Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Senior System Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Senior System Engineer salary in the Midlands is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 297 325
Rank change year-on-year +50 +28 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 70 27 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.60% 0.28% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.31% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 46 7 9
10th Percentile £46,248 £63,100 £32,250
25th Percentile £50,000 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £64,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +28.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £57,500 £69,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £63,375 £76,750 -
England median annual salary £57,495 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.18% -11.11% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 10,986 8,613 10,285
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 89.50% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,233 4,790 7,091
10th Percentile £26,050 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Senior Systems Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
West Midlands +45 45 £52,500 -17.97% 10
East Midlands - 25 £50,000 - 7
Senior Systems Engineer
England

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior 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 Midlands region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 22 (31.43%) Azure
3 19 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (24.29%) SC Cleared
4 17 (24.29%) Security Cleared
5 16 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (22.86%) SQL Server
5 16 (22.86%) IIS
5 16 (22.86%) VMware
6 15 (21.43%) SQL
7 14 (20.00%) WAN
7 14 (20.00%) CheckPoint
7 14 (20.00%) Validation
7 14 (20.00%) Firewall
7 14 (20.00%) Clustering
7 14 (20.00%) Load Balancing
7 14 (20.00%) REST
7 14 (20.00%) High Availability
7 14 (20.00%) WebRTC
8 9 (12.86%) Social Skills
8 9 (12.86%) Manufacturing
9 8 (11.43%) Automotive
10 7 (10.00%) Electronics
11 6 (8.57%) Migration
12 5 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (7.14%) Degree
12 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (7.14%) C#
12 5 (7.14%) Software Engineering
13 4 (5.71%) Java

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 16 (22.86%) IIS
2 4 (5.71%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.86%) JBoss
3 2 (2.86%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.43%) Azure
2 2 (2.86%) AWS
2 2 (2.86%) Nutanix
3 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.00%) Firewall
1 14 (20.00%) WAN
2 2 (2.86%) DHCP
2 2 (2.86%) DNS
2 2 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (2.86%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.86%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (12.86%) Manufacturing
1 9 (12.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.43%) Automotive
3 7 (10.00%) Electronics
4 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Military
6 2 (2.86%) Finance
6 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.00%) REST
1 14 (20.00%) WebRTC
2 2 (2.86%) .NET
2 2 (2.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.00%) Clustering
2 5 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.43%) CCTV
4 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
1 3 (4.29%) Unix
2 2 (2.86%) Windows
2 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (20.00%) High Availability
2 14 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 14 (20.00%) Validation
3 6 (8.57%) Migration
4 5 (7.14%) Software Engineering
5 3 (4.29%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (2.86%) Architectural Design
6 2 (2.86%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (2.86%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 2 (2.86%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (2.86%) DevOps
6 2 (2.86%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (2.86%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (2.86%) Problem Management
6 2 (2.86%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (2.86%) Storage Virtualisation
6 2 (2.86%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (2.86%) Task Automation
6 2 (2.86%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.43%) SQL
2 5 (7.14%) C#
3 4 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (2.86%) C
4 2 (2.86%) C++
5 1 (1.43%) Ladder Logic
5 1 (1.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (24.29%) SC Cleared
1 17 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) Degree
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.86%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Automotive SPICE
1 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.86%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.86%) NFS
2 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Ansible
1 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.86%) VMware
3 14 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (5.71%) Apple
5 3 (4.29%) QinetiQ
6 2 (2.86%) Brocade
6 2 (2.86%) HP
6 2 (2.86%) IBM
7 1 (1.43%) EMC