Systems Engineer Job Trends in London

System Engineer
England > London

The median System Engineer salary in London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 259 309
Rank change year-on-year -65 +50 +292
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 70 210 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.58% 1.10% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.15% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 58 137 133
10th Percentile £40,000 - £36,350
25th Percentile £49,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -1.64% -9.63%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £75,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £78,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,754 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.45% +4.29% +5.00%

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 10,921 18,287 21,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 95.44% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,134 11,721 17,831
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,982
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £119,050 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer 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 13 September 2025.

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 13 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
Central London +34 21 £77,500 +72.22% 13
South London +18 7 £80,000 +62.44% 2
East London - 3 £57,750 - 7
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 2025, 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (44.29%) Microsoft
2 25 (35.71%) Windows
3 22 (31.43%) PowerShell
3 22 (31.43%) Systems Engineering
3 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
4 19 (27.14%) Finance
5 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (24.29%) Windows Server
6 16 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (22.86%) Active Directory
7 15 (21.43%) TCP/IP
8 13 (18.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (18.57%) Task Automation
8 13 (18.57%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (17.14%) Azure
9 12 (17.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (17.14%) Hedge funds
9 12 (17.14%) Entra ID
9 12 (17.14%) Patch Management
9 12 (17.14%) DNS
9 12 (17.14%) LAN
9 12 (17.14%) WAN
9 12 (17.14%) Linux
10 11 (15.71%) DHCP
10 11 (15.71%) Legal
10 11 (15.71%) VMware
10 11 (15.71%) AWS
10 11 (15.71%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (15.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (15.71%) Batch Scripting

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 13 (18.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.29%) IIS
3 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.43%) CMS
4 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.86%) Simulink
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.43%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.86%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (17.14%) Azure
2 12 (17.14%) Entra ID
3 11 (15.71%) AWS
4 3 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.29%) GCP
4 3 (4.29%) GitHub
5 2 (2.86%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.43%) Cohesity
6 1 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.43%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.43%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.43%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 12 (17.14%) DNS
2 12 (17.14%) LAN
2 12 (17.14%) WAN
3 11 (15.71%) DHCP
4 5 (7.14%) Ethernet
4 5 (7.14%) Modbus
4 5 (7.14%) Profibus
5 3 (4.29%) Firewall
6 2 (2.86%) Network Security
6 2 (2.86%) VPN
7 1 (1.43%) Broadband
7 1 (1.43%) IP Telephony
7 1 (1.43%) SSH
7 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.43%) Power BI
3 1 (1.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
General
1 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.14%) Finance
3 11 (15.71%) Legal
4 6 (8.57%) Aerospace
5 4 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.71%) Military
5 4 (5.71%) Retail
6 3 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Electronics
7 2 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Advertising
8 1 (1.43%) Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) YAML
2 1 (1.43%) Django
2 1 (1.43%) LDAP
2 1 (1.43%) React
2 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) Hedge funds
2 10 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.14%) CCTV
3 5 (7.14%) SCADA
4 2 (2.86%) Clustering
4 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Home Automation
5 1 (1.43%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.43%) Media Streaming
5 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (35.71%) Windows
2 17 (24.29%) Windows Server
3 12 (17.14%) Linux
3 12 (17.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.43%) Solaris
4 1 (1.43%) Unix
4 1 (1.43%) VMS
4 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.43%) Systems Engineering
2 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (18.57%) Collaborative Working
3 13 (18.57%) Task Automation
4 12 (17.14%) Patch Management
5 11 (15.71%) Batch Scripting
6 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.43%) Mentoring
8 7 (10.00%) Agile
8 7 (10.00%) Project Delivery
9 6 (8.57%) Customer Service
9 6 (8.57%) DevOps
9 6 (8.57%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 5 (7.14%) Change Control
10 5 (7.14%) High Availability
10 5 (7.14%) Validation
11 4 (5.71%) Migration
11 4 (5.71%) Process Improvement
11 4 (5.71%) Project Management
11 4 (5.71%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.43%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.57%) Python
3 3 (4.29%) C#
3 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
3 3 (4.29%) SQL
4 2 (2.86%) Bash
4 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.86%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.43%) Bourne shell
5 1 (1.43%) C-shell
5 1 (1.43%) Perl
5 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.86%) Degree
3 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) City & Guilds
4 3 (4.29%) DBS Check
4 3 (4.29%) HNC
4 3 (4.29%) HND
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) MCSA
5 2 (2.86%) MCSE
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.43%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.71%) SLA
3 2 (2.86%) IEC 61131
4 1 (1.43%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.86%) vSphere
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (15.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 11 (15.71%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.86%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.86%) SCCM
4 2 (2.86%) Terraform
5 1 (1.43%) Functional Safety
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (1.43%) Puppet
5 1 (1.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (44.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.71%) VMware
3 10 (14.29%) Bloomberg
3 10 (14.29%) Reuters
4 3 (4.29%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.29%) Siemens
4 3 (4.29%) Sparx
5 2 (2.86%) Dell
6 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.43%) EMC
6 1 (1.43%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) HP
6 1 (1.43%) IBM
6 1 (1.43%) Isilon
6 1 (1.43%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.43%) Qualys
6 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.43%) SkyKick
6 1 (1.43%) Ubiquiti