Systems Engineer Job Trends in London

System Engineer
England > London

The median System Engineer salary in London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 340 257
Rank change year-on-year +94 -83 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 188 52 288
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.87% 0.43% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.47% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 77 40 202
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,625 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,500 £92,300 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.56% +5.20% -1.96%

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 19,957 11,064 23,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 90.82% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,732 7,003 17,363
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,517 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.87%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Systems Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in London

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in London over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineer in London

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 Systems Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
West London +7 27 £35,000 -2.78% 6
Central London +9 20 £70,000 -1.27% 3
East London +10 18 £45,000 -22.08% 1
South London +26 11 - - 8
North London - 6 £45,000 - 2
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 2026, 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (25.53%) Azure
2 38 (20.21%) AI
3 37 (19.68%) Systems Engineering
4 36 (19.15%) Machine Learning
5 35 (18.62%) Python
6 31 (16.49%) AWS
7 30 (15.96%) Active Directory
8 29 (15.43%) Windows
9 28 (14.89%) Linux
10 26 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (13.83%) SQL
11 24 (12.77%) Entra ID
11 24 (12.77%) Mentoring
12 23 (12.23%) Degree
12 23 (12.23%) PowerShell
13 22 (11.70%) Broadband
13 22 (11.70%) Data Science
13 22 (11.70%) GCP
13 22 (11.70%) Microsoft
14 20 (10.64%) Analytics
14 20 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
14 20 (10.64%) PyTorch
15 19 (10.11%) Power BI
15 19 (10.11%) Power Platform
15 19 (10.11%) Storytelling
15 19 (10.11%) TensorFlow
16 18 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
16 18 (9.57%) Data Pipeline
16 18 (9.57%) Generative AI
16 18 (9.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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 16 (8.51%) Apache Airflow
1 16 (8.51%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 48 (25.53%) Azure
2 31 (16.49%) AWS
3 24 (12.77%) Entra ID
4 22 (11.70%) GCP
5 19 (10.11%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (8.51%) dbt
6 16 (8.51%) Snowflake
7 11 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.19%) Google Workspace
8 6 (3.19%) SaaS
9 3 (1.60%) n8n
9 3 (1.60%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.06%) IaaS
10 2 (1.06%) PaaS
10 2 (1.06%) Serverless
11 1 (0.53%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.70%) Broadband
2 5 (2.66%) DHCP
2 5 (2.66%) DNS
2 5 (2.66%) VPN
2 5 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.60%) Firewall
3 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.60%) Wireless
4 2 (1.06%) Bluetooth
4 2 (1.06%) LAN
4 2 (1.06%) Network Security
4 2 (1.06%) SAN
4 2 (1.06%) VoIP
5 1 (0.53%) 4G
5 1 (0.53%) BGP
5 1 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.53%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.53%) MPLS
5 1 (0.53%) VLAN
5 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.11%) Power BI
2 16 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
2 16 (8.51%) BigQuery
2 16 (8.51%) Data Lake
2 16 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (8.51%) Looker
2 16 (8.51%) Snowflake Schema
2 16 (8.51%) Tableau
3 4 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.60%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (8.51%) MLflow
2 7 (3.72%) Git
3 3 (1.60%) Jaeger
3 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.60%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (7.45%) Finance
2 14 (7.45%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.26%) Law
4 7 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (2.66%) Banking
5 5 (2.66%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.13%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.13%) Automotive
7 3 (1.60%) Electronics
7 3 (1.60%) Legal
7 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.06%) Aviation
8 2 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.06%) Retail
9 1 (0.53%) Avionics
9 1 (0.53%) Games
9 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.64%) PyTorch
2 19 (10.11%) TensorFlow
3 17 (9.04%) LangChain
4 16 (8.51%) Kafka
4 16 (8.51%) LlamaIndex
4 16 (8.51%) pgvector
4 16 (8.51%) scikit-learn
5 7 (3.72%) OpenID
5 7 (3.72%) SAML
6 6 (3.19%) GraphQL
6 6 (3.19%) LDAP
6 6 (3.19%) OAuth
6 6 (3.19%) REST
6 6 (3.19%) SOAP
7 5 (2.66%) gRPC
8 3 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (1.06%) Akka
9 2 (1.06%) React
10 1 (0.53%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.57%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.51%) Clustering
3 13 (6.91%) SCADA
4 11 (5.85%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.79%) Driving Licence
6 8 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (3.72%) Over-the-Top Content
7 7 (3.72%) Video\Live Streaming
8 6 (3.19%) Cyberattack
8 6 (3.19%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (2.66%) CCTV
10 4 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.13%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.13%) Robotics
10 4 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.60%) Replication
11 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
12 2 (1.06%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.43%) Windows
2 28 (14.89%) Linux
3 10 (5.32%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.72%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.13%) Mac OS
5 4 (2.13%) Unix
6 2 (1.06%) CentOS
6 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (20.21%) AI
2 37 (19.68%) Systems Engineering
3 36 (19.15%) Machine Learning
4 26 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (12.77%) Mentoring
6 22 (11.70%) Data Science
7 20 (10.64%) Analytics
7 20 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
8 19 (10.11%) Storytelling
9 18 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (9.57%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (9.57%) Generative AI
9 18 (9.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 18 (9.57%) Semantic Search
10 16 (8.51%) Data Governance
10 16 (8.51%) Data Management
10 16 (8.51%) Data Modelling
10 16 (8.51%) ETL
10 16 (8.51%) Knowledge Management
10 16 (8.51%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 35 (18.62%) Python
2 26 (13.83%) SQL
3 23 (12.23%) PowerShell
4 9 (4.79%) Bash
5 8 (4.26%) Go
6 7 (3.72%) Scala
7 6 (3.19%) C++
7 6 (3.19%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.66%) Java
9 4 (2.13%) C
10 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.53%) C#
12 1 (0.53%) Erlang
12 1 (0.53%) OCaml
12 1 (0.53%) Rust
12 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (12.23%) Degree
2 5 (2.66%) Master's Degree
2 5 (2.66%) PhD
3 4 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.60%) CCNA
4 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.60%) MCSE
4 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.60%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.53%) HNC
6 1 (0.53%) HND
6 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 16 (8.51%) GDPR
2 6 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.19%) NCSC
2 6 (3.19%) NIST
3 3 (1.60%) DO-254
3 3 (1.60%) HAZOP
3 3 (1.60%) IEC 61508
3 3 (1.60%) ISO 26262
4 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (15.96%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.85%) Docker
4 6 (3.19%) BitLocker
4 6 (3.19%) vSphere
5 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.53%) Firmware
6 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (4.79%) Terraform
4 3 (1.60%) Ansible
4 3 (1.60%) Argo
4 3 (1.60%) Kustomize
4 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.51%) Cloudera
2 16 (8.51%) Databricks
2 16 (8.51%) Dell
2 16 (8.51%) VMware
3 13 (6.91%) Citrix
4 6 (3.19%) Siemens
4 6 (3.19%) Tenable
5 5 (2.66%) Allen-Bradley
5 5 (2.66%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.66%) NVIDIA
5 5 (2.66%) Rockwell
5 5 (2.66%) Typelevel
5 5 (2.66%) Wonderware
6 4 (2.13%) Google
6 4 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.60%) EMC
8 2 (1.06%) Cisco
8 2 (1.06%) Remedy
8 2 (1.06%) Veeam