Systems Engineer Job Trends in London

System Engineer
England > London

The median System Engineer salary in London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 319 262
Rank change year-on-year +86 -57 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 237 68 213
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.94% 0.57% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.62% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 120 56 135
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £79,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,714
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.52% +9.43%

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 23,446 10,900 18,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 91.21% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 16,105 7,112 11,567
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,313 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 September 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 September 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 - 35 £35,000 - 6
Central London +5 18 £65,000 -16.13% 22
South London +11 17 £60,000 -25.00% 8
East London +7 17 - - 5
North London - 3 £45,000 -
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 45 (18.99%) Azure
2 34 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.35%) Systems Engineering
3 33 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (13.92%) Windows
4 31 (13.08%) Degree
5 30 (12.66%) Linux
6 26 (10.97%) AI
6 26 (10.97%) Python
7 25 (10.55%) PowerShell
8 23 (9.70%) Active Directory
9 19 (8.02%) AWS
9 19 (8.02%) Entra ID
10 16 (6.75%) SQL
10 16 (6.75%) VMware
11 15 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (6.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (6.33%) Presales
11 15 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
12 14 (5.91%) Kubernetes
12 14 (5.91%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (5.91%) Power BI
12 14 (5.91%) Power Platform
13 13 (5.49%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (5.49%) Citrix
13 13 (5.49%) Machine Learning
13 13 (5.49%) Storytelling
14 12 (5.06%) Collaborative Culture
15 11 (4.64%) Project Delivery
15 11 (4.64%) PyTorch

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 7 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (2.95%) Apache Spark
1 7 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.42%) PowerFactory
2 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 45 (18.99%) Azure
2 19 (8.02%) AWS
2 19 (8.02%) Entra ID
3 15 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (5.91%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.38%) GCP
5 8 (3.38%) SaaS
6 7 (2.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (2.95%) dbt
6 7 (2.95%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.69%) IaaS
8 4 (1.69%) PaaS
9 3 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.27%) GitHub
9 3 (1.27%) n8n
10 2 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.84%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.80%) Firewall
2 6 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.11%) DNS
3 5 (2.11%) VPN
4 4 (1.69%) DHCP
4 4 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.69%) Network Security
5 3 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.84%) Broadband
6 2 (0.84%) DWDM
6 2 (0.84%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.84%) LAN
6 2 (0.84%) SAN
6 2 (0.84%) VoIP
7 1 (0.42%) FCoE
7 1 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.42%) TETRA
7 1 (0.42%) WAN
7 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.91%) Power BI
2 10 (4.22%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (2.95%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.95%) Data Lake
3 7 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.95%) Looker
3 7 (2.95%) Milvus
3 7 (2.95%) Snowflake Schema
3 7 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (2.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (2.95%) Tableau
4 5 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (1.27%) Redis
7 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.42%) Parquet
8 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (2.95%) MLflow
2 5 (2.11%) Git
3 3 (1.27%) JIRA
4 2 (0.84%) NUnit
5 1 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
General
1 26 (10.97%) Social Skills
2 15 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.06%) Law
3 12 (5.06%) Legal
4 11 (4.64%) Finance
5 6 (2.53%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.69%) Banking
7 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.27%) Billing
8 3 (1.27%) Front Office
9 2 (0.84%) Aviation
9 2 (0.84%) Games
9 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Automotive
10 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.64%) PyTorch
2 10 (4.22%) TensorFlow
3 9 (3.80%) Terraform
4 7 (2.95%) Kafka
4 7 (2.95%) LangChain
4 7 (2.95%) LlamaIndex
4 7 (2.95%) pgvector
4 7 (2.95%) scikit-learn
5 4 (1.69%) .NET
6 3 (1.27%) React
7 2 (0.84%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.84%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.84%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.84%) MassTransit
7 2 (0.84%) MediatR
7 2 (0.84%) Next.js
7 2 (0.84%) OpenID
7 2 (0.84%) REST
7 2 (0.84%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.55%) CCTV
2 19 (8.02%) Data Centre
3 12 (5.06%) SCADA
4 10 (4.22%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.38%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.95%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.95%) Clustering
6 7 (2.95%) Replication
7 6 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.69%) IoT
9 4 (1.69%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.27%) 3D Graphics
10 3 (1.27%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.27%) Smart Meter
10 3 (1.27%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.92%) Windows
2 30 (12.66%) Linux
3 11 (4.64%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.84%) CentOS
5 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (14.35%) Systems Engineering
2 33 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (10.97%) AI
4 15 (6.33%) Presales
5 14 (5.91%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (5.49%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (5.49%) Machine Learning
6 13 (5.49%) Storytelling
7 12 (5.06%) Collaborative Culture
8 11 (4.64%) Project Delivery
9 10 (4.22%) DevOps
10 9 (3.80%) Computer Science
10 9 (3.80%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (3.80%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (3.80%) Software Engineering
11 8 (3.38%) Data Science
11 8 (3.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (3.38%) Mentoring
11 8 (3.38%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (2.95%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.97%) Python
2 25 (10.55%) PowerShell
3 16 (6.75%) SQL
4 8 (3.38%) Bash
5 7 (2.95%) C
6 4 (1.69%) C#
6 4 (1.69%) C++
7 3 (1.27%) Perl
8 2 (0.84%) Java
8 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.42%) Go
9 1 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.42%) Scala
9 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (13.08%) Degree
2 7 (2.95%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.27%) CCNA
5 3 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.27%) MCSE
5 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.84%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.84%) PhD
7 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 7 (2.95%) GDPR
2 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.27%) QA
4 2 (0.84%) SLA
5 1 (0.42%) DO-254
5 1 (0.42%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.42%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 23 (9.70%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.38%) Docker
4 5 (2.11%) BitLocker
4 5 (2.11%) vSphere
5 3 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (6.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (5.91%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.75%) VMware
3 13 (5.49%) Citrix
4 9 (3.80%) Databricks
5 8 (3.38%) Dell
6 7 (2.95%) Cloudera
7 5 (2.11%) Allen-Bradley
7 5 (2.11%) AVEVA
7 5 (2.11%) Google
7 5 (2.11%) Rockwell
7 5 (2.11%) Siemens
7 5 (2.11%) Tenable
7 5 (2.11%) Wonderware
8 4 (1.69%) Cisco
8 4 (1.69%) iManage
8 4 (1.69%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.27%) Intapp
10 2 (0.84%) Arista
10 2 (0.84%) Ciena
10 2 (0.84%) Progress