Systems Engineering Job Trends in Leicestershire

Systems Engineering
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 82 -
Rank change year-on-year +44 - -
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 7 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 1.78% 0.49% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 0.59% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £47,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 328 675 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 83.46% 83.33% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 196 312 259
10th Percentile £26,625 £28,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £32,375 £34,000 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,063 £61,250
90th Percentile £69,375 £73,700 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £41,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.78% -14.29% +5.00%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in Leicestershire

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Systems Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineering within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Hinckley - 5 - -
Lutterworth - 1 - - 1
Systems Engineering
East Midlands

Systems Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) iPaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Aerospace
1 3 (42.86%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Development Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Software Development Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Principal Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Development Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Development Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Validation
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) SysML
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Veeam