Systems Engineer Jobs 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 to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 414 552
Rank change year-on-year +109 +138 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 211 235 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.66% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.69% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 161 138 203
10th Percentile £38,000 £40,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £55,000 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% -0.83%
75th Percentile £67,500 £110,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £165,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Systems Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Systems Engineer in London

Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +39 8 £52,500 -22.22% 5
West London -1 8 £51,250 -5.09% 3
South London +6 7 £62,500 +31.58% 5
North London +1 3 £51,750 - 1
Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 85 (40.28%) Windows
2 51 (24.17%) Linux
3 48 (22.75%) VMware
4 47 (22.27%) Active Directory
5 40 (18.96%) Firewall
6 39 (18.48%) Azure
7 38 (18.01%) Degree
8 35 (16.59%) Social Skills
9 34 (16.11%) Windows Server
10 33 (15.64%) Finance
11 32 (15.17%) Microsoft
11 32 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (14.69%) PowerShell
13 29 (13.74%) Task Automation
14 26 (12.32%) JIRA
15 25 (11.85%) Systems Engineering
15 25 (11.85%) Mentoring
16 24 (11.37%) Bash
16 24 (11.37%) VMware ESXi
17 23 (10.90%) Security Cleared
18 22 (10.43%) DNS
18 22 (10.43%) MySQL
19 21 (9.95%) Python
20 20 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
20 20 (9.48%) VMware Infrastructure
20 20 (9.48%) Mac OS
20 20 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
20 20 (9.48%) Palo Alto
20 20 (9.48%) CI/CD
21 19 (9.00%) Fintech

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 19 (9.00%) Confluence
2 18 (8.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (5.69%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.79%) IIS
5 3 (1.42%) Apache
6 2 (0.95%) nginx
6 2 (0.95%) WinCC
6 2 (0.95%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.42%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.42%) Revit
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (18.48%) Azure
2 17 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (7.58%) AWS
4 5 (2.37%) Entra ID
4 5 (2.37%) GitHub
5 4 (1.90%) IaaS
6 3 (1.42%) PaaS
7 2 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (0.95%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.95%) Google Docs
7 2 (0.95%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.47%) CloudBees
8 1 (0.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (18.96%) Firewall
2 22 (10.43%) DNS
3 17 (8.06%) PBX
4 13 (6.16%) DHCP
5 10 (4.74%) Network Security
5 10 (4.74%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.32%) Wireless
7 5 (2.37%) VLAN
7 5 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.42%) SAN
8 3 (1.42%) VPN
9 2 (0.95%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (0.95%) Internet
9 2 (0.95%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.95%) NAS
9 2 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.95%) RS-232
9 2 (0.95%) SMTP
9 2 (0.95%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.43%) MySQL
2 20 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.79%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.90%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.95%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.95%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.95%) Redis
6 1 (0.47%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 26 (12.32%) JIRA
2 17 (8.06%) Bitbucket
2 17 (8.06%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.37%) Git
4 2 (0.95%) git-flow
4 2 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.95%) Subversion
General
1 35 (16.59%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.64%) Finance
3 20 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.11%) Law
5 14 (6.64%) Legal
6 10 (4.74%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.79%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.32%) Military
8 7 (3.32%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.84%) Marketing
10 4 (1.90%) Advertising
10 4 (1.90%) Banking
11 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Electronics
13 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Japanese Language
13 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.90%) LAMP
2 3 (1.42%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (0.95%) .NET
3 2 (0.95%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (0.47%) CSS
4 1 (0.47%) Keras
4 1 (0.47%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.64%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.69%) Replication
3 9 (4.27%) SCADA
4 8 (3.79%) AS400
4 8 (3.79%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (2.84%) IoT
6 5 (2.37%) CCTV
6 5 (2.37%) PDA
7 4 (1.90%) Educational Technology
7 4 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.95%) CAN bus
9 2 (0.95%) Clustering
9 2 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.95%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 85 (40.28%) Windows
2 51 (24.17%) Linux
3 34 (16.11%) Windows Server
4 20 (9.48%) Mac OS
5 9 (4.27%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.90%) Unix
7 3 (1.42%) Android
7 3 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.95%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.95%) VMS
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.47%) Debian
9 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.47%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (13.74%) Task Automation
3 25 (11.85%) Mentoring
3 25 (11.85%) Systems Engineering
4 20 (9.48%) CI/CD
5 19 (9.00%) Fintech
6 16 (7.58%) Project Management
7 15 (7.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (6.64%) Computer Science
8 14 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (5.69%) High Availability
10 11 (5.21%) Service Management
11 10 (4.74%) ITIL
12 9 (4.27%) IT Strategy
12 9 (4.27%) ITSM
12 9 (4.27%) Low Latency
12 9 (4.27%) Mathematics
12 9 (4.27%) Software Engineering
13 8 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 7 (3.32%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.69%) PowerShell
2 24 (11.37%) Bash
3 21 (9.95%) Python
4 19 (9.00%) SQL
5 7 (3.32%) C#
6 6 (2.84%) RPG
7 3 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.42%) PHP
8 2 (0.95%) C++
8 2 (0.95%) Go
8 2 (0.95%) Java
8 2 (0.95%) Perl
8 2 (0.95%) Ruby
8 2 (0.95%) Scala
8 2 (0.95%) VB
9 1 (0.47%) COBOL
9 1 (0.47%) HLASM
9 1 (0.47%) Korn
9 1 (0.47%) Rust
9 1 (0.47%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 38 (18.01%) Degree
2 23 (10.90%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.00%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (8.53%) CCNA
5 7 (3.32%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.37%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.90%) HNC
8 4 (1.90%) HND
9 3 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.42%) RIBA
10 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.47%) CCNP
11 1 (0.47%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.47%) CISM
11 1 (0.47%) CISSP
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.47%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
1 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.47%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.47%) IEC 61508
2 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.47%) NCSC
2 1 (0.47%) NIST
2 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 47 (22.27%) Active Directory
2 24 (11.37%) VMware ESXi
3 20 (9.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.69%) Hyper-V
5 10 (4.74%) Firmware
6 6 (2.84%) Forefront TMG
6 6 (2.84%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (1.90%) vSphere
8 3 (1.42%) Docker
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.47%) NFS
10 1 (0.47%) vCloud
10 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (7.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (6.16%) SCOM
3 11 (5.21%) SCCM
4 10 (4.74%) Terraform
5 6 (2.84%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (2.84%) Kubernetes
5 6 (2.84%) WSUS
6 5 (2.37%) Ansible
7 3 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (1.42%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.95%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.95%) Grafana
8 2 (0.95%) Wonderware InTouch
9 1 (0.47%) Nagios
9 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.47%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.47%) Puppet
9 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.47%) systemd
Vendors
1 48 (22.75%) VMware
2 32 (15.17%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.48%) Palo Alto
4 18 (8.53%) Atlassian
5 17 (8.06%) NetApp
6 14 (6.64%) Cisco
7 9 (4.27%) Dell
7 9 (4.27%) Veeam
8 8 (3.79%) IBM
9 7 (3.32%) Apple
10 6 (2.84%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.37%) Remedy
12 4 (1.90%) New Relic
12 4 (1.90%) Oracle
13 3 (1.42%) Aderant
13 3 (1.42%) iManage
13 3 (1.42%) Intapp
13 3 (1.42%) PagerDuty
13 3 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 3 (1.42%) Zerto