Systems Engineer Job Trends in Milton Keynes

System Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median System Engineer salary in Milton Keynes is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 54 56
Rank change year-on-year +25 +2 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Systems Engineer 8 3 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 3.07% 0.55% 2.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.39% 0.57% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile - - £66,875
90th Percentile - - £74,750
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £71,250 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% +14.29% -4.55%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 236 522 612
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.42% 96.31% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 130 368 471
10th Percentile £34,750 £31,175 £29,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,925 £77,500 £81,250
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Engineer in Milton Keynes

Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes.

Salary distribution trend for Systems Engineer job vacancies in Milton Keynes

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 6 September 2025, 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
2 1 (12.50%) Packer
2 1 (12.50%) Runbook
2 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Testinfra
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer

Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Testinfra
General
1 7 (87.50%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
1 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
1 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
1 1 (12.50%) Runbook
1 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
1 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Packer
3 Systems Engineer jobs in Buckinghamshire