Systems Engineer Job Trends in London

System Engineer
England > London

The median System Engineer salary in London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 December 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 275 267
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +247
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 100 162 183
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.73% 1.02% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 1.09% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 90 104 131
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,094 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +10.43% -17.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £51,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% -1.85% -2.86%

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 12,466 14,802 17,002
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 93.31% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,254 8,692 13,733
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 +35 27 £77,500 +34.78% 17
West London +6 8 £50,000 -25.93% 8
South London +26 7 £80,000 +31.15% 4
East London - 4 £40,000 - 3
North London +7 1 - - 2
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 December 2025, 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 24 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 19 (19.00%) Windows
3 19 (19.00%) Windows Server
4 17 (17.00%) Active Directory
4 17 (17.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (15.00%) Systems Engineering
7 13 (13.00%) DNS
7 13 (13.00%) Entra ID
7 13 (13.00%) Patch Management
7 13 (13.00%) TCP/IP
7 13 (13.00%) WAN
8 12 (12.00%) DHCP
8 12 (12.00%) LAN
8 12 (12.00%) Task Automation
9 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
10 10 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (10.00%) Batch Scripting
10 10 (10.00%) Bloomberg
10 10 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (10.00%) Reuters
10 10 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (10.00%) VMware
10 10 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (9.00%) Azure
11 9 (9.00%) Containerisation
11 9 (9.00%) VMware Infrastructure
12 8 (8.00%) Ansible

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 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.00%) IIS
3 1 (1.00%) CMS
3 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (13.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (9.00%) Azure
4 5 (5.00%) AWS
5 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.00%) Cohesity
6 3 (3.00%) GCP
6 3 (3.00%) GitHub
6 3 (3.00%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.00%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.00%) IaaS
8 1 (1.00%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.00%) DNS
1 13 (13.00%) TCP/IP
1 13 (13.00%) WAN
2 12 (12.00%) DHCP
2 12 (12.00%) LAN
3 3 (3.00%) Firewall
4 2 (2.00%) Broadband
4 2 (2.00%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.00%) Modbus
4 2 (2.00%) NAS
4 2 (2.00%) Network Security
4 2 (2.00%) Profibus
4 2 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (2.00%) SAN
4 2 (2.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.00%) VLAN
4 2 (2.00%) VSAN
4 2 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.00%) IP Telephony
5 1 (1.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.00%) Power BI
2 1 (1.00%) Power Query
2 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Git
2 3 (3.00%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.00%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 18 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.00%) Finance
3 10 (10.00%) Legal
4 7 (7.00%) Military
5 5 (5.00%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.00%) Aviation
7 2 (2.00%) Automotive
7 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.00%) Advertising
8 1 (1.00%) Electronics
8 1 (1.00%) Games
8 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.00%) YAML
2 2 (2.00%) LDAP
3 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.00%) OAuth
3 1 (1.00%) OpenID
3 1 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.00%) React
3 1 (1.00%) REST
3 1 (1.00%) SAML
3 1 (1.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) CCTV
2 10 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (10.00%) Hedge funds
3 8 (8.00%) SCADA
4 5 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.00%) Replication
7 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.00%) Clustering
7 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.00%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.00%) Self-Driving Car
7 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.00%) Windows
1 19 (19.00%) Windows Server
2 10 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 8 (8.00%) Linux
4 5 (5.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.00%) Unix
5 2 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (15.00%) Systems Engineering
3 13 (13.00%) Patch Management
4 12 (12.00%) Task Automation
5 10 (10.00%) Batch Scripting
5 10 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 9 (9.00%) Containerisation
7 8 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (7.00%) DevOps
9 6 (6.00%) AI
9 6 (6.00%) High Availability
10 5 (5.00%) Knowledge Transfer
10 5 (5.00%) Machine Learning
10 5 (5.00%) MLOps
10 5 (5.00%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (4.00%) Time Management
12 3 (3.00%) Agile
12 3 (3.00%) Business Continuity
12 3 (3.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.00%) Python
3 4 (4.00%) SQL
4 3 (3.00%) Bash
4 3 (3.00%) C#
5 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.00%) Bourne shell
6 1 (1.00%) C-shell
6 1 (1.00%) Go
6 1 (1.00%) Java
6 1 (1.00%) Perl
6 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (5.00%) Degree
2 4 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.00%) CCNP
3 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.00%) HNC
3 2 (2.00%) HND
3 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.00%) City & Guilds
4 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.00%) NCSC
1 1 (1.00%) NIST
1 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (17.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.00%) Docker
3 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.00%) vSphere
5 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 10 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (8.00%) Ansible
4 4 (4.00%) Terraform
5 1 (1.00%) Argo
5 1 (1.00%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 10 (10.00%) Reuters
2 10 (10.00%) VMware
3 5 (5.00%) NVIDIA
4 3 (3.00%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.00%) Cisco
5 2 (2.00%) Google
5 2 (2.00%) Siemens
6 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.00%) EMC
6 1 (1.00%) HP
6 1 (1.00%) IBM
6 1 (1.00%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.00%) Qualys
6 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.00%) Splunk
6 1 (1.00%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (1.00%) VocaLink