Systems Engineering Job Trends in England

Systems Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 230 402
Rank change year-on-year -9 +172 -123
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 474 620 294
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.90% 1.29% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.42% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 243 291 175
10th Percentile £42,250 £34,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,683 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -11.48% -5.28%
75th Percentile £77,500 £64,375 £76,250
90th Percentile £84,500 £80,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% -

All Process & 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 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend in England

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Systems Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 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
South East +38 145 £55,000 +6.07% 111
North of England -33 102 £54,793 +9.47% 36
South West -2 101 £65,000 +12.07% 80
North West -13 96 £54,793 +9.47% 17
Midlands -26 55 £87,500 +150.00% 46
West Midlands -15 36 £90,000 +157.14% 16
East of England +35 35 £55,000 +6.54% 53
London +14 33 £77,500 +10.71% 28
East Midlands -21 19 £75,900 +15.00% 30
Yorkshire -17 6 £69,525 +20.79% 13
Systems Engineering
UK

Systems Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 13 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.27%) Confluence
3 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (4.64%) Simulink
2 12 (2.53%) CATIA
3 9 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.21%) Mathcad
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (3.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 23 (4.85%) Azure
2 16 (3.38%) AWS
3 14 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (2.53%) Entra ID
5 4 (0.84%) GCP
5 4 (0.84%) PaaS
6 3 (0.63%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.42%) Azure AKS
7 2 (0.42%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (0.42%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (0.42%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.42%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.42%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.42%) Serverless
8 1 (0.21%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.74%) DNS
2 11 (2.32%) DHCP
2 11 (2.32%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.11%) WAN
4 9 (1.90%) LAN
5 7 (1.48%) Firewall
6 6 (1.27%) Software-Defined Radio
7 5 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.84%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.84%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.63%) SNA
10 2 (0.42%) Modbus
10 2 (0.42%) SAN
10 2 (0.42%) VLAN
11 1 (0.21%) DMARC
11 1 (0.21%) NAS
11 1 (0.21%) Network Security
11 1 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.90%) Relational Database
2 5 (1.05%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.84%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.63%) MySQL
4 3 (0.63%) Power BI
5 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.42%) GIS
5 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.21%) Parquet
6 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 87 (18.35%) Rational DOORS
2 36 (7.59%) JIRA
3 5 (1.05%) GitLab
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Continuum
4 3 (0.63%) Balsamiq
4 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.63%) Git
4 3 (0.63%) JIRA Agile
4 3 (0.63%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.21%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (18.14%) Social Skills
2 51 (10.76%) Electronics
3 33 (6.96%) Finance
4 32 (6.75%) Aerospace
5 28 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.01%) Military
7 18 (3.80%) Avionics
8 12 (2.53%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.32%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.90%) Legal
11 6 (1.27%) Automotive
12 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.63%) Law
13 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.42%) Advertising
14 2 (0.42%) Publishing
15 1 (0.21%) Marketing
15 1 (0.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 288 (60.76%) Systems Engineer
2 124 (26.16%) Principal Engineer
3 117 (24.68%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 104 (21.94%) Senior
5 75 (15.82%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 49 (10.34%) Lead
7 31 (6.54%) Lead Systems Engineer
8 19 (4.01%) Consultant
9 18 (3.80%) RF Engineer
10 14 (2.95%) Team Leader
11 13 (2.74%) Requirements Engineer
12 11 (2.32%) Control Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.32%) Embedded Engineer
12 11 (2.32%) Software Support Engineer
12 11 (2.32%) Support Engineer
13 10 (2.11%) Architect
13 10 (2.11%) Requirements Manager
13 10 (2.11%) Systems Manager
14 9 (1.90%) Senior Consultant
14 9 (1.90%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.48%) OLE
2 4 (0.84%) DCOM
2 4 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (0.84%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (0.63%) .NET
4 2 (0.42%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.42%) RESTful
5 1 (0.21%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.21%) Ajax
5 1 (0.21%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.21%) HTML
5 1 (0.21%) jQuery
5 1 (0.21%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (0.21%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.21%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (0.21%) React
5 1 (0.21%) Spring
5 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.21%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.21%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 53 (11.18%) Management Information System
2 28 (5.91%) Algorithms
3 17 (3.59%) e-Learning
4 15 (3.16%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.90%) Hedge funds
7 8 (1.69%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.48%) SCADA
9 6 (1.27%) Cyber Defence
9 6 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.84%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.63%) Acoustics
11 3 (0.63%) Augmented Reality
11 3 (0.63%) CAN bus
12 2 (0.42%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.42%) Verilog
12 2 (0.42%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.64%) Windows
2 15 (3.16%) Windows Server
3 12 (2.53%) Linux
4 9 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Unix
5 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (19.62%) Requirements Management
2 82 (17.30%) Validation
3 81 (17.09%) Technical Leadership
4 80 (16.88%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 72 (15.19%) Agile
6 65 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (12.45%) Verification and Validation
8 48 (10.13%) SysML
9 42 (8.86%) Software Engineering
10 40 (8.44%) Systems Thinking
11 39 (8.23%) Mathematics
12 38 (8.02%) Physics
13 32 (6.75%) Signal Processing
14 30 (6.33%) Coaching
15 29 (6.12%) Collaborative Working
15 29 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (6.12%) UML
16 25 (5.27%) Customer Requirements
16 25 (5.27%) Cybersecurity
17 24 (5.06%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.54%) MATLAB
2 23 (4.85%) Python
3 17 (3.59%) PowerShell
4 12 (2.53%) C++
4 12 (2.53%) SQL
5 10 (2.11%) C
6 7 (1.48%) C#
7 5 (1.05%) Go
8 4 (0.84%) Bash
8 4 (0.84%) Java
8 4 (0.84%) Rust
9 3 (0.63%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.63%) VBScript
10 2 (0.42%) VB
11 1 (0.21%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.21%) Perl
11 1 (0.21%) R
11 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 220 (46.41%) BPSS Clearance
2 201 (42.41%) Degree
3 90 (18.99%) Security Cleared
4 67 (14.14%) SC Cleared
5 27 (5.70%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.38%) Master's Degree
7 15 (3.16%) Chartered Engineer
7 15 (3.16%) HNC
8 13 (2.74%) HND
9 7 (1.48%) RIBA
10 6 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.84%) PhD
12 3 (0.63%) CITP
12 3 (0.63%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.63%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.63%) PMP
13 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.42%) MCSA
13 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (16.24%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 20 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.42%) GDPR
4 2 (0.42%) IEC 61508
4 2 (0.42%) NIST
4 2 (0.42%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.21%) GAAP
5 1 (0.21%) IFRS
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.21%) PMO
5 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.48%) Docker
3 6 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.42%) Firmware
5 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.32%) Ansible
3 10 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (1.69%) Terraform
6 4 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.42%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.42%) Rancher
8 1 (0.21%) CASB
8 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.21%) QRadar
8 1 (0.21%) SCCM
8 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (11.39%) IBM
2 29 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.80%) Siemens
3 18 (3.80%) Sparx
4 9 (1.90%) Bloomberg
4 9 (1.90%) Reuters
5 7 (1.48%) VMware
6 4 (0.84%) Dell
6 4 (0.84%) Foundry
6 4 (0.84%) Palantir
7 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.42%) Mellanox
7 2 (0.42%) Solarflare
7 2 (0.42%) Splunk
7 2 (0.42%) Veeam
8 1 (0.21%) ANSYS
8 1 (0.21%) Citrix
8 1 (0.21%) EMC
8 1 (0.21%) PTC
8 1 (0.21%) Qualys