Systems Engineer Jobs in Leeds

System Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median System Engineer salary in Leeds is £43,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 123 174
Rank change year-on-year +56 +51 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 10 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 1.27% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 0.27% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £42,550 £42,518 £42,800
25th Percentile £42,625 £44,640 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £51,804 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +10.22% -53.53%
75th Percentile £50,875 £58,590 £49,000
90th Percentile £54,850 £60,486 £49,600
West Yorkshire median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.26% -53.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 740 2,197 2,780
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 96.06% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 505 1,595 1,672
10th Percentile £28,600 £31,250 £32,525
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,500 £83,934 £87,375
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.00% -9.09% +7.84%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in Leeds

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 Leeds region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Siemens
1 7 (70.00%) Rockwell
2 6 (60.00%) Energy Management
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (60.00%) Data Collection
2 6 (60.00%) Operational Technology
2 6 (60.00%) Budgeting
2 6 (60.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Manufacturing
2 6 (60.00%) HNC
2 6 (60.00%) FMCG
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (60.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (20.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (20.00%) Local Government
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) Middleware
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Security Monitoring

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (10.00%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (10.00%) Profibus
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
1 6 (60.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (20.00%) Local Government
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) FMCG
1 6 (60.00%) Management Information System
1 6 (60.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 6 (60.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Budgeting
1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (60.00%) Data Collection
1 6 (60.00%) Energy Management
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (60.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (20.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) HNC
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Rockwell
1 7 (70.00%) Siemens
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) AVEVA
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam
3 1 (10.00%) Veritas
3 1 (10.00%) VMware