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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 340 260
Rank change year-on-year +100 -80 +105
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 192 53 272
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.88% 0.43% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.48% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 80 41 189
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 -
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% -12.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,250 £95,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,793 £52,000
% change year-on-year +0.38% +5.37% +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 20,162 11,078 23,013
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 90.90% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,876 7,040 17,075
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £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 £98,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 26 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 26 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 +8 29 £35,000 -2.78%
Central London +5 21 £70,000 -7.22% 3
East London +17 18 £45,000 -22.08% 1
South London +24 12 £45,000 -30.77% 9
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 26 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 47 (24.48%) Azure
2 38 (19.79%) AI
2 38 (19.79%) Systems Engineering
3 36 (18.75%) Machine Learning
4 34 (17.71%) Python
5 30 (15.63%) AWS
6 29 (15.10%) Active Directory
6 29 (15.10%) Windows
7 27 (14.06%) Linux
8 26 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (13.02%) SQL
10 23 (11.98%) Degree
10 23 (11.98%) Entra ID
11 22 (11.46%) Data Science
11 22 (11.46%) GCP
11 22 (11.46%) Mentoring
11 22 (11.46%) Microsoft
11 22 (11.46%) PowerShell
12 21 (10.94%) Storytelling
13 20 (10.42%) Analytics
13 20 (10.42%) Broadband
13 20 (10.42%) Performance Tuning
13 20 (10.42%) PyTorch
14 19 (9.90%) Power BI
14 19 (9.90%) Power Platform
14 19 (9.90%) TensorFlow
15 18 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
15 18 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (9.38%) Generative AI
15 18 (9.38%) 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 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 16 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (24.48%) Azure
2 30 (15.63%) AWS
3 23 (11.98%) Entra ID
4 22 (11.46%) GCP
5 19 (9.90%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (8.33%) dbt
6 16 (8.33%) Snowflake
7 11 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.13%) SaaS
9 5 (2.60%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.56%) n8n
11 2 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.04%) IaaS
11 2 (1.04%) PaaS
11 2 (1.04%) Pulumi
11 2 (1.04%) Serverless
12 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.42%) Broadband
2 5 (2.60%) DHCP
2 5 (2.60%) DNS
2 5 (2.60%) VPN
2 5 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.56%) Firewall
3 3 (1.56%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.56%) Wireless
4 2 (1.04%) Bluetooth
4 2 (1.04%) LAN
4 2 (1.04%) Network Security
4 2 (1.04%) SAN
4 2 (1.04%) VoIP
5 1 (0.52%) 4G
5 1 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.52%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.52%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.90%) Power BI
2 16 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 16 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 16 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 16 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (8.33%) Looker
2 16 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
2 16 (8.33%) Tableau
3 3 (1.56%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.56%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.04%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.52%) Metadata
5 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (8.33%) MLflow
2 7 (3.65%) Git
3 3 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.56%) JIRA
4 2 (1.04%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (7.29%) Finance
2 14 (7.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.69%) Law
4 6 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (2.60%) Banking
5 5 (2.60%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.08%) Automotive
7 3 (1.56%) Electronics
7 3 (1.56%) Legal
7 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.04%) Aviation
8 2 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.04%) Games
8 2 (1.04%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Avionics
9 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.42%) PyTorch
2 19 (9.90%) TensorFlow
3 17 (8.85%) LangChain
4 16 (8.33%) Kafka
4 16 (8.33%) LlamaIndex
4 16 (8.33%) pgvector
4 16 (8.33%) scikit-learn
5 6 (3.13%) OpenID
5 6 (3.13%) SAML
6 5 (2.60%) GraphQL
6 5 (2.60%) gRPC
6 5 (2.60%) LDAP
6 5 (2.60%) OAuth
6 5 (2.60%) REST
6 5 (2.60%) SOAP
7 2 (1.04%) Akka
7 2 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.04%) React
8 1 (0.52%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.38%) Public Cloud
2 16 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.33%) Clustering
3 13 (6.77%) SCADA
4 11 (5.73%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.69%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.65%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (3.65%) Over-the-Top Content
6 7 (3.65%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.60%) CCTV
8 5 (2.60%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.08%) Robotics
10 3 (1.56%) 3D Graphics
10 3 (1.56%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (1.56%) Replication
10 3 (1.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.10%) Windows
2 27 (14.06%) Linux
3 10 (5.21%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.65%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.08%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.56%) Unix
7 2 (1.04%) CentOS
7 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (19.79%) AI
1 38 (19.79%) Systems Engineering
2 36 (18.75%) Machine Learning
3 26 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (11.46%) Data Science
4 22 (11.46%) Mentoring
5 21 (10.94%) Storytelling
6 20 (10.42%) Analytics
6 20 (10.42%) Performance Tuning
7 18 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (9.38%) Generative AI
7 18 (9.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 18 (9.38%) Semantic Search
8 16 (8.33%) Data Modelling
8 16 (8.33%) ETL
8 16 (8.33%) Feature Engineering
8 16 (8.33%) Predictive Modelling
8 16 (8.33%) Prompt Engineering
8 16 (8.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.71%) Python
2 25 (13.02%) SQL
3 22 (11.46%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.65%) Bash
4 7 (3.65%) Go
4 7 (3.65%) Scala
5 6 (3.13%) C++
6 5 (2.60%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.08%) C
7 4 (2.08%) Java
8 2 (1.04%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.52%) C#
9 1 (0.52%) Erlang
9 1 (0.52%) OCaml
9 1 (0.52%) Rust
9 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (11.98%) Degree
2 5 (2.60%) Master's Degree
2 5 (2.60%) PhD
3 4 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.56%) CCNA
4 3 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.56%) MCSE
4 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.56%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.52%) HNC
6 1 (0.52%) HND
6 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 16 (8.33%) GDPR
2 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.60%) NCSC
2 5 (2.60%) NIST
3 3 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.56%) DO-254
3 3 (1.56%) HAZOP
3 3 (1.56%) IEC 61508
3 3 (1.56%) ISO 26262
4 2 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (15.10%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.21%) Docker
4 6 (3.13%) BitLocker
4 6 (3.13%) vSphere
5 2 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.52%) Firmware
6 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.17%) Terraform
4 2 (1.04%) Ansible
4 2 (1.04%) Argo
4 2 (1.04%) Kustomize
4 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.33%) Cloudera
2 16 (8.33%) Databricks
2 16 (8.33%) Dell
2 16 (8.33%) VMware
3 13 (6.77%) Citrix
4 6 (3.13%) Siemens
4 6 (3.13%) Tenable
5 5 (2.60%) Allen-Bradley
5 5 (2.60%) AVEVA
5 5 (2.60%) NVIDIA
5 5 (2.60%) Rockwell
5 5 (2.60%) Typelevel
5 5 (2.60%) Wonderware
6 4 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.56%) EMC
7 3 (1.56%) Google
8 2 (1.04%) Cisco
8 2 (1.04%) Remedy
8 2 (1.04%) Veeam