Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in London

Senior System Engineer
England > London

The median Senior System Engineer salary in London is £64,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 587 784
Rank change year-on-year +140 +197 -203
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 54 40 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 44 28 64
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,600 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £73,125 £85,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £87,125
England median annual salary £57,495 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.18% -11.11% +8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,259 33,394 64,825
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.02% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,752 24,563 34,933
10th Percentile £38,138 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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
South London -1 3 £51,000 - 2
Central London +39 2 £61,250 -38.75% 2
North London - 2 £63,500 - 2
West London -7 1 £60,000 -
Senior Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 28 (51.85%) Windows
2 23 (42.59%) Azure
3 21 (38.89%) Windows Server
4 19 (35.19%) VMware
5 14 (25.93%) Cisco
6 13 (24.07%) Active Directory
6 13 (24.07%) Linux
7 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.37%) DNS
8 11 (20.37%) AWS
9 10 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
9 10 (18.52%) PowerShell
9 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
9 10 (18.52%) Python
9 10 (18.52%) SQL
9 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
10 9 (16.67%) IT Strategy
10 9 (16.67%) DHCP
10 9 (16.67%) NetApp
10 9 (16.67%) Law
10 9 (16.67%) Firewall
11 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
11 8 (14.81%) Hyper-V
12 7 (12.96%) Bash
12 7 (12.96%) Degree
12 7 (12.96%) TCP/IP
12 7 (12.96%) Mentoring
13 6 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
13 6 (11.11%) Finance
13 6 (11.11%) Marketing

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 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.56%) IIS
2 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.85%) Apache
3 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) AutoCAD
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (5.56%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (1.85%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 23 (42.59%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) AWS
3 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.37%) DNS
2 9 (16.67%) DHCP
2 9 (16.67%) Firewall
3 7 (12.96%) TCP/IP
4 5 (9.26%) VLAN
4 5 (9.26%) Wireless
5 4 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (3.70%) RS-232
6 2 (3.70%) RS-485
7 1 (1.85%) PBX
7 1 (1.85%) SAN
7 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.85%) tcpdump
7 1 (1.85%) WAN
7 1 (1.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.85%) Git
1 1 (1.85%) JIRA
1 1 (1.85%) Rational DOORS
General
1 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Law
3 6 (11.11%) Finance
3 6 (11.11%) Marketing
4 4 (7.41%) Aerospace
4 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Electronics
6 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.85%) Military
6 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) CSS
1 1 (1.85%) Keras
1 1 (1.85%) Keycloak
1 1 (1.85%) Middleware
1 1 (1.85%) PyTorch
1 1 (1.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Educational Technology
2 2 (3.70%) CAN bus
3 1 (1.85%) CUDA
3 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 28 (51.85%) Windows
2 21 (38.89%) Windows Server
3 13 (24.07%) Linux
4 2 (3.70%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.85%) CentOS
5 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 7 (12.96%) Mentoring
4 6 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
5 5 (9.26%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (7.41%) Data Governance
6 4 (7.41%) DevOps
6 4 (7.41%) Digital Forensics
6 4 (7.41%) Migration
6 4 (7.41%) Server Management
6 4 (7.41%) SIEM
7 3 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (5.56%) Project Planning
7 3 (5.56%) Requirements Management
7 3 (5.56%) Security Management
8 2 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (3.70%) High Availability
8 2 (3.70%) Machine Learning
8 2 (3.70%) Task Automation
8 2 (3.70%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.52%) PowerShell
1 10 (18.52%) Python
1 10 (18.52%) SQL
2 7 (12.96%) Bash
3 1 (1.85%) Go
3 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.85%) Korn
3 1 (1.85%) Perl
3 1 (1.85%) PHP
3 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.85%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.96%) Degree
3 4 (7.41%) DBS Check
4 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) RIBA
5 2 (3.70%) CCNA
5 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) CCNP
6 1 (1.85%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.85%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.85%) RHCE
System Software
1 13 (24.07%) Active Directory
2 10 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (14.81%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.56%) Forefront TMG
4 3 (5.56%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.85%) Docker
5 1 (1.85%) KVM
5 1 (1.85%) NFS
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.41%) Grafana
3 4 (7.41%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
3 4 (7.41%) SCCM
4 3 (5.56%) SCOM
4 3 (5.56%) WSUS
5 2 (3.70%) Ansible
5 2 (3.70%) Puppet
6 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.85%) systemd
6 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (35.19%) VMware
2 14 (25.93%) Cisco
3 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
4 9 (16.67%) NetApp
5 4 (7.41%) Apple
6 2 (3.70%) Citrix
6 2 (3.70%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.70%) SAP
7 1 (1.85%) Juniper
7 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.85%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.85%) Splunk
7 1 (1.85%) Zscaler