Systems Engineer Job Trends in London

System Engineer
England > London

The median System Engineer salary in London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 279 277
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +250
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 102 164 162
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.76% 1.02% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.09% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 93 105 116
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +3.31% -12.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +0.96%

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 12,250 15,090 16,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 93.55% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,133 8,950 13,672
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,000 £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% - -

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 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 19 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 +41 28 £77,500 +34.78% 7
South London +31 8 £80,000 +31.15% 2
West London +7 8 £50,000 -25.93% 14
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 19 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 25 (24.51%) Microsoft
2 20 (19.61%) PowerShell
2 20 (19.61%) Windows
3 19 (18.63%) Windows Server
4 17 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (15.69%) Active Directory
5 16 (15.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (15.69%) Systems Engineering
6 15 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (12.75%) DNS
7 13 (12.75%) Patch Management
7 13 (12.75%) TCP/IP
7 13 (12.75%) WAN
8 12 (11.76%) DHCP
8 12 (11.76%) Entra ID
8 12 (11.76%) LAN
9 11 (10.78%) Task Automation
9 11 (10.78%) VMware
10 10 (9.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (9.80%) Batch Scripting
10 10 (9.80%) Bloomberg
10 10 (9.80%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (9.80%) Kubernetes
10 10 (9.80%) Reuters
10 10 (9.80%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (9.80%) VMware Infrastructure
10 10 (9.80%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (8.82%) Azure
12 8 (7.84%) Ansible
12 8 (7.84%) Containerisation

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 (15.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.94%) IIS
3 1 (0.98%) CMS
3 1 (0.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 9 (8.82%) Azure
4 4 (3.92%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.92%) AWS
5 3 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.94%) Cohesity
5 3 (2.94%) GCP
5 3 (2.94%) GitHub
5 3 (2.94%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.98%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.98%) IaaS
6 1 (0.98%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.75%) DNS
1 13 (12.75%) TCP/IP
1 13 (12.75%) WAN
2 12 (11.76%) DHCP
2 12 (11.76%) LAN
3 4 (3.92%) Firewall
4 3 (2.94%) Network Security
5 2 (1.96%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.96%) Modbus
5 2 (1.96%) NAS
5 2 (1.96%) Profibus
5 2 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.96%) SAN
5 2 (1.96%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.96%) VLAN
5 2 (1.96%) VPN
5 2 (1.96%) VSAN
5 2 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.98%) MPLS
6 1 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
1 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (0.98%) Power BI
2 1 (0.98%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Git
2 3 (2.94%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.98%) JIRA
General
1 17 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.71%) Finance
3 10 (9.80%) Legal
4 8 (7.84%) Military
5 6 (5.88%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.94%) Aviation
7 2 (1.96%) Automotive
7 2 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.98%) Advertising
8 1 (0.98%) Electronics
8 1 (0.98%) Games
8 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.94%) YAML
2 1 (0.98%) LDAP
2 1 (0.98%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.73%) CCTV
2 10 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (9.80%) Hedge funds
3 9 (8.82%) SCADA
4 5 (4.90%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.96%) Replication
7 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.98%) Clustering
7 1 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.98%) Home Automation
7 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.98%) Self-Driving Car
7 1 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.98%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.61%) Windows
2 19 (18.63%) Windows Server
3 10 (9.80%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (7.84%) Linux
5 5 (4.90%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.98%) Solaris
7 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (15.69%) Systems Engineering
3 13 (12.75%) Patch Management
4 11 (10.78%) Task Automation
5 10 (9.80%) Batch Scripting
5 10 (9.80%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (7.84%) Containerisation
6 8 (7.84%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (5.88%) AI
7 6 (5.88%) DevOps
8 5 (4.90%) High Availability
8 5 (4.90%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (4.90%) Machine Learning
8 5 (4.90%) MLOps
8 5 (4.90%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (4.90%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (2.94%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (2.94%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 3 (2.94%) Systems Thinking
9 3 (2.94%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.61%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.90%) Python
3 3 (2.94%) C#
3 3 (2.94%) SQL
4 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.98%) Bash
5 1 (0.98%) Bourne shell
5 1 (0.98%) C-shell
5 1 (0.98%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.98%) Perl
5 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (4.90%) Degree
1 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.96%) CCNP
3 2 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.96%) HNC
3 2 (1.96%) HND
3 2 (1.96%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.98%) City & Guilds
4 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (15.69%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.94%) vSphere
4 2 (1.96%) Docker
5 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (9.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 10 (9.80%) Kubernetes
1 10 (9.80%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (7.84%) Ansible
3 3 (2.94%) Terraform
4 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.98%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.98%) SCCM
5 1 (0.98%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (24.51%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.78%) VMware
3 10 (9.80%) Bloomberg
3 10 (9.80%) Reuters
4 5 (4.90%) NVIDIA
5 3 (2.94%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.96%) Cisco
6 2 (1.96%) Siemens
7 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.98%) EMC
7 1 (0.98%) Google
7 1 (0.98%) HP
7 1 (0.98%) IBM
7 1 (0.98%) Pure Storage
7 1 (0.98%) Qualys
7 1 (0.98%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.98%) Splunk
7 1 (0.98%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (0.98%) VocaLink