Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in London

Senior System Engineer
England > London

The median Senior System Engineer salary in London is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 447 573
Rank change year-on-year +82 +126 +225
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 21 57 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.26% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 19 45 30
10th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -7.14% -5.08%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £151,000 £95,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,600 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.33% - -11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,479 22,260 31,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 94.24% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,949 16,595 23,518
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,419
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in London

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in London

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in London

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Central London +43 4 £100,000 +42.86% 2
Senior Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Senior 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 London region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 12 (57.14%) Law
2 12 (57.14%) Azure
3 11 (52.38%) Cloud Computing
3 11 (52.38%) SharePoint
3 11 (52.38%) Microsoft Purview
3 11 (52.38%) Microsoft Copilot
3 11 (52.38%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (38.10%) OneDrive
4 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (38.10%) Legal
5 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (23.81%) Finance
6 5 (23.81%) Linux
6 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
7 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (19.05%) Banking
7 4 (19.05%) Degree
8 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
8 3 (14.29%) AWS
8 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 3 (14.29%) Python
8 3 (14.29%) Financial Institution
8 3 (14.29%) Identity Management
8 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (14.29%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
8 3 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 11 (52.38%) SharePoint
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) Cloud Computing
2 11 (52.38%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (52.38%) Microsoft Copilot
2 11 (52.38%) Microsoft Purview
3 8 (38.10%) OneDrive
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) rollup.js
1 1 (4.76%) Vite
General
1 12 (57.14%) Law
2 8 (38.10%) Legal
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 4 (19.05%) Banking
5 3 (14.29%) Financial Institution
5 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Electronics
7 1 (4.76%) Advertising
7 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) CSS
1 1 (4.76%) HTML
1 1 (4.76%) Next.js
1 1 (4.76%) React
1 1 (4.76%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Media Streaming
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 3 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
3 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 3 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 2 (9.52%) Coaching
4 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
4 2 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (9.52%) Mathematics
4 2 (9.52%) People Management
4 2 (9.52%) Physics
4 2 (9.52%) Programme Management
4 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.52%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) C
3 2 (9.52%) Go
3 2 (9.52%) Rust
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (4.76%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Dell
3 1 (4.76%) LogicMonitor