Senior Systems Engineer Job Trends in Leicestershire
Senior System Engineer
East Midlands > Leicestershire
The median Senior System Engineer salary in Leicestershire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2026.
The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 7 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 91 | 50 | 62 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -41 | +12 | -11 |
| Permanent Senior Systems Engineer jobs | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire | 0.17% | 0.44% | 0.90% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.19% | 0.48% | 0.99% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £65,000 | - | £40,000 |
| East Midlands median annual salary | £60,000 | £55,500 | £60,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +8.11% | -7.50% | - |
All Permanent IT Job Roles
Leicestershire
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job adverts in Leicestershire matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.
| 6 months to 7 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent job adverts in Leicestershire matching a recognised job title | 1,610 | 419 | 609 |
| % of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title | 90.96% | 91.29% | 91.86% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 976 | 280 | 290 |
| 10th Percentile | £31,250 | £25,750 | £25,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £40,000 | £32,688 | £34,000 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £50,000 | £45,000 | £45,000 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +11.11% | - | -10.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £65,000 | £57,500 | £60,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £80,000 | £67,500 | £70,000 |
| East Midlands median annual salary | £50,000 | £40,000 | £47,500 |
| % change year-on-year | +25.00% | -15.79% | -9.52% |
Senior Systems Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire
Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Senior Systems Engineer job postings relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.
Senior Systems Engineer Salary Trend in Leicestershire
Salary distribution trend for Senior Systems Engineer job vacancies in Leicestershire.
Senior Systems Engineer Job Locations in Leicestershire
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in Senior Systems Engineer jobs within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 7 November 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Salary Past 6 Months |
Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leicester | -36 | 3 | £65,000 | - | 1 |
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Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire
For the 6 months to 7 November 2026, Senior Systems Engineer job ads cited the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent Senior Systems Engineer job ads across the Leicestershire region.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Containerisation | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | DNS | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Docker | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Dynatrace | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | E-Commerce | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Grafana | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Incident Management | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Incident Response | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Information Security | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Kubernetes | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Mentoring | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Microservices | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Observability | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Performance Testing | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | PowerShell | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Problem Management | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Python | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | REST | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Service-Level Objective | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | ServiceNow | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | SQL | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | SSL | 66.7% | 2 |
| 1 | Test Strategy | 66.7% | 2 |
| 24 | Requirements Management | 33.3% | 1 |
Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
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