754
6 18 (0.36%) QA
7 5 (0.100%) ISO 26262
8 4 (0.080%) Automotive SPICE
8 4 (0.080%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.080%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.080%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.060%) GRC
10 2 (0.040%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.040%) IEC 61131
10 2 (0.040%) ITGC
10 2 (0.040%) NIST
11 1 (0.020%) ARP4761
11 1 (0.020%) ECSS
11 1 (0.020%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.020%) RMADS
System Software
1 22 (0.44%) Firmware
1 22 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
2 21 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 17 (0.34%) Docker
4 4 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.080%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (0.90%) Ansible
2 31 (0.62%) Functional Safety
3 22 (0.44%) Kubernetes
4 19 (0.38%) Terraform
5 15 (0.30%) Progress Chef
6 10 (0.20%) Podman
6 10 (0.20%) Puppet
7 6 (0.12%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.100%) Grafana
8 5 (0.100%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.040%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.040%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.020%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 443 (8.82%) IBM
2 228 (4.54%) Microsoft
3 186 (3.70%) ANSYS
4 123 (2.45%) MathWorks
5 40 (0.80%) Siemens
6 29 (0.58%) Atlassian
7 19 (0.38%) VMware
8 18 (0.36%) Cisco
8 18 (0.36%) Dell
9 16 (0.32%) Fortinet
9 16 (0.32%) Google
10 15 (0.30%) Apple
10 15 (0.30%) Ubiquiti
11 8 (0.16%) Avaloq
12 6 (0.12%) Facebook
12 6 (0.12%) Sawtooth Software
12 6 (0.12%) YouTube
13 4 (0.080%) Extreme Networks
13 4 (0.080%) Oracle
14 3 (0.060%) EMC