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 9 May 2025.

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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 249 330
Rank change year-on-year +159 +81 +115
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Systems Engineer 278 149 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.00% 0.89% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.47% 0.94% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 174 109 14
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,239 £45,775
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,825 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% - -
75th Percentile - £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - £70,000 £65,375
England median annual salary £52,600 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.85% -1.67% -11.11%

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 8,004 15,797 13,153
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.47% 93.98% 90.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,536 11,357 8,268
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 - 153 £62,000 - 7
Hampshire +107 76 £50,000 - 32
Kent +44 32 £55,000 -12.00% 2
Surrey +56 7 £46,374 -28.66% 7
West Sussex +43 7 £50,000 -23.08%
Thames Valley -18 3 £54,500 -9.17% 7
Buckinghamshire +26 1 £44,000 -16.19%
Oxfordshire +10 1 - - 4
Berkshire -4 1 £65,000 +8.33% 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 9 May 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.

1 215 (77.34%) BPSS Clearance
2 205 (73.74%) Systems Engineering
3 142 (51.08%) Rational DOORS
3 142 (51.08%) Electronics
4 127 (45.68%) Degree
5 126 (45.32%) Signal Processing
5 126 (45.32%) IBM
5 126 (45.32%) Technical Leadership
5 126 (45.32%) Algorithms
5 126 (45.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 104 (37.41%) Mentoring
7 101 (36.33%) R
7 101 (36.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 85 (30.58%) Mathematics
8 85 (30.58%) Physics
9 74 (26.62%) Acceptance Criteria
10 56 (20.14%) Requirements Management
11 51 (18.35%) Coaching
12 36 (12.95%) Customer Requirements
13 35 (12.59%) IEC 61508
13 35 (12.59%) DO-254
13 35 (12.59%) ARP4754
14 34 (12.23%) Use Case
14 34 (12.23%) Chartered Engineer
14 34 (12.23%) Collaborative Working
15 23 (8.27%) Social Skills
16 21 (7.55%) Visualisation
17 17 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
18 16 (5.76%) SysML
18 16 (5.76%) Management Information System

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 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (5.76%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.36%) Azure
1 1 (0.36%) Azure App Service
1 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (0.36%) Entra ID
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (0.36%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 142 (51.08%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
General
1 142 (51.08%) Electronics
2 23 (8.27%) Social Skills
3 16 (5.76%) Military
4 7 (2.52%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.16%) Automotive
6 1 (0.36%) Avionics
6 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.36%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 126 (45.32%) Algorithms
2 16 (5.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.36%) Device Driver
3 1 (0.36%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (0.36%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (0.36%) Public Cloud
3 1 (0.36%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.36%) Debian
1 1 (0.36%) Linux
1 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (73.74%) Systems Engineering
2 126 (45.32%) Signal Processing
2 126 (45.32%) Technical Leadership
3 104 (37.41%) Mentoring
4 101 (36.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 85 (30.58%) Mathematics
5 85 (30.58%) Physics
6 74 (26.62%) Acceptance Criteria
7 56 (20.14%) Requirements Management
8 51 (18.35%) Coaching
9 36 (12.95%) Customer Requirements
10 34 (12.23%) Collaborative Working
10 34 (12.23%) Use Case
11 21 (7.55%) Visualisation
12 17 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (5.76%) Agile
13 16 (5.76%) Information Assurance
13 16 (5.76%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
13 16 (5.76%) SysML
14 2 (0.72%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 101 (36.33%) R
2 16 (5.76%) MATLAB
3 1 (0.36%) C
3 1 (0.36%) C#
3 1 (0.36%) C++
3 1 (0.36%) Python
3 1 (0.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 215 (77.34%) BPSS Clearance
2 127 (45.68%) Degree
3 34 (12.23%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (45.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 35 (12.59%) ARP4754
2 35 (12.59%) DO-254
2 35 (12.59%) IEC 61508
3 1 (0.36%) NIST
3 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 126 (45.32%) IBM
2 16 (5.76%) Siemens
3 1 (0.36%) Citrix
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.36%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.36%) VMware