Systems Engineering Job Trends in the North West

Systems Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Systems Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 84 193
Rank change year-on-year -10 +109 +74
Permanent jobs citing Systems Engineering 95 136 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.48% 2.69% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 2.94% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 32 74 1
10th Percentile £48,000 £42,440 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,683 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £50,055 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -35.41% +55.00%
75th Percentile £59,207 £57,132 £81,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £59,081 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.55% -4.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,198 4,623 3,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.05% 91.29% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,569 2,267 3,029
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,114 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,445 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Systems Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Systems Engineering job vacancy trend in the North West

Systems Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Systems Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Systems Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Systems Engineering in the North West

Systems Engineering
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Cumbria +10 57 £52,250 -6.70% 1
Lancashire -24 30 £54,793 +9.47% 6
Manchester +24 6 £60,000 - 11
Cheshire - 2 - - 2
Systems Engineering
England

Systems Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.16%) AWS
1 3 (3.16%) Azure
2 2 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (2.11%) Azure AKS
2 2 (2.11%) GCP
2 2 (2.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.11%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.11%) MySQL
2 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.37%) JIRA
2 3 (3.16%) GitLab
2 3 (3.16%) JIRA Agile
3 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.11%) Git
3 2 (2.11%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (17.89%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Avionics
3 9 (9.47%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (4.21%) Electronics
4 4 (4.21%) Military
5 3 (3.16%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 62 (65.26%) Systems Engineer
2 42 (44.21%) Principal Engineer
3 38 (40.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 22 (23.16%) Senior
5 14 (14.74%) Lead
6 13 (13.68%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 10 (10.53%) Lead Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Requirements Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Radar Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Systems Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Validation Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Control Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Research Engineer
11 2 (2.11%) Engineering Manager
11 2 (2.11%) Instrumentation Engineer
11 2 (2.11%) Lead DevOps
11 2 (2.11%) Requirements Manager
11 2 (2.11%) Systems Manager
11 2 (2.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.37%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.32%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.16%) CAN bus
4 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.11%) Verilog
4 2 (2.11%) VHDL
5 1 (1.05%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.89%) Requirements Management
2 27 (28.42%) Validation
3 23 (24.21%) Agile
3 23 (24.21%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 18 (18.95%) Coaching
5 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (17.89%) Verification and Validation
6 15 (15.79%) Mathematics
6 15 (15.79%) Physics
7 13 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (11.58%) Mentoring
9 10 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (10.53%) Cryptography
9 10 (10.53%) Customer Requirements
9 10 (10.53%) MODAF
9 10 (10.53%) SysML
9 10 (10.53%) UML
10 7 (7.37%) PRINCE2
10 7 (7.37%) Project Delivery
10 7 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.68%) MATLAB
2 3 (3.16%) Python
2 3 (3.16%) SQL
3 2 (2.11%) Go
3 2 (2.11%) Java
4 1 (1.05%) Bash
4 1 (1.05%) VB
Qualifications
1 85 (89.47%) BPSS Clearance
2 84 (88.42%) Degree
3 13 (13.68%) HNC
3 13 (13.68%) HND
4 7 (7.37%) RIBA
5 4 (4.21%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.21%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (3.16%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (3.16%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.16%) PMP
7 1 (1.05%) CEH
7 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.11%) IEC 61508
1 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
1 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 1 (1.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.16%) Ansible
1 3 (3.16%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.16%) Terraform
2 2 (2.11%) Functional Safety
2 2 (2.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (2.11%) IBM