Senior Systems Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior System Engineer
England > London

The median Senior System Engineer salary in London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 October 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 376 434
Rank change year-on-year -15 +58 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 48 15 23
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 27 6 15
10th Percentile £90,000 £60,750 £50,057
25th Percentile £95,000 £70,625 £57,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.67% -
75th Percentile - - £83,000
90th Percentile - £82,500 £135,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 23,956 10,704 17,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 91.04% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15,991 6,970 10,799
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £73,596
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.49% -1.87%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £119,071
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,281
% change year-on-year +7.27% -0.51% -7.87%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Systems Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Systems Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Systems Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Systems Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in London over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

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 10 October 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
East London - 4 - - 1
Central London +11 3 - - 15
West London - 1 £95,000 - 3
Senior Systems Engineer
England

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 10 October 2026, Senior Systems Engineer job roles required 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 job ads across the London region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (20.83%) Google
2 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (14.58%) Cyber Resilience
3 7 (14.58%) Data Protection
4 6 (12.50%) Degree
4 6 (12.50%) Storytelling
5 5 (10.42%) Azure
5 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.42%) Project Delivery
5 5 (10.42%) Systems Engineering
5 5 (10.42%) Technical Architecture
5 5 (10.42%) Wealth Management
6 4 (8.33%) AI
6 4 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 4 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (6.25%) Accessibility
7 3 (6.25%) Allen-Bradley
7 3 (6.25%) AVEVA
7 3 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (6.25%) Computer Science
7 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (6.25%) Data Acquisition
7 3 (6.25%) Incident Response
7 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (6.25%) Line Management
7 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (6.25%) React
7 3 (6.25%) Rockwell
7 3 (6.25%) Siemens

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.42%) Azure
2 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
2 2 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (4.17%) Cloudflare
2 2 (4.17%) Datadog
2 2 (4.17%) GitHub
2 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.08%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) FCoE
1 1 (2.08%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (2.08%) Firewall
1 1 (2.08%) iSCSI
1 1 (2.08%) LAN
1 1 (2.08%) Network Security
1 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.08%) TETRA
1 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Redis
1 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Arrow
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (2.08%) Metadata
2 1 (2.08%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) NUnit
General
1 8 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Law
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Games
5 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.08%) Billing
5 1 (2.08%) Electronics
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) React
2 2 (4.17%) .NET
2 2 (4.17%) .NET Core
2 2 (4.17%) .NET Framework
2 2 (4.17%) Entity Framework
2 2 (4.17%) MassTransit
2 2 (4.17%) MediatR
2 2 (4.17%) Next.js
2 2 (4.17%) REST
2 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) Ajax
3 1 (2.08%) FFmpeg
3 1 (2.08%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.08%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.33%) Driving Licence
3 3 (6.25%) 3D Graphics
3 3 (6.25%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.25%) SCADA
3 3 (6.25%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) CCTV
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Unix
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (14.58%) Cyber Resilience
2 7 (14.58%) Data Protection
3 6 (12.50%) Storytelling
4 5 (10.42%) Project Delivery
4 5 (10.42%) Systems Engineering
4 5 (10.42%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (10.42%) Wealth Management
5 4 (8.33%) AI
5 4 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 4 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (6.25%) Computer Science
6 3 (6.25%) Data Acquisition
6 3 (6.25%) Incident Response
6 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (6.25%) Line Management
6 3 (6.25%) Software Engineering
7 2 (4.17%) Application Security
7 2 (4.17%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.17%) Bash
2 2 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (2.08%) C++
3 1 (2.08%) Java
3 1 (2.08%) Python
3 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Docker
1 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Google
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) Allen-Bradley
3 3 (6.25%) AVEVA
3 3 (6.25%) Rockwell
3 3 (6.25%) Siemens
3 3 (6.25%) Wonderware
4 2 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco
5 1 (2.08%) Citrix
5 1 (2.08%) Commvault
5 1 (2.08%) Dell
5 1 (2.08%) Nasuni
5 1 (2.08%) VMware