Systems Engineering Jobs in London

Systems Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Systems Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Systems Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 383 481
Rank change year-on-year +46 +98 +153
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 55 129 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.44% 0.54% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.60% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 32 77 49
10th Percentile £47,425 £42,500 £53,000
25th Percentile £56,063 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -25.00% +35.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £118,625 £127,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £52,600 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.52% -17.86% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Systems Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,045 21,522 31,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.48% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,842 15,847 22,804
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Systems Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineering in London

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Systems Engineering in London

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in London

Systems Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 28 May 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 +19 5 £78,750 -7.35% 7
South London -15 5 £65,000 -7.14% 5
West London +25 3 £36,000 -28.00% 19
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
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 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.45%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Simulink
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.55%) AWS
1 8 (14.55%) Azure
2 7 (12.73%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (12.73%) Pulumi
3 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (9.09%) GitHub
3 5 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.64%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.82%) GCP
6 1 (1.82%) Google App Engine
6 1 (1.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) WAN
2 4 (7.27%) 4G
2 4 (7.27%) 5G
2 4 (7.27%) DHCP
2 4 (7.27%) DNS
2 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.27%) Unified Communications
2 4 (7.27%) Wireless
3 3 (5.45%) LAN
3 3 (5.45%) Network Security
4 2 (3.64%) Ethernet
4 2 (3.64%) Modbus
4 2 (3.64%) Profibus
5 1 (1.82%) Multicast
5 1 (1.82%) SSH
5 1 (1.82%) Unicast
5 1 (1.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.64%) Metadata
2 1 (1.82%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 28 (50.91%) Social Skills
2 18 (32.73%) Finance
3 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.27%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.45%) Legal
7 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Law
7 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.82%) Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (27.27%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (14.55%) Architect
3 7 (12.73%) Junior
3 7 (12.73%) Junior Linux Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Lead
3 7 (12.73%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Data Architect
6 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Network Systems Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Security Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Control Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Team Leader
7 3 (5.45%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.45%) RESTful
2 1 (1.82%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.27%) IoT
2 4 (7.27%) NHS
2 4 (7.27%) Operational Technology
2 4 (7.27%) SCADA
3 3 (5.45%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.64%) Linux
2 8 (14.55%) Windows
3 7 (12.73%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Agile
2 15 (27.27%) Mentoring
2 15 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (25.45%) CI/CD
3 14 (25.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (23.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 11 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 11 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 11 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
6 10 (18.18%) ArchiMate
6 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (18.18%) TOGAF
7 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (14.55%) Analytics
8 8 (14.55%) Architecture Roadmap
8 8 (14.55%) Data Architecture
8 8 (14.55%) Fintech
9 7 (12.73%) Business Strategy
9 7 (12.73%) Containerisation
9 7 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) Python
2 8 (14.55%) Ruby
3 7 (12.73%) Bicep
3 7 (12.73%) Go
4 5 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.27%) C#
5 4 (7.27%) SQL
6 3 (5.45%) C++
6 3 (5.45%) VB
7 2 (3.64%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.82%) Bash
8 1 (1.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Degree
2 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.82%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (7.27%) PCI DSS
1 4 (7.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.64%) IEC 61131
3 1 (1.82%) GRC
3 1 (1.82%) ITGC
System Software
1 12 (21.82%) Docker
2 4 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (7.27%) vSphere
3 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (25.45%) Terraform
2 13 (23.64%) Kubernetes
3 12 (21.82%) Ansible
3 12 (21.82%) Progress Chef
4 7 (12.73%) Podman
4 7 (12.73%) Puppet
5 5 (9.09%) Grafana
5 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (5.45%) Functional Safety
6 3 (5.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.73%) VMware
3 6 (10.91%) Avaloq
4 4 (7.27%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (5.45%) Oracle
5 3 (5.45%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.45%) Siemens
6 1 (1.82%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.82%) Cisco
6 1 (1.82%) Dell
6 1 (1.82%) Facebook
6 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.82%) Google
6 1 (1.82%) Meraki
6 1 (1.82%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.82%) Reuters
6 1 (1.82%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) Sparx
6 1 (1.82%) YouTube