Senior Systems Engineer Jobs in the South East

Senior System Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior System Engineer salary in the South East is £62,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 249 273
Rank change year-on-year +150 +24 +195
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 293 132 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.87% 0.79% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.20% 0.83% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 190 90 9
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,239 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,825 £45,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £58,748 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.54% +11.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile - £72,125 £68,750
England median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -8.68% -9.43% +1.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 9,161 15,827 10,955
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.76% 94.25% 91.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5,062 11,118 7,459
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,152 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the South East

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Senior Systems Engineer in the South East

Senior Systems Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Systems Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Systems Engineer in the South East

Senior Systems Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Isle of Wight - 173 £62,000 - 1
Hampshire +112 78 £50,000 -1.96% 6
Kent +25 19 £55,000 -12.00% 3
Thames Valley -22 9 £61,250 +2.08% 18
Surrey +52 7 £46,374 -28.66% 6
Oxfordshire +30 4 £61,250 -5.77% 8
West Sussex +24 4 £50,000 -23.08% 4
Berkshire -17 4 £65,000 +13.05% 7
Sussex +17 3 - - 1
Buckinghamshire +12 1 £44,000 +10.00% 4
Senior Systems Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, 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 South East region featuring Senior Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 263 (89.76%) Systems Engineering
2 248 (84.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 187 (63.82%) Rational DOORS
4 186 (63.48%) Electronics
5 179 (61.09%) IBM
5 179 (61.09%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 178 (60.75%) Technical Leadership
6 178 (60.75%) Algorithms
6 178 (60.75%) Signal Processing
7 71 (24.23%) Mentoring
8 66 (22.53%) R
8 66 (22.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 58 (19.80%) Degree
10 44 (15.02%) Mathematics
11 43 (14.68%) Physics
11 43 (14.68%) Coaching
12 41 (13.99%) Line Management
12 41 (13.99%) Business Continuity
13 35 (11.95%) IEC 61508
13 35 (11.95%) DO-254
13 35 (11.95%) ARP4754
14 22 (7.51%) Social Skills
15 21 (7.17%) Visualisation
16 17 (5.80%) Agile
17 15 (5.12%) Requirements Management
18 13 (4.44%) Siemens
19 12 (4.10%) Cybersecurity
19 12 (4.10%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
20 11 (3.75%) Acceptance Criteria
21 10 (3.41%) SysML

Senior Systems Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.07%) Simulink
2 1 (0.34%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (0.68%) Power Platform
2 1 (0.34%) Azure
2 1 (0.34%) Azure App Service
2 1 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (0.34%) Entra ID
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (0.34%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.02%) Ethernet
1 3 (1.02%) Modbus
1 3 (1.02%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.68%) Power BI
2 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 187 (63.82%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.34%) LabVIEW
2 1 (0.34%) MagicDraw
General
1 186 (63.48%) Electronics
2 22 (7.51%) Social Skills
3 9 (3.07%) Military
4 8 (2.73%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.05%) Automotive
6 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.68%) Games
9 1 (0.34%) Avionics
9 1 (0.34%) Legal
9 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 178 (60.75%) Algorithms
2 8 (2.73%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.05%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.71%) Industry 4.0
4 5 (1.71%) SCADA
5 3 (1.02%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (1.02%) IoT
5 3 (1.02%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.34%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.34%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.34%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.34%) Debian
1 1 (0.34%) Linux
1 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (89.76%) Systems Engineering
2 178 (60.75%) Signal Processing
2 178 (60.75%) Technical Leadership
3 71 (24.23%) Mentoring
4 66 (22.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 44 (15.02%) Mathematics
6 43 (14.68%) Coaching
6 43 (14.68%) Physics
7 41 (13.99%) Business Continuity
7 41 (13.99%) Line Management
8 21 (7.17%) Visualisation
9 17 (5.80%) Agile
10 15 (5.12%) Requirements Management
11 12 (4.10%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (4.10%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
12 11 (3.75%) Acceptance Criteria
13 10 (3.41%) SysML
14 8 (2.73%) Information Assurance
15 5 (1.71%) Use Case
16 4 (1.37%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (22.53%) R
2 9 (3.07%) MATLAB
3 4 (1.37%) Python
4 3 (1.02%) SQL
5 1 (0.34%) C
5 1 (0.34%) C#
5 1 (0.34%) C++
Qualifications
1 248 (84.64%) BPSS Clearance
2 58 (19.80%) Degree
3 9 (3.07%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.07%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.73%) Chartered Engineer
5 7 (2.39%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.02%) HNC
6 3 (1.02%) HND
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (61.09%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 35 (11.95%) ARP4754
2 35 (11.95%) DO-254
2 35 (11.95%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (0.34%) NIST
3 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.34%) RMADS
System Software
1 3 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.02%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 179 (61.09%) IBM
2 13 (4.44%) Siemens
3 4 (1.37%) VMware
4 3 (1.02%) AVEVA
4 3 (1.02%) Rockwell
5 2 (0.68%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (0.68%) Sparx
6 1 (0.34%) Citrix
6 1 (0.34%) MathWorks
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.34%) SAP