Systems Engineering Job Trends in Manchester

Systems Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 147 149
Rank change year-on-year +21 +2 +85
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 6 9 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.21% 0.34% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.36% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £46,000 -
25th Percentile - £51,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -22.58% +29.17%
75th Percentile £66,875 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £79,250 £104,000 -
North West median annual salary £54,793 £50,055 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -35.41% +55.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,325 2,507 2,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.71% 94.00% 90.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 1,181 1,840
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Systems Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend in Manchester

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Systems Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in Manchester

Systems Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 2 (33.33%) System Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Go
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Rancher